The Berkeley Rotary Center

Program at Berkeley

About International and Area Studies

The Rotary Center for International Studies in Peace & Conflict Resolution at University of California, Berkeley is administered by International and Area Studies, the coordinating body for 51 international teaching, research, service, exchange programs and Centers. International and Area Studies is home to the Institute of International Studies. This Institution supports several well-supported Centers and Programs that deal with international issues such as peace and security, conflict resolution, international trade, the global environment, and human rights. Also within International and Area Studies are Berkeley's nationally recognized regional Area Centers: Center for African Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute of European Studies, Center for Latin American Studies, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Institute of Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, Center for South Asia Studies, and Center for Southeast Asia Studies. These area centers regularly sponsor events focused on peace and conflict issues in their particular regions of the world. The Rotary World Peace Scholars will be encouraged to participate in the wide array of lectures, seminars, workshops, and conferences offered through all these centers and programs along with their regular course study.

International and Area Studies is affiliated with Berkeley's residential International House.

The Berkeley program offers a Master's degree from a choice of several programs for Rotary World Peace Scholars. We recommend that candidates pursue an M.A. in one of the many academic and professional programs rooted in the social sciences and supplement the required coursework for their particular M.A. with classes relevant to conflict resolution chosen from across the campus. Degree programs to which Rotary Scholars already have been successfully admitted are: Asian Studies, Energy and Resources, Latin American Studies, Law (LLM), Business Administration and Political Science. Programs for which degree applications would be possible are: Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Energy and Resources group, (Policy and Management), History, Public Policy, Journalism, Public Health, and Social Welfare. Degree candidates in History, Law and Political Science are automatically registered as well for a joint M.A. degree in International and Area Studies, which provides wide flexibility in crafting an individual inter-disciplinary program within a political economy framework. Once a candidate is accepted to be a Berkeley Rotary Peach Scholar, candidates must gain admission to the specific M.A. program of their choice. Therefore candidates should be sure that their Rotary application includes the materials needed to make their application attractive to the Berkeley department or school from which they wish to gain their M.A.

In addition to other requirements of their degree programs, Rotary World Peace Scholars will be required to complete at least two courses offered by the Peace and Conflict Studies Department. Rotary Scholars also will do a summer internship and participate in group seminars and discussions organized on their behalf. In addition they will make a presentation based on their research interests at the Annual Rotary Center Seminar. In most cases the study also will serve as the thesis required for their degree and/or grow out of research undertaken for their regular courses.

The freedom of educational choice offered by the Berkeley program allows Rotary World Peace Scholars to have greater creativity, study a wide range of topics, and focus on specific, unique areas related to peace and conflict resolution. The students, however, must assume greater responsibilities for their course of study and carefully research and pursue the Master's program that best meets their particular needs and interests.

Please be aware that there is no existing Master's degree in Peace and Conflict Studies or entry level degree in International Studies at Berkeley. Scholars seeking those specific degrees should consider Bradford and other Rotary center programs.

International House at Berkeley has a long-standing and dynamic relationship with Rotarians and Rotary clubs throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and Northern California. International House, home to 300 foreign and 300 U.S. students and scholars, will offer Rotary World Peace Scholars residency for the duration of their two-year stay in Berkeley. International House integrates foreign students into the life of the university community and fosters international and cross-cultural communication and exchange. Scholars coming with families are eligible for campus married student accomodations.

Scholars will have numerous internship, research, and volunteer opportunities during their two-year program at Berkeley. Rotary World Peace Scholars will be provided email accounts and access at the graduate-student level to state-of-the-art electronic facilities. In addition, students will have access to Berkeley's Graduate Library, as well as the Moffitt Undergraduate Library and the various libraries at the other schools. All campus libraries have access to state-of-the-art computerized catalogue systems, and access via Internet to hundreds of other U.S. and foreign libraries. Berkeley's Library system has one the best research collections in the world. It contains more than eight million books, 90,000 current serials, 5 million microform items, 400,000 maps, 60,000 sound recordings, 6,000 videos, and hundreds of thousands government documents.

• The 2002, 2003, 2004 Berkeley Class of Rotary World Peace Scholars

• Faculty - Scholars will have access to faculty from various departments on campus. Among faculty who have been involved with Rotary Scholars are:

Richard Buxbaum
		Jackson H. Ralston Professor of International Law, Boalt School of Law
David Caron
		C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law, Boalt School of Law
Margaret Chowning
		Chair of Latin American Studies Group Major, Associate Professor History Department
Edwin M. Epstein
		Professor and Chair, Peace and Conflict Studies Teaching Program and Director of Rotary Program and Professor Emeritus Haas School of Business
Amy Gurowitz
		Lecturer, International and Area Studies Teaching Program
Percy C. Hintzen
		Professor African American Studies
Laurent Mayali
		Lloyd M. Robbins Professor of Law and Director of the Robbins Collection in Religious and Civil Law, Boalt School of Law
Michael Nagler
		Professor Emeritus, Peace and Conflict Studies Major
Richard B. Norgaard
		Professor Energy and Resources Group, Agricultural and Resource Economics
Jerry Sanders
		Lecturer, International and Area Studies Teaching Program
Bonnie Wade
		Director of Graduate Group in Asian Studies and Professor, Jerry and Evelyn Hemmings Chambers Chair in Music, Music Department
Michael J. Watts
		Professor of Geography, Geography Department
Darren Zook
		Lecturer, International Area Studies Teaching Program

• Affiliated Centers
  • CSAS
  • CAS
    
    
• Distinguished UC Berkeley international alumni include:
  • Abdelkader Abbadi, Moroccan Deputy Director of Political and Security Council Affairs, United Nations
  • John Akar, Former Ambassador of Sierra Leone to the United States
  • Mario Bancora, Director of Argentina's Atomic Energy Commission
  • Soon Cho, Mayor of Seoul, Korea and Former Deputy Prime Minister
  • John Kenneth Galbraith, Economist and former U.S. Ambassador to India
  • Cho-Ming Li, former Vice Chancellor, Chinese University of Hong Kong
  • Sadako N. Ogata, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
  • Michael Okeyo, Kenyan Ambassador to the United Nations
  • Andres Petricevic, former Bolivian Cabinet Member and Ambassador to the United States
  • Cyril Ponnamperuma, member of the Sri Lankan President's Advisory Council
  • Julianne Cartwright Traylor, Chair, Board of Directors for Amnesty International, the first African-American woman to hold this position