Project 14: Harvard/ Juarez Media * 2004-2009 * > Summary

Affiliation: LINDBLOM, PROJECT 14: Harvard/ Juarez, con el Instituto de Medicina y Tecnología Avanzada de la Conducta
Starts: 9/1/04      Ends:
Leaders: elindblom
Keywords: HARVARD UNIVERSITY, harvard, juarez, lindblom, distance, project 14
Participants: 11 (view all)
Description:

LINDBLOM ( HARVARD UNIVERSITY / Project14:Juarez ) :::

Emphasis: MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY

Ongoing Longitudinal study project by invitation only, honors doctoral level to post-doctoral :::

Proyecto 14 : Juarez , para el Instituto de Medicina y Tecnología Avanzada de la Conducta: Cd. Juarez

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ENROLLMENT CLOSED
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El Psicología del Sentido

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DISSERTATION:

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Dissertation Supervision available (as usual)

http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ViewProject.do?projectID=425

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The Dead Women of Juárez (Juarez)

Introduction:

"--- More than 411 women have been murdered and more than 500 disappeared among what is known today as "The Dead Women of Juárez," cases of mostly young, pretty women often found mutilated in the desert around Ciudad Juárez and elsewhere in the state of Chihuahua." http://crm.ncmonline.com

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Mass media solutions

Mass media solutions are ingenious but hypothetical. There are five theories compiled by investigative journalist Diana Washington Valdez of
The El Paso Times.

”Mexican law enforcement officials allege a cabal of rich and
powerful men are behind numerous deaths. The officials said
they doubt these men will be brought to justice because of
their access to power.

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Project 14: Juarezhttp://project14.bravehost.com

http://h2o.law.harvard.edu/ViewProject.do?projectID=425

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Course Content:

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-225JSpring2004/CourseHome/index.htm

Course Description: MIT Course content

"This subject explores the legal history of the United States as a gendered system. It examines how women have shaped the meanings of American citizenship through pursuit of political rights such as suffrage, jury duty, and military service, how those political struggles have varied for across race, religion, and class, as well as how the legal system has shaped gender relations for both women and men through regulation of such issues as marriage, divorce, work, reproduction, and the family. Our readings will draw from primary and secondary materials in American history. While we will read some court cases, the focus of the class is on the broader relationship between law and society, and no technical legal knowledge is required or assumed. There are no prerequisites for this subject."

http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-225JSpring2004/Syllabus/index.htm

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http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Urban-Studies-and-Planning/11-237Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm

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Mission Statement:

To research the horrible and extremely violent set of problems known as The Dead Women of Juárez.

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Methodology:

To move consciousness in Juarez from a lower reality to a higher plane.

1. identify researchable problem
2. derive hypotheses (Primary, Secondary, Tertiary)
3. literature review of research (John Dewey's Ped. essay)
4. develop methodology (Dewey)
5. data collection and analysis
6. analysis (trial facts)
7. falsification (Popper)
8. results & conclusions, method for next round of trial facts
9. interpretation
Copr. 2007 Eric Lindblom "The Lindblom Protocol"

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Concentrations:

Project 14 areas of emphasis are: theory, method, practice, peer review, reflection, data analysis and fostering learning.

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What is Project 14: Juarez doing now?

Project 14 is assembling a body of knowledge:

Eric J. Lindblom PhD

1. identification of researchable problem(s), define research categories
2. derive hypotheses, researchable questions, search and discovery
3. literature review of research, identify pilot projects, research design
4. develop methods, methodology, construction and deconstruction
5. data collection, data analysis, and trial facts identification
6. further systems analysis (vis a vis John Dewey)
7. falsification (vis a vis Karl Popper)
8. further identify systems, results, conclusions, discussion
9. peer review and interpretation(s).

In-process results (dream data) can be found on project websites and in coursework at Harvard University (h2o) detailing that process.

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What does Project 14: Juarez intend?

Short-term goals: Dreamwork project(s)

Project 14 has several pilot projects among which one is described below by way of example. (Other Project 14 websites, listed below, describe other projects.)

Analysis Pilot Project

1.) investigation of bias, epistemology and criteria selection regarding the Maimonides Laboratory,

2.) determination of relevant researchable questions for subsequent replication studies,

3.) identification of the calumniators of bias and identify ethical issues,

4.) identification of research criteria

5.) design, propose and define methodology, research design, data analysis formats, falsifiabilty and ways to determine results.

6.) assemble data and arrange publication.

Mid-term goal:

Then, there would be solid, full and concrete proposals for calls for further research.

Planned outputs include regular proposals, grantspersonship, reports and written assembly, presentations as requested, action projects and publication.

Long-term goal:

Strategic planning and permanent implementation of the ultimate Dream Interaction Laboratory of which several pilot projects are underweigh.

Quite a Long-term goal:

Strategic planning and permanent implementation of the ultimate General Science Laboratory where Project 14 would have the latitude to expand into further areas of interest.

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Other Project 14: Juarez websites:

http://juarez.bravehost.com

http://results.bravehost.com

http://result.bravehost.com

http://dreamworks.bravehost.com

http://project14.bravehost.com

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William Paul Simmons categories:

In a paper, 4 Nw. U. J. Int'l Hum. Rts. 492 at

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/jihr/v4/n3/2,

William Paul Simmons, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Arizona State University, presents an analysis of the Juarez situation including legal issues. (The article is brilliant. Lindblom) His categories, for the paper are:

I.Introduction

II.The Situation in Juárez

A.Responses from the Mexican Authorities

III.The Inter-American Court of Human Rights and International Human Rights Law

A.State Responsibility for Private Acts

B.Investigating, Prosecuting, and Punishing Human Rights Abuses by Non-State Actors

C.Preventing Human Rights Abuses by Non-State Actors

IV.Remedies through the Inter-American Court

A.Contentious Cases

B.Request for an Advisory Opinion

C.Request for Provisional Measures

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/jihr/v4/n3/2/#http://www.asu.edu/clas/polisci/

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PROJECT 14: Juarez ( project14 ), beginning in 2003, shall continue at Harvard into subsequent years that may or may not be declared as separate coursework.

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TO THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN IS A NAVIGATION BAR. ON THAT IS AN ITEM NAMED "MESSAGE BOARD." THERE IS POSTED AN EXTENSIVE DATABASE OF ARTICLES ON JUAREZ. Also beware, if you have used your regular email address AND have registered, h2o will pack your inbox! Make a separate email account somewhere just for h2o and register here at Harvard.
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Course website support:

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http://juarez.bravehost.com

http://project14.bravehost.com

http://results.bravehost.com

http://result.bravehost.com

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Eric J. Lindblom PhD

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PROJECT PROPOSAL:

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PSYCHOLOGICAL WARFARE, LEADERSHIP AND CHANGE
Is psychological warfare (terrorism, and murder
an abusive defiance of positive leadership and change?
“In some cases, the victims are mutilated and horribly disfigured.
Objects have been stuffed into their s or es, and/or their left have been hacked off. Many are strangled, and then stabbed repeatedly.” (4.)
The abuse is documented and 1.) Investigative, 2.) Mass Media and
3.) Legal solutions have been exhausted.

In terms of severe abuse, the example of violence (of many throughout Mexico) is extreme in Juárez City, State of Chihuahua in Mexico.” In Ciudad Juárez
and Chihuahua, an alarming four hundred and thirty-eight women have been victims of and murder, not to mention over a hundred women who remain missing.” (2.) Investigative, mass media and legal solutions have failed.
1.) Investigative solutions are intermittent. National response is
corrupted as some of the abuse is from federal and local authorities.
“Police are torturing people into confessing to serious crimes and these confessions are then accepted as evidence in court.” (5.) Of all the known terrorist group leaders, there has been only one legal conviction, Middle Eastern killer Sharif Abdul Latif Sharif of the cult group Los Contras (Rebels). Theory Number Five (see below: “women are being women killed in satanic rituals”) describes the terrorist Sharif.

2.) Mass media solutions are ingenious but hypothetical. There are five theories compiled by investigative journalist Diana Washington Valdez of
The El Paso Times.

”Mexican law enforcement officials allege a cabal of rich and
powerful men are behind numerous deaths. The officials said
they doubt these men will be brought to justice because of
their access to power.

Experts including former FBI profiler Robert Ressler believe one
or more serial killers are at work in the border region.
They are slaying the young women ‘for the thrill of it.’

Mexican authorities charge some of the women were victims of the Carrillo Fuentes drug cartel, which routinely kills anyone who knows too much
or gets in the way of constant power struggles.

Families of the many victims believe corrupt police and officials
protect killers.
Theories that : women are being women killed in satanic rituals.
Or they are being sacrificed to harvest organs for transplant.” (6.)
3.) Legal solutions are meager. If any of the theories are true
then why have the numbers of convictions been inadequate? If there has been only one conviction in some 2-5,000 cases then something doesn’t make sense. Why? Often, nothing is done. “There were no developments in the 2001 abduction and killing of Raul Varela Meza, Juan Antonio Chavez, Eduardo Ramirez, and Lorenzo Barraza in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.” (8.)

The reason is that disciplined inquiry is scanty in investigative, mass media and legal speculation. Even the facts aren’t identified. For example, not all victims are women. Women’s slayings occurred against a backdrop of violence that took the lives of at least 1,600 men. (7.) The fact deconstructs the popular focus. For unknown reasons, even the F.B.I. (see Theory Number Two above) have focused on the women who were d and murdered not men. It cannot be stressed too much that there are at least five times the unresolved cases of male victims. Disciplined inquiry shall be conducted in several areas: 1.) Research objectives, 2.) Research methods, 3.) Research design, 4.) Data gathering, 5.) Data analysis and 6.) Interlinking organizations internationally.

1.) The Research Objective:  An international visit to Ciudad Juárez in Mexico is imperative. Analytical research visits to locations throughout Mexico may be indicated for serious and in-depth psychological research using the scientific method in several concrete steps:  Current research literature and significance, Objectives and hypotheses, Methods and approaches, Data perspectives and Results, solutions, discussion and publication.

2.) The Research Method: If the overall objective is an analytical research comparison then the study needs a solid and practical foundational basis in traditional psychological theory. A methodological research design for comparison between cases of and murder shall be created with the foundational point of reference as General Systems Theory applied to psychological warfare. Terror is psychological. The problem in Mexico is not in the investigative, media or legal arena as their limited success has shown.

3.) The Research Design has to be a psychological methodology in standard research analysis (such as General Systems Theory). The foundational theory, (General Systems) is standard in Psychology. (This applicant is at the expert level: a PhD in organizational systems.)

4.) Data Gathering: Research data gathering and analysis shall use The Scientific Method defined as: 1.) Current research literature and significance, 2.) Objectives and hypotheses, 3.) Methods and approaches, 4.) Data perspectives and 5.) Results, solutions, discussion and publication.

5.) Data Analysis: The modular research data analysis shall scrutinize material using two or more standard Psychological techniques from General Systems Theory (i.e. Cybernetics, Critical Systems Heuristics). The applicant is at the expert level in the techniques. Hard evidence gathered from archival resources in Ciudad Juárez and El Paso would be examined. From the primary literature review (see Bibliography attached), resources appear to be adequate to support data gathering. This applicant is in touch with resources and archives in Ciudad Juárez such as the Benjamin Franklin Library, Amigos de las Mujeres de Juárez, The Archivo Municipal de Ciudad Juárez and Universidad Autonoma de Cd. Juárez Campana Todos Contra la Violencia. Though a lot of the material appears to occur in English, this applicant is adequate in Spanish (native language, Berlitz graduate and a groups-beta Google Spanish translator).

6.) Time shall be spent in dialogue interlinking academic institutions/systems across borders to create lasting contacts using the modular areas.
International Visite Site:
The site is the Institute of Medicine in Mexico (Psic. Sergio Rueda). A professional association exists.

Central institutions for additional research sources are Fundación Internacional para la Investigación de la Naturaleza del Hombre SC. (International Foundation for Research on the Nature of Man) or Instituto de Medicina y Tecnologia Avazanda de la Conducta in collaboration with U.S. host Saybrook Graduate School and Research Center in San Francisco, California (Stanley Krippner, Ph.D.). It is arranged that supportive material exists online at Harvard University. This applicant is a H2O Project Leader at Berkman Center of Harvard Law School and this proposal problem is a pilot research analysis at Harvard (12.).

Additional International Support: Organizations have been approached for cooperation as advisors in serious research such as construction of tests of validity, interpretation, results, key aspects of theme, research examination, analysis, case study, and theoretical framework for understanding, constructive action and publication using advanced educational technology from  The University of Cambridge and Stanford University. Each has been contacted multiple times in preparation.

At each step, several systems would be approached furthering the scope of the study including but not limited to The Federal Bureau of Investigation, Interpol, The State of Texas and The El Paso Times. (Preliminary contact with each has been made.)

Some of the international linkage work would be expected to last beyond the scope of the Fulbright. For example, an informal think tank is being created that shall have lasting duration in the interlinking of academic institutions and systems internationally.

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"All views expressed herein are the author's alone and do not (likely!)reflect the views of HLS or the Berkman Center." Quote Credit: John Palfrey http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/palfrey/

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Citations:

1. http://www.elpasotimes.com/borderdeath/page1-2.html
2. http://www.carolinianonline.com/news/2004/11/02/CampusNews/
International.Caravan.Of.Justice.Pleads.For.Student.Support-789410.shtml
3. http://www.migrationint.com.
4. http://www.mahem.net
5. http://www.amnesty.org.uk/deliver?document=14418
7. http://www.elpasotimes.com/borderdeath/
8. http://www.elpasotimes.com/borderdeath/page2-8.html
9. http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2003/27905.htm
10. Moreno, J.L. (1977). Who Shall Survive? Foundations of Sociometry, Group Psychotherapy, and Sociodrama, New York, Beacon House.
11. U.S. Department of State, Fri Jan 28 12:27:04 2005.” http://travel.state.gov/travel/cis_pa_tw/pa/pa_2100.html
12. Taylor, Michael. “Why No Rule Of Law In Mexico? Explaining The Weakness Of Mexico ‘s Judicial Branch.” New Mexico Law Review Vol. 17. No. 1. 1997: 141-166.
Special Resources:
Adams, L. (Unk.) “’ Monologues’ author embraces Mexico City; decries string of murders in border city.”
Bowden, C. (1998) Juárez: The Laboratory Of Our Future. New York: Aperture.
Delgadillo, V., and R. Maldonado (2003). “Journey to the Land of the Dead: A Conversation with the Curators of the Hijas de Juárez Exhibition.” Aztlán Vol. 28. No. 2. 179-202.
Gaspar de Alba, A. (2003). “The Price of Free Trade is Dead Women.” UCLA Today Vol. 24. No. 2. 23.
Gonzáles, S. (2002). Huesos En El Desierto. Barcelona: Anagrama.
Hewitt, B. et al. (2003). “A Wave of Murders Terrorizes the Women of Ciudad Juárez.” New York: People.
Ortega, G. (1999). Las Muertas De Ciudad Juárez: El Caso De Elizabeth Castro García Y Abdel Latif Sharif Sharif. México City: Distribuciones Fontamara.
Ronquillo, V. (1999). Las Muertas De Juárez: Crónica De Una Larga Pesadilla. México, D.F.: Planeta Mexicana.
Staudt, K. and I. Coronado. (2002). Fronteras No Mas: Toward Social Justice At The U.S.-Mexico Border. New York: Palgrave USA.
Taylor, M. (1997). “Why No Rule Of Law In Mexico? Explaining The Weakness Of Mexico ‘s Judicial Branch.” New Mexico Law Review Vol. 17. No. 1: 141-166.
Urrutia, A. (2002). “Exige Marta Sahagún Aclarar Los 280 Homicidios De Mujeres En Ciudad Juárez.” La Jornada 26.
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