CICA Issue # 1 COLOQUIO INTERNACIONAL SOBRE CEREBHO Y AGRESION SEVILLA, December 16, 1985 I am pleased to invite you to take part in the sixth Coloquio international Sobre Cerebro y Agresion and in a special conference to draft a Statement on Violence to be submitted to UNESCO for worldwide dissemination. The Coloquio will take place May 15-16 and the drafting conference May 15-18, 1986, in Seville, Spain. This invitation is extended to you from the CICA organizing committee and from the ad-hoc selection committee to draft a Statement on Violence. The members of the ad-hoc committee are Santiago Genoves, John Paul Scott, Jose Delgado, Martin Ramirez, and myself. The proposal for a Statement on Violence is patterned after the Statement on Race, originally drafted under UNESCO sponsorship by an international committee of scientists in Paris, December, 1949, and amended in 1951, 1967, and 1978. As described in the enclosed excerpt from UNESCO‘s 1984-1989 planning document, the Statement on Race continues to play a significant role in world opinion against prejudice, intolerance, racism, and apartheid. A copy of the 1957 Statement on Race is enclosed: as you see, it is scientific in accuracy and scope, yet popular in language and clarity. A Statement on Violence was first proposed by a group including Santiago Genoves at a symposium on ethical issues of aggression research at the biennial meetings of the International Society for Research on Aggression (ISRA) in Haren, The Netherlands, in 1980. An account of the symposium and the Genoves paper is enclosed. A more formal proposal was discussed at the 1984 ISRA meetings in Turku, Finland, as described in the enclosed abstract from the workshop discussion. Although many of you being asked to help draft the Statement on Violence are ISRA members and the project has been developed through active discussion in ISRA, this initiative is not under the formal sponsorship of ISRA or any other such body, but is an independent, ad—hoc initiative. Correspondance with UNESCO has indicated that they are open to participation in drafting and disseminating a Statement on violence, providing that it n sponsored by a national UNESCO committee (letter of Amadou—Mahtar M‘Bow, Director General of UNESCO, May 6, 1985). Very recently such national sponsorship has been offered by the UNESCO committee o( Spain (enclosed letter from Isodoro Alonso Hinojal of Nov. 21, 1985). It is on that basis and the general cooperation of CICA that we are proceeding with plans for the conference