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Research of Canadian & other peace researchers on attitudes & policies at the personal, group, & national levels is discussed. The attitudes of 19 nations & of business, people, government, intellectuals, & religions in each were rated in E. Laszlo et al (Goals For Mankind: A Report to the Club of Rome on the New Horizons of Global Community, New York: Dutton, 1977); these ratings are organized on a dimension ranging from compassion, including freedom, justice, peace, & globalism, to compulsion, including militarism, punishment, & religiousness. China is found to be most & the United States least compassionate; developing countries are generally more compassionate than developed ones. 3 Tables. Modified HA.

This article looks at the role of compulsion in mental health law as it applies to civil patients. It starts by setting out the existing position and the Government's proposals for reform as set out in the current Green Paper "Reform of the Mental Health Act 1983". It goes on to consider principles which might be relevant to this area of law and the application of these to the Government proposals. Finally, it looks at the relevance of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The book presents a variety of philosophical and socio-political perspectives related to the relationship between persuasion and compulsion in democracy. It meets the need of the present time, in America and in Europe, to re-read and discuss the basic assumptions of democracy and the role of individual within it in the context of institutional persuasions that can become factual compulsions for other institution and, first of all, individuals