| Teacher Workshop Series 2001 |
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| Presented by the Center for Russian & East European Studies and the Bay Area Global Education Program(a collaboration of the World Affairs Council of Northern California (WAC) and the Stanford School of Education. Funding for this workshop is provided by grants from the United States Department of Education (Title VI). |
| January 27, February 10 & 24, and March 3, 2001 |
| Room 204, Center for Education Research at Stanford (CERAS) |
| 9:00 am - 12:00 noon (special afternoon session on 1/27 for teachers) |
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Lecturer: Bertrand Patenaude, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Making sense of the Balkan wars of the past decade requires entering into the central debate about the root cause of the conflict. Was the chief source of the strife among the nations of Yugoslavia "Balkan ghosts" -- that is, a long tradition of collective murder and revenge often referred to as "ancient ethnic disputes"? Or was it "Balkan monsters" -- the specific actions of individual leaders who whip up ethnic fear and hatred? Professor Patenaude provides an introduction to this debate in the opening lecture; this serves as a primer on the 1990s wars over Croatia, Bosnia, and Kosovo. |
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| Special Afternoon Session for Classroom Teachers: EVALUATING RESOURCES ON THE BALKAN WARS |
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Lecturer: Bertrand Patenaude, Research Fellow, Hoover Institution Why did Washington resist for so long before stepping into "the war from hell" in Bosnia, before providing the air power and muscular diplomacy that produced the Dayton Peace Accords in 1995? Why did the U.S., after negotiating with Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic at Dayton, call him a new Hitler and launch an air war against Yugoslavia over the status of Kosovo in 1999? Professor Patenaude guides us along the many improbable twists and turns of U.S. policy on the Balkans under Bush and Clinton and speculates as to how the White House would react should Montenegro become the scene of the next Balkan war. |
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Lecturer: Stephen Stedman, Senior Research Scholar, Institute for International Studies Bosnia was a testing ground for a new type of U.N. peacekeeping: injecting blue helmets into a shooting war in the hope that their humanitarian intervention could subdue a violent ethno-national conflict. Instead, with "no peace to keep," the lightly armed peacekeepers became part of the problem. Their presence on the ground served as an excuse for inaction from the air by the West. They became bystanders to the bloodiest violence in Europe since WWII. What went wrong? Professor Stedman, a specialist on U.N. peacekeeping, offers an analysis of the Bosnia fiasco in the wider context of the fate of peacekeeping in the 1990s. |
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Lecturer: Norman Naimark, Professor of History, Stanford University The Balkan wars of the 1990s introduced a sinister new expression into our lexicon: ethnic cleansing. But what does this phrase actually mean? For some, it is synonymous with another term often heard as the Yugoslav conflict unfolded: genocide -- a label others would reserve for a singular event like the Holocaust. Professor Naimark, author of a new book on these very questions, examines the Balkan events through the lens of ethnic and religious strife in modern European history and assesses the prospects for war and peace in the Balkans. |
| THERE IS NO REGISTRATION FEE FOR THE WORKSHOP, BUT PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED |
| Stipend Available: The first 15 active classroom teachers to register for the workshop will be eligible for a stipend of $100 for attending all four sessions. |
| Continuing Education credit is available for a $60 fee. |
| For further information, please contact: |
| Mary Dakin at CREES mdakin@stanford.edu 650.725.6852 or Tuckie Yirchott at BAGEP Tuckie@stanford.edu 650.725.1482 |
| Registration can be emailed to tuckie@stanford.edu |
| Registration can be mailed to: BAGEP CERAS 207 S Stanford, CA 94305-3084 |
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