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		STEPHEN ZUNES Human Rights and Arms Control: The Missing Elements in U.S. Middle East Policy Ideal Use: Human rights, Middle East politics, U.S. foreign policy, nonviolence, peace and justice programs A veteran peace and human rights activist, Dr. Zunes serves on the Middle East Task Force of the Fellowship of Reconciliation and has served as a board member and consultant for such groups as Peace Action, the Mobilization for Survival, and the American Friends Service Committee. He is on the governing council of the International Peace Research Association and is an associate editor of Peace Review. Dr. Zunes is one of the country's top progressive critics of U.S. Middle East policy. He has met with leading government officials, scholars, and dissidents in Israel, Palestine and other Middle Eastern countries. His lectures have taken him to more than 50 campuses and 200 community groups and he has served as an analyst for National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, Public Radio International, Fox TV, MSNBC, and the British Broadcasting Corporation as well as scores of local and syndicated talk shows. He is the author of scores of articles for scholarly journals, political magazines and newspaper op-ed pages and the author of three books. Stephen Zunes is an associate professor of Politics and chair of the Peace & Justice Studies Program at the University of San Francisco. He also serves as a Senior Policy Analyst and Middle East/North Africa editor for the Foreign Policy in Focus Project and as a Research Associate for the Center for Global, International and Regional Studies at the University of California;Santa Cruz. Dr. Zunes received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and was founding director of the Institute for a New Middle East Policy. He has been a Joseph J. Malone Fellow in Arab & Islamic Studies and served as a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at Dartmouth College. Taking the debate beyond Israel versus Palestine, Zunes argues that Palestinian rights and Israeli security are not mutually exclusive but mutually dependent on the other, but that U.S. policy has helped neither. The key to peace in the Middle East, argues Zunes, is through arms control, human rights, international law, and the right of self-determination, but U.S. policy under both Republican and Democratic administrations has consistently undermined these principles through massive arms shipments, support for repressive governments, and the deliberate undermining of the United Nations and international legal standards.





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A dynamic speaker, Zunes brings supporters of both Israel and Palestine together in exposing how U.S. policy has undermined the legitimate aspirations of both peoples. He reveals how U.S. policy in the Gulf has strengthened the repressive rule of both Saddam Hussein and the Gulf monarchies. He offers clear explanations regarding the rise of political Islam and international terrorism and the hope of nonviolent social movements for bringing peace and justice to the Middle East and beyond. He is also one of the foremost authorities on the important but little-known conflict in Western Sahara.

Lecture topics include:

• Peace or Pax Americana: The U.S. Role in the Middle East

• The U.S. and the Middle East Peace Process

• Israel and Palestine: Prospects for Peace Amidst the Violence

• Understanding Political Islam

• U.S. Policy Towards Iraq Since the Gulf War

• Human Rights and Arms Control: The Missing Elements in U.S. Middle East Policy

• The Struggle over Western Sahara

• How Anti-Jewish and Anti-Arab Bigotry Undermine Middle East Peace

• How to Build a Popular U.S. Movement for Peace in the Middle East

• The Fate of Jerusalem

• The Israeli-Syrian Peace Process

• The Power of Nonviolent Action

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