The Peace Psychologist Fall | Winter 2020 | VOLUME 29, ISSUE 2 Photo by Hannah Wright on Unsplash taying up on others’ peace- Table of Contents https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/pac DITOR making work is vital to From the E ......................................... 1 t D IVISION 48 President ................................. 2 scholarship and activism. In APA 2021 Call for Papers ........................... 3 this issue we highlight “The 75th Anniversary—of What? ....................... 4 Photo by Maria Teneva on Unsplash King Center.” PAC Incoming Editor Spotlight .................. 5 Page 6 Student SPOTLIGHT...................................... 6 DIVISION 48 Member News & Books ......... 8 Dr. Dutta Small Grant REPORT ................... 9 Small Grant Awardee SPOTLIGHT ............. 10 If you want peace: Yemeni Crisis ............. 11 SIP SOLIDARITY: Future Peace Leadership ... 12 PEACE RADAR—Women Cross DMZ ...... 14 AP A-WIDE PEACE: Apply for Small Grants . 15 G LOBAL NEWS: Australia & Germany.. 16 THE WORLD ‘ROUND: UN Peace Days .... 18 A RT & POETRY FOR PEACE (Not War) .. 19 P EACE PROGRAMS ........................... 21-22 UN PEACE HOLIDAYS ...................... 23-24 P EACE AWARD .................................... 25 B OOK REVIEWS. .............................. 25-26 PEACE MUSEUM ONLINE EXHIBITS ....... 27 Peace the th JAWG —Good News for Animals ......... 28 Small Grants 75 Anniversary A DVOCACY | ACTION ...................... 29-31 World ’Round 020 was the 75th GET INVOLVED IN DIVISION 48 earn about one of ........... 31-33 The Peace Psychologis The Peace anniversary of the CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: D48 Newsletter ..... 45 Division 48’s 2020 eady to celebrate Small Grant bombing on Executive Committee Contact Info ....... 46 L peace in 2021? Visit 2 recipients, PhD student R page 17 for all 2021 Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Published by Division 48 of the American Psychological Quinnehtukqut McLamore, Read our Past-President Association. UN-recognized peace- on page 10. Then, go to Serdar’s insights and EDITORIAL TEAM pages 15 & 32 to see how related holidays. EDITOR-IN CHIEF reflections on pages 4-5. Robin Lynn Treptow, [email protected] to apply for a Small Grant! MANAGING EDITORS, Jeremy Pollack & Noah Shaw; FEATURE EDITOR, Joshua Uyheng; MARKETING EDITOR, Stephanie Miodus; STUDENT Peace Studies Submit for SPOTLIGHT EDITOR: Kisane Prutton; PEACE STUDIES PROGRAM EDITOR: Book Reviews Aashna Banerjee Programs isit pages 25-26 for APA 2020 ADDITIONAL TEAM OF AUTHORS & REVIEWERS .95 Anupriya Kukreja, Audris Jimenez, and Natalie Davis ant to further your peace-relevant book s an academically- DIVISION 48 PUBLICATION COMMITTEE reviews, including Fathali M. Moghaddam [email protected] education and V focused peace group Melis Ulug [email protected] credentials or know one for an edited volume we like to see our John McConnell [email protected] W Brad Bushman [email protected] someone who does? Check with chapters authored by A Robin Lynn Treptpw [email protected] members’ work at conferences. out our list of peace studies Division 48 members. On page 3, see APA’s 2021 Author contributions are acknowledged in the bylines; uncertain times, preserving individual authors’ opinions do not necessarily programs on pages 21-22. Call for Papers. represent those of Division 48, or of the American Psychological Association. From the Do(ing) Peace(work) in Challenging Times Editor: 2021 Call for Proposals emerged: with Anupriya Kukreja, Audris Jimenez, only a virtual platform guaranteed. We reetings, fellow peacemakers. and Natalie Davis—join us. Cross- G are living in challenging times. article links have emerged: the US I hope you are hanging together to the As peace psychologists, researchers, Peace Award and Women Cross best of your ability in these sobering and activists we face the all too real DMZ. Finally, we are humbled to see times where so much more than world danger of losing our vim and vigor for work by Dr. Joseph Trimble and peace is uncertain. Just days from our keeping our eyes on a horizon of peace. others from the Society of Indian overdue publication of the Fall | Winter Physically, mentally, and emotionally Psychologists [SIP] who will enrich 2021 issue of The Peace Psychologist I we tire. The work is taxing. each issue with a column (see pages 12- saw I did not yet write the Editorial I 13 and continuing). I invite you to Thus, I hope you’ll find within the thought I’d finished in August. My verve browse what our talented team of pages of The Peace Psychologist a for the work seems sorely lagging: and writers has assembled as inspiration refreshing aura of peace work. Albeit a it’s not just me. Our President submitted for the much-needed peacemaker’s mid-issue departure by Jeremy Pollack no thoughts for the membership. Back- work in our global clime. (who heads off to write a dissertation!), and-forth communique amongst our we’ve broadened our Editorial Team as Always be glad you are working for peace! Executive Committee crawls at a snail’s Dr. Robin Noah Shaw accepts the Managing pace: actions are stalled. The APA’s EDITOR-IN CHIEF: The Peace Psychologist Editor baton and three students— [email protected] 1 The Peace Psychologist Fall | Winter 2020 | VOLUME 29, ISSUE 2 Acknowledging President Robert McKelvain by Noah Shaw Photo credits: Jeison Higuita. Image from https://unsplash.com/photos/uQoZAifSDwk McKelvain’s professional background, they may not know about his passion for training others in conflict transformation. Pictured here is the beautiful city of Antigua, Guatemala along with Dr. McKelvain’s profile. We showcase this image to draw attention to Dr. McKelvain’s experience as a conflict transformation trainer. Since 2010, he has led conflict transformation trainings for psychologists in Guatemala and community leaders in rural Honduras. Relatedly, Dr. McKelvain has co-authored a book entitled, Transformación de Conflictos, a conflict transformation s we near the end of 2020, we would like to highlight Dr. Robert training manual for psychologists. McKelvain, president of Division 48 – The Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence. Dr. McKelvain is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at Whether in higher-education or A through international conflict Texas State University and Professor Emeritus of Psychology at Abilene Christian University. At Abilene Christian University, he teaches a peace-related course, transformation training, Dr. “Peacemaking and Sexual Minorities: Identities and Communities.” This class McKelvain is a peacemaker. His surveys the development of sexual minority identities and communities, and their dedication to helping students, interaction with majority culture, through critical assessment of social/behavioral community leaders, and psychologists science research. Additionally, Dr. McKelvain has contributed to numerous learn how to live as peacemakers presentations and manuscripts on peacemaking scholarship and service. shows his commitment to this field. We are thankful for his 2020 service Dr. McKelvain is highly involved in United States higher-education, and extends his as Division 48’s president as we head role as a peace educator internationally. While many of our readers may know Dr. into 2021. Incoming 2021 President: Nahid Nasrat, PsyD (AKA Aziz) Division 48’s Executive Committee unanimously endorsed Dr. Nahid Nasrat to begin her Presidential term on 1 Jan 2021. Her candidate statement is reprinted below. I am deeply honored and privileged to be nominated for the believe that we are in major need • Address the current political position of President-Elect at Division 48. I have been an for psychosocial accompaniment tactics of “othering” and educator for the past 18 years. I am a professor in the Clinical in working toward promoting vilifying immigrant and Psychology Program at the Chicago School of Professional peace psychology. This is refugee communities within Psychology in Washington, DC. As a refugee from Afghanistan, especially critical in the era of the the US which has caused the I have dedicated my entire professional and personal life to current epidemic, COVID-19 nation to be divided. which has threatened the promote social justice locally, nationally and internationally. My • Address militarism as the livelihood of humans globally, main strength is to bring communities together that have been cause of the current national but more significantly historically impacted by wars, invasion, violence and other disasters. In my and international de- disadvantaged communities. role to advocate for the refugees and immigrant communities, I stabilizing force. have been known to serve as a bridge to bring communities My goal as the President-elect is • Address discrimination of any together by promoting, teaching and communicating non-violent to not only strengthen the kind, including racial, ethnic, strategies, ultimately improving their psychosocial wellbeing. community within Division 48, gender, sexual orientation, Following the philosophy and practice of Ignacio Martín-Baró, I but also to: spirituality, and age. 2 The Peace Psychologist Fall | Winter 2020 | VOLUME 29, ISSUE 2 by Grant J. Rich, PhD, Division 48 APA Program Chair, Juneau, Alaska The APA has released its Request for Proposals (RFP) for its 2021 Annual Convention which will take place August 12-15, 2021. APA hopes to have an in-person meeting in San Diego, but is planning for both in-person and virtual at present; divisions should expect