FOCUS: Music for Peace
PROPOSAL: Music for Peace: Harmonies and Dissonances
PI: Dr. Olivier Urbain (Belgium), Research Fellow, Toda Institute

CO-INSTITUTES: Asian University of Science & Technology (Thailand), Dag Hammarskjold Peace Centre UHM (Zambia), Nuclear Age Peace Foundation (USA), UO (Oslo); Soka University (Japan), Saint Marianne University (Japan)

TIME FRAME: 3 yrs

PARTICIPANTS: Karen Abi-Ezzi (United Kingdom), Maria Luisa Antonaya (Thailand), June Boyce-Tillman (United Kingdom), Cynthia Cohen (USA), Yair Dalal (Israel), Johan Galtung (France), Anne-Marie Gray (South Africa), Velgar Jordanger (Norway), George Kent (USA), Felicity Laurence (United Kingdom), Maria Elena Lopez Vinader (Argentina), Rik Palieri (USA), Kjell Skyllstad (Norway), Baruch Whitehead (USA)

OUTPUT: Music for Conflict Transformation: Harmonies and Dissonances in Geopolitics, published by IB Tauris in collaboration with the Toda Institute in 2008.

Click here to enter the multimedia website complementing this book:
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FOCUS: Peace Journalism
PROPOSAL: Production of a Higher Education Course Prototype on Peace Journalism
PI: Professor Dov Shinar (Israel), Dean, School of Media Studies, Academic Studies, College of Management

CO-INSTITUTES: Unconfirmed

TIME FRAME: 2-3 yrs

PARTICIPANTS: Robert Hackett (Canada), Samuel Peleg (Israel), Lea Mandelzis (Israel),  Wilhelm Kempf (Germany), Jake Lynch (Australia), Annabel McGoldrick (United Kingdom), Rune Ottosen (Norway), Beverly Keever (USA), Susan Dente Ross (USA)

OUTPUT: Conflict & Communication Online vol. 5(2) & vol. 6(1) -- www.cco.regener-online.de. Peace Journalism: the State of the Art to be published by Regener in 2007. To download Beverly Keever’s Webcast for Peace Journalism: Violence in the Media visit “Links”

FOCUS: Anti-Racist Discourses
PROPOSAL: New Technologies and the Transnational Propagation of Peace: Anti-Racist Campaigns
PI: Mark D. Alleyne (USA), Ph.D., Associate Professor, Georgia State University.

CO-INSTITUTES: Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies, UCLA; Ad Council, MINUGUA

TIME FRAME: 2yrs

PARTICIPANTS: Karina Horsti (Finland), Jairo Lugo (United Kingdom), Daniel Burdsey (United Kingdom), Hemant Shah (USA), Sylvanna Falcon (USA), Nakisha Nesmith (USA), Ingrid A. Lehmann (Austria), Liesbet van Zoonen (Netherlands), Irma Alica Velasquez (USA), Gongora Berlin (Mexico), Sagrario Cruz-Carretero (Mexico)
OUTPUT: Book manuscript, Anti-Racist Discourse (in progress)

FOCUS: Political Islam in the Southeast Asia
PROPOSAL: Islam and Democracy in Southeast Asia
PI: Professor Johan Saravanamuttu (Malaysia), School of Social Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia

CO-INSTITUTES: None

TIME FRAME:

PARTICIPANTS: Judith Nagata (Canada), Chaiwat Satha-Anand (Thailand), Carmen Abubakar (Philippines), Hussin Mutalib (Singapore), Maznah Mohamad (Malaysia), Syed Farid Alatas (Singapore), Jacques Bertrand (Canada)

OUTPUT: Islam and Authoritarian Democracy in Southeast Asia proposed to Routledge (in progress)

CO-INSTITUTES: none listed

TIME FRAME: 1yr

PARTICIPANTS: The Human Network - Vipavinee Artpradid (Thailand), Cynthia Chang (Singapore), Oluwagbenga Olabisi Sesan (Nigeria), Blagica Stojkoska (R. Macedonia), Leonardo Cembranelli de Aquino (Brazil), Ashim Karmacharya (Nepal) Ayesha Rauf (Pakistan), Oula Ingerö (Sweden), Lisa M. Thurston (Australia), Farah Mahmood (Pakistan)

OUTPUT: Book (collection of essays), study-analysis & summary

FOCUS: Democracy - South Caucasus Region
PROPOSAL: Democratization, Globalization and Changing Regional & Global Order: National Implications of Democracy Theory & Practice in the South Caucasus
PI: Aghavni Karakhanian (Armenia), Director, Institute for Civil Society & Regional Development (ICSRD)

CO-INSTITUTES:  unconfirmed

TIME FRAME: Oct 2003-October 2004

PARTICIPANTS: Marina Muskhelishvili (Georgia), Anne Aldis (United Kingdom), Gia Zhorzholiani (Georgia), Rajab Sattarov (Azerbaijan), Mkrtich Zardarian (Armenia), Tair Faradov (Azerbaijan)

OUTPUT: Book manuscript first draft in progress