International Journal of Humanities and Peace articles from January 1 2003

International Journal of Humanities and Peace archives from January 1 2003

Letters to the editor.(Letter to the Editor)
January 1, 2003... Dr. Vasant V. Merchant, IJHP Editor 1436 N. Evergreen Drive Flagstaff, Arizona 86001, USA I was delighted to receive IJHP Annuals 2001 and 2002 which, I have read with deep interest. Your journals are brilliant and all inclusive...

Siva-Nataraja: the lord of the dance, drama and music Siva--the cosmic dancer, transformer, liberator.
January 1, 2003... Siva as the cosmic dancer, as transformer, the liberator of energy from the spiraling and coiling nature, primordial, mysterious, symbol of spiritual ardor and passion for accomplishment and continuity of life, as the regenerator of the...

Inaugral address--symposium 'science and beyond: cosmology, consciousness and technology in the Indic traditions.
January 1, 2003... As this symposium begins cosmology, I would like to start my address by quoting the famous creation-hymn from the world's most ancient living scripture, the Rig Veda (X.IZ9/1-7--Griffith translation): Then was not non-existent nor...

Nobel Peace 2003 winner, Shirin Ebadi.(Author Abstract)
January 1, 2003... Lawyer-activist Shirin Ebadi wins the Nobel Peace Prize for her dedication to human rights and democracy in Iran. Brian Murphy (AP) TEHRAN, Iran--The Nobel Peace Prize award for Iranian lawyer-activist Shirin Ebadi may do more than place...

Letter to the Nobel Foundation.
January 1, 2003... The Nobel Foundation Box 5232 SE-102 45 Stockholm Sweden Dear members of the board, First and foremost we would like to congratulate you with the important and valuable work of the Nobel foundation. For more than a...

Jimmy Carter-Nobel Lecture: Nobel Lecture, Oslo, December 10, 2002.
January 1, 2003... Jimmy Carter receives Nobel Peace Prize Jimmy Carter has accepted the Nobel Peace Prize and is urging people to work for peace in a world that has become "a more dangerous place." The 78-year-old former US president was honoured for...

His Holiness the Dalai Lama's message on the commemoration of the 1st anniversary of September 11, 2001.
January 1, 2003... "Change is not accomplished by peeling off superficial layers when the causes are rooted deeply in the hear of the organism."--Martin Luther King, Jr., "Let Justice Roll Down," The Nation, March 15, 1965. The 11th September 2001 terrorist...

Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland, on human rights.
January 1, 2003... Widely recognized as one of the world's most eloquent and courageous defenders of human rights, she was recently appointed Honorary President of Oxfam International. As High Commissioner, Mary Robinson pursued accountability for violations of...

Women can perform Sewa (service) inside Sikh Temple.
January 1, 2003... AMRITSAR (PTI) -- In a trend-setting move in Sikh religion, Jathedar Akal Takht Gyani Joginder Singh Vedanti Jan 23 allowed the Amritdhari (baptized) Sikh women to perform all kinds of sewas (religious service) inside the sanctum sanctorum of...

National leadership, education and understanding among nations.
January 1, 2003... All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.... UN Declaration of Human Rights, 1976 Educational Systems and the...

The humanities-based classroom: an oasis in a standardized desert.
January 1, 2003... Introduction The intellectual and spiritual journey for my Ph.D. in Curriculum Studies revealed for me, the intense clash of philosophical civilizations, student-centered versus subject-centered educational practices, and how significantly...

Education, telecommunications and the arts.
January 1, 2003... "The power of creation seems to favor human beings who love life unconditionally, and I am certainly one who does!" Arthur Rubinstein Education provides an important context and channel for the respect and love of humankind and of life....

Today Is Not A Good Day For War.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... TODAY IS NOT A GOOD DAY FOR WAR Today is not a good day for war, Not when the sun is shining, And the leaves are trembling in the breeze. Today is not a good day for bombs to fall, Not when clouds hang on the...

Linking universities and bioshpere reserves: creating a global bio-medical & society living laboratory.
January 1, 2003... Abstract The richness of opportunities for research and instruction inherent in the Southern Appalachian Man and the Biosphere (MAB) reserve is duplicated in varying degrees in each of the 425 MAB UNESCO Biosphere Reserves around the...

What can we do for our earth?
January 1, 2003... For many years now the pollution of our environment has been very much at the forefront of public attention, and in past decades there has been a growing concern about the survival of the earth. Of course, in actuality we are not speaking about...

Promotion of peace and sustainability by community based heritage eco-cultural tourism in India.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT There is an urgent and growing need for local/regional/national/international peace and security. This may be broadly ascribed to the increasing conflicts arising out of social, economic, religious and political factors. Peace and...

Bangladesh slums demand access to clean water.
January 1, 2003... Kalyanpur--Rasheda Begum, a 25-year old garment factory worker, pays one Taka (58 Takas = US$1) and presses a hand pump to get a bucket of clean water from a water outlet, just around the corner from where she lives. One Taka for a...

An ecological view of ancient India.
January 1, 2003... History and Ecology Ecology is beginning to define how we look at the world and how we look at ourselves. Each geographical region in the world constitutes a special ecosystem--an interrelated habitat for plants and animals shaped by...

Salt produced from vegetable.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... NEW DELHI (PTI)--Researchers at the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute at Bhavnagar in Gujarat, India have produced salt from a vegetable plant. "This is the first lime salt has been produced from a vegetable source and...

Bhimbetka on UNESCO list.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... UNITED NATION (PTI)--Cave paintings in Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh, India and Afghanistan's Bamiyan valley where fabled Buddha statues were destroyed by the Taliban have been added to UNESCO's list of endangered world heritage. ...

Depression among students: a challenge for educational leadership.
January 1, 2003... Abstract: the paper explores the theme presented by Ebert (2000) that students with psychiatric disabilities are entering education in increasing numbers. It will argue that although the problem of depression and suicide is generally defined as...

Knowledge, sustainability and peace.
January 1, 2003... ABSTRACT Progress through sustainable practices of agriculture and industrial growth has been the desired objective in many countries around the world. However, progress through sustainability has eluded majority of humans. While some...

Eagle Poem.(Brief Article)(Poem)
January 1, 2003... Eagle Poem To pray you open your whole self To sky, to earth, to sun, to moon To one whole voice that is you And know there is more That you can't see, can't hear Can't know except in moments Steadily growing...

Hopi shooting stars: mindfulness in education.
January 1, 2003... In the land of Corn Mothers and Katsinas, promoting wellness, happiness and peace to children may humbly be considered a right and noble effort. Hopi people live with a world view, deeply religious in nature, whereby it is their spiritual duty...

Peace and equality themes in popular music.
January 1, 2003... Abstract: Between January and April, 1996, Ms. Hallie Confer and one of the co-anthers analyzed 100 examples of pop, country, folk, jazz, blues, and "crossover" music for social themes in an unpublished paper entitled "Social Themes in...

Rural aging, women, faith in action, and fertilizer of the vertical kind.
January 1, 2003... It's no secret that we have the privilege of living at a time in history when people are living longer and longer lives. This article discusses the issues facing rural communities and older women in terms of accessing health and human services....

Embodying heaven and earth: a radiant model of transformation.
January 1, 2003... "Heaven is right where you are standing and that is the place to train." (Ueshiba, 1992) A practical model for embodying the lifeforce of the universe has emerged from two major currents of the streaming of this life. At age 12, I was...

Beauty and evolution.
January 1, 2003... Along with truth and goodness, beauty has a long philosophical history as one of the three supreme values of western civilization. Twentieth century philosopher Charles Hartshorne claims that beauty is the centerpiece of this classical trinity...

What victory?
January 1, 2003... What a difference a few months can make. At the end of April 2003, just four months ago, Donald Rumsfeld was in the Qatar headquarters of General Tommy Franks, effusively comparing the US victory in Iraq to the fall of the Berlin Wall and the...

Jupiter--the divine Guru.
January 1, 2003... The majestic ruler of the skies sits in regal splendor presiding over the heavens. He is Lord of righteousness and justice; his lofty status symbolizes wisdom. His eminence has been noted amongst people throughout the ages. The Greeks held...

Yoga and its part in the divine plan.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Yoga is the unraveling of the knot of life's difficulties. Suddhi, Mukti, Siddhi and Bhukti are the four constituent elements of Yoga. Mind, Heart, Life and Body are for the work of the Divine. The unfolding of the Spirit, its light and its...

Bharata Natyam: classical Indian dance: a Hindu fractal.
January 1, 2003... The term, fractal, coined by Benoit B. Mandelbrot describes a shape or pattern within a greater pattern of which it is a scaling piece identical to the greater pattern and in which are reproduced an infinite number of parts or fragments which...

Bharat Natyam at the Olympics.
January 1, 2003... The opening ceremonies at the Olympics are always a highly anticipated event with elaborate sets, costumes, and some of the most original choreography on ice. This year, audiences at the Winter Games in Salt Lake City also got to see some of...

Lawyers doing good deeds? It happens more than you would guess.
January 1, 2003... Early this year I received an award recognizing the number of pro bono (free) legal service hours I had donated to our county legal aid program. I was surprised and pleased. In preparing my acceptance speech, I began with the usual, and...

Unspeakable conversations or how I spent one day as a token cripple at Princeton University.
January 1, 2003... He insists he doesn't want to kill me. He simply thinks it would have been better, all things considered, to have given my parents the option of killing the baby I once was, and to let other parents kill similar babies as they come along and...

Legal aid group still has much work to do.
January 1, 2003... Attorneys dedicated to helping low-income clients who have nowhere to turn to for help were honored for their work at a luncheon earlier this month, but have much more work to do before everybody in northern Arizona is fairly represented, they...

New Mexico artist brings "Peace and Loyalty to Olympics--Julie Ann Stephens (AP).
January 1, 2003... Albuquerque, N.M. With the haunting images of September 11 terrorist attacks still fresh in his mind, New Mexico artist John Nieto was starting a new job: creating a painting for the Olympics. Nieto sought to depict positive ideas of peace and...

Americans with Disabilities Act and accommodating employees with hidden disabilities.
January 1, 2003... The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines "disability" as an impairment that "substantially limits one or more of the major life activities." Although some disabilities, such as inability to walk, missing or impaired limbs or severely...

An Ayurvedic perspective on anger management.
January 1, 2003... Emotions are a natural part of our physical existence. Everyone expresses emotions differently. We are unique individuals with multitudes of factors determining how and why we behave the way we do. When emotions are expressed in a destructive...

Interview: sitting down with Dr. Robert Svoboda.(Interview)
January 1, 2003... The following interview was reprinted with permission from LA Yoga Magazine. Dr. Robert E. Svoboda, B.A., M.S., is the first Westerner to have completed a full education in an Indian Ayurvedic medical college.. Author of 11 books on...

Astronomy technology to improve vision and eye disease diagnoses.
January 1, 2003... INDIANAPOLIS -- Technology that astronomers developed to take the twinkle out of starlight as it enters their telescopes is now peering in the opposite direction, revealing the eye's complexities as never before. Scientists hope the detailed...

Meditation-based program unveiled for tennis players.
January 1, 2003... San Leadnro, Calif. -- Citing a phenomenal run by their boys' tennis team, a school run by Mararishi Mahesh yogi is seeking to promote a new program based on transcendental meditation that it says can help tennis players achieve their fullest...

Technologies of the sacred, part three.
January 1, 2003... Mainstream psychologists and psychiatrists attribute the specifically human aggression to frustration, abuse, and lack of love in infancy and childhood. However, explanations of this kind fall painfully short of accounting for extreme forms of...

Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities (American and Comparative Environmental Policy).(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Taking Sustainable Cities Seriously: Economic Development, the Environment, and Quality of Life in American Cities (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) by Kent E. Portney Publisher: MIT Press; ; (January 3, 2003) Kent...

The Mission of the Scholar: a Tribute to Nelson Haggerson.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... The Mission of the Scholar: A Tribute to Nelson Haggerson Peter Lang Publishing, 2002 When I was a little boy I visited a park with my mother and saw a statue of a man on a horse. I asked her who he was. She said she didn't know, but...

Narrative Based Evaluation: Wording Toward the Light.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Narrative Based Evaluation: Wording Toward the Light By Marsha Dianne Harrison, Ph.D. Peter Lang Publishing, March 2002 We all live storied lives and in the telling of out stories we all become evaluators of our primary...

Unexpected Harvest: A Journey In Four Seasons.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Unexpected Harvest: A Journey In Four Seasons By Margery Leach This book is published "on-demand" in cooperation with Trafford 1-888-232333 (Canada & US); E-mail sales@trafford.com; www.trafford.com/robots/01-0493.html. Unexpected...

Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life By Russell L. Blaylock, MD Health Press; P.O. Drawer 37470 Albuquerque, NM 87176, 2002 459 pages; ISBN 0-929173-42-2 In Dr. Blaylock's text he approaches disease as the imbalance...

Aging Graciously.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Aging Graciously By Dr. Roger Axford, Emeritus Professor, Arizona State University Hats Off Books, Tucson, AZ, 2003, 166 pages "Mostly it is the elderly who preserve a human link with the past and nourish an entire generation...

The Ozawkie Book of the Dead: Alzheimer's isn't what you think it is!(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... THE OZAWKIE BOOK OF THE DEAD: Alzheimer's isn't what you think it is! [Parts 1 - 3] by Elmer Green Ph.D., Philosophical Research Society, 3910, Los Feliz Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027, 2001. Total pages 873. The book under review is...

Giving and Living.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Giving and Living "Let me not so much seek to be consoled, as to console... to be loved as to love," says the St. Francis prayer. Now science has come up with confirmation of the spiritual truth that it's better to give than to receive. ...

Schechner, Richard, and Willa Appel (eds.). 1990. By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Schechner, Richard, and Willa Appel (eds.). 1990. By Means of Performance: Intercultural Studies of Theatre and Ritual Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Willa Appel's is a social anthropologist specializing in power relations, and...

Boyarin, Jonathan (ed.). 1994. Remapping Memory: the Politics of TimeSpace.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Boyarin, Jonathan (ed.). 1994. Remapping Memory: The Politics of TimeSpace. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. The specialists in this collection come from widely divergent academic disciplines, including anthropology, sociology,...

Michael J. Benton. 2003. When Life Nearly Died: the Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Michael J. Benton. 2003. When Life Nearly Died: The Greatest Mass Extinction of All Time. Thames and Hudson, London. COMET AND METEOR IMPACTS, "snowball" earth, sudden mass extinctions--earth scientists today seriously discuss such...

Sri Aurobindo and Sanskrit.(Book Review)
January 1, 2003... Sri Aurobindo and Sanskrit by Sampadananda Mishra; Institute of Research in Social Sciences, a unit of Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, India. There is no doubt that the Sanskrit language made a very deep inmpression on Sri Aurobindo....

Yoga fest attracts 1,500 in France.(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Lori Valley, France (PTI) An estimated 1,500 people from twenty countries are currently participating in a nine-day 26m Annual Yoga Festival here. The Festival began with a display of Kundalini Yoga, a healing meditation, and...

Integral yoga relaxation.(Hatha Yoga)
January 1, 2003... Shoulder Joints Sit up in a cross-legged position. Concentrate at the shoulder joints and, with the hands closed and elbows bent, move both aims toward each other, crossing in front of the body 8 times, alternating first the right arm...

My Heart Like a Peacock on a Rainy Day.(Poem)
January 1, 2003... My Heart Like a Peacock on a Rainy Day O who is she on the king's tower That has loosened the braid on her dark hair, has drawn over her breasts the blue veil? She wildly starts and runs in the sudden flashes of...