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The millennial optimism being generated among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the global civil society by the advent of the year 2000, & by the UN Declaration of a Year & Decade of Education for a Culture of Peace & Nonviolence for the Children of the World, opens the possibility of a paradigm shift from dominance to mutualism in both interpersonal & interstate relations. Multiple year-2000 peace initiatives by NGOs present them with the challenge of a shift from turfism to collaboration in peacebuilding. Truth commissions offer new opportunities for peace work. Peace movements are learning to apply interactive problem-solving skills as they shift from protest to peace practitioner roles in war-torn areas. The power of the social imagination to envision peaceful futures is critical to all these efforts. 19 References. Adapted from the source document.

A response to seven comments on the author's "A New Chance for Human Peaceableness?" offered by Cheryl de la Rey, Caroline Lamwaka, Ursula Oswald Spring, Mary Soledad L. Perpinan, Adam Curle, Peter Suedfeld, & David Adams (all, 2000). Defends the call to build a Culture of Peace 2000 as more than "shallow millennialism," but as a new opportunity for civic participation in creating a peace praxis based on full recognition of contemporary social & economic injustices & abuse of power. Contributors are commended for their emphasis on citizenship, conflict resolution strategies, human potentials, & examples of specific peace-promoting programs. The inclusion of gender issues by De la Rey & Perpinan is particularly praiseworthy. 2 References. K. Hyatt Stewart

The papers brought together here represent a part of the work of the IPRA (International Peace Research Association) Commission on Conflict Resolution and Peace Building that met during the 1994 Conference of the International Peace Research Association at Malta to address the issues of peace building in crisis areas. The focus here is particularly on new approaches to peace building, including United Nations reform and civil society innovation. After fifty years of UN peace building efforts, it is clear that the UN cannot function effectively without the involvement of civil society in each conflict region. How the UN, member states and civil society can interact effectively is an important new question for the peace research community, and these papers offer some fresh thinking on the subject.

After differentiating between the social and humanist feminism of the pnsuffrage womens movement (primarily concerned with the evils of war, colonialism, and capitalism run rampant) and the better known equity feminism to which the suflage movement gave rise, this study focuses on the lesser known but continuously vigorous activities of transnational womens movements for peace and social justice. The importance of womens capacities for holistic systems thinking in the development of effective action strategies for social change is given particular attention, with examples of such thinking from the social and physical sciences. Womens social inventiveness is also emphasized with examples drawn from womens peace and justice movementsndashfrom teachers initiatives in schools and communities to strikes, intercontinental journeys, and the creation of "peace colonies, that is, spaces for peace and peace services within given regions.

Ethnic & other communal identity groups are not only characteristic of Third World states, but also widely present as economically disadvantaged groups in industrialized states. The practice of forcible assimilation of such identity groups by industrialized states may actually contribute to the social & cultural underdevelopment of the so-called "developed" countries, since it involves ignoring the folk wisdom, social inventiveness, & technical problem-solving skills relating to optimal utilization of often fragile local terrains, & the failure to develop two-way communication between the mainstream culture of central government & peripheral peoples. A viable economic & political future may depend on new constitutive orders that permit much wider participation of currently marginalized identity groups in shaping the polities of which they are a part. 32 References. AA