"Fighting Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights" 21st Isodarco Winter Course

[Isodarco <isodarco at roma2.infn.it>]

     UNIVERSITY OF ROME              UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO
       "TOR VERGATA"
                                  USPID - Sezione di Trento
   OPERA CAMPANA DEI CADUTI
         Rovereto                 FORUM TRENTINO PER LA PACE
                                 Autonomous Province of Trento



              Italian Pugwash Group
  INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ON DISARMAMENT AND RESEARCH ON CONFLICTS
                   ISODARCO
               Founded in 1966

              21st WINTER COURSE
  "Fighting Terrorism, Protecting Human Rights"

ANDALO (TRENTO) - ITALY
6-13 JANUARY 2008

ISODARCO has organized residential courses on global security since 1966
primarily in Italy but also in China, Germany and Jordan with the generous
support of private foundations and international and national institutions
and organizations. The courses are intended for those who would like to
play a more active and technically competent role in the field of
international conflicts as well as those who already have a professional
interest and experience in this field. The courses are intensive,
interactive and interdisciplinary in focus. The subject matter span not
only the technical and scientific dimensions of these problems but also
their sociological and political implications.
This will be the eighth time an Isodarco course will examine the problem of
non-state violence. Courses on this topic were organized in 1974 and 1978
when only a few specialists were concerned with the issues of non-state or
sub-state violence. Now, after the dramatic events of the years 2001 and
2002, Isodarco has returned to the discussion of these problems devoting
the last five winter courses to them.


PRINCIPAL LECTURERS:

Alexei Arbatov, Carnegie Moscow Center, Moscow, Russia

Nadezhda (Nadia) Arbatova, Institute of the World Economy and International
Relations, Moscow, Russia

Tony Bunyan, Statewatch, London, England

Francesco Calogero, Department of Physics, University of Rome "La
Sapienza," Italy

David Carlton, University of Warwick, England

Gitanjali Gutierrez, Center for Constitutional Rights, New York, USA

Jim Harper, Cato Institute, Washington DC, USA

Paddy Hillyard, Queens University, Belfast, Northern Ireland

Judith Reppy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

Rita S. Rogers, Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Los
Angeles, USA

Nina Tannenwald, Watson Institute, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

Isaiah Wilson III, US Military Academy at West Point, USA

Steve Wright, Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, England

Confirmations are expected from additional eminent scholars who have been
invited to lecture at the School. The course will be articulated in formal
lectures, seminars offered by the participants, round tables and general
open discussions.


GENERAL INFORMATION:

A. English will be the working language of the School. There will be
approximately 80 participants. They are expected to attend all lectures and
seminars and to stay throughout the week-long course.

B. Applications should be submitted with the following information that is
compulsory even for those who have previously attended Isodarco sessions:
Full name, date and place of birth, gender, full address (including e-mail
address, telephone and fax numbers if available). Present nationality.
Degree and/or other academic qualifications. Present professional
activities and work address. Publication list and field of interest. In
lieu of publications, a letter of recommendation from a professor or a
scholar in the field.
No special application form is required. We suggest that you apply on-line
at www.isodarco.it or you download an application form from the same
location.

C. Applications should arrive not later than November 12th, 2007 and should
be addressed to the Director of the School:
Prof. CARLO SCHAERF
Department of Physics
University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Rome, Italy
Tel.: (+39) 06 72594560/1 -- Fax: (+39) 06 2040309
E-mail: isodarco at roma2.infn.it

D. Applications will be considered by the Organizing Committee on the basis
of the information submitted. All the applicants will be informed of the
Committee's decision as soon as possible but not later than November 23rd,
2007.

E. Participants are requested to arrive at Andalo any time on Sunday,
January 6th, 2008 and leave in the morning of Sunday, January13th, 2008.

F. The nominal admission fee which includes attendance, accommodation and
full board is 350 Euro. A reduced fee of 200 Euro is applied to students
without a salary born in 1982 or after and participants from Countries with
foreign currency problems. If you wish to be considered for a reduced fee
you must explain in your application why you qualify for it. Participants
will be housed in double or triple rooms. The admission fee for single
rooms, if requested and available, will be 600 Euro; participants asking to
share a room with somebody in particular, if this is possible, will be
charged an additional 50 Euro for each person.

G. A limited number of family members can be accommodated at the Hotel
Gruppo Brenta. Room and board for each member is Euro 400,00 for the entire
period. Admission of families is limited and will be examined on an
individual basis. Participants wishing to bring their families are
requested to submit their application as soon as possible.

H. The school has no funds with which to defray traveling expenses.

I. The Course will be held at Hotel Gruppo Brenta, via Strigole 1, 38010
Andalo (Trento), Italy. Tel.(+39) 0461 585813, Fax (+39) 0461 585269.

J. Participants wishing to submit a paper for seminar consideration should
enclose a short abstract of their proposed contribution in their
application. The Director of the School will reserve some limited time for
seminars considered particularly relevant to the program of the Course.

K. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to introduce any necessary
change to the program.

L. Please mention in your application if you need a visa, indicating to
which Italian Consulate you intend to apply. As it takes some time to
receive a visa we urge participants requiring it to apply to the School as
early as possible and to apply for the visa immediately after being
accepted to attend the School.
Please, note that the concession of visas is at the discretion of the
Italian Consulates Offices and Isodarco, as an NGO, is not able to
influence their decision. It is the responsibility of participants to
provide the Italian Consulates with evidence that they intend to return to
their own countries at the end of the course.

Additional information on the School can be found at: www.isodarco.it


  Director of the Course                  Director of the School
   Matthew Evangelista                         Carlo Schaerf
  Department of Government             University of Rome "Tor Vergata"
Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA            Rome, Italy