TEHRANIAN, Majid 1937-

PERSONAL:

Born March 22, 1937, in Iran; naturalized U.S. citizen; son of Abdol Hossein and Iran (Muluk) Tehranian; married Katharine Kia (a professor), February 24, 1972; children: Terrence, Yalda, John, Maryam. Ethnicity: "Iranian." Education: Dartmouth College, B.A., 1959; Harvard University, M.A. (Middle Eastern studies), 1961, Ph.D. (political economy and government), 1969. Religion: Society of Friends (Quaker). Hobbies and other interests: Swimming, tennis, running, chess, poetry.

ADDRESSES:

Home—2627 Manoa Rd., Honolulu, HI 96822. Office—Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, 1600 Kapiolani Blvd., Suite 1111, Honolulu, HI 96814. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER:

University of Hawaii, Manoa, Honolulu, professor of communications, 1981—, Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, director, 1990-92. Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research, director, 1996—. Harvard University program on Information Resources Policy, research affiliate, 1994—.

WRITINGS:

Socio-economic and Communication Indicators in Development Planning: A Case Study of Iran, Unesco (Paris, France), 1980.

Technologies of Power: Information Machines and Democratic Prospects, Ablex Publishing (Norwood, NJ), 1990.

(With Katharine Tehranian and others) Letters from Jerusalem, Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu, HI), 1990.

(Editor) Restructuring for Ethnic Peace: A Public Debate at the University of Hawai'i, Spark M. Matsunaga Institute for Peace, University of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu, HI), 1991.

(Editor, with Katharine Tehranian) Restructuring for World Peace: On the Threshold of the Twenty-first Century, Hampton Press (Cresskill, NJ), 1992.

(Editor) Worlds Apart: Human Security and Global Governance, I. B. Tauris (London, England), 1999.

Global Communication and World Politics: Domination, Development, and Discourse, Lynne Rienner Publishers (Boulder, CO), 1999.

(Editor) Asian Peace: Security and Governance in the Asia-Pacific Region, I. B. Tauris (London, England), 1999.

(With Kamal Malhotra and Joseph A. Camilleri) Reimagining the Future: Towards Democratic Governance, Department of Politics, La Trobe University (Bundoora, Victoria, Australia), 2000.

(Editor, with David W. Chappell) Dialogue of Civilizations: A New Peace Agenda for a New Millennium, I. B. Tauris (London, England), 2002.

(Editor) Bridging a Gulf: Peacebuilding in West Asia, I. B. Tauris (London, England), 2003.

(With Daisaku Ikeda) Global Civilization: A Buddhist-Islamic Dialogue, British Academic Press (London, England), 2003.

(Editor, with Michael Intriligator and Alexander Nikitin) Eurasia: A New Peace Agenda, Elsevier (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2005.

Several works have been translated into Japanese, Persian, Italian, French, and Thai.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Civilization: A Path to Peace?

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

ONLINE

Toda Institute for Global Peace and Policy Research Web site,http://www.toda.org/ (September 29, 2004), "Dialogue of Civilizations for World Citizenship."

University of Hawai'i Web site,http://www.hawaii.edu/ (November 1, 2004), "Majid Tehranian."