THE SEVILLE STATEMENT 0N VIOLENCE "The same species who invented war is capable of inventing peace." Support Network C/o David Adams, Wesleyan Psychology Dept Middletown, Connecticut, USA. 06457 NEWSLETTER - VOLUME 3, NUMBER 2, NOVEMBER, 1988 --- The snowball of support for the Seville Statement continues to grow. Last year at this time the list of organizational endorsements and publications amounted to 12 and 27 respectively. Now, as you see From the enclosed list there are at least 24 organizational endorsements and 44 publications representing over 21 nations and 13 different languages. --- The most important endorsement of all is now in the process of development. Meeting with Director-General Federico Mayor Zaragoza of UNESCO, I was pleased to learn that the Seville Statement will be formally presented to the General Conference of UNESCO next fall by the Spanish delegation. As pointed out by Santiago Genoves in his letter to the Director�General last May (see Newsletter 3:1), UNESCO is the most appropriate and capable body to take up and broadcast the message of hope that was written in Seville, since UNESCO has the most extensive worldwide contacts with educational systems and mass media --- All of you in the support network are urged to contact your own national UNESCO Commission and ask them to support the initiative and inform the Spanish UNESCO Commission of their support. A model is provided by the enclosed letter from Kirsten Kiellerup of Psychologists for Peace in Norway who writes that the Norwegian National Commission of UNESCO will send their support to the Spanish. Letters should be sent to the Executive Secretary Isidoro Alonso Hinojal, UNESCO Comision Nacional de Espana, Escuela Diplomatica, Paseo de Juan XXIII, 5, 28040. Madrid, Espana. --- Organizations around the world continue to recognize and endorse the Seville Statement. As described in the enclosed letter from Freda A. Walker, Society President, the New Zealand Psychological Society has endorsed the Statement. The initiative was taken by Professor A.J.W. Taylor of Victoria University of Wellington. From London, as described in the enclosed letter from Vice�Chairman Alex Poteliakhoff, The Medical Association For Prevention of War has �strongly endorsed the Seville Statement and gives it its full support.� From India. as indicated in the enclosed letter from the International Coordinator of the Anuvibha International Conference on Peace and Nonviolent Action. S.L. Gandhi. the Seville Statement has been placed on the agenda of the Conference that will be held December 5�7 in Ladnun, and it has been translated into Hindi for the Jain people. During the summer the Seville Statement received the endorsement of the International Society for Research on Aggression by way of their Commission on Violence. Publications are snowballing so much that it is difficult to keep track of them. As indicated by the enclosed letter from Julio Labastida M. del Campo of UNESCO. the Seville Statement will receive worldwide dissemination in the UNESCO Yearbook and the Bulletin of the International Council of Social Sciences. We have only now received a copy of the Russian version of the Statement as published in the Psychological Journal or the Soviet Academy of Sciences (enclosed). From Italy Professor