International Journal on World Peace articles from June 2000

International Journal on World Peace archives from June 2000

INTRODUCTION TO THIS ISSUE.
June 1, 2000... This issue of the International Journal on World Peace (IJWP) is dedicated to the late Professor Alexander Shtromas, a founding advisor of the Journal who passed away in June 1999. When the IJWP was launched in 1984, Professor Shtromas was...

THE ABBE DE SAINT-PIERRE AND THE ENGLISH 'IRENISTS' OF THE 18TH CENTURY (PENN, BELLERS, AND BENTHAM).
June 1, 2000... The genealogy of the classic peace proposals of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have to some degree left open the question of the influence each had upon the other. The originality of all or part of the plans has also been in some...

WAS DIETRICH BONHOEFFER A 'RIGHTEOUS GENTILE'?
June 1, 2000... This paper reviews the evidence for the charge that, if not antisemitic, Dietrich Bonhoefer was at best "the best of a bad lot." The article examines the charge in the context of the time and place in which Bonhoefer lived, as well as the...

FROM THE LAW OF PEOPLES TO PERPETUAL PEACE.
June 1, 2000... This paper examines the relationship between democracy, human rights, and peace through the concept of a law of peoples developed recently by John Rawls. By means of the law of peoples, Rawls seeks to extend his theory of justice...

ARE WE CONDEMNED TO REPEAT THE PAST?
June 1, 2000... It is difficult to number the times I have come across Santayana's apothegm, "If we do not remember the past, we are comdemned to repeat it" in an essay that presents it as the epitome of wisdom. If all that is implied is that knowledge of the...

NORTH AND SOUTH KOREAN TALKS TO BE HELD.
June 1, 2000... Because the Korean war ended in 1953 with an armed truce rather than a peace agreement, the two countries have technically been in a state of war for the past 47 years. The two sides have now agreed to formally meet in Pyongyang in June to...

U.N. PEACEKEEPING EFFORTS IN SIERRA LEONE.
June 1, 2000... Some 270 members of a 9000 member United Nations peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone have been captured and held as hostages by the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) of Foday Sankoh. Hostilities between the government of Sierra Leone and the RUF...

NORTHERN IRELAND PEACE ACCORDS.
June 1, 2000... The agreement which calls for Roman Catholics and Protestants to share power in Northern Ireland may be difficult to implement because the leadership of the Ulster Unionist Party may have difficulty convincing the party to ratify it. Efforts by...

CHINA-TAIWAN RELATIONS.
June 1, 2000... The victory of Chen Shui-bian, the candidate of the Democratic Progressive Party (PDP), who has in the past favored formal independence from China for Taiwan, has increased tensions between the two countries as his inauguration draws near....

SRI LANKAN INSURGENCY.
June 1, 2000... The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) threaten to isolate the Jaffna peninsula of Sri Lanka, thereby potentially trapping some 30,000 Sri Lankan troops, almost one third of the army The Jaffna peninsula forms part of the homeland for...

RENEWED FIGHTING IN ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA.
June 1, 2000... Ethiopia attacked Eritrea in an effort to seize control over the disputed Badme region which Eritrea seized in May of 1998 when the current hostilities began. There had been an almost one year lull in the fighting until the present offensive...

THE POST-CORPORATE WORLD: LIFE AFTER CAPITALISM.(Review)
June 1, 2000... by David C. Korten Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc. and Kumarian Press, Inc., 1999 This is a thought-provoking book that is visionary in its call for a dramatic redesign of our economic system. David Korten's sequel to his When...

HOW THE MILLENNIUM COMES VIOLENTLY: FROM JONESTOWN TO HEAVEN'S GATE.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Catherine Wessinger New York, Seven Bridges Press, 2000 305 pages, index, paper, $22.95 How the Millennium Comes Violently is a book which I greatly welcome because it advances the discussion about New Religious Movements (NRMs)...

GANDHI'S VISION AND VALUES: THE MORAL QUEST FOR CHANGE IN INDIAN AGRICULTURE.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Vivek Pinto New Delhi: Sage Publications, 1998 176 pages, references, index, hardcover, $29.95 "Can ethical and moral principles serve as the basis for reconstructing a harmonious, poverty-free, nonviolent and self-sufficient...

THE NEW AFRICA: DISPATCHES FROM A CHANGING CONTINENT.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Robert M. Press Gainesville: The University of Florida Press, 1999 380 pages, hardcover, $24.95 Robert Press's The New Africa: Dispatches from a Changing Continent is a welcome overview of events taking place in Africa between...

A HALF PENNY ON THE FEDERAL DOLLAR: THE FUTURE OF DEVELOPMENT AID.(Review)
June 1, 2000... Michael O'Hanlon and Carol Graham Brookings Institution Press, Washington, DC, 1997 102 pages with notes and index, $24.95 Foreign aid for the poorest countries is the subject the authors, both research fellows at the Brookings...

REGIONAL SECURITY AND THE FUTURE OF CENTRAL ASIA: THE COMPETITION OF IRAN, TURKEY, AND RUSSIA.(Review)
June 1, 2000... E-mail: tinab@access.sanet.ge Hooman Peimani Westport, Connecticut, London: Praeger 168 pages, hardcover, $59.95 In the post-Cold War period, the decline of the two superpowers, which has opened the way for the gradual...