THE SEVILLE STATEMENT 0N VIOLENCE

"The same species who invented war is capable of inventing peace."

Support Network c/o David Adams, Wesleyan Psychology Dept.
Middletown, Connecticut, USA, 05457

NEWSLETTER - VOLUME 5, NUMBER 1, JULY, 1990

--- We have a new logo - UNESCO. As a result of the UNESCO decision
at the General Conference in November to disseminate the Seville 
Statement on Violence, this newsletter is now supported financially by
UNESCO. The contract goes into effect with this issue and continues
through 1991 for three issues a year to be mailed to 500 people and
organizations in some 50 countries. It covers the cost of printing
and mailing.

--- UNESCO's support for the Seville Statement on Violence has been
formalized in their Third Medium-Term Plan for 1990-1995. Under 
Programme VII.1: Peace in the Minds of Men - "As part of the effort to
counter conventional ideas on war and violence, Unesco will disseminate 
the Statement on Violence (Seville, 1986) and other relevant
documents on the subject, and will try to take the conclusions of
those documents into account in preparing programmes of education
for peace and international understanding."

--- In the UNESCO Approved Programme and Budget for 1990-1991, there
is provision for "Dissemination of the Statement on Violence (Seville,
1986) through appropriate networks of higher education institutions,
the Associated Schools network and youth organizations." In this
context, I have agreed to a contractual agreement with UNESCO to produce
a brochure on the Seville Statement on Violence. The brochure will
have a pedagogic purpose for use by high-school teachers, leaders of
youth movements, animators, etc., who would like to introduce and
explain the Statement to young people in the age bracket of 15 to 18.
It will take into account the comments, observations and debate the
Statement has elicited since 1986.

--- If you have suggestions for content or form of the brochure,
please send them to me as soon as possible. I have agreed to have
a draft ready by September 30 of this year. Already, many of you have
sent helpful suggestions. I would especially like to acknowledge the
letters and materials from Jose Delgado and J. Martin Ramirez (Spain),
Tony Barnett (Australia), Barry Childers (Switzerland), and J. David
Singer, David G. Myers, Milton Schwebel, M. Brewster Smith, Helen
Mehr, Betty Reardon, and Robert Muller (US).

--- In particular, I would like to receive "comments, observations.
and debate" elicited by the Seville Statement. As a model, I am enclosing
the rapporteur's notes from the debate on the Seville Statement
that took place last summer in Yamoussoukro, Ivory Coast. Four of us
who were in Yamoussoukro drafted an extensive reply to some of the
questions that were raised (Riitta Wahlstrom, Santiago Genoves. and
Samir-Kumar Ghosh, as well as myself). It is too long to enclose with
this newsletter, but I will furnish it upon request The debate helped
to focus on what was not said at Seville as well as what was said. I
have also written a short article on that subject for the newsletter of
Psychologists for Social Responsibility, Spring, 1990.

--- Two tendencies may be seen in those striving to extend the work begun
at Seville - which we saw at the time as only "a most important first step."