Conference on
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Join with fellow psychologists, social scientists, mental health
professionals, educators, and activists to help build peace
and social justice. Theme questions for the PsySR conference are:

What can we do to contribute to social movements
for peace and social justice?

How have the parameters of our sociohistorical
situation changed? What new social change strategies
are necessary? How should education and graduate
training be transformed?

How can the political and cultural effects of psychological
practices themselves be understood?

How can the promise of emerging critical psychology
perspectives be fulfilled?

What new linkages can be forged between various
types of professionals acting for social responsibility
(educators, physicians, social workers, scientists)?

Participation is the key word! Possible activities include:
facilitated discussions and roundtables on hot topics and
issues; workshops on activism and advocacy; training for a
lobby day at Congress (plan to stay an extra day); seminars
on peace psychology, critical psychology, feminist psychology,
anti-racism work, ecopsychology; the politics of psychotherapy;
issue updates by DC-based specialists; intergenerational
dialogues (e.g., 60s anti-war and 90s anti-globalization
activists); networking opportunities; story-telling, poetry
slams; social hours, music, and dinners on the town!

PsySR's Action Committees will be organizing programs
around their specific themes, but we also hope to address
the whole range of contemporary issues being addressed by
psychologist/activists. Please step up and submit a proposal
related to your area of work, for example: state-sponsored
violence; anti-war organizing; sustainable development; reform
of the correctional system; civil liberties; managed care and
mental health; hate crimes; disarmament; psychosocial
humanitarian assistance; living wage campaigns; globalization;
psychiatric abuses; simple living; human rights; the politics of
psychological theory; gender, war and peace; ideology;
universal health care; drug trafficking; HIV/AIDS;
conflict resolution; hegemony; spirituality and
interfaith work; community development; domestic violence;
alienation; international psychology; accuracy in the news
media; television and advertising; corporate accountability.

For further information on how to submit proposals for the
program and to register, visit www.psysr.org and click on
the link for the PsySR Twentieth Anniversary Conference.
Proposals are due January 10, 2003, but space is limited so
don't delay!

Any questions may be addressed to Tod Sloan, Co-Coordinator,
Psychologists for Social Responsibility, psysr2@aol.com

Founded in 1982, Psychologists for Social Responsibility
is an international organization dedicated to applying
psychological principles, methods, and practices
to build cultures of peace with social justice. It is supported
primarily by dues and donations received from its members.