Ethically
Speaking
The Center Welcomes
New Advisory Board
Members
The International Advisory Board is now
joined by Hans Corell, Margo Jefferson ‘68, and
Shiranee Tilakawardane.
Corell, (top) diplomat and jurist, served
as Under-Secretary General
News from The International
Center for Ethics, Justice and
Public Life at Brandeis University
SPRING 2005
Vol. 8, No.1
FROM THE DIRECTOR
Ethics at Work: Why Tough
Leaders Need Tough Programs
If
U.S. corporations are spending
millions of dollars a year on ethics and
business conduct programs, then why are they
losing so many CEOs to scandal? This was one of
1970s and 1980s,
Boeing and the
major defense
for Legal Affairs and the Legal
the questions that led me to write my new book,
Ethics at Work, which is a case study of the ethics
contractors
formed an
industry
Counsel of the United Nations
from 1994 to 2004. Before
and business conduct program of the Lockheed
consortium in
joining the United Nations,
Correll was Ambassador and
Martin Corporation.
March 2005 was a banner month for CEO
meltdowns. First, Boeing CEO Harry Stonecipher
1986 to adopt
common ethics
standards and
Under-Secretary for Legal and
Consular Affairs in his native
was ousted in the wake of revelations of
to share best
Sweden’s Ministry of Foreign
improprieties. Stonecipher had been brought to
Boeing to restore an aura of integrity; just 16
practices in
raising ethics awareness. In the intervening two
Affairs.
Jefferson, (center) criticat-large for The New York
months earlier, Boeing CEO Philip Condit resigned
in the wake of disclosures of document theft and
decades, these corporations have invested millions
of dollars and hours in new programs, under the
the improper hiring of a former U.S. Air Force
official.
The Boeing news was swiftly followed by the
watchful eye of the U.S. government.
The defense contractors have gone out of their
way to develop creative, broad-based approaches
forced resignation of Maurice “Hank” Greenberg
as CEO of the American International Group
to spreading ethics throughout their far-flung
enterprises. At Boeing’s competitor Lockheed
(AIG), under the shadow of charges of irregular
business practices, including the possible use of
Martin, for example, the ethics division bought
the rights to the Dilbert comic strip. Using the
Shiranee Tilakawardane,
(bottom) a Supreme Court
judge in Sri Lanka, was the first woman
earnings manipulation techniques. Finally, in the
conclusion of an infamous case, Bernard Ebbers
was convicted on fraud charges stemming from his
Dilbert characters, the corporation developed a
appointed as a Court of Appeal judge in Sri
tenure as head of WorldCom.
What makes these stories all the more
Times, has been a lecturer at
Columbia University and an
assistant professor at New York
University. In 1995, she was
awarded the Pulitzer Prize for
criticism.
Lanka. Her efforts are focused on equality,
gender education, and child rights.
For more information on the Center's
board go to www.brandeis.edu/ethics/about/
board. ■
puzzling is that many U.S. corporations have
actually put a great deal of time and money into
ethics. Take the case of the defense industry. In the
wake of bribery and overcharging scandals in the
board game, played each year by every employee,
■ continued on page 7
UPCOMING CONFERENCE
SEPTEMBER 15-16, 2005
Telling the Story: Power and
Responsibility in Documenting
Human Rights Violations
See back page for more information.
The International Center for Ethics,
Justice and Public Life
■ IN THE NEWS
The mission of the International Center
for Ethics, Justice and Public Life is to
develop effective responses to conflict and
injustice by offering innovative approaches
to coexistence, strengthening the work
of international courts, and encouraging
ethical practice in civic and professional life.
Staff Highlights
Staff
Daniel Terris
Director
Leigh Swigart
Associate Director
Marci McPhee
Assistant Director
Melissa Holmes Blanchard
Communications Specialist,
Newsletter Editor
Kara Bayer
Administrative Assistant
Kanan Makiya
Faculty Associate
Slifka Program in Intercommunal
Coexistence
Cynthia Cohen
Director of Coexistence Research
and International Collaborations
Mari Fitzduff
Professor of Coexistence and
Director of Master’s Program
Ian Richmond
Program Administrator
Jessica Berns
Program Manager, The Coexistence
Initiative (TCI)
International Advisory Board
Theodore C. Sorensen, Chair
Morton Abramowitz
Diego Arria
James Carroll
Hans Corell
Richard J. Goldstone
Margo Jefferson
Kerry Kennedy
Kishore Mahbubani
Margaret H. Marshall
Sari Nusseibeh
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah
Judith Schneider
Stephen J. Solarz
Joshua L. Steiner
Shiranee Tilakawardane
Liv Ullmann
The International Center for Ethics,
Justice and Public Life
Brandeis University
MS 086, P.O. Box 549110
Waltham, Massachusetts
02454-9110 USA
Phone: 781-736-8577
Fax:
781-736-8561
Email:
ethics@brandeis.edu
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In April, Cynthia Cohen participated in a
panel in New York City at the inaugural
symposium of Theatre Without Borders,
“The Future of International Theatre
Exchange: Rewards, Responsibilities,
Challenges, Possibilities” ■ During a visit
to Tel Aviv and Jerusalem in November,
Mari Fitzduff was the chief guest at
the Distinguished Speaker Series of
the American Embassy. Among many
engagements, she spoke to the Knesset
Committee for Advancement of the
Status of Women, and to a conference
on Mixed Cities sponsored by the The
Knorad Adenauer Program for JewishArab Cooperation at Tel Aviv University.
■ �In the fall, Leigh Swigart attended a
colloquium on international prosecution
at the International Criminal Tribunal for
Rwanda in Tanzania. ■ Recent articles
by Daniel Terris include “A Fragile
Democracy” (Sh’ma, January 2005) and
“How to Teach Ethics to CEOs” (Boston
Globe, March 21, 2005).
Southeast Asia Scholarship Fund
“The recent earthquake off the coast of
Indonesia and the resulting tsunami left
parts of Southeast Asia and East Africa
devastated. The impact of the disaster on
the current internal conflicts in Sri Lanka
and Indonesia demands our attention,”
wrote the first cohort of graduate
students in the Alan B. Slifka Master’s
Program in Coexistence and Conflict.
They have responded by starting
the Southeast Asia Scholarship Fund to
enable individuals living and working in
this region to receive advanced university
training in conflict management and
intercommunal coexistence work.
Recipients of the scholarship will acquire
the knowledge and tools to help them
become leaders of long-term, sustainable
solutions to the violent conflicts in their
homelands. In the spirit of building
peace in Southeast Asia, M.A. students
are asking for support of this studentled initiative. Contributions will help
cover the tuition and housing costs
of individuals selected to study in the
Program in Coexistence and Conflict.
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If you are interested in making a gift to
Southeast Asia Scholarship Fund, please
contact Mark Ableman at 781-736-4051
or mableman@brandeis.edu.
Introducing the 2005 Ethics and
Coexistence Student Fellows
■ The 2005 Fellows are (left to right)
Anna Nguyen ‘06, Julia Resnitsky ‘07,
Cyanna Rodney-Hill ‘06, Mai Le ‘07, Ava
Morgenstern ‘06, and Amy Cotton ‘06.
As summer approaches, the 2005 Fellows
are completing the course “Introduction
to Coexistence,” the first part of their
three-part fellowship experience. They are
preparing to embark on their internships
with coexistence organizations around the
globe. In the fall, they will complete their
fellowships with a tutorial to document
and reflect upon their experiences. For
more information on the Fellows go to
www.brandeis.edu/ethics/fellowships/ecsf.
The Center Welcomes
Jessica Berns
Jessica Berns joins the Slifka Program
in Intercommunal Coexistence as the
program manager for The Coexistence
Initiative (TCI). She comes to the
Center after five years at Transparency
International (Berlin, Germany), where
she worked closely with a network of Latin
American civil society partners, and in the
creation of a corruption fighters’ tool kit.
She brings experience in human rights
and refugee resettlement issues. She holds
an M.A. in Law and Diplomacy from The
Fletcher School at Tufts and a B.A. in
Spanish from the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor. As manager of TCI, she will
work with an advisory board to develop
strategies for strengthing networks among
coexistence practitioners. ■
■ FORUM
The Newcomers Among Us: The Experiences of Haitians
Who Have Made Boston Their New Home
“Tout otan tèt pa koupe gen espwa mete chapo!”
An approximate translation into English might be,
“As long as the head is not cut off, it can hope to wear a hat.”
ANOTHER ODE TO SALT
By Danielle Legros Georges,
a poet and translator born in Haiti
We navigate snow not ours
T
his Haitian Kreyol proverb summed up a
discussion that took place at the Center’s
most recent Newcomers Among Us seminar, held
reached far beyond complaints about the host
society and its shortcomings. Haitian immigrants
were quick to point out the things that their own
on March 4, 2005 at the Association for Haitian
Women (Asosiyasyon Fanm Ayisyen nan Boston)
in Dorchester, Massachusetts. The fifth in the
Newcomers series, this particular seminar focused
on the experiences of Haitians who have made
Boston their new home.
This evocative proverb arose during a spirited
discussion of the challenges that have faced
refugees and immigrants from Haiti as they attempt
to integrate into the life of a Northeastern city. All
participants were either first- or second-generation
Haitian immigrants or individuals who work in
situations that bring them into regular contact
with a Haitian population. Many professions were
represented, including social services, medicine,
education, guidance counseling, university
research and teaching, non-profit management,
and cultural consulting.
Participants spoke movingly of the low status
that they feel the Haitian population continues to
occupy in the eyes of mainstream America. The
flight of many Haitian refugees by boat to the
shores of the U.S. in the 1980’s, and their often
undeserved association with the emerging HIV
pandemic, created a picture of Haitian immigrants
that lingers in the American imagination and
continues to serve as a barrier to their full social
and economic integration.
Yet the conversation among participants
community could do better, such as breaking down
gender hierarchies and preserving those aspects of
Haitian culture that will help the second generation
to develop the inner strength necessary to face the
hardships of life in an American city. Perhaps first
and foremost, Haitians need to sustain their efforts
to succeed in their new home and not feel beaten
down by all that stands in their way. To return to
the proverb, they need to persevere if they are to
manage to put a hat on that empty head.
Carline Desiré, executive director of the
Asosiyasyon Fanm Ayisyen nan Boston, encouraged
Haitian immigrants to reach out to other
immigrant groups. “There is more that unites
than separates us,” she claimed, adding that
better immigration policies would be developed
through work across the boundaries of immigrant
populations, in Boston and elsewhere.
The Newcomers series, directed by Leigh
Swigart, is part of long-standing program at
Brandeis University called Seminars in the
Humanities and the Professions. The program
uses literature as a lens through which seminar
participants may view their work in new and
constructive ways. The series brings together people
who work with immigrants and refugees in the
Boston area with the aim of building a network
of professionals who can advise and consult one
another in this critical and growing field. ■
but grown used to, one cold foot
over another, adopt accoutrements:
a red scarf, wind-wrapped and tight,
boots, their soles teethed like sharks,
shackling our ebon ankles, the weight
of wool coats borrowed from
our ancestors, the Gauls.
Masters at this now,
we circumvent ice
as we do time, reach home.
The salt you bend to cast
parts the snow around us.
I bend and think
of a primary sea,
harbors of danger and history,
passing through the middle
in boats a-sail in furious storms,
cargo heavy,
of mystères, renamed,
submerged and sure,
riding dark waves,
floating long waves
to the other side of the water
and the other side
and the next.
“Another Ode to Salt” from Maroon
by Danielle Legros Georges. Reprinted
with permission of Curbstone Press.
Copyright © 2001.
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■ FORUM
Local Action/Global Impact: An Interactive Forum
F
rom February 7 to 11, 2005, the Center hosted Local Action/Global
Impact, a forum exploring the interplay of local action and global change.
Supported by a generous grant from the Morton Meyerson Family Foundation,
the forum included 15 events sponsored by 27 student organizations and
campus departments.
The forum was filled with fascinating insights from different points of
view, all around the same theme: How can
you take excellent local action and leverage
it for larger change? Events included: “First
Step: Personal Local Global Choices;”
“Oxfam Hunger Banquet;” “Social Change
from Theory to Practice;” “El Salvador to
Brandeis: The Search for Work, Wages, and
Justice;” and “Environmental Justice: Community Empowerment for a
Cleaner Environment.”
A highlight of the forum was a powerful presentation by Dr. Ray
Hammond, entitled “Faith in Action: From Brandeis to Nicaragua,
From Boston to Sudan.” Hammond is the Reverend of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. He
discussed the work that his family and congregation have done to
address the issue of slavery in the Sudan by facilitating the development
of an underground railroad. Selections from his speech are on page 5.
More information on
the forum is available
■ (Top) A student prepares for “Art Attack.”
at www.brandeis.edu/
A large mural was displayed, inviting students,
faculty, and staff to “harness their inner artist”
by adding their own work and reflections
to the piece. (Above) During the “Oxfam
Hunger Banquet,” participants were placed
into different socio-economic groups and given
food accordingly. The majority received rice
and water, some received rice and beans, and
only the smallest percentage had a full meal.
Reflecting on the experience, one person who
was “lucky” enough to be in the wealthiest
groups commented that “good food never
tasted so bad.”
ethics/localglobal.
■ Deborah Bial ’87, founder of the Posse
Foundation, spoke about her career choices
to an engaged audience.
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■ FORUM SPOTLIGHT
Faith in Action—From Brandeis to Nicaragua, From Boston to Sudan
Excerpts from Dr. Ray Hammond’s presentation on the underground railroad in the Sudan
F
rom the Christian story of the Good
Samaritan, to the Jewish commitment to
“tikkun olam” (repair the world), to the Islamic
practice of caring for
the poor—almost every
faith tradition has a call
to help those who are in
trouble. The question
becomes, “how do you
convince people to
authority that they bring
when they are engaged
with the problem. It is
not powerful when they
are on the sidelines
telling the government
what they ought to do;
rather, power comes from
being directly engaged
with the problem. From
Dr. Ray Hammond
that platform, they speak
on behalf of those who often have no voice.
That is when they are at their best, at their
most powerful. In a very real sense, that is what
we are trying to do in Sudan. It was great to be a
part of seeing 2000 people set free, but the problem
is that there are another 98,000 still in northern
Sudan. Many more are going to be enslaved unless
something can be done to change policy in a world
that, by and large, has fallen asleep on the issues.
That is true in the work that we do locally. It is also
true of the work that we do globally.
It is a tough balancing act between one’s
own faith community and reaching beyond
the congregation. It is not either/or; both are
important. If I do not do the kind of communitybuilding needed and discharge my responsibility to
my local community, I do not have a platform to
stand on when I go to Sudan. One reason that my
wife and I do this is because we have a community
that stands with us.
People often say, “in the face of so many
needs out there, how do you choose?” I want to
recommend to you what I call the “three C’s”
of this process: conviction, community, and
circumstance. There are convictions that you
have to arrive at because something touches your
heart and ignites a certain passion, maybe a sense
of indignation—righteous indignation. It then
also has to be filtered through the community of
people of which you are a part. They are going
spend resources raised
by the members of the congregation on people who
will never, most likely, come to that congregation;
whose problems are very different? How do you
get people to look beyond their own immediate
needs—or the needs directly around them—to
understand that they have a commitment to go
beyond that?”
My wife, Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond,
wrote, “After 21 hours of almost 9,000 miles in the
air, I arrived (along with a team from Boston and
Switzerland) in a small village in Southern Sudan.
The next day, I participated in the redemption
of almost 2,000 slaves—all of them women and
children. Over the subsequent days, I interviewed
many of those women. I repeatedly heard stories of
abduction, murder, gang rapes, people being sold
like property, genital mutilation, forced religious
conversions, beatings, arson, and unimaginable
sexual abuse. I went to the Sudan a concerned
woman and I returned from the Sudan an angry
woman. Angry that a peaceful people have had to
endure almost two decades of persecution at the
hands of a government in Khartoum. Angry that the
world would turn its head while millions were killed
and hundreds of thousands were enslaved.”
In the face of the needs that are out there,
the resources that are available from the faith
communities are, quite frankly, pretty puny. The
resource that I think the faith communities do
have, which is unbelievably powerful, is the moral
■ An engaged
audience listens
to Dr. Ray
Hammond.
“I went to the Sudan
a concerned woman
and I returned from the Sudan
an angry woman. Angry that a
peaceful people have had
to endure almost two decades
of persecution at the hands
of a government in Khartoum.
Angry that the world would turn
its head while millions were killed
and hundreds
of thousands were enslaved.”
Rev. Gloria E. White-Hammond
to be the people who support you in the process,
who hopefully give you wise counsel about how to
approach the situation and how to work it through.
Finally, there are circumstances. I did not plan to
be in Sudan in 2001. Somebody invited me, and I
recognized it was time and we had to respond.
It was not enough to deal with it in America.
We had to go to where the problem was. What
started as a conviction became a driving passion.
Convictions, community, and circumstances often
help you to decide on your calling in this huge
ocean of need. ■
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■ HIGHLIGHTS OF RECENT EVENTS
JAN UARY
Budislav Vukas, vice-president of the
International Tribunal for the Law of the
Sea, met with students and faculty to
discuss the work of the tribunal.
FEBR UARY
C. L. Franklin and the Black Church
Tradition, a discussion with Nick
Salvatore, professor at Cornell University,
about his new book Singing in a Strange
Land: The Life and Ministry of C.L. Franklin.
Hosted by African and Afro-American
Studies.
The Art of Coexistence: Six Students,
Four Countries, a Thousand Questions,
a celebration of ‘04 & ‘05 Ethics and
Coexistence Student Fellows. (See page 8).
Local Action/Global Impact: An
Interactive Forum, a week exploring
interplay of local action and global
change. (See page 4).
MA RCH
The Chosen Word: Hip-Hop/Slam
Poet Kevin Coval, a student-run event
featuring slam poet Kevin Coval, a
Chicago artist who has developed a hiphop youth summit in his hometown.
Hosted by Hillel.
From Journalist to Muslim
Women’s Rights Activist, a
talk by Asra Nomani, former
Wall Street Journal reporter
and Muslim women’s rights
activist. Nomani also led
a historic mixed-gender
Muslim prayer service at
Brandeis (right) during her
visit in March. Hosted by
the Brandeis Institute of
Investigative Journalism.
Profiles in Leadership: Truth at Stake,
a day of conversations with scholars such
as Deborah Lipstadt (M.A. ‘72, Ph.D.
‘76), author of History on Trial: My Day
in Court with David Irving. Hosted by
the Fisher-Bernstein Institute for Jewish
Philanthropy and Leadership.
Iraq: War, Politics, and Memory, an
evening with Kanan Makiya and the
Iraq Memory Foundation. He unveiled
some of the first materials collected by
the Foundation
and spoke about
his hope for
democracy in his
native land.
Kanan Makiya
APRI L
Beyond Disaster Relief: Opportunities
for Peace-Building in Southeast Asia,
an international symposium of scholars
and practitioners exploring how disaster
relief can contribute to sustainable peace
in Southeast Asia. Ambassador Douglas A.
Hartwick, senior coordinator of the State
Department's Tsunami Reconstruction
Task Force, was the keynote speaker.
Hosted by students in the Master’s
Program in Coexistence and Conflict.
Public Policy and HIV-AIDS in the
Caribbean, a lecture by Robert Carr,
executive director of Jamaica AIDS
Support. He explored the human rights
implications in addressing this epidemic.
Hosted by African and Afro-American
Studies. ■
International Master's Program in Coexistence and Conflict Launched in March
On March 16, 2005, the Center celebrated the launch of the Master's Program
in Coexistence and Conflict. The launch featured the panel discussion,
”Conflict to Coexistence? The Task for Tomorrow's Leaders.”
■ (Top Left) Alan Slifka speaks at "From Conflict to Coexistence"
while Mari Fitzduff, director of the program, listens at the right.
(Left) Gazala Paul, a Master's student in the program. (Top Right)
Panelists included (from left to right): Susan Collin Marks, executive
vice president of Search for Common Ground; Justice Shiranee
Tilakawardane of the Supreme Court of Sri Lanka; Brandeis University
President Jehuda Reinharz; Alan Slifka; Mari Fitzduff; and William
Ury, co-founder of Harvard’s Program on Negotiation.
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Slifka Fellowships Available
The Master’s Program in Coexistence
and Conflict has announced the
availability of four Slifka Master's
Fellowships for the 2005-06 and 200607 academic years. These fellowships
are available for early to mid-level
career professionals who are working
full time within a government or
inter-governmental organization. In
their positions, they must be working
on, or intending to work on, issues of
coexistence and conflict. The award
includes full tuition and $10,000
towards living and other expenses.
The application deadlines are May 1,
2005 and January 31, 2006 for the
2005-06 and 2006-07 academic years
respectively. For more information go
to www.brandeis.edu/programs/slifka.
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Ethics at Work (continued from page 1)
that encouraged
discussion of ethics
issues through
real-life case studies.
Awareness and
compliance
programs are
complemented by
Daniel Terris, director
codes of conduct,
on-line training modules, and teams of “ethics
officers” empowered to investigate allegations
of misconduct. Boeing, Northrup Grumman,
accountable. Reporting to company executives and
operating in a risk-adverse environment, ethics
officers can provide advice and awareness, but lack
sufficient independence and authority to make
meaningful changes in corporate culture.
Finally, ethics programs in the defense
industry give virtually no attention to the largest
issues—the question of a corporation’s impact on
the larger world. When corporations duck tough
questions about the ethical dimensions of their
policies and products, they implicitly endorse the
idea that their employees, as individuals, can also
employers. But they are, in the end, at the mercy
of the demands of the corporate culture of which
they are a part. If corporate leaders are serious
about ethics, they will have to empower their ethics
officials to develop tough programs that challenge
and monitor senior executives at a level of intensity
commensurate with the power that they wield.
Done right, ethics is uncomfortable. But it’s a
whole lot better than searching for a new CEO every
16 months.
Ethics at Work: Creating Virtue at an
American Corporation, by Daniel Terris, is
Halliburton—the major players in the defense
industry all have similar efforts in place.
As for WorldCom, the corporation has tried
to do the right thing since its near-implosion. The
company has reinvented its ethics program under
the leadership of the former head of the ethics
program at Boeing!
With all these programs in place, why have
things gone wrong at Boeing, WorldCom, AIG,
Halliburton, and so many other companies? The
answer, in short, is that corporate ethics programs,
extensive though they are, are not nearly as tough
as the executives they are designed to restrain.
Ethics and business conduct programs
devote too little time and effort to the place where
the most damage can be done: at the top of the
corporate hierarchy. Ethics executives point proudly
to the fact that senior executives undergo all the
same training modules as their underlings. But
corporations have done little to develop toughminded, searching programs that force senior
executives to confront the particular temptations
and dilemmas faced by those in positions of
power. As a result, the characteristics that have
made corporate leaders successful—drive, ego,
ambitiousness—go unchecked.
Secondly, ethics programs get a lot of
attention in company websites, but it is less obvious
that ethics officers have the inside clout to develop
truly challenging programs and to hold leaders
avoid a searching examination of the consequences
of their actions.
Ethics officers, in my experience, are smart,
sincere, and committed both to the idea of a
values-based culture and to indemnifying their
published by the University Press of New England
(www.upne.com). ■
Remembering Ingrid Muan
The Center’s staff join people from around the world in mourning the
sudden death of Dr. Ingrid Muan, Brandeis International Fellow in the
program, Recasting Reconciliation through Culture and the Arts. Ingrid
was an artist, scholar, and cultural worker who co-founded Reyum, the
institute of art and culture in Phnom Penh. She dedicated her generous
intelligence and creativity to the preservation and development of Khmer
culture—through exhibitions of traditional and contemporary arts,
through the publication of books and articles, through her support of the few surviving older
Khmer craftspeople, and through her mentorship of a new generation of Cambodian artists
and researchers. She also served as a mentor to ‘04 Ethics and Coexistence Student Fellows, Daniel
Ludevig ‘06 and Joshua Russell ‘06. She was admired and loved by her colleagues, family, students,
and friends for her perseverance, her humor, her elegance, her generosity, and her wisdom.
Ingrid started drafting a paper for the Fellowship program entitled “The Goodness of Lives.”
It was a reflection on the challenges of creating a culture of respect and reciprocity at Reyum.
She wrote about a project in which young students were invited to interpret 10 tales central to the
Khmer Buddhist tradition, stories of the last lives of the Buddha before he reached enlightenment.
Each of the tales, she wrote, “illustrates a virtue or quality thought to be essential for living a
good life: generosity, honesty, equanimity, tolerance, compassion, self-determination, diligence.”
Ingrid’s life embodied all of these virtues in good measure. We are grateful for the opportunity we
had to know and to work with a woman of such enormous talent and integrity, and will miss her
presence in the years to come. ■
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■ S AV E T H E D AT E
September 15-16, 2005
Telling the Story: Power and
Responsibility in Documenting
Human Rights Violations
By bringing together experts in human
rights from around the world, this
conference will break new ground in
defining the issues surrounding the ways
that human rights abuses are reported
and the purposes this reporting
serves. Practitioners who produce or
use documentation of violations will
join scholars who approach it from
theoretical perspectives for a series
of presentations and discussions.
Students, faculty, and practitioners
are encouraged to attend! Go to
www.brandeis.edu/ethics/events or call
781.736.8577 for more information.
■ N E W C E N T E R P U B L I C AT I O N S
Literary Responses to Mass Violence
includes poetry and essays, while
documenting many of the events from
the Fall 2003 symposium of the same
name. The event brought together
writers and scholars from around the
globe to reflect on the writing and
testimony that has
been published in
the wake of recent
tragedies including
the Holocaust,
South African
apartheid, and
the genocide in
Rwanda.
The Art of Coexistence: Six Students,
Four Countries, 1000 Questions
is a publication of the 2004 Ethics
and Coexistence Student Fellows.
It documents the Fellows’
experiences as interns, focusing
on the role that art can play in the
work of coexistence.
This event is a collaborative effort of the
Center and the Greater Boston Anthropology
Consortium. It is supported by grants from
The Boston Foundation and the Massachusetts
Foundation for the Humanities, a state affiliate
of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Non-Profit
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The International Center for
Ethics, Justice and Public Life
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Brandeis University
MS 086 P.O. Box 549110
Waltham, MA 02454-9110 USA
Boston, MA
Permit No. 15731
The International Center for Ethics, Justice
and Public Life was established through the
generosity of the late Abraham Feinberg
Visit the Center online at
www.brandeis.edu/ethics.
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THE INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR ETHICS, JUSTICE AND PUBLIC LIFE
Both Sides of the Bench: New
Perspectives on International Law and
Human Rights highlights the work of
the 2001-03 Brandeis International
Fellowship Program in Human Rights,
Intervention, and International Law.
It also documents the themes raised
during the
April 2003
symposium
of the same
name.
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