WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT 06457
PSYCHOLOGICAL LABRATORY

August 4. 1986

Drafting Committee of
Seville Statement on Violence
and other supporters of the Statement

Dear Friends,

This is to report on progress towards disseminating the Seville Statement
on Violence, A copy of the Statement is enclosed, including the additional
signatures of Richard Leakey, N.P. Bechtereva, and S.A. Barnett who took part
in the process of drafting the Statement by correspondence but could not sign
in person (copies of their letters are enclosed). Also enclosed are Professor
Bechtereva's contribution to the background of the Statement, and comments
sent by I. Eibl-Eibesfeldt who also took part in the drafting process by
correspondence.

There was an immediate flurry of publicity in the mass media after the
Statement was signed, including local publicity in several Spanish papers
(one such article is enclosed) and an Associated Press release that was carried
throughout the United States, including Chicago. San Francisco, Philadelphia,
and Bangor, Maine (the latter two are enclosed), We have received and replied
to several letters of inquiry that resulted

We are concentrating our efforts on supporting the Spanish Commission of
UNESCO who have said that they plan to present the Statement to UNESCO in Paris,
asking that it be adopted and disseminated as an official UNESCO contribution
to the International Year of Peace. Each of you have been asked to approach
your own national UNESCO commission for their support and to write to friends
in other countries to ask their commissions to support it. For example, I
have written to friends in Italy, Venezuela, Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Hungary,
Canada, Denmark, and United Arab Emirates, and I know that others of you have
written such letters as well. In the United States, we have already received
a positive response from John E. Fobes, of the Americans for the Universality
of UNESCO (letter enclosed).

We are also taking the Seville Statement to scientific, educational, and
peace organizations, asking them to circulate it for discussion, publish it in
their newsletters, and if possible. take some formal action of endorsement.
Already the Statement has been presented to the University for Peace in Costa
Rica (letter enclosed), the United Nations University in Tokyo (letter enclosed).
International Society for Research on Aggression, International Year of Peace
Secretariat, International Social Prospects Academy of UNITAR. Behavior Genetics
Association, International Peace Research Association and Consortium on Peace
Research, Education, and Development (letter enclosed), International Physicians
for Social Responsibility, Educators for Social Responsibility (US). International
Philosophers for Prevention of Nuclear Omnicide, Association for World Education,
International Union for Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, International
Council of Psychologists, Collegium Internationale Activitas Nevrosae Superioris,
International Sociological Association, International Association of Political
Psychology, Psychologists for Social Responsibility (US), World Movement for
Scientific Responsibility, and World Fraternity.