International Solidarity and Demanding Justice / Solidaridad Internacional Y La Demanda De Justicia

Chair/Moderador: Patrick James, International Relations, USC

• Morna Macleod, Latin American Studies, State Autonomous University of Morelos, Mexico
  “International Solidarity and Genocide in Guatemala in the Eighties”
  (“Solidaridad internacional y genocidio en Guatemala en los años ochenta”)

• Susanne Jonas, Latin American & Latino Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz
  “A Key Social Actor against State War Crimes: Guatemalan Refugees and Migrants in the U.S.”
  (“Un actor social clave contra crímenes de guerra estatales: Refugiados y migrantes Guatemaltecos en EE.UU.”)

Patrick James is Professor of International Relations and Director of the Center for International Studies at the University of Southern California (PhD, University of Maryland, College Park). James specializes in comparative and international politics. His interests at the international level include the causes, processes and consequences of conflict, crisis and war. With regard to domestic politics, his interests focus on Canada, most notably with respect to the constitutional dilemma. James is the author of 18 books and over 120 articles and book chapters. Among his honors and awards are the Louise Dyer Peace Fellowship from the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, the Milton R. Merrill Chair from Political Science at Utah State University, the Lady Davis Professorship of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Thomas Enders Professorship in Canadian Studies at the University of Calgary, the Senior Scholar award from the Canadian Embassy, Washington, DC, the Eaton Lectureship at Queen’s University in Belfast, the Quincy Wright Scholar Award from the Midwest International Studies Association (ISA), the Beijing Foreign Studies University Eminent Scholar and the Eccles Professor of the British Library. He is a past president of the Midwest ISA and the Iowa Conference of Political Scientists. James also served a five-year term as Editor of International Studies Quarterly.

Morna Macleod is a researcher and lecturer in the postgraduate program in Social Science at the Autonomous State University of Morelos (UAEM). She has a master’s and doctorate in Latin American Studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Her MA thesis was a comparative study on political repression in Chile and Guatemala. She was a human rights worker first with Chile (from London) and then with Guatemala (from Mexico) in the late 1970s, early 1980s. She lived in Guatemala from 1995-2001. Her publications include: “Development or Devastation? Epistemologies of Mayan Women’s Resistance to an Open-Pit Goldmine in Guatemala” in AlterNative, Auckland, Volume 11, Issue 6, 2016, Nietas del Fuego, Creadoras del Alba. Luchas político-culturales de mujeres mayas (FLACSO-Guatemala, 2011), Poder Local: Reflexiones sobre Guatemala (1996). She is currently working on multiple violence in Morelos, Mexico.

An internationally-recognized scholar of Latin America, particularly Guatemala and Central America, for nearly five decades, Susanne Jonas was on the faculty of the Latin American & Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz for 24 years and received a Distinguished Teaching Award. Since the 1990s, she has become a specialist on Guatemalan/ Central American migration. Most currently, she is co-author, with Nestor Rodríguez, of Guatemala-U.S. Migration: Transforming Regions (University of Texas Press, 2014). Among her 20 previous books, Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala’s Peace Process was designated a 2001 Choice “Outstanding Academic Book.” Regarding genocide in Guatemala, she has collaborated with the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC, and has contributed the Guatemala chapter for Centuries of Genocide, co-edited by Samuel Totten and William Parsons (2009, 2013, and upcoming new edition).