Compiled by the Editors of Academic Questions
Editors’ Note: Over the course of the current American military involvement in Iraq, several major scholarly societies have approved resolutions taking stands on the war, aspects of the war, or on the association of scholars with components of the war effort. Here are five texts.
AMERICAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION
American Sociological Association Statement against the War on Iraq (2003)
[Passed by mail ballot in 2003: in favor 65.8 percent of membership, opposed 34.2 percent, abstaining or not voting, 22 percent.]
The American Sociological Association comprises sociologists and kindred professionals who study, among other things, war and peace, democracy and totalitarianism, conflict resolution and violence, systems of inequality and their effects, states and legal orders, nationalism, and nation-building.
We believe that foreign interventions that do not have the support of the world community create
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