WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
MIDDLETOWN, CONNECTICUT 06457
PSYCHOLOGICALLABORATORY

February 3, 1987

Support Network
Seville Statement on Violence

Dear Friends,

The Seville Statement is being published, read, and studied around
the world. Since the last letter in October. it has been published by
several newsletters and symposia with global circulation. It is featured
in its entirety in the first issue of "Psychologists for Peace,“ which is
published by a new committee of the International Union of Psychological
Science with representatives in 25 countries from every continent. I am
expanding our mailing list to include them. The Statement is also published
in full in the current newsletter of the International Society for Research
on Aggression, which has a similar worldwide distribution. The Statement
was distributed and discussed at the Symposium on Peace mentioned in the
enclosed letter by Albert Tevoédjre, at which representatives from 15 nations
attended. Secretary General Tevoédjre's support is especially important
because he is a leading African diplomat, having been secretary-general of
the Afro-Malagasy Union, Minister of Information of Benin, and deputy
director-general of the International Labor Organization before assuming
his present post at the World Social Prospects Study Association.

In the United States, the Seville Statement has been endorsed for "wide
circulation and discussion" by the American Anthropological Association,
who urge that it be used by anthropologists “in their various roles as
teachers, researchers, consultants, and citizens. The full text will be
published in the Anthropology Newsletter. This was accomplished by the
efforts of anthropologist Douglas Fry, as he describes in the enclosed
letter. Dr. Fry is also responsible for getting the Statement published
in the newsletter of the International Society for Human Ethology. We are
hoping that a similar endorsement will come from the American Psychological
Association. The Statement will be considered at the May meeting of the
Association‘s Board of Scientific Affairs, according to its incoming chairman,
Dr. Lewis P. Lipsitt. Dr. Lipsitt assures us of his support, calling it “an
elegantly written and succinct document.” U.S. psychologists should write
their support for endorsement to the APA Office of Scientific Affairs,
attention Virginia Holt, 1200 17th St., Washington, DC 20036. In a more
popular vein, we have received a request from the peace organization Beyond
War for an article about the Statement in their monthly newsletter “on this
powerful and important document."

In the Soviet Union, the Statement is being submitted to journals edited
by the Academy of Sciences, as indicated in the enclosed letter by Academician
and Statement signatory, Natalya Petrovna Bechtereva.

In Latin America, the Statement will be published in the journal
Interciencia, which will give it widespread circulation in the scientific
community. Editor Marc el Roche, in writing to us, said simply, "we like it."
Also, Santiago Genoves writes that the Statement was endorsed unanimously
by the Mexican Association of Biological Anthropology at their fourth biennial
meeting.