International Journal of Humanities and Peace articles from January 1 2002

International Journal of Humanities and Peace archives from January 1 2002

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2002... Dr. Vasant Merchant, Editor, IJHP 1436 N. Evergreen Drive Flagstaff, Arizona 56001, USA In these times our lives are saddened by the violence of terrorism coupled with violent responses to it. Civilians are targeted in New York, Israel,...

In memoriam.(C. Gilbert Wrenn, J. Lawrence Walkup, R. Kelly Hoeker)(Obituary)
January 1, 2002... Dr. C. Gilbert Wrenn, (April 2, 1902 -December 28, 2001) a pioneer leader in education psychology and humanistic counseling breathed his last. He was the founder and first editor of the Journal of Counseling Psychology, and had been lecturer at...

The contributions of India: the seer-scientists and the renaissance in India.
January 1, 2002... The glorious heritage of India has been shaped and fostered from the Vedic and Upanishadic times. The Vedas are the earliest poetry and prose of humanity. The Upanishads have been described as the epic poems of self-knowledge, world-knowledge...

The council lecture, 21 September 2001: diversity and change in a global context.
January 1, 2002... The 11th of September 2001 is a date that will be engraved upon our minds for the rest of our lives. It will be engraved upon our minds not just because of the shock and the horror of human tragedy, not just because of the gross cruelty...

The Beauty of Diversity.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... The Beauty of Diversity What would it be like To walk down the street And have everybody look like you? What would it be like To walk into an ice cream parlor And only see vanilla flavors? What would it be...

Interview with President Vaira Vike-Freiberga of Latvia.(Interview)
January 1, 2002... IRON LADY Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga tears a page from the book of the original Iron Lady (Margaret Thatcher) When Latvian President Vaira Vike-Freiberga took office last year, observers were quick to point out similarities...

Speech by Fidel Castro, President of the Republic of Cuba at the International Conference on Financing for Development--Monterrey, Mexico--March 21, 2002.
January 1, 2002... Note: Some Heads of State In Monterrey Issued protests for the situation faced by Third World countries, "But fiercest of all was Fidel Castro of Cuba," the New York Times reported, "dressed In battle fatigues, whose short but scathing critique...

UN economic co-operation among South East and Asian Pacific nations a dialogue among civilisations.
January 1, 2002... Since the end of the Second World War, countries around the world began to realise the need for cooperation among the nations. But what do we mean by a "dialogue" in a more international context? According to the Random Home Dictionary, a...

The media in postmodern war and terrorism.
January 1, 2002... `The battle for hearts and minds is being fought on the net', wrote Simon Rogers In The Guardian at the outbreak of the war In Kosovo on 26 March 1999. (1) He said that there had never been a war like It before. Even though there had been...

How do we sustain peace in a war stricken world? The peace quest of a mytho-poet.
January 1, 2002... As a mytho-poet is wont to do, I am writing of my dialogue among civilizations and my peace journey in the form of a letter to you. When I was In Rome In September 2001, I came to realize that there were a number of First Century mytho-poets...

Sustainability and the culture of peace.
January 1, 2002... To maintain sustainability in our global village, we have to establish a whole new powerful system and network establishing and widely spreading a "Culture of Peace." This network should be developed at various levels: including the educational...

Peace Is A Woman and A Mother.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... Peace Is A Woman And A Mother How do you know peace is a woman? I know, for I met her yesterday won my winding way to the world's fare. She had such a sorrowful face just like a golden flower faded ...

Sustainable development: implications for world peace: peace and sustainable development why? When? How? For whom?
January 1, 2002... Abstract: Peace is more than just the absence of war. It requires that the basic constitutive conditions of social life be broadly accepted within a society and depends on a social consensus over the terms of peace. Sustainable development...

Athens in the information age: how will `smart communities' change the way we live.
January 1, 2002... The more high tech our world, the more high touch we are becoming. The more global, the more intensely local our focus needs to be. Athens, the place where civilization was born and where the city state form of governance first began,...

Human greatness.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... "What is a great man who has made his mark upon history? Every time, if we think far enough, he is a man who has looked through the confusion of the moment and has seen the moral issue involved; he is a man who has refused to have his sense of...

Life surfing in Chicago.
January 1, 2002... When we live In a city, where we can have everything instantly, 24 hours a day, where all kinds of entertainment try to pull us in this or that direction, where life is fast and Intense, where beauty and ugliness alternate from street corner to...

The politics of consciousness.
January 1, 2002... The whole history of the progress of human liberty shows that all concessions yet made to her august claims have been born of earnest struggle. This struggle may be a moral one, or It may be a physical one, and It may be both moral and...

The need for a many-sided progress.
January 1, 2002... The need for fundamental change at the organizational level continues to become more urgent. Indeed if one Is to consider recent events around the globe, not only is this need becoming more apparent, but so too Is a direction to be adopted...

Passage to India.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... Passage to India Passage to India! Lo, soul, seest thou not God's purpose from the first! The earth to be spann'd, connected by network, The races, neighbors, to marry and be given in marriage, The oceans to be...

The coming of age of environmental education and its newtracks for the 21st century *.
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT This paper first reviews some major steps in the development of environmental education, mainly in the light of the major UN conferences (Belgrade, Tbilisi, Moscow, Rio, leading to the forthcoming Rio+10 in South Africa). It then...

Sentences and commitments.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... Sentences and Commitments Thou shalt not commit a category! (A categorical statement if there ever was one.) Please. All I can do is think in categories, bounded ones If I am to think. So I think in boundaries--and...

Violence--not a new phenomenon.
January 1, 2002... Violence is not a new phenomenon. The study and understanding of decreasing violence and creating nonviolent relations is relatively new. Experience and knowledge acquired from the study of family violence does provide parallels for...

The spirits move him--dolls--katsina religions: a unifying force for Hopi villagers.
January 1, 2002... ARIZONA DAILY STAR Tuesday, April 16, 2002 Hopi doll carver brings contemporary sensibility to his "katsinas." Artwork on display at Tohono Chul, where changes are in store. Each ice carving Gerry Quotskuyva crafted at Tucson resorts...

African ancestral wisdom.
January 1, 2002... Recent events have demonstrated how easily religion, instead of bringing people together, can become a powerful motive for hatred and destruction. Yet, a comparative study of belief, systems and sacred scriptures will show that many common...

Concerning evil: the psychology and cosmology of insecurity.
January 1, 2002... So much has been written on the subject of evil, and yet, we seem to be as confused today as ever. It is for this reason that it may be useful to contribute to this ongoing dialogue in the hopes of clarifying for myself and the readers of this...

Jerusalem.(Poem)
January 1, 2002... Jerusalem And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's moutains green? And did the countenance divine shine forth upon our clouded hills? And was Jerusalem builded here Among those dark satanic hills? ...

The Kabuliwallah (the fruitseller from Kabul).
January 1, 2002... Mini, my five year old daughter, cannot live without chattering. I really believe that in all her life she has not wasted one minute in silence. Her mother is often vexed at this, and would stop her prattle, but I do not. To see Mini quiet is...

Global concerns and sacred musics in a 21st Century Moroccan festival.
January 1, 2002... Part One: GLOBAL STANDARD.. WESTERN STANDARD In a world becoming increasingly dominated by the realities of Western hegemony through globalization, it is more important than ever for individuals, communities, states, and nations to enter...

Fashioning identity and overcoming illusions of cultural and religious singularity at the 2002 Gnawa World Music Festival.
January 1, 2002... Today's Gnawa trace their ancestry to various parts of sub-Saharan Africa, and claim Sidi Bilal, the first black Slave to convert to Islam and Mohammed's first muezzin, as their patron saint. They are unique in that they maintain pre-Islamic...

Ocean security, sustainable development and peace.
January 1, 2002... Abstract: Ocean security is the ability of global populations to protect the environmental goods and services which are essential to their own survival and which are provided by the World Ocean. This provision, Indeed, this relationship with...

"Ocean planet" oceanographic facts--the Smithsonian Institution.
January 1, 2002... * Ninety percent of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans. In 1993, scientists located the largest known concentration of active volcanoes on the sea floor in the South Pacific. This area, the size of New York state, hosts 1,133 volcanic...

The Struggle for freedom and enlightenment in Tibet: ethics and spirituality.(Chronology)
January 1, 2002... 600-500 BCE: Siddhartha Gautoma founds Buddhism 741-797: King Trisong Detsen builds first Tibetan monastery at Samye 1278: Kublai Khan, emperor of China, converts to Tibetan Buddhism 1578: Sonam Gyatsho, born in 1543, receives...

Presido exhibition on torture--from the Spanish Inquisition to the present.
January 1, 2002... San Francisco -- A guillotine, a "knee splitter" and a spiked chair from the Spanish Inquisition are among more than 100 instruments of torture displayed in the first U.S. exhibit of gruesome tools used by authorities since the 1500s to...

Multi-ethnic Norway and Norweigian immigration.
January 1, 2002... Norway is generally regarded as a homogeneous country with a small, scattered population who speak the same language and belong to the same culture. Nevertheless, like almost every other country--it has always consisted of an ethnic and...

Drake University eliminates foreign language department and language instruction.
January 1, 2002... Last Spring, the board of trustees of Iowa's Drake University approved a controversial proposal to eliminate the school's foreign-language program and effectively end classroom instruction in modern foreign languages. The proposal, which passed...

The Reverend Al Sharpton: an interview with Suman Guha Mozumder, New York.(Interview)
January 1, 2002... As he himself admits in his 1996 autobiography Go and Tell Pharaoh, his critics have variously dubbed him as `a loudmouth, a walking sound bite, a charlatan and worst of all, an imposter, with no real constituency'. Yet, there is no denying the...

Dhamma Yietra: center for peace and non violence in Cambodia peacemakers walking for communities with AIDS.
January 1, 2002... Dhammayietra--Mongkol Borei (DYMB) has been walking in communities with AIDS for a year now. Already some days the walk seems very long although we know these are only the first steps. The staff "walk" by motorbike to the villages every...

An army of peace to make Cambodia non-violent: peacemakers walking with prisoners.
January 1, 2002... This is why... The teachers are dressed up. The students put on clean blue prison uniforms. The spirit is light. A quiet happy buzz can be heard throughout the prison compound. All the final exams have been graded. All the grades have...

Kadali or banana (musa paradisiaca, linn.).(from New Approaches to Medicine and Health (NAMAH)--A Journal of Sri Aurobindo International Institute for Integral Health and Research)(Reprint)
January 1, 2002... History Musa xparadisiaca The term banana is Spanish-Portuguese from Guinea. Plantain (the other term whose origin is not known) refers in India to a coarse banana. Though the two terms are regarded as almost synonymous, banana refers...

Blind individuals have lower cancer risk: melatonin link postulated.
January 1, 2002... Possibly because they have higher blood levels of melatonin, blind individuals may be less likely to develop cancer than their sighted counterparts, new research suggests. In the study, which looked at cancer incidence among 1,567 totally...

Non-melanoma skin neoplasia may hike risk of death from other malignancies.
January 1, 2002... For reasons that investigator do not yet understand, having non-melanoma skin cancer may increase a patient's risk of dying from other types of malignancies, researchers reported. A 12-year study of nearly 1.1 million adults found that the...

Pellets successfully treat stroke complication.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2002... Dallas (AP) -- Implanting tiny pellets of medicine into the brain may prevent a potentially lethal complication that often affects victims of a certain type of stroke. Patients who undergo surgery to repair a ruptured blood vessel after a...

Studies bolster link between inflammation, heart disease.
January 1, 2002... CHICAGO -- Two new studies add to the rapidly growing body of evidence that inflammation in the bloodstream can be a powerful predictor of heart disease. The findings could help explain why people with no known risk factors such as high...

Healing and consciousness.
January 1, 2002... ABSTRACT The phenomenon of healing and the noumenon of consciousness are the ends of a complex and long spectrum consisting of stages in awareness. Both the neumenon and the phenomenon need to be synthesized into our daily lives to...

Stories of the Academy: Learning from the Good Mother.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... By Mary Beth Spore, Ph.D., Marsha D. Harrison, Ph.D. and Nelson L. Haggerson, Ph. D Peter Lang Publishing, June 2002 In Stories from the Academy: Learning from the Good Mother, Drs. Mary Beth Spore, Marsha D. Harrison, and Nelson L....

Press Freedom and our Genes: a Human Need.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Author: Leonard R. Sussman World Press Freedom Committee 11690-C Sunrise Valley Drive Reston, Virginia, 20191 USA Tel: (703) 715-9811 Leonard R. Sussman began as a journalist. He has had a long career as a press freedom advocate. For many...

Democracy's Advocate: the Story of Freedom House.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Leonard R. Sussman, with a Foreword by Max M. Kampelman 2002, by Freedom House Inc., 120 Wall St. New York, N.Y 10005, USA If you are looking for a model for a "house to promote democracy," Freedom House is that model! "A true democracy is...

The Guru/Disciple Relationship.(includes review of A Commentary on `The Sermon on the Mount' )(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... The Guru/Disciple Relationship by Adano Christopher Ley and A Commentary on `The Sermon on the Mount' by Adano Christopher Ley, The Adano Ley Fund, Phoenix, AZ, both 2001 The authenticity of one's spiritual teacher is of terrible concern...

Arise Arjuna: Hinduism and the Modern World.(includes review of Awaken Bharata: A Call For India's Rebirth)(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... 1. Arise Arjuna: Hinduism And The Modern World. Total pages 228. 2. Awaken Bharata: A Call For India's Rebirth. Total pages 294. By David Frawley, American Institute of Vedic Studies, PO Box 8357, Santa Fe; New Mexico, 87504-8356, USA....

Anthropology of Violence and Conflict.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Edited by Bettina Schmidt and Ingo Schroder. New York and London: Routledge, 2001. 229 pp.; ISBN 0-415-22906-5 This edited book on violence and conflict is published under the aegis of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. The...

"Your body's many cries for water".(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Second Edition, by F. Batamanghelidj, M.D., Global Health Solutions Inc., PO Box 3189, Falls Church, VA 22043, 182 pages. This book is an unusual one, looking at health and disease from the perspective of the role of water in many...

Law in Motion: Law and Culture.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... Edited by Roger Blanpain, Kluwer Law International, P,O, Box 85889, 2508 CN. The Hague, The Netherlands. Hardbound 1160 pp., ISBN 90-411-0386-4. Price NL 295.00/US $192.00 Law in Motion includes several studies and general reports...

Glimpses of Vedantism in Sri Aurobindo's Political Thought.(Book Review)
January 1, 2002... by Samar Basu: Published by Sri Mira Trust; Pondicherry, India. Pp 73 Samar Basu's attempts at bringing out the Vedantic ideals in Sri Aurobindo's political thought only confirms that with Sri Aurobindo "spirituality explained politics and...

Hatha yoga.
January 1, 2002... PRANAYAMA Though Prana is one, it is known by different names due to its different functions in the body. Accordingly, there are five Pranas and five Sub-Pranas: Prana (Mukhya Prana), Apana, Samana, Iyana and Udana are the five main...