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Category Archives: Conflict transformation

Perhaps the UN General Assembly could try this approach? :)

… substituting individual actions, of course, for nations …. “In the Babemba tribe of South Africa, when a person acts irresponsibly or unjustly, he is placed in the centre of … Continue reading

4 September, 2006 · Leave a comment

Welcome to world peace

By Charles Kurzman and Neil Englehart | CSM | 30 August 2006 CHAPEL HILL, N.C. AND BOWLING GREEN, OHIO – World peace was not supposed to look like this. It … Continue reading

30 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Peace and othering

This quote is from Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk. It is the preface in the Vietnamese version of his book “No man is an island”. Violence rests on the assumption … Continue reading

29 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Why Globalization Isn’t Working by Mark LeVine

Boston Globe Thusaday 17 Aug 2006 This war was never supposed to happen. In the era of globalization, no two countries that possess McDonald’s are supposed to go to war. … Continue reading

18 August, 2006 · Leave a comment

Timely Reminders

"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
-- Aldous Huxley

"The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it."
-- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song.

"It is difficult
to get the news from poems
yet men die miserably every day
for lack
of what is found there"
-- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower"


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