UNC-Chapel Hill will host its most unusual sporting event of the season: American Indian stickball.  The exhibition will involve the Paint Town Stickball Team from Cheokee, NC.  This game is ancient, and traditionally it was accompanied by much of the ritual associated with warfare (fasting, sexual abstinence, ritual bathing, dances, etc.).  In fact, Cherokees called stickball "the little brother to war," they settled internal disputes with ball games, and occasionally they played ball with other tribes rather than going to war.  There are historic accounts of Cherokees and Creeks settling a land dispute through the ballgame.  Today, it is the closest we are likely to come to seeing aboriginal American warfare.  This event is made possible through a grant from the Office of Distinguished Scholarships and Intellectual Life.  UNC sponsors include the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense.

Admiral Dennis Blair
"How National Security Policy is REALLY Made in Washington: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, with some Case Studies"
Friday, February 7, 2003, Noon to 1:30 pm
569 Hamilton Hall

Join the Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense for its third distinguished visitor lunch/talk and discussion.  Adm. Blair, former head of the Pacific Command in charge of all American forces in the region (1999-2002), is the Frey Foundation Distinguished Visiting Professor at Carolina this spring.  He was directly or indirectly involved in most of the major decisions in U.S. defense policy and interventions overseas.  In his years as the Pacific commander, he participated in decisions relating to U.S. relations with China, Korea, Japan, Indonesia, and other Asian and Pacific countries.

Join the Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense for its second distinguished visitor luncheon/talk and discussion.  Dr. Abrahamson was an armored cavalry officer in Europe and Vietnam, and on the history faculty at West Point and the Army War College.  He will proved a notional analysis of what an American/allied campaign to overthrow Saddam Hussein might look like.

Please call Jackie Gorman for reservations as space is limited. 

Join the Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense and the Department of Health Policy and Administration to hear Dr. Abigail Kohn discuss how gun enthusiasts hear public health messages about guns and why gun enthusiasts are distrustful of what health professionals say about guns.

Abigail Kohn has an A.B. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University, a Masters in Criminology from Cambridge University, and a Ph.D. in Medical Anthrolpology from the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco.

Congressman Mike McIntyre will meet with PWAD majors only to answer questions about the War on Terror, and his perspctives on it.  Congressman McIntyre is a member of the House Armed Services Committee, and the Special Oversight Panel on Terrorism, and has been to Afghanistan as part of this work for the Committee.  (He is also a Carolina alum).  His Biography is available at www.house.gov/mcintyre and reflects his interest in, and work on, national security affairs during his years in the Hosue.

Join the Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense for its first distinguished visitor luncheon of the year.  The speaker will be Professor Jeffrey Hadler of the University of California, Berkeley.  He will describe a civil war in the early 19th century in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra that sought to replace the local matrilineal culture with one that mirrored the Wahabi society in Mecca.  The reformists were defeated, but the peace brought an ongoing questioning of gender and religion, as well as the intensive colonial presence of the Dutch.  Today, the Minangkabau remain the world's largest matrilineal Muslim culture, and have had tremendous influence on the development of the modern nation of Indonesia.  This talk explores those cultural debates surrounding Islam and gender, and seeks to explain the unique cultural and political position that Minangkabau people have had in 20th century Indonesia.

You must have a reservation to attend.  Please get in touch with Jackie Gorman.

Join the Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense and the UNC General Alumni Association for an Iraq Symposium featuring A. Mark Weisburd, Professor of Law, Mark Crexcenzi, Asst. Professor of Political Science, Richard H. Kohn, Professor of History; Chair, Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense, James A. Stimson, Raymond Dawson Professor of Political Science, Sarah D. Shields, Associate Professor History, Carl Ernst, Professor of Religious Studies, Douglas MacLean, Professor of Philosophy, and Michael H. Hunt, Everett H. Emerson Professor of History.

Free and Open to the Public

Our fifth field trip to government and non-government offices and organizations in the DC area to investigate jobs and careers in national and international security will take place on November 9. We will visit the Henry L. Stimson Center , perhaps the most respected non-partisan think tank in the field doing national security research; Ike Skelton's office, the ranking Democrat on the House National Security Committee who has been in Congress since 1977 and is a devoted promoter of military history for applied policy and decision-making; Institute for Defense Analyses, one of the leading federal research centers doing national security analysis; and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency.

Mr. Colin Soloway
February 18, 2002

"A Reporter from Carolina in Afghanistan" who discovered the "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh in the prison in Mazar-i-Sharif and broke the story in Newsweek, will present a talk.  The event will be held on from 12:00-1:30 in Hamilton 569.

You must have a reservation to attend.  Please get in touch with Jackie Gorman.

Dr. David J. Weber, Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Professor School of Public Heath
November 20, 2001

Dr. Weber will present The Third in a Series of Presentations on The War on Terrorism, "BIOTERRORISM: WHAT IS THE THREAT, HOW GREAT IS IT?"  The event will be held from 7-9pm in Hamilton 100 and is open to the public.

Captain Craig Marks, US Army (Ret)
November 9, 2001

Capt. Marks, an Associate Professor of Military Science at UNC Chapel Hill, and a former Green Beret, will present The Second in a Series of Presentations on The War on Terrorism, "IS AMERICA UNDER ATTACK?  HOW CAN YOU PROTECT YOUR FAMILY?"  The event will be held at Gerrard Auditorium, 7-9pm and will be open to members of the community.  Capt. Marks has an extensive background in counterterrorism, having served in Special Forces units throughout his career in the Army.  He will discuss the current situation, ways the public can be vigilant and protective without paralyzing themselves, and answer questions from the audience.

Join us for PWAD's second Distinguished Visitor luncheon of the year on Friday, October 26, 12 noon in Hamilton Hall 569.  Professor Black is an internationally famous military historian, author of numerous books on war and society since medieval times, and a delightful and engaging speaker.

Please call Jackie Gorman for reservations as space is limited.

The Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense presents The First in a Series of Presentations on The War on Terrorism "American Civil Liberties and The War on Terrorism".  7PM, Tate-Tuirner-Kuralt Building, Tuesday, October 16, 2001.  Co-Sponsored by the School of Law, UNC-Chapel Hill.

Rye Barcott ('01)

Join us for PWAD's first Distinguished Visitor luncheon of the year on Thursday August 30, noon-1:30 to hear PWAD alum Rye Barcott report on "The Challenges of Development in East Africa's Largest Slum."  After graduating in May and commissioning in the US Marine Corps, Rye took the Non-Governmental Organization he founded and leads, Carolina For Kibera, Inc. (CFK), back to Kenya for the summer to work on a number of grassroots projects in the Kiberal slum of Nairobi, including a youth sports association, medical clinic, and nursery school.  Rye's particular interest has been preventing youth violence, in one of the world's real tinderboxes: a slum of over a million people in the space of UNC's Chapel Hill campus.

We gather for lunch at noon in Hamilton Hall 569.  Please call Jackie Gorman for reservations as space is limited.

News Archive of Peace, War, and Defense

From wing walkers to sailplanes, ribbon cutters to jet trucks, now is the time to "gear up" for the largest spectator event in eastern NC as the world's largest Marine Corps air station prepares to host the 2001 MCAS Cherry Point Air Show.

This year's show, themed "Wings Over Carolina", will highlight a display of military might and will take place March 31.  The air show will feature the world famous US Navy Blue Angels jet performance team.  Military acts will include a Marine Air Ground Task Force demonstration highlighting the US Marine Corps finest capabilities, the US Army precision parachute team The Golden Knights and an additional highlight to the show will be a spectacular display of pyrotechnics and explosives aptly named the Wall of Flame.

We will travel by bus and have reserved seating for the show.  The trip is limited to 57.  Contact Jackie Gorman to make reservations.

Dith Pran
March 26-30, 2001

The famous Cambodian photojournalist for the NY Times, Dith Pran, will be visitng campus the week of March 26-30 for Human Rights Week.  He is the person whose life was the basis for "The Killing Fields" film.  The Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense is helping to sponsor and support the visit.

Prof. Robert Rupen
March 6, 2001

Join us for a luncheon on March 6 in Hamilton Hall 569, 12-1:30, for Professor Robert Rupen, "Mongolia in Russian-Chinese Relations, 1960-2000." 

Prof. Rupen taught for thirty years in our political science department in soviet studies, national and international security, and central and inner Asia.  He is one of this country's foremost experts on Mongolia, having written two books on the country, and visited last August.  Come hear about this far corner of the world which is unkown to most of us!!

Please call Jackie Gorman for reservations as space is limited.

Bo Hla-Tint
March 1, 2001

Mr. Bo Hla-Tint, a minister representing the National Coalition Government of the Union of Burma (NCGUB), will speak in the Common Room of the James M. Johnston Center at 8:15pm on Thursday, March 1 on the subject of forced labor and military rule in Burma today.  This talk is in part sponsored by the Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defesne.  It should be very interesting, as Burma is one of the more repressive military governments in the world today.

John Isaacs
February 6, 2001

Join us for our first distinguished visitor luncheon of the new year on Tuesday, February 6, 12-2 in Hamilton 569 for a talk and discussion with John Isaacs on : "Weapons of Mass Destruction: Opportunities, Dangers Ahead."

John Isaacs has served as executive director and president of Council for a Livable World since 1991, headed the Washingotn office since 1981 and lobbied for the Council since 1978.  He is one of the most respected and senior leaders of the nation's arms control community, and one of Washington, D.C.'s foremost experts on Congress and national security issues.  Profiled in both Congressional Quarterly and National Journal, he has authored numberous studies, fact sheets and breifing books on arms control, weapons of mass destruction and military budget issues.  He is frequently interviewed for television and radio shows and for newspaper stories.

Please call Jackie Gorman for reservations as space is limited.

Join us for our fourth distinguished visitor luncheon of the semester on Friday, December 1, 2000 in Hamilton 569 with Congressman Ike skelton, the ranking democrat on the House Armed Services Committee. Congressman Skelton represents the 4th district of Missouri (Fort Leonard Wood and Whiteman AFB, home of the B-2s) and has been in the House since 1976. He is a great friend of scholars, loves military history, thoroughly enjoys students and intellectual interchange, and is about as charming, stimulating, fun, warm, and informal a senior political leader as you could imagine.

Please join us for lunch and a discussion, "The 2000 Election, the Military, and National Defense in the Next Administration?" Call for reservations.

Professor Speaks on Break-Up of U.S.S.R.
November 29, 2000

Join us for our third distinguished visitor luncheon of the semester on Wednesday, November 29, 12-1:30 in Hamilton 569 with Professor Robin Watson, visiting in our Economics Department, on "The Collapse of the Soviet Union: Where was the Agency?" Prof. Watson is a senior economist with the CIA, where he has spent most of his career since graduating from Carolina in '70, conning BGBs, and taking his PhD at the University of Tennessee. He has been in the Directorate of Intelligence working on international economics issues, particularly Soviet and East European issues. He has headed their Econometrics and Economic Data shop for the past several years.

Fall PWAD Field Trip to Washington, DC
November 9, 2000 

Our fourth annual fall field trip to government and non-government offices and organizations in the DC area to investigate jobs and careers in national and international security will take place on November 9. We will visit the Henry L. Stimson Center , perhaps the most respected non-partisan think tank in the field doing national security research; Ike Skelton's office, the ranking Democrat on the House National Security Committee who has been in Congress since 1977 and is a devoted promoter of military history for applied policy and decision-making; Institute for Defense Analyses, one of the leading federal research centers doing national security analysis; and the CIA Headquarters.

Luncheon Seminar
October 26, 2000, 12:00-1:30 
569 Hamilton Hall

The Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense will hold its second Luncheon Seminar of the year. UNC's Diplomat in Residence, Ambassador Brenda Schoonover, will discuss her experiences: "The Practice of Diplomacy on the Ground: Life in an Embassy," including the day-to-day activities of an American mission, relationships with the military attaches and CIA, how American diplomats interact with various government officials and the public, and how American foreign policy plays out around the world on the ground in countries around the world. Ambassador Schoonover headed our mission in Togo and has served in a number of countries in Africa and elsewhere in the world. 

Luncheon Seminar
September 6, 2000, 12:00-1:30 
569 Hamilton Hall 

The Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense will hold its first Luncheon Seminar of the year. The featured speaker will be Lisa Cilento who is a PWAD major. Lisa, along with Marrisa Downs, Allison Pickett, and Grant Miller who attended the Burch Seminar in Vienna, and visited the Balkans, will give their impressions of seeing a war zone up close and ugly. 

Distinguished Visitor Luncheon Seminar 
March 30, 2000, 12-2 
569 Hamilton Hall

The Curriculum in Peace, War, & Defense will hold its second Distinguished Visitor Luncheon of the spring semester, featuring Colonel Thomas Greenwood, Senior Aide to the Commandant of the Marine Corps. His talk is titled "Age of Violent Peace." He will consider the Commandant's perspective on peacekeeping and his own experiences in peacekeeping missions to Haiti and Africa, concluding with an analysis of common characteristics of successful peacekeeping operations. A period of discussion will follow, and Colonel Greenwood will entertain questions and comments on peacekeeping and other issues of interest related to defense and to the Marine Corps.

Distinguished Visitor Luncheon Seminar
February 1, 2000, 12-2 
569 Hamilton Hall

On February 1, from 12-2pm, Peace, War, and Defense will hold its first Distinguished Visitor Luncheon of the spring semester, featuring Major Per Iko, Swedish Army speaking on PREVENTING UNREST: EXPERIENCES OF THE U.N. MISSION IN MACEDONIA. Major Iko joined the Swedish Army after compulsory service in 1984, serving as a reconnaissance/intelligence officer and in various assignments as commander, in the Artic region, and on peace-keeping missions in Cyprus (1986-87), Lebanon (1990), and Macdonia (1999). Presently he is a member of the military history department of the Royal Swedish Staff and War College, Stockholm. 

He will give a brief description of the Swedish Defense system with its conscription and how it is used in peace-keeping operations, blending with his own experiences.

The Bombing of Yougoslavia, 1999: A Vindication for Air Power?
Thursday 4th November from 7-9PM
Toy Lounge-Dey Hall

Featured speakers: 
Professor Tami Biddle, History, Duke University, Formerly of the National Air and Space Museum, author of a forthcoming history of strategic bombing doctrine in Britain and the United States, who will speak on STRATEGIC BOMBING IN THE 20TH CENTURY. 

Professor Stephen Biddle, Political Science, UNC, formerly of the Institute for Defense Analyses, and author of several recent articles on the future of warfare, who will speak on THE KOSOVO AIR CAMPAIGN. 

Major Edward Westermann, USAF, DOCTORAL CANDIDATE IN History, UNC, author of a forthcoming work on German anti-aircraft defenses, 1910-1945, who was in German during the campaign, and will speak on THE EUROPEAN VIEW OF THE BOMBING CAMPAIGN. 

Professor Richard Kohn, History, UNC, Chair of Peace, War, and Defense and formerly Chief of Air Force History and Chief Historian, USAF, who will moderate the program and speak on THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN VICTORY AND SUCCESS.

Fall PWAD Field Trip to Washington, DC
November 9, 1999

Our third annual fall field trip to government and non-government offices and organizations in the DC area to investigate jobs and careers in national and international security will take place on November 9. We will take people on a first-come, first-served basis under the strict rule of seniority: seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshman.

Captain Howard Petrea Speaks
November 1, 1999, 12-2pm

Captain Petrea, USN, Ret., was the Executive Assistant to Admiral Leighton Smith, commander of the air campaign in Bosnia in 1995, and to Admiral Joseph Prueher, Commander-in-Chief Pacific, 1997-1999 during crises with China. Capt. Petrea, who has a distinguished career as a carrier pilot, will speak on these two experiences: COALITION OPERATIONS VS UNILATERAL ENCOUNTERS IN FUTURE MILITARY OPERATIONS BY THE UNITED STATES and on THE ASIA-PACIFIC AS SEEN THROUGH THE US CINCPAC PERSPECTIVE. He will then lead a discussion on American military interventions and the possibilities of conflict with China. 

Spring PWAD Field Trip
April 10, 1999

On April 10, 1999, we will be taking a field trip to the Naval Base in Norfolk, Virginia, to visit the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington for about two hours. After our tour on the George Washington we will eat lunch in the Wardroom of the carrier and then visit the USS Normandy, a cruiser in the Atlantic Fleet. We will leave at 5:45am sharp from Hamilton Hall and return mid-evening. This trip is available for PWAD majors, PWAD faculty, History faculty, Military History graduate students, and the students in the History of Sea Power. 

Bombing Yugoslavia
Thursday 8th April at 5:30pm
Greenlaw Room 431

Program features Gerhard Weinberg (History) speaking on the historic background of the Balkans; Robert D. Greenberg (Slavic Languages and Literature) speaking on the culture and condition of the former Yugoslavia; Richard H. Kohn (History) speaking on bombing--its political-military utility and limitations; and Stephen Biddle (Political Science) speaking on the politico-military alternatives in the current crisis.

General George Lee Butler, USAF (Ret.) speaking on "The Future of Nuclear Weapons."
March 2-3, 1999

General Lee Butler served from 1991 to 1994 as Commander-in-Chief of the United States strategic nuclear forces. In this position he was responsible for the employment of the nation's nuclear bombers and ballistic missiles, both land and sea-based; developing nuclear weapon target plans; and advising the President on response to nuclear attack on the United States. A 1961 graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, with a Master's Degree in International Affairs at the University of Paris, France, in 1967. General Butler's military career spanned five decades and encompassed a wide variety of command and staff assignments. He is a rated pilot, navigator and parachutist, with over 5000 hours of flying time in 15 types of aircraft. He flew in aerial combat in Vietnam in the F-4C, and later served as aide-de-camp to the commander of U.S. Air Forces in Southeast Asia. He served three tours in the Pentagon, commanded two B-52 wings and was the Inspector General for Strategic Air Command. His Washington tours included responsibilities for strategic arms control negotiations, Congressional liaison, weapons system acquisition, and direction of operation forces. He served as the chief strategist and planner for U.S. armed forces from 1987 to 1991, when he was promoted to his fourth star and named commander of the nation's strategic nuclear forces. General Butler retired from active military service in 1994. Since 1996, when he spoke on this issue to the National Press Club in Washington, General Butler has campaigned for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

Dr. William T. Generous Luncheon Seminar
March 18, 1999

Dr. Generous is the author of "Sword and Scales: The Development of the Uniform Code of Military Justice," a history of American military justice since World War II, and "Choate Rosemary Hall: The History of the School, 1890-1990." The Curriculum in Peace, War, and Defense will be hosting Dr. Generous on March 18, 12-2pm in Hamilton 569 where he will be giving his slant on issues of Peace, War, and Defense. Dr. Generous is retiring to Chapel Hill after 30 years at Choate/Rosemary Hall School in Connecticut, where he taught history, coached various sports and the debate team, and chaired the history department. He served in the Navy as an enlisted man and officer (including in Vietnam).

Fall PWAD Field Trip to Washington, DC 
November 20, 1998

Once again our fall field trip will be to Washington, DC, where we will investigate jobs in national security in the federal government and in non-governmental organizations. We will visit NIMA (National Imagery and Mapping Agency), the Henry L. Stimson Center, and the office of The Honorable Ike Skelton, U.S. House of Representatives.