International Journal of Humanities and Peace articles from January 1 2000

International Journal of Humanities and Peace archives from January 1 2000

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
January 1, 2000... Dr. Vasant V. Merchant, Editor/Publisher 143 6 N. Evergreen Drive Flagstaff, AZ 86001 It is my pleasure to write this letter of congratulations for publishing the 16th International Journal of Humanities and Peace. Your publication is a...

UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME: CHOICES MAGAZINE INTERVIEW WITH MR. KOFI ANNAN SECRETARY-GENERAL OF THE UNITED NATIONS.(Interview)
January 1, 2000... Introduction: In an exclusive interview for CHOICES, the Secretary-General of the United Nations Mr. Kofi Annan, reflects on the role of the UN in the new millennium, the organization's achievements over the last 50 years, and the contributions...

MY DREAM 3000.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2000... (WRITTEN FOR THE LAST SUMMER SOLSTICE OF THE SECOND MILLENNIUM, 2 JUNE 1999) I DREAM THAT WE HUMANS, THE MOST ADVANCED MIRACLE OF LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE WILL LIFT OUR SIGHTS, HOPES AND DREAMS TO THE YEAR 3000 AND...

INNER PEACE-OUTER ACTION.(United Nations Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... There is a middle way between rushing in and trying to effect reforms when still filled with feelings of innate hatred and ill-will and not trying to effect those reforms at all until such feelings have been killed. It will always be difficult...

DEVELOPMENT AS A GLOBAL AGENDA: POVERTY AS A GLOBAL CHALLENGE.(address by Dr. Karan Singh of the Indian Parliament)
January 1, 2000... The twentieth century after Christ which is drawing to a close within the next few weeks has been the most astounding one in the long and tortuous history of the human race on Planet Earth. On the one hand it has seen unprecedented...

APROPOS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM.(India's spiritual role)
January 1, 2000... According to a Christian legend pansies were at one time more sweet-smelling than the violets. But then this also became a cause of concern for them. Flower-gatherers in search of them would trample over large tracts of cornfields and occasion...

THE IMPACT OF GLOBALIZATION UPON PROSPECTS FOR PEACE AND COOPERATION: EVIDENCE FROM SOUTHEAST ASIA.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION: A crucial issue related to the continued impact of globalization is that of whether it improves or worsens the prospects for cross-border peace and co-operation. This issue is explored within the specific context of the Southeast...

WOMEN AND A CULTURE OF PEACE.
January 1, 2000... Since the 1970's the United Nations and other international women's conferences have adopted Equality, Development and Peace as an organizing theme and framework for women's activities in development. Women would not only benefit from peaceful...

THE CULTURE OF PEACE AND THE EEVOLUTION OF HUMAN BEINGS.(International Year for the Culture of Peace)
January 1, 2000... A letter to you, the readers Dear Friends, This is not going to be a typical objective academic article, rigorously excluding emotions and personal experiences. When I began writing it, the "dear friends" salutation came into my mind,...

SAVITRI: A LEGEND & A SYMBOL - SRI AUROBINDO'S MODERN EPIC, THE VISION OF SAVITRI - SRI AUROBINDO'S GREATEST ODYSSEY OF THE SPIRIT.
January 1, 2000... Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol, Sri Aurobindo's greatest odyssey of the spirit, is an unparalleled vision in modern times. It is, in the Mother's words, "the prophetic vision of the world's history, including the announcement of the earth's...

IS SOCIAL WORK A PROFESSION?: A 21ST CENTURY ANSWER TO A 20TH CENTURY QUESTION-OTTAWA, CANADA 2026.
January 1, 2000... (Excerpts from a futurist paper written Professor R. Ramsay in 1988 and theoretically delivered by one of his former students in 2026) "I am honored to be your keynote speaker on the occasion of the Canadian Association of Social Workers...

EDUCATIONAL REFORM IN AMERICA FOR THE ENHANCEMENT OF A DEVELOPING CULTURE OF PEACE.
January 1, 2000... Education for every child to reach academic and emotional maturity to his/her greatest potential continues to be the key to enhancement of a safe and secure environment and a developing culture of peace. Political entities, educators and the...

A GRADUATE CURRICULUM FOR/IN A CULTURE OF PEACE: CODA AS BEGINNING RATHER THAN ENDING.
January 1, 2000... The Coda I just finished the second volume of my autobiography; I called it my professional autobiography and named it Expanding Curriculum Research and Understanding: A Mytho-Poetic Perspective (Haggerson, 2000). In this volume I included...

UNLESS: TWO VIEWS ON SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE ENVIRONMENT.
January 1, 2000... Theodore Seuss "Dr. Seuss" Geisel's 1971 children's story, The Lorax, examines the industrial destruction of natural resources, animals, and their habitats "with no concern for replacing them" (MacDonald 150). When Al Gore wrote Earth in the...

POVERTY.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... One of the hardest things about being poor is that poverty inhabits an unwanted place inside of you forever, not at all the way most people talk about being poor like "those poor people, that heartbreaking poverty, those that are impoverished...

Global Food and Energy Service Prevents Crisis in Kosovo.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Global Food and Energy Service Prevents Crisis in Kosovo- By Mike Gillian, Associated Press- June 7, 1998 Seattle - The Global Food and Energy Service (GFES) tethered into Puget Sound yesterday, and flawlessly snared 2,000,000 tons of...

AN IMAGE OF PEACE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... You've been to Washington so you know that it has more parks, public buildings and wide avenues than most cities we've seen. Millions of people visit there and feel proud that our capital city is so beautiful. In the spring, in addition to the...

DIVERSITY IS A CHOICE FOR NEW PERSPECTIVES.
January 1, 2000... Embracing diversity is a choice that allows individuals and groups to be open to new perspectives. The term diversity has become very popular and has varying definitions depending on different viewpoints. This article takes the most common...

"GAMBLING ON NONVIOLENCE": AN INTERVIEW WITH RALPH DI GIA AT THE WAR RESISTERS LEAGUE OCTOBER 1999.
January 1, 2000... Born in 1914, Ralph DiGia has been a pacifist since the 1930s and was one of $0,000 Americans who refused to serve in the Second World War; his pivotal experience with other progressive war resisters at Danbury Prison proved to him the...

BUILDING A CULTURE OF PEACE AMONGST MUSLIMS AND CHRISTIANS IN MINDANAO, SOUTHERN PHILIPPINES-THE MERGING OF THEORY AND PRAXIS.
January 1, 2000... Introduction. Working and living in a world where a culture of violence, disharmony and conflict seem more and more the norm, or rather the accepted norm, it is from the outset a challenge to even use the terminology of a culture of peace....

A CULTURE OF PEACE IN MOTION: TRANSNATIONAL DIFFUSION OF THE GANDHIAN REPERTOIRE FROM INDIA TO THE U.S. CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT.(Mahatma Gandhi)
January 1, 2000... The African-American community's adoption of the Gandhian repertoire during the American civil rights movement represents one of the most powerful examples of how a particular "culture of peace" can spread across vast distances and long periods...

ORGANIZATIONAL DYNAMICS AND SUCCESS -- THE TETRAHEDRON PRINCIPLE.
January 1, 2000... The rapid pace of change confronting leadership in businesses and organizations today represents no less than an all-out revolution. Many of them are so consumed by the need to "keep up" with technological advances that they have little or no...

THE CULTURE OF PEACE FACES THE HEART OF THE BEAST.(capitalism versus community)
January 1, 2000... Studies of people in so-called underdeveloped countries, niche groups in modern societies, prehistorical and historical bands and clans, and the periphery generally reveal peaceful and contented life-styles, humans happily networked by kinship,...

UNIQUENESS OF SELF.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... "Know thyself" is one of the wisest statement ever uttered. Who said it first is open to debate. Plutarch gives the credit to Plato. Others have ascribed it to Pythagoras. Still others say Socrates and some suggest Solon. Actually, it doesn't...

Miracle.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2000... I listen With sensitivity of heart To the Voice of Life; I hear The persistent invitation, "enjoy! Enjoy!" I listen With awareness of mind To the Voice of Life; I hear The insistent whisper,...

IDEAL CHILD.(Prayer of the Students)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... PANALANGIN NG MGA MAG-AARAL (Tagalog: Philippines) Tulungan mo kaming maging bayaning mandirigma na siyang pinapangarap namin. Sana magtagumpay kami sa aming pakipaglaban para sa kinabukasan na magkatotoo dahil sa kahapon na gustong...

FOR ME THE WORD.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2000... For me, the word must shine serenely, without suseless adornments and empty digressions Unveiling a stairway to far-off heights. Its artless confession unburdened at leisure, its letters scattered, ...

PEACE IN THE NAVAJO LANGUAGE AND CULTURE: SOME NAVAJO PERSPECTIVES.
January 1, 2000... In Navajo, the concept of peace is culture dependent and also situation dependent. A search for a definition of peace within the Navajo language yields three elements: Ach'i' hozho (all is well toward oneself), K'e (the establishment of...

TEACHING NON-VIOLENCE.
January 1, 2000... Our people are sick with endemic violence - it spreads through the communities and the contagion is inescapable. We shiver when we hear of children killing children, when we hear of our neighbors being put to death for their crimes, when...

PERSONAL PEACE TO GLOBAL PEACE: A TIBETAN PERSPECTIVE.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The whole world - including political leaders and people - clamor for peace, whether it is global or local. The world has and is still going through religious wars, cultural genocide, economic manipulation and elimination of...

THE MYSTICAL MEANINGS OF THE MOON.
January 1, 2000... INTRODUCTION The Moon is the most mysterious of all the planets. It acts as our gateway to the world. It determines how our minds receive and interpret our various experiences of the world and, thus, influences how we will choose to act...

SWEDISH Team Deciphers Simon Singh's "The Code Book".(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... LONDON (Reuters) -- A team of Swedish computer enthusiasts have fought off thousands of rivals from around the world to crack what was billed as the toughest code challenge ever set. It took the Swedish the equivalent of 70 years of...

THE GOLDEN RULE HOLDS HUMANITY TOGETHER: THE GOLDEN RULE AS THE MATRIX OF LAW.(interview of attorney R. Kelly Hocker)(Interview)
January 1, 2000... Vasant Merchant: Tell us about your educational and professional background. How long have you been practicing law? R. Kelly Hocker: I graduated in 1958. I passed the Bar in 1958, and I had practiced until August 1994. Of course I had my...

PROMOTING HUMAN RIGHTS AND NORWEGIAN LAW.
January 1, 2000... Human rights are central to the Norwegian Government's policies. With the focus, "Human rights start at home," the Norwegian Government has submitted a new "Plan of Action for Human Rights," which outlines more than 300 measures and takes a...

STEPS TO END TORTURE IN TIBET.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Torture remains a widespread and systematic instrument of Chinese political repression in Tibet. Due to the overwhelming number of Tibetan refugees arriving in Nepal and India who have been victims of torture (and continue to suffer its...

PHYSICAL PRESENCE REQUIREMENT FOR CITIZENSHIP.(Canadian citizenship policies)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... The questions of physical residence requirement for Canadian citizenship is one of utmost importance to those who have landed in Canada but have left for another country to pursue work or studies before becoming Canadian citizens. Except...

SLUR ON IMMIGRANTS: BASED ON MYTHS, NOT FACTS.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... For more than 300 years, various ethnic, cultural and social groups have come to our shores to reunite with their loved ones, to seek economic opportunity, and to find a heaven from religious and political persecution. They bring their hopes,...

SEEKING FOR THE INTERMEDIATE VARIABLE OF HUMAN RIGHTS.
January 1, 2000... No one would deny the essential value and universal applicability of human rights. At the same time, no one would doubt the difficult circumstances surrounding the implementation of human rights, especially in non-Western countries. May of the...

YES, WOMEN ARE DIFFERENT FROM MEN.(Interview)
January 1, 2000... One day soon, when you to look up a drug in the Physician's Desk Reference, there will be two kinds of clinical trial data and two sets of dosing regimens: one for men and one for women. Increasingly, research efforts are finding that the...

DOWN THE MEMORY LANE: POT HOLES?
January 1, 2000... Can you remember or recall the last days of the Vietnam War? Or how John F. Kennedy, Sr., and John F. Kennedy, Jr. died? Or the death of Mahatma Gandhi? A new study shows that memories, even of memorable events, tend to fade into inaccuracy...

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE AND ACTIVITY OF LIPID MEMBRANE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Did you know that our brains consist of 70% fat, but to soften the blow of this realization, the scientific name "lipid" is used. Lipids can be found everywhere, from blood vessels to the thin protective layer, called a membrane, covering brain...

INTRIGUING LEADS TO PREVENT AND TREAT CANCER.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Researchers are now examining a possible relationship between use of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDS) and a reduction in the risk of colon cancer. In cancers such as Leukemia, Salicylates, a type of NSAID--similar to aspirin may...

HERBAL CIGARETTE SMOKE AND CANCER-CAUSING SUBSTANCES.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Herbal Cigarettes are advertised as healthier than regular tobacco, and the manufacturers of "additive free" tobacco cigarettes also claim their products are safer. However, the Federal Trade Commission recently put a stop to such claims....

NEW RESEARCH ON VITAMIN C.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... Three recent studies investigated the relationship between vitamin C and lead levels in blood. One study by Dr. Y. Cheng and colleagues at Harvard, published in the American Journal of Epidemiology in 1998, found that older men who bad the...

WALKING WITH CHILDREN IN DAILY LIFE- IN ORDER TO CREATE PEACE IN OUR SOCIETY.(understanding and caring for children)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... A Boy Climbing Up To The Top Children help bring peace to the world. Look at a newly born baby; adults' eyes smile with quiet happiness. In time, children will be faced with doubts about their own value, distrusting their surroundings...

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY AND QUALITY OF LIFE.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 2000... Introduction-- The era of traumatic brain injury is upon us and will not go away. New methodologies to help families need to be formulated because the medical model cannot handle the long term needs of these patients. Therefore, the family...

The Handbook of Interethnic Coexistence.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The Handbook of Interethnic Coexistence, (Ed.) Eugene Weiner. New York: The Continuum Publishing Co. 1998, 653pp. Reviewer: Rene Wadlow Since the end of the Cold War in 1990, we have seen the sharp rise in ethnic-based nationalism and...

Windows To The Soul.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Windows To The Soul by Rick Phillips. Glorieta, NM: Deva Publishing, 1997, 175pp. Reviewer: Rene Wadlow "I was born with a purpose. My work today of helping people to find their inner guidance is the manifestation of that purpose". Rick...

The True History and the Religion of India: A Concise Encyclopedia of Authentic Hinduism.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The True History and the Religion of India: A Concise Encyclopedia of Authentic Hinduism by Swami Prakashanand Saraswati, published by International Society of Divine Love, Barsana Dham, Austin, TX, 778 pages, price $55, 1999. Reviewer: Prof....

From the Editor's Desk: Some Socio-Spiritual Perspectives.(Review)
January 1, 2000... From the Editor's Desk: Some Socio-Spiritual Perspectives. By Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwalla, Editor Sri Aurobindo's Action, Pondicherry, 605002, 1998. 126 pages. Reviewer: Prema Nandakumar There has always been a problem in introducing Sri...

No Future Without Forgiveness.(Review)
January 1, 2000... No Future Without Forgiveness by Desmond Tutu, Ryder, 2000 London, Sydney, Auckland, Johannesburg Reviewer: Nelson L. Haggerson, Ph.D. Professor (Emeritus), Arizona State University In 1986 I was in Japan attending an international peace...

Democratic Practice Workbook: Activities for the Field Experience.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Democratic Practice Workbook: Activities for the Field Experience by Caroline R. Pryor. McGraw Hill, 2000, N.Y. Reviewer: Nelson L. Haggerson, Ph.D. Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University Democratic Practice Workbook teaches three...

Nicholas Roerich: The Life and Art of a Russian Master.(Review)
January 1, 2000... Nicholas Roerich: The Life and Art of a Russian Master by Jacqueline Decter (with the Nicholas Roerich Museum), Park St. Press, Rochester, Vermont 05767. Reviewer: David Zwillick, MA English Literature, Instructor of English Composition at...

The video.(Review)
January 1, 2000... The video, Khyal: Classical Singing of North India, Producer: The Open University, Milton Keynes, England. Reviewer: *Krish Nanda, is a fan of Indian classical music, and teaches Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University as...

INDIVIDUAL INITIATIVE FOR WORLD PEACE.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2000... This is an individual initiative for world-peace. It is starting with every individual -- herself/himself, recognizing the individual inner strength, because that is what is ordinarily forgotten. We always think that the politicians are the...