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SHS/RSP/RAC/06/21

   Annex I
                                                                                                                      

ANNEX I

UNESCO-MADANJEET SINGH PRIZE FOR THE
PROMOTION OF TOLERANCE AND NON-VIOLENCE

Nomination form

Candidature presented by: ROSELI FISCHMANN, PhD, former President and member of the International Jury of the UNESCO Prize for Peace Education (1999-2002), professor at University of São Paulo, Brazil, seconded by JORGE I. DOMÍNGUEZ, PhD, Antonio Madero Professor of Government and Vice-Provost of Harvard University for International Affairs, Harvard University, United States of America.

Name of candidate:  HERBERT C. KELMAN

Address:  Cambridge, Massachusetts. USA.

Activity exercised for the promotion of tolerance and non-violence: SCHOLAR-PRACTITIONER.
The candidate has a lifetime dedication to researching, writing, teaching and everyday practicing the promotion of tolerance, the dissuasion of violence, and the affirmation of non-violence as a method and as an ethic of life. The concrete basis of his theory and action is the unique combination of his questioning life__ aligned in radical coherence to the principles he teaches, some of them rooted in his early experiences regarding Gandhi's life__, commitment to scholarly study and his equally important commitment to the practical advancement of peace. He is a Holocaust survivor and, as public voice against intolerance in the world, a symbol of peaceful alternatives to destructive conflict. As a vivid example, he has stimulated, supported, and advised or helped to train many postdoctoral researchers as well as graduate and undergraduate students from the most different regions of the world to date, mostly at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University

Impact: Dr. Herbert Kelman offers original and innovative contributions to the Social and Human Sciences, particularly: a) on the processes of social influence; b) the debate he launched on the ethics of research with human subject and on the contributions of science to the betterment of human condition; c) his work on crimes of obedience, towards the study of a better understanding of situations and relations that could dehumanize people, namely torture, genocide and sanctioned massacres; d) on national identity, ethnic conflicts and on international behavior, a cornerstone of the social scientific study of international relations. His work developed a network of scholars and practitioners trained in conflict analysis and third-party intervention capable of addressing regional and intercommunal conflicts, particularly in their own countries, aiming at practical search for peace in lands afflicted by violence. During the last thirty-five years, he has focused his attention on the relations between Israelis and Palestinians; his work over decades helped to lay the ground, for example, for the Oslo Agreements and the Geneva Initiative.

If the candidate is an individual

Date and place of birth: March 18, 1927, in Vienna, Austria. Entered United States in 1940; naturalized citizen.
Education: Elementary: Austria and Belgium. Secondary: USA. Undergraduate: a) B.A. English and Psychology, Brooklyn College, NY; b) B.H.L.Judaica and Pre-Theological Studies, Seminary College of Jewish Studies. Graduate:a) M.S. and PhD in Social Psychology and Personality, Yale University; b) Survey Research Methods, University of Michigan. Post-doctoral:a)Group Psychotherapy Research Project, Phipps Psychiatric Clinic (John Hopkins Hospital);b)Personal psychoanalysis and supervised practice of psychotherapy.(Please, see CV).
Professional experience: Herbert Kelman is the Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics (1968-2004), Emeritus (2004- ), at Harvard University. He is a scholar respected worldwide for his work in the fields of Social and Political Psychology, Social Ethics, Human Rights, International Relations, and Conflict Resolution. He is recognized in the diplomatic world for dealing with peace as a senior practitioner of unofficial diplomacy. Over six decades he has combined theory and practice in activities in different institutions around the world, collaborating with many groups of different academic and national/ethnic/religious backgrounds, mostly based at Harvard University and for a number of years at Michigan University. Since the 1940s Dr. Kelman has been involved in initiatives and movements devoted to the promotion of civil rights, racial equality, international conflict analysis and resolution, aiming at human dignity and peace for all. For ten years he was the director of the Program of International Conflict Analysis and Resolution - PICAR at WCFIA/Harvard, which sprung from his life and respectability. He has collaborated, supported and co-founded international scientific associations, taking several times directive positions, as journals in the area of conflict resolution and peace studies.
Publications: Dr. Kelman's impressive, multi-directional, and interdisciplinary publications include academic books and articles in scientific journals and in newspapers around the world. Among other books he have authored, co-authored or organized: A Time to Speak, International Behavior, and Crimes of Obedience. His articles in journals__summing over 300, considering reedited and reprinted works__are listed in his CV.

 

If the candidate is an organization

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