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Examines the role of education in the Holocaust of Nazi Germany, discusses U.S. nuclear weapons policy and factors of psychological resistance that have limited citizen participation in decision making, and explores the potential of education to help prevent nuclear war. (Author/SK)

Proposes an educational campaign that: (1) provides opportunities for citizens to learn about facts and issues relating to nuclear war; (2) stimulates the search for national security policies likely to lead to nuclear war; and (3) generates a political will to initiate social changes that eliminate threats of nuclear war. (CS)

Discusses the role of education in preventing nuclear war. Includes information on projects and organizations involved in educating children and youth about nuclear war and profiles of organizations that have been promoting nuclear war education at colleges and universities. (JN)

The article presents an essay titled "A nuclear education campaign," on how to eliminate the threat of nuclear war. The authors state that the common person is misinformed and ignorant about the threat of nuclear war, and the nuclear elite, a few hundred people who control the nuclear weapons, propagate nuclear weapons as being important for freedom. They suggest an education campaign that emphasizes human dimension in a nuclear war, comprehensive and multidisciplinary approaches, and an effort to understand all aspects of nuclear disarmament and rearmament. They think that the educational institutes can start the education campaign by developing curricular material showing the negative effects of a nuclear war. The benefits of a nuclear war campaign are also discussed.

Focuses on the role of social sciences in addressing important aspects of the nuclear problem. Function of democratic institutions with respect to nuclear weapons policies; Psychological and social obstacles that weaken citizens' ability to confront and effectively respond to the nuclear threat; Prospects for a successful social reform movement to prevent nuclear war.

Presents an overview of the first official investigation by one sovereign nation, the United States, into another sovereign nation, Sudan's internal strife for the express purpose of ascertaining whether genocide had been perpetrated or not. Foundation that led former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell to accuse the government of Sudan of genocide; Implication of the investigation on international relations and world politics; Discussion of the failure of the U.S. government and the international community to act on the findings of the historic investigation.

Cigar, Norman. Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of "Ethnic Cleansing" (College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 1995). 247 pp, cloth. Udovicki, Jasminka, and Ridgeway, James, eds. Burn This House: The Making and Unmaking of Yugoslavia (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1997). 337 pp, paper. Allcock, John. B, Milivojevic, Marko and Horton, John J., eds. Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia: An Encyclopedia (Denver, Santa Barbara and Oxford, UK: ABC-CLIO, 1998). 405 pp, cloth. Sudetic, Chuck. Blood and Vengeance: One Family's Story of the War in Bosnia (New York, London: W.W. Norton & Company, 1998). 392 pp, cloth. Thomas, Robert. The Politics of Serbia in the 1990s (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999). 443 pp, paper. Burg, Steven L., and Shoup, Paul S. The War in Bosnia-Herzegovina: Ethnic Conflict and International Intervention (Armonk, NY and London: M. E. Sharpe, 1999). 497 pp, cloth. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This abstract is the fullest and final copy of the late Eric Markusen's ideas for the article he wished to appear in this Special Issue. The swift progression of his illness prevented him from advancing his ideas further. As a tribute to his enthusiasm for the project and to ensure that his ideas on the subject, however brief, are not lost to his fellow scholars, we thought it appropriate to print this abstract in its entirety. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduces articles related to genocide research, published in the 2004 issue of "Journal of Genocide Research."

Presents an obituary for Stig Hornshoj-Moller, Danish historian and scholar of the Holocaust and genocide who died on February 18, 1999 in Berlin, Germany of a heart attack.