--- The new materials for the Seville statement (brochure, flyer and poster)
are being distributed by networks around the world. In Nigeria, Peter Okoh writes
that the African Peace Research Institute is reprintinq the flyer for distribution
and that the Nigerian National Commission for UNESCO has been approached to facilitate
its dissemination. In the United Kingdom the Council for Education in World
Citizenship has distributed the brochure and flyer to 25 organizations involved
in peace education ranging from the Campaign against the Arms Trade to the World
Education Berkshire. In Jamaica the regional office of UNESCO is using the poster
and flyer as part of a campaign on the elimination of conflict and violence as an
aspect of Basic Education. In the UnitEd States the flyer was reprinted and
distributed with the newsletter of the Connecticut Division of the United Nations
Association. And in the Netherlands, Piet Dijkstra writes that he has sent on the
materials to the Women for Peace who devoted part of their September meeting to
the Seville Statement.

--- The most recent publication of the Seville Statement (using the version in the
flyer in plain words) may be found in the book Workshop of Peace, published by the
USI Arab Regional Office in collaboration with the Bahrain National Commission for
Education, Science and Culture. A publication update is enclosed with this issue
of the newsletter. Since the last time such a list was published two years ago,
there have been 27 new publications of the Statement in English (10), Spanish (6),
Arabic (2). German (2), Greek (2). and one each in Chinese. Korean, Thai, French,
and Swedish.

--- Perhaps the most effective use of the Statement is made by what we might call
traveling ambassadors for Peace. Riitta Wahlstrom not only presented the Statement
in the training of Red Cross staff in Finland, but also at a number of meetings
recently in India. While in India, she met Robin Ludwig of the United Nations
Peace Studies Unit who was also using the Seville Statement in her lectures there.
In the United States, Michael True of Assumption College in Massachusetts has not
only used the Statement locally (at Holy Cross University), but also with the
Fellowship of Reconciliation in Minnesota. He had found out about it last year
at the meetings at the International Peace Research Association in Japan where he
had met Riitta Wahlstrom.

--- In The August issue of the Newsletter, Dr Francesco Robustelli called for
a network of committees for peace culture associated with National Ministries of
Education and headed by representatives of the Seville Statement. Such committees
could disseminate the Seville Statement in schools, promote public discussion of
peace culture, promote programs or international understanding and solidarity in
secondary schools, and help develop alternatives to militaristic toys, sports,
games, and advertising. He suggested that such a process might be initiated bv
UNESCO. While I believe that this would ultimately be supported by UNESCO, it
should be initiated from the grass roots. just as support for this Seville Statement
was initially developed. If some of you can establish such Committees, their work
can serve as models. Then the representative to UNESCO from your country can
introduce the example to the representatives of the other member states and ask
for its inclusion on the agenda of UNESCO. Given the positive response of the 51
representatives from member states to the culture of peace resolution enclosed here,
I believe that such a proposal would be warmly received. As Dr. Robustelli has
emphasized in a recent letter to us, we should not wait passively as the problems
of violence continue to intensify, but we should use the Seville Statement as a
"basic starting point for a global discussion on aggression, violence, and war."

Peace,

David Adams