Search results

ISRAEL'S DAILY 'HA'ARETZ' BROUGHT TOGETHER TWO WRITERS, AMOS OZ AND DAVID GROSSMAN, WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING FOR PEACE. THEIR LUCID DISCUSSION RANGES OVER THE DISASTROUS POSITION OF THE LEFT IN ISRAEL, TERRORISM AND THE FUTURE OF THE COUNTRY

Examines the harmful effects of global poverty on peace, seen as driven by the continuation of Cold War economic trends & policies. These trends include growing debt, a polarization in wealth driven by multinational companies, a rise in "capability poverty" (poor overall well-being beyond income) & a higher work burden for women. It is argued that the effects of poverty have led to social chaos & ultimately ruin; eg, debt has led to Yugoslavian ethnic animosities, cocaine production in Peru, & genocide in Rwanda-Burundi. Further, UN efforts to intervene in these situations are directed against the consequences, not the causes, of debt. A resumption of efforts toward full employment is called for. It is concluded that challenges to prevailing economic policies must be made, & the efforts of groups like the Real World Coalition, who meet global problems with internationally coordinated action, offer hope. T. Arnold

"Now in its third edition, Peace Education provides a comprehensive approach to educating for a just and sustainable future. It begins with religious and historical trends that have molded our understanding of "peace" and then presents a variety of ways to practice Peace Education in schools and communities and explains how it can empower students"--Provided by publisher

The Western security community has increasingly militarized its politics of peace, through peacekeeping, peace-making and other policies to which the 'peace' prefix has been attributed. Peace has become a virtual concept, which at times disguises rather violent management techniques of 'global governance'. Peace, within this framework, is a practice and a policy, mantled by a narrative of a liberal, and teleological, desire for non-violence. Non-violence towards the governing institutions became viewed as peace, advancing the notion of 'peace-as-order'. A teleology of liberal development helped to securitize the 'not-yet-liberalized Other', excluding non-liberal concepts from the idea of peace. Like the baby thrown out with the bathwater, peace lost its emancipatory content. A particular peace is the result, which includes transitional justice or reconciliation as rhetorical devices for its legitimization. However, the practice of 'peace' leaves these processes to the 'losers'; lasting peace between equals remains elusive and the politics of peace an exercise in managing security. Adapted from the source document.

Mortimer J. Adler's much quoted address in which he castigated American professors has been Widely misunderstood. When he declared that their errors were more dangerous than the threat from Hitler, he did not intend to discount them. On the contrary, he was paying a most impressive compliment to the importance and effect of their writings and other activities. Adler is professor of the philosophy of law in the University of Chicago, and his yardstick must be applied to himself. It would be inappropriate to pass over his How to Think About War and Peace in silence or to regard it as an unimportant and uninfluential work. This new book, praised as a product of hard thinking, will be read only by few, even though it will be bought by many in response to the intense propaganda of the publisher.