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Taking action: suggestions for further resources
From Iraq: war and peace
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Action reduces stress for adults and children. Encourage
children to write a letter, get involved in an organisation, hold
a debate, write to their MP (www.faxyourmp.co.uk)
or send or raise money for humanitarian efforts.
For teachers
The NUT has recommended that schools: ‘maintain
as normal an atmosphere as possible: a stable environment will assist
pupils to cope with stress arising from their personal circumstances’.
Other advice is contained in a paper War in Iraq: the impact on
schools (www.data.teachers.org.uk).
For pupils
Children have been protesting against the war on
Iraq in unprecedented numbers. Now that war has happened, they may
feel let down that their action – and that of millions of
others – seems to have made no difference. But many continue
to protest. Young people have set up and are managing the ‘Hands
Up for Peace campaign’. http://www.messengers.org.uk/,
handsupforpeace@hotmail.com Hands Up For Peace, 16 Rutland Park
Gardens, Willesden Green, London NW2 4RG.
General
Teaching about the war
Some USA sites
The media
Against the war
Futher Reading
General
Amnesty International UK, 99–119 Rosebery Avenue,
London EC1R 4RE
020 7814 6200; information@amnesty.org.uk;
www.amnesty.org.uk
Regular updates on human rights in Iraq.
Human Rights Watch, 2nd Floor, 2–12 Pentonville
Road, London N1 9HF
020 7713 1995; hrwuk@hrw.org;
www.hrw.org
Muslim Council of Britain, PO Box 52, Wembley, HA9
0XW
020 8903 9650; admin@mcb.org.uk;
www.mcb.org.uk
Oneworld.net
justice@oneworld.net;
www.oneworld.net
An online civil society network with news and special reports on
Iraq
Runnymede Trust, Suite 106, The London Fruit &
Wool Exchange, Brushfield Street, London E1 6EP
020 7377 9222; info@runnymedetrust.org;
www.runnymedetrust.org
Independent think tank on ethnicity and cultural diversity
United Nations Association, 3 Whitehall Court, London
SW1A 2EL
020 7930 2931; info@una-uk.org;
www.una-uk.org
UNICEF, UNICEF House, 3 United Nations Plaza, New
York, NY 10017 USA
www.unicef.org
UN children’s fund has been operating in Iraq throughout the
1990s.
World Food Programme, Via C G Viola 68, Parco dei
Medici, 00148 Rome, Italy
+39 06 65131; info@wfp.org; www.wfp.org
Teaching about the war
Children’s BBC has good information for young
people www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc
Global Express is a teaching resource about current
affairs. Edition 34 is devoted to Iraq, and edition 37 will look
at media coverage of the war. www.dep.org.uk/globalexpress
Imperial War Museum has details about experiences
of war www.iwm.org.uk/lambeth/tour/ww2gal.htm
Muslim Council of Britain (see above) has teaching
ideas
National Union of Teachers www.teachers.org.uk
Oxfam Hong Kong has useful material on The
Iraqi Crisis
From the USA
Proteacher.com has several good lesson plans in its
Middle East section. ‘The Islamic World’ is recommended.
http://www.proteacher.com/090072.shtml
Rethinking Schools includes materials that focus specifically
on Iraq as well as articles that address the more general issues
of armed conflict. www.rethinkingschools.org/war
The media
All the major UK newspapers have sites with search
functions. Of the dailies, The Guardian, The Independent and the
Daily Mirror have been against the war. Other papers have generally
been in favour of it.
The Jordan Times has good information from and on
the Arab world. www.jordantimes.com
al-Jazeera is a satellite TV channel and website which
also has good information from and on the Arab world. Its site was
sabotaged by US hackers who saw it as having a pro-Arab bias. Arabic:
http://www.aljazeera.net
English: http://english.aljazeera.net/
World Association for Christian Communication has
good information about the media coverage of the war. www.wacc.org.uk
Against the war
Stop the war coalition, PO Box 3739, London E5 8EJ
020 7053 2153; office@stopwar.org.uk;
www.stopwar.org.uk
MoveOn.org is a US-based anti-war campaign. www.moveon.org
Further reading
A History of Iraq Charles Tripp (Cambridge University
Press 2002)
A Modern History of the Kurds David McDowall (I B
Tauris 1996)
Iraq: A report from the inside Dilip Hiro (Granta
Books 2003)
Iraq under siege: the deadly impact of sanctions and war ed. Anthony
Arnove (Pluto Press 2000)
Out of the Ashes: the resurrection of Saddam Hussein
Andrew Cockburn and Patrick Cockburn (Verso 2000)
Iraq and the West: The Politics of Confrontation (Understanding
Global Issues no109 ugi@esb.co.uk;
01242 245252)
War on Iraq Scott Ritter, William Rivers Pitt (Profile
Books 2002)
What United Nations sanctions have done to Iraq (New
Internationalist no 316 www.newint.org)
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