International Journal on World Peace articles from June 1999

International Journal on World Peace archives from June 1999

COMMENT ON THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT.
June 1, 1999... The articles by Stephen A. Garrett and Derek Malone France (IJWP, vol. xvi, no. 1) represent a type of abstract legalism that can only make matters worse. They seek to impose a realm of criminal law on a world in which the preconditions do not...

COMMENTS ABOUT THE CONFLICT BETWEEN THE LANDED AND THE LANDLESS IN BRAZIL.
June 1, 1999... Rafael A. Lecuona Professor Political Science Texas A&M International University Laredo, Texas 78041 USA It was with some interest that I read Jan Sallinger-McBride and Lia K. Roberts' "Conflict Between the Landed and the...

CHILD SOLDIERS IN AFRICA: A DISASTER FOR FUTURE FAMILIES.
June 1, 1999... Elliott P. Skinner Franz Boaz Professor of Anthropology Columbia University New York, New York 10027 USA Elliott P. Skinner attended the University of Neuchatel in Switzerland, received his B.A. from New York University...

BANNING LANDMINES IN THE AMERICAN CENTURY.
June 1, 1999... Richard A. Matthew Ken R. Rutherford School of Social Ecology University of California Irvine, California 92697-7075 USA Co-Founder, Landmine Survivors Network 700 Thirteenth Street, #950 Washington, DC...

THE ROLE OF THE UN SECRETARY GENERAL IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION IN THE GULF.
June 1, 1999... Mwelwa Chambikabalenshi Musambachime Department of History University of Namibia Windhoek Namibia Professor Mwelwa C. Musambachime received a Bachelor's degree from the University of Zambia in 1974, a Ph.D. from the...

NATO BOMBS YUGOSLAVIA TO SUBMISSION: RECONSTRUCTION PLANNED.
June 1, 1999... The war over Kosovo continued with stepped-up NATO bombing of Yugoslavian strategic and military targets. Bombs hit several targets, including trains, bridges, the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, and killed innocent civilians. As the Yugoslav...

NATO TURNS FIFTY.
June 1, 1999... On April 23,1999, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) marked its 50th anniversary. Originally given the mission of repulsing an armed Soviet attack against Europe, NATO has been struggling to redefine its purpose in a radically...

US STUNNED BY CHINESE ESPIONAGE.
June 1, 1999... US citizens were stunned to learn the depths of international espionage in which nuclear and missile technology has been stolen. The first expose came with the publication of Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration undermined National Security...

FIFTEEN KILLED IN US HIGH SCHOOL SHOOTING.
June 1, 1999... On April 20, 1999 two students of Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado came to school with a carload of bombs, guns and ammunition. They walked in and began indiscriminately shooting at their classmates and teachers and planted numerous...

THE FUTURE 500: ECO-ACCOUNTING.
June 1, 1999... A new organization called The Future 500 has been launched as an effort to direct industry and business toward and ecologically sustainable future. According to its literature, The Future 500 is a global network of business leaders who...

THE HANDBOOK OF INTERETHNIC COEXISTENCE.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Eugene Weiner, ed. New York: Continuum, 1998 653 pp., pbk., $29.95 This review is being written in mid-April 1999 when the Kosovo crisis is in full swing underlining the importance of the three assumptions which form the basis of...

EXODUS WITHIN BORDERS, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE CRISIS OF INTERNAL DISPLACEMENT.(Review)
June 1, 1999... David A. Korn Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 1999 pp. vii-147, $22.95 hardcover, illustrated The first thing to keep in mind about this slender volume is that it is based on the in-depth study entitled Masses in Flight:...

CULTURE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION.(Review)
June 1, 1999... Kevin Avruch Washington DC, United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998 172 pages, $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper Since the end of the Second World War, the study of conflict in societies, nations and between nations, its prevention,...

THE NATURAL WEALTH OF NATIONS: HARNESSING THE MARKET FOR THE ENVIRONMENT.(Review)
June 1, 1999... David Malin Roodman New York: W.W. Norton & Company The Worldwatch Environmental Alert Series, 1998 304pp., paper, $13.00 Here we go again--one more vote for market theocracy! This time the vote is cast in the name of healing...