Anderson '64, of Washington, D.C., will use the $25,000 award to help fund the Psychologists for Social Responsibility's (PsySR) International Peace Practitioner's Network, a network of psychologists and others working to build peaceful communities through psychosocially informed projects appropriate to situation and culture. Among the projects the network will undertake are an Internet discussion group on human rights around the world, and the Cultures of Peace Practitioners' Network, a participatory, interactive network of practitioners from many parts of the world who are engaged in the psychosocial work of healing the stresses associated with war.

One of the hallmarks of the PsySR program is the emphasis on working with and listening to people in local communities when implementing programs for victims of trauma in such places as Bosnia, Rwanda, Angola, and now Kosovo. "This culturally sensitive, participatory orientation is very much a part of me," says Anderson, "it extends the learning that began at Grinnell."

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