--- The ideas, and even the style itself, of the Seville Statement are
to be found in the address by Dr. Mayor on the occasion of his installation
as Director-General of UNESCO last November:

--- "Humanity can scale the lofty shining heights of peace and justice,
harmonious coexistence among people, and between people and their
environment, for it is not certain that conflict is inevitable, and
it is not certain that human beings have a propensity towards
aggression and war. We cannot be genetically inclined towards
aggressiveness any more than towards love. Nurture is stronger
than nature....Peace grows and makes its home in the mind of each
individual."

--- The similarity is not by accident, for Dr. Mayor helped shape the Seville
Statement with a position paper that included the propositions that
the genome, inviolable endowment of each person unique, has no
violent traits in its expression. Aggressivity is not intrinsic
to the human condition. Every man and woman, unique both from
the biological and sociocultural point of view, must act as a
peacemaker in their particular context.

--- The Seville Statement is finding its way into textbooks now. The book,
AGGRESSION AND WAR: THEIR BIOLOGICAL AND SOCIAL BASES, edited by Statement
signatories Robert Hinde and do Groebel, has passed through the copy editing
stage and should soon be at the printers (Cambridge University Press). Jo
Groebel writes that he has found a German publisher who will translate the
book and publish it in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. In the U.S. Carol
Tavris writes that she and coauthor Carole Wade plan to feature the Seville
Statement prominently in the revision of their introductory text, PSVCHOLOGY,
published by Harper and Row.

--- Correspondence continues to arrive from around the world. From Italy,
Drs. Erminielda Mainardi Peron and Maria Rosa Baroni (Padova), Prof. Cosimo
Varriale (Napoli), and Dr. Roberto Calvanelli (Roma) have written to endorse
the Statement and offer their services for its dissemination. From Germany
(Hamburg), Dr. Hanne-Margret Birckenbach has written to say she will try to
get the Statement translated and spread to the public. From Switzerland:
endorsement and support from Prof, Elsa Schmid—Kitsikis of the University of
Geneva. From California, news that Esther Schiller was distributing the
Statement to the conference of EDUCATORS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. Support
comes from NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS George Wald in the UIS. and Mairead Maguire
in Northern Ireland by way of Jean Dausset in Paris. Other inquiries have
arrived from Japan (Douglas Mikell at the Japan Christian Center), from
England (Ted Allen at the Spark Foundation and Mr, E.S. Tew who read about
Statement in the current issue of WORLD GOODWILL NEWSLETTER), and from
Zealand (Gary Tunnell at the University of Auckland and W.W. Webb at
the University of Otago).

--- Finally, I want to thank all of you for your generous response to the
request for financial support for this newsletter for the coming year
Over $1,000 has already been contributed from twenty donors. It is too
much to list everyone, but perhaps a special prize should go to the Danish
Psychological Association who contributed $100.

Peace,

David Adams
Corresponding Secretary