Board of Directors
Executive Committee Members

Co-Chair
Matt Meyer,Ph.D.
NYC Board of Education

Co-Chair
Simona Sharoni, Ph.D.
Evergreen State College

Executive Director
Daniel O'Leary
COPRED

Conference Committee
Celia Cook-Huffman, Ph.D.
Juniata College

Conference Committee
George Irani, Ph.D.
Washington College 

Finance Committee
Edward J. McGlynn, Ph.D.
Siena College

Finance Committee
Amy Shuster
Georgetown University

Membership Committee
Barbara Wien
United States Institute of Peace

Membership Committee
Gina Bartlett

Publications
James R. Bennet, Ph.D.
 
 

 

COPRED Speakers' Bureau

New! A Powerful Resource !

COPRED is now offering a service to your campus, public forum, or community group:  talented speakers from the COPRED membership who will present talks or workshops on a range of current topics.  By scheduling these noted scholars for your venue, you can generate discussion on peace issues and publicize COPRED's value to potential members!  All speakers have agreed to donate half or more of the fee to COPRED!  Fees, to be negotiated, range from $500 to $750 per engagement, plus expenses. 

 

Berenice A. Carroll 
317-494-8762
317-494-0833 fax
Director, Women's Studies Program 
Professor of Political Science
Purdue University

Dr. Carroll has also taught history and political science at the University of Illinois, Urbana, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also served as Director of Women's Studies.  She has been editor of Peace and Change:  A Journal of Peace Research, edited a book of essays entitled Liberating Women's History, and is author of Design for Total War:  Arms and Economics in the Third Reich (Mouton, 1968), and other works.  She has been active in various professional and civic groups, particularly in the peace movement and the women's movements, and served as chairperson of COPRED. 

Suggested topics: 
• Women and Nonviolent Action 
• Gender and International Politics 
• Women and the Use of Force 

 

Patricia T. Morris
404-880-6666
404-880-6676 fax
Assistant Professor of International Relations 
Clark Atlanta University (CAU) 
School of International Affairs and Development

Dr. Morris holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Florida State University.  Prior to her move to Atlanta, Dr. Morris served on the faculty of the Department of Political Science at Purdue University.  She has published a book review of Gendered States:  Feminist Revisions of International Relations Theory in the American Political Science Review, and a book chapter on violent and nonviolent resistance in South Africa in Women and the Use of Military Force.  Dr. Morris is writing a book entitled Cooperation Under Dependency:  The Rise, Decline, and Transformation of South-South Links.  She is the project director for the Ford Foundation-funded African Women's Leadership Development Project, which is co-sponsored by CAU's School of International Affairs and Development and the African Women's Studies Program.  She is co-chair of COPRED's Peace Research Network. 

Suggested topics: 

Gender, Race, and Class in the World System

South-South Cooperation at the Close of the 20th Century

Racial Equality and Peace

Gendered Protests:  Women in Violent and Nonviolent Resistance

The Dis/ease of Structural Adjustment:  Prescriptions from Beijing

Simona Sharoni
(360)866-6000
sharonis@evergreen.edu

An Israeli feminist and peace activist, Dr. Sharoni is currently Assistant 
Professor of Peace and Conflict Resolution at The American University in Washington DC.  She holds a Ph.D. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University, and her research has been supported by grants from the American Association of University Women, the United States Institute for Peace, and the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.  Her book, Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, was published in 1995 (Syracuse 
University Press).  She is currently on the COPRED Board of Directors as Chair of the Publications Committee. 

Suggested topics: 
• Gender and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• The Middle East Peace Process
• Workshops on Conflict Resolution Skills and Diversity and Prejudice Reduction Training

 

Michael True
508-767-7000
508-767-7342 fax

Professor of English at Assumption College, Worcester, MA; Convenor, Nonviolence Commission, International Peace Research Association; and former co-chair of COPRED's Board, Dr. True has taught and lectured at colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Western Europe, and Asia.  He authored An Energy Field More Intense Than War:  The Nonviolent Tradition and American Literature (Syracuse University Press, 1995), To Construct Peace (1992), Ordinary People: Family Life and Global Values (1991), and edited Daniel Berrigan:  Poetry, Drama, Prose. 

Suggested presentations: 
• The American Tradition of Nonviolence-An 80-slide presentation about initiatives for resisting injustice, resolving conflict, and bringing about social change without harming persons, based on stories of Thomas Paine to Dorothy Day-abolitionists, feminists, workers, war resisters-with commentary and poems.
• The Story of Global Nonviolence Since 1989:  Now It Can Be Told-A 60-slide presentation, with commentary and discussion about successful campaigns and new initiatives among peacemakers and justice seekers in the Philippines, Eastern Europe, China, and Latin America.
• Learning a Language of Peace-Reflections, including poems and passages of prose, on positive strategies for peace.  Sources include UNESCO's Cultures of Peace Programme and Dr. True's research in peace studies, nonviolent intervention, and conflict resolution.

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Last revised 20 April 2000.

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