UC Berkeley offers educational programs, counseling, other resources to cope with outbreak of war
Last updated: Wednesday, 24-Dec-2008 09:29:02 PST

UC Berkeley is proud of its heritage encouraging the free and open exchange of ideas. The war with Iraq has intensified debate and discussion around campus. This Web site will be a clearinghouse for information about the campus's efforts and policies to promote dialogue and learning in a climate of civility and tolerance.

Chancellor Berdahl's message to the campus community regarding war with Iraq

Point of View UC Berkeley students talk about how war with Iraq affects them

Rules of engagement

• Bear in Mind: The chancellor explains why protest and silencing dissent are no substitute for reasoned discourse.
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• Campus must foster respectful discussion during war, by ASUC President Jesse Gabriel
• Student activities on campus: FAQs from the Office of Student Life
• Instructional issues related to Iraq: a message from the chancellor

Resources

• Guidance for Difficult Times: Stress management, counseling, talking to children, advice for those with a family member in the military, and other resources from University Health Services
• Activism Support, Advocacy and Response: Services available from the Office of Student Life
• Teaching in Difficult Times: Advice for instructors from the Office of Educational Development
• Hate Crimes: Intervention services for students at Cal, from the Office of Student Life
• Special Advisory Committee: This panel has been formed to provide advice to the chancellor on a host of matters related to the possible war in Iraq and its implications for the Berkeley campus.
  • Committee charter
  • List of members
• Berkeley and the Mideast: A chronicle of tensions and tolerance on campus

Policies
These rules and guidelines have been established on campus to promote respectful discourse and debate, freedom of speech, individual and institutional security, and the university's core educational mission.

• Time, place & manner regulations governing public expression on campus
• Code of Student Conduct
• Campus policies on hate crimes

Staying safe

• Message to parents about campus safety plans
• UC's Education Abroad program continues while monitoring events
• Ready.gov from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security
• Public Health Emergency Preparedness & Response from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
• Terrorism info from UC San Francisco
• Mail safety and bomb threats from UC Berkeley's Office of Emergency Preparedness

Background briefings

• Faculty panel analyzes Iraq war: Six Berkeley professors discuss the war's economic, political and regional implications.
  
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• Issues in Foreign Policy after 9/11: IAS 180.1 class lectures by Berkeley faculty and distinguished guests
  
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• Memory, Inequality and Power: Palestine and the Universality of Human Rights with Edward Said
  
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• Peacemaking: Prospects for Israeli-Palestinian Peace with Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
  
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• America and the Middle East with Shibley Telhami
  
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• Changing Paradigms in National Security Policy with Dean Michael Nacht
  
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• Islamic Societies with History Professor Emeritus Ira Lapidus
  
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• How Should We Use Our Power? Iraq and the War on Terror - a debate between Christopher Hitchens and Mark Danner
  
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