Donald S. Will Peace Studies Program Orange, CA 92866 (714) 997-6620 will@chapman.edu PROFESSIONAL CAREER June 2007- June 2005-2007 Fall 2001- Associate Dean Wilkinson College of Humanities and Social Sciences Chair, Associate Dean for Social Sciences Wilkinson College of Letters and Sciences Delp-Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies Professor, Director, Peace Studies Program 1993-2001 Delp-Wilkinson Professor of Peace Studies Associate Professor, Director, Peace Studies Program Director, Freshman Seminar Program (1998-2000) 1987-1993 Assistant Professor of Peace Studies Director, Peace & Justice Program 1987 Instructor University of Colorado at Denver 1986 Instructor Department of International Studies University of Denver 1975-1984 Resource Specialist for Middle East and International Economic Affairs United Methodist Office for the United Nations Accredited Non-Governmental Observer at the United Nations. Represented United Methodists at various United Nations Conferences. Responsibilities included constituency education, research, writing, and policy development on Middle East and economic issues for the United Methodist Church.
1971-1973 Seminar Designer United Methodist Office for the United Nations Accredited Non-Governmental Observer at the United Nations. EDUCATION Ph.D., M.A. in International Studies Graduate School of International Studies University of Denver B.A. in Political Science Haverford College FIELDS OF SPECIALIZATION Peace Studies Comparative Politics Political Economy Politics of Southern Africa and the Middle East Comparative Revolutions COURSES TAUGHT World Politics Global Issues Model United Nations Reversing the Arms Race U.S.-Soviet Relations Conflict Resolution Social Change in Cuba* Nonviolent Social Change The New South Africa* Race and Change in U.S. & So. Africa Peace & Conflict in the Middle East Literature of Peace & Justice Peace, Justice, and Peacemaking Peace & Conflict in Central America* War, Peace & Justice Freshman Seminar The Global Citizen Freshman Seminar Vietnam: War, Peace & Legacy * Denotes interterm travel course SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BOOKS-- The Dynamics of the Settler State: A Comparative Study of Israel and South Africa. (Manuscript under revision in response to reviewers of Cambridge University Press.) Israel and South Africa: Legal Systems of Settler Dominance, with Sheila Ryan. Trenton, NJ:Africa World Press, 1990. EDITED BOOKS The Global Citizen, 3rd edition, edited by Donald Will, et al. Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 2000. The Global Citizen, 2nd edition, edited by Donald Will, et al. Needham Heights, MA: Pearson Custom Publishing, 1999.
The Global Citizen, 1 st edition, edited by Donald Will, et al. Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing, 1998. (NB: This is a custom published text for the Freshman Seminar Program. Used in all sections for all 600 freshmen. Each edition differs dramatically from the previous one, well over 50% of the chapters being new each year.) BOOK CHAPTERS-- The Fateful Encounter in South Africa in The Global Citizen, edited by Donald S. Will, et al. Needham Heights, MA: Simon and Schuster Custom Publishing, 1998. Get Global Or Get Left Behind! in The Global Citizen, 3 rd edition, edited by William L. Cumiford. Acton, MA: Copley, 1997. United States Policy in the Middle East, in Political Issues in America Today: The 1990s Revisited, Eds. Philip John Davies and Frederic A. Waldstein. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1996. United States Policy in the Middle East, in Political Issues in America, eds. Philip John Davies and Frederic A. Waldstein. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 1991. Self-Determination in Of Life and Hope: Toward an Effective Witness in Human Rights, edited by Mia Adjali. New York: Friendship Press, 1979. JOURNAL ARTICLES Apartheid and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Rhetoric versus Reality, in progress under request of The Guild Advocate. Non-Racialism versus Ethno-nationalism: Transcending Conflict in Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. 27:2, 2007. [Duke University Press journal.] Non-Racialism versus Nationalism: Contrasting Solutions to Conflict in South Africa and Israel/Palestine, Peace & Change, April, 2000. Teaching about Race Comparatively through Study Tours, with Karen Beaseley Young and Kathaleen C. Collins, Peace & Change, July, 1999. Teaching Peace through Debunking Race, Peace & Change July, 1993. The International Monetary Fund, State Autonomy and Human Rights, with James H. Mittelman, Africa Today 34:1-2, 1987. AFL-CIO in Africa, with Prexy Nesbitt, The Guardian, Fall, 1986 The Impending Polarization of Israeli Society, Arab Studies Quarterly 8:3, 1986. Zionist Settlement Ideology and Its Ramifications for the Palestinian People, Journal of Palestine Studies, 11:3, Spring, 1982. Ideology and Strategy of the Settlement Movement, MERIP Reports, No. 92, November-December 1980.
BOOK REVIEWS-- Fault Lines: Journeys into the New South Africa by David Goodman. Journal of Asian and African Studies, 38:110-112, 2003. Black Liberation: A Comparative History of Black Ideologies in the United States and South Africa by George M. Fredrickson. Africa Today. 44:1, 1997. South Africa s Other Whites: Voices for Change by Robert Scott Jaster and Shirley Kew Jaster. Peace & Change, 20:1, Jan. 1995. A History of South Africa by Leonard Thompson, Africa Today. 41:1, 1994. Organizing against Apartheid: African Political Groups in South Africa, (Review of Tom Lodge, Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945 and Rob Davies, Dan O'Meara, and Sipho Dlamini, The Struggle for South Africa: A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions), Africa Today, 31:2, Second Quarter, 1984. Ukubamba Amadolo: Workers Struggles in the South African Textile Industry by Bettie du Toit. Labor Unity 65:1, January 1979. ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES Oslo Agreement, Encyclopedia of the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 2008. The United Nations, Encyclopedia of American Government and Civics, Lori Cox Han and Michael A. Genovese, editors, Facts-on-File, 2008. SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPER PRESENTATIONS Liberation Movements, Universal Citizenship, and the Resolution of Ethnonational Conflict: ANC Nonracialism and the Israeli/Palestinian Conflict, co-authored with Alan Emery. Paper presented at African Studies Association, November 2008, Chicago, Il. Non-Racialism versus Ethno-nationalism: Transcending Conflict in Israel/Palestine and South Africa. Paper presented at Joint Annual Meetings of The African Studies Association and The Middle East Studies Association, 20 November 2005, Washington, DC. The Challenges of Teaching the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in a Time of Crisis, Association for Moral Education 30 th Annual Conference, November 12, 2004. War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, respondent to Chris Hedges, Peace Wants You Conference, University of California, Irvine, 9 October 2004. Paradigm of the Scholar/Activist: Reflections on the Life of George W. Shepherd, Jr. International Studies Association Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, 10 March 2000. Sociology s Opportunities in Interdisciplinary Courses, American Sociological Association, 25-28 August 1998.
Non-Racialism vs. Nationalism: Contrasting Solutions to Conflict in South Africa and Israel/Palestine, Joint meeting of the Peace Studies Association and COPRED, June 1997. Rethinking Race: Lessons from the South African Struggle. The Peace Studies Association Annual Meeting, 29 February 1992. The Formative Process in Settler States, African Studies Association Annual Meeting, 19-23 November, 1987. Zionist Settlement Ideology and Its Ramifications for the Palestinian People, as invited expert at The First United Nations Seminar on the Question of Palestine, Arusha, Tanzania, 14-18 July 1980. Also several other articles and book reviews in magazines, as well as op-eds in the Denver Post and Rocky Mountain News. Served as a pre-publication reviewer for several books and journal articles and as a reviewer for grant proposals to the MacArthur Foundation. RELATED EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS Middle East resource person and discussion leader for western regional Christian-Jewish dialogue sponsored by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the United Methodist Church, Claremont, CA, May 1985. Logistical coordinator of conference on The State and Human Rights in Africa, sponsored by the Joint Committee on African Studies of the American Council of Learned Societies and the Social Science Research Council, at the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver, November 9-10, 1984. Invited expert at The First United Nations Seminar on the Question of Palestine, Arusha, Tanzania, July 1980. Presented paper on settlement ideology and its ramifications for the Palestinian people. Represented the General Board of Global Ministries at UN conferences in New York City and Geneva. Have been actively involved in anti-apartheid movement and coalitions to promote Middle East peace. Studied during college in Copenhagen, Denmark. Traveled in Europe, Middle East, Africa, the Caribbean, and Central America. Reading and speaking proficiency in French. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS Middle East Studies Association African Studies Association Interfaith Peace Ministries of Orange County BOARD MEMBERSHIPS United Nations Association of Orange County 9/09