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JANUARY
20, 2003
GOVERNMENT
Iraq: bigger tent in peace camp
 State
by State
• A list of
state by state
contacts from the Iraq
Pledge of Resistance, which includes faith groups and social justice organizations.
• United for Peace
and Justice lists activities planned across the country and links to organizations
involved in the peace movement and allows reporters to search for contacts and
events in each state.
• Cities for Peace is an effort coordinated through the Institute for Policy
Studies to promote city council resolutions opposing war in Iraq. As of Jan.
15, 41 cities, including Chicago and Des Moines, had passed resolutions. See
a list. Institute
contacts are Karen Dolan, 202-234-9382 ext. 228 or Amy Quinn, ext. 238.
• Find local participants in peace rallies through this list of state-by-state
transportation
contacts at ANSWER (Act Now to Stop War and End Racism), which organized
the Jan. 18 rallies.
• Local peace events are listed here
through the National
Network to End the War against Iraq, a faith and justice group.
• To find religious leaders in your state who were among 200 who signed
a "Statement
of Conscience" condemning as immoral any preemptive action against
Iraq, call Rev. George Regas of the Los-Angeles based Progressive
Religious Partnership.
• The National
Priorities Project, a Massachusetts-based social justice organization that
studies economic impact, offers a state-by-state cost
analysis of a potential war with Iraq, based upon an overall estimate of
$100 billion.
IN
THE NORTHEAST
• Paul
Joseph is a sociology professor and director of Peace & Justice Studies
at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Contact 617-627-2470, pjoseph1@tufts.edu.
• Joseph Loconte is the William E. Simon Fellow in Religion and a Free
Society at the Heritage Foundation
in Washington, D.C. He offered a Jan. 16 commentary on All Things Considered
on National Public Radio questioning Christians who say Jesus would not support
war in Iraq. Contact 202-546-4400.
• The Buddhist
Peace Fellowship has a Boston chapter. Contact info@bpfboston.org.
• Reuven Kimelman, professor of Near Eastern and Jewish studies at Brandeis
University, wrote an essay called Jewish Understanding of War and Its Limits.
Contact 781-736-2963 or kimelman@brandeis.edu.
IN
THE EAST
•
Matthew A. Evangelista, a professor of government, directs the Peace Studies
Program at Cornell University in Ithaca, N.Y. Contact 607-255-8914, mae10@cornell.edu.
• Robert P. George, professor of jurisprudence at Princeton University,
wrote
that principles of just war may require the removal of Saddam Hussein. 609-258-3270,
rgeorge@princeton.edu.
• Alan Geyer is the author of the article Just
War, Jihad and the Abuse of Tradition and a professor emeritus at Wesley
Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. Contact 202-885-8659.
•
George Hunsinger of Princeton Theological Seminary wrote in Christian Century
"Iraq: Don't go there" that action against Iraq did not meet the criteria
for a "just war." Contact 609-497-7805 or george.hunsinger@ptsem.edu.
• J. William Frost is a Quaker who teaches at Swarthmore College and is
an expert on Quaker peace movements, 610-328-8496 or jfrost1@swarthmore.edu.
• Michael Walzer is professor at the School of Social Science at the Institute
for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., and the author of Just and Unjust
Wars. Contact 609-734-8253.
• James
Turner Johnson is professor of religion at Rutgers University in New Jersey
and an expert on just war theory. Contact 732-932-9637, jtj@rci.rutgers.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHEAST
• John Paul
Lederach is a Mennonite professor and founder of the Institute for Peacebuilding
at Eastern Mennonite University in Harrisonburg, Va., who also teaches at the
Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies at the University of
Notre Dame. Contact jpbus@aol.com, lederacj@emu.org.
• James Childress is Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Religious Studies, director
of the Institute for Practical Ethics at the University of Virginia and an expert
on just war theory. Contact 434-924-6724, childress@virginia.edu.
• John Kelsay, editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics and religion
professor at Florida State University, has written about Islam, human rights
and "just war," 850-644-0209 ext. 1020, jkelsay@garnet.acns.fsu.edu.
IN
THE SOUTH
• Andy Burns of the 180/Movement
for Democracy and Education in Little Rock, Ark., one of 17 organizations
within the National Youth
and Student Peace Coalition, says, "If they go into Iraq you'll see
how big the peace movement is." Contact 501-244-2439, andyburns@tao.ca.
• James Evans, pastor of Crosscreek Baptist Church in Pelham, Ala., wrote
in a recent column for the Martin Marty Center that Americans must "strive
diligently" to be sure action against Iraq has "just cause" and
"right intent." Contact 205-663-4886, pastor@crosscreekbaptist.org.
IN
THE MIDWEST
• For
the first time in its 15-year history, the highly diverse interfaith Council
of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago took a public stand on a national
political issue, urging
President Bush to pursue alternatives to war.
• Richard Miller is chairman of the department of religious studies at
Indiana University at Bloomington and author of Interpretations of Conflict:
Ethics, Pacifism, and the Just-War Tradition (University of Chicago, 1991).
Contact 812-855-3531, miller3@indiana.edu.
• R. Scott Appleby is professor of history at the Joan B. Kroc Institute
for Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame and an expert on the roots
of religious violence and the potential of religious peacebuilding. Contact
574-631-5665, Appleby.3@nd.edu.
• Kenneth J. Heineman is a history professor at Ohio University-Lancaster
who has written several books about politics, morality, and the campus peace
movement during Vietnam. Contact 740-654-6711, ext. 256, heineman@ohiou.edu.
• Patrick G. Coy teaches in the Center for Applied Conflict Management
at Kent State University. He has written about the peace movement during the
Gulf War with Iraq, the Catholic peace movement, and has traveled to Iraq with
the Fellowship of Reconciliation. He is currently conducting a study of peace
movement responses to September 11 and the war on terrorism. Contact 330-672-2875
or pcoy@kent.edu.
• Gerald
Bradley is professor of law at Notre Dame University in Indiana and an expert
on law and religion. Contact 574-631-8385, Gerard.V.Bradley.16@nd.edu.
IN
THE SOUTHWEST
• Dr.
Stephen Poe is director of peace
studies at the University of North Texas in Denton. Contact 940-565-2276,
Steven_C_Poe@unt.edu.
• Robin W. Lovin, Carey Maguire University Professor of Ethics at Southern
Methodist University in Dallas, writes in the Sept. 11, 2002, Christian Century
that religious leaders of all creeds need to take new responsibility for religiously
motivated violence. Contact 214-768-4134, rlovin@mail.smu.edu.
IN
THE WEST/NORTHWEST
• Contact Interfaith
Communities United for Justice and Peace, which includes Protestants, Catholics,
Jews, Muslims and Sikhs and organizes events in the Los Angeles area. Contact
626-683-9004.
• Donald E. Miller is professor of religion and executive director of the
Center for Religion and Civic Culture at the University of Southern California.
He has written that the religious community has a responsibility to initiate
a vigorous moral debate about going to war. Contact 213-740-8562.
• National Ecumenical
Ministries of Oregon, a statewide association of 17 Christian denominations,
is opposing war in Iraq. Contact 503-221-1054.
• The Olympia, Wash., Fellowship
of Reconciliation faith-based peace group quickly sold out of 100 peace
yard signs it had ordered and attendance has swelled at weekly prayer vigils
for peace. Contact 360-491-9093.
• The Rev. Stephen V. Sundborg, a Jesuit priest who is president of Seattle
University, has written about how the nation needs moral leaders as it considers
war. Contact 206-296-6000.
• The Interfaith Network
of Concern for the People of Iraq is a Seattle-based organization that opposes
military action from a moral and religious perspective. Contact 206-632-6021,
info@endiraqsanctions.org for
local and regional information.
• Michael J. Casey teaches about communication and religion at Pepperdine
University and has written about pacifism and conscientious objection during
World Wars I and II. Contact 310-456-4211, mcasey@pepperdine.edu.
• Scott Paeth is assistant professor of religion at Albertson College of
Idaho and is expert in public theology. Contact 208-459-5893, SPaeth@albertson.edu.
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