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Photo by Jeff Watts Punjab proposed as model for peace RELATED LINK > School of International Service When British India was partitioned 60 years ago into the separate nations of India and Pakistan, refugees flooded across the border and sectarian violence left up to 2 million dead. Akbar Ahmed was a four-year-old on a train full of Indian Muslims fleeing to Pakistan; Shalini Venturelli’s parents were escaping the other way, abandoning their home in Lahore for India. Ahmed and Venturelli, both faculty at the School of International Service (SIS), were among the panelists who gathered last week to discuss a new book by Tridivesh Singh Maini ’04 that finds a model of hope for South Asian cooperation and peace building in one of the unintended results of partition. With the 1947 partition, the region of Punjab was also split into Pakistani and Indian sections, leaving the Punjabi culture, which includes Sikhs, Muslims, and Hindus, straddling the border of two mutually suspicious nations. Maini argues in South Asian Cooperation and the Role of the Punjabs (2007) that the region can be used to create “positive vested interests” through trade and other connections, allowing the two Punjabs to facilitate and serve as a model for a peaceful South Asia. “The main object of this book is to provide a corridor between India and Pakistan,” said Maini, right, at the podium. Other panelists were Mowahid Shah, senior advisor to the chief minister of Pakistan’s Punjab Province; Nissim Reuben, American Jewish Committee; Rajwant Singh, chairman, Sikh Council on Religion and Education; and diplomat in residence Anthony Quainton, SIS. —SA

Performances/Media Productions/Exhibitions
Brigid Maher, SOC: her film AWOL was screened at the Reel Women Film Festival, sponsored by Hollywood Reporter and New Beauty magazine, Los Angeles, March.

Honors/Awards/Appointments
Karen O’Connor, director, Women and Politics Institute, and SPA: won the 2007 Southern Political Science Manning Dauer Award, which is presented biennially to a political scientist for exceptional service to the profession.

Vivian Vasquez, School of Education, Teaching and Health, CAS: was a finalist in the Podcast Peer Awards: Education Category; she is the host of the critical literacy in practice podcast located at www.clippodcast.com.

Diane Weinroth, WCL: was named winner of the 2007 Jerrold Scoutt Prize, given by the D.C. Bar each year for work in an area nonprofit that provides legal help to the poor and disadvantaged, January.

Lectures/Presentations
Kathe Hicks Albrecht, visual resources curator: panelist for “Copyright Issues for Educators,” South Eastern College Art Conference (SECAC), Nashville, November.

Sarah Brewer, Women and Politics Institute: discussed Nancy Pelosi’s rise to political power along with that of Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton and how they are changing the nature of women’s political roles, UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

Robert Marshak, SPA: “Covert Processes at Work,” Dallas-Fort Worth Organization Development Network, February.

Papers Presented
Abdul Karim Bangura, SIS and Center for Global Peace: copresented “Refugees and Security in Africa’s Great Lakes Region: A Challenge to the Sanctity of the African State,” 2006 Association of Third World Studies Annual Meeting, Winston Salem University, N. Ca., November.

Jeffrey Sosland, Washington Semester and Kogod: presented “MNCs in QIZs: Do International Firms and Free Trade Policies Promote Middle East Peace?” at the International Studies Association Convention, Chicago, March.

Published Works
Consuelo Hernández, language and foreign studies, CAS: “Festín de los cuatro elementos” and “Si yo fuera Lisístrata,” in La mujer latina, no 20, Centro de Estudios Chicanos, Universidad de California, Primavera, 2006.

Gwanhoo Lee, Kogod: coauthored “Organizational Size and IT Innovation Adoption: A Meta-Analytic Review,” in Information and Management, 43(8), 2006.

Brian Yates, psychology, CAS: “Costs of Clubhouses: An International Perspective,” in Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 34, 2007.

Media
Naomi Baron, language and foreign studies, CAS: was interviewed by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer on computer-modeling tools for visualizing word frequency in texts, December.

Robert Blecker, economics, CAS: quoted in the article “The Nation: NAFTA Should Have Stopped Illegal Immigration, Right?” Week in Review, New York Times, February.

Robert Durant, SPA: was quoted on organizational survival strategies in an article on the Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau, in Government Executive, February.

Allan Lichtman, history, CAS: was interviewed by the Salt Lake Tribune on the Democrat’s attempt to solidify a growing base in the mountain West by holding their 2008 national convention in Denver, January.

David Lublin, SPA: was interviewed by the Las Vegas Sun on Sen. Harry Reid’s Senate majority leader skills, January.

Kathryn Montgomery, SOC: was interviewed by WUSA News Channel 9 on today’s generation of children, teens, and young adults, who are known as Generation Digital, January.

Matthew Nisbet, SOC: was interviewed by Sinclair Broadcasting Group’s NewsCentral regarding Hillary Clinton’s online announcement of her presidential candidacy and the pending “YouTube election”; the interview was picked up by ABC’s Good Morning America, January.

John Richardson, director, Center for Teaching Excellence: was quoted in the article “No firm date for release of Minnesotan in Sri Lanka,” Star Tribune, March.

Jeffrey Schaler, SPA: quoted in the article “Katrina fraud cases flood courts: Louisiana leads in number of cases,” in the Times-Picayune, March.

Rita Simon, SPA: was interviewed by the Associated Press on the success of the insanity defense, January.

James Thurber, director of the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies, and SPA: was quoted in U.S. News and World Report regarding the possibilities for conflict within the Democratic party between the Blue Dogs and the old chairs, January.

Emilio Viano, SPA: was interviewed on French National Television TF1 on the implications of recruits with criminal records and gang membership joining the U.S. military; on Radio Horizonte Latino on the likelihood of immigration reform in 2007; on RCN Radio (Colombia) and Radio America (Argentina) on the U.S. reaction to the role Iran is playing in the Iraq conflict; on Radio Emisora de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia on the McCain presidential candidacy; by El Pais newspaper (Spain) on President Bush’s trip to Latin America; on NBC on the current Republican candidates for U.S. president, February.