International Journal on World Peace articles from September 1999

International Journal on World Peace archives from September 1999

DEATH, THE HERD AND HUMAN SURVIVAL.
September 1, 1999... Behind the play of nations and their wars lies the wish of individual citizens, acting like a herd in denying their own finitude, to achieve immortality. States have become gods and must be desacralized if our terrible wars are to end....

INTERNET POLITICS AND THE CREATION OF A VIRTUAL WORLD.
September 1, 1999... Internet technology is transforming the way we define nation-states. It has created "virtual states" in which parallel communities are formed and political agendas are executed. Due to the emergence of Internet technology, visions of...

DEMOCRACTIC TRANSITION AND THE AFRICAN RENAISSANCE IN SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA.
September 1, 1999... This article looks at the political aspects of the concept of African renaissance promoted by South African President Thambo Mbeko. Although democratic transition is a goal in Sub-Saharan Africa, it is a long way from being implemented....

THE EXPERIENCE OF BENIN.
September 1, 1999... This paper reviews the political experience of Benin from independence to the present. The analysis is based on a periodization of political trends in Dahomey Republic, long known as the political sick child of Africa, with no less than five...

SERBS FLEE AS UN FORCES OCCUPY KOSOVO.
September 1, 1999... In mid-June Serb forces withdrew and UN forces entered Kosovo. Kosovars rejoiced and returned to their looted and burned homes. However, many armed hardliners in the Kosovo Liberation Army want revenge against the Serbs and control of Kosovo....

ETHIOPIA AND ERITREA FIGHT IN WWI-LIKE TRENCH BATTLES.
September 1, 1999... In three days, beginning March 14,1999, more people were killed in fighting on the Eritrean-Ethiopian border than in the 78 days of fighting in all of Kosovo. The conflict is a border dispute between the two countries. An Eritrean soldier...

US AND UK CONTINUE TO BOMB IRAQ.
September 1, 1999... During the first eight months of 1999, while the world's media focused on Kosovo, American and British pilots fired more than 1,100 missiles against 359 targets in Iraq--triple the number of missiles launched in the intesive four day bombing in...

NORTH KOREAN FAMINE.
September 1, 1999... Typhoon Olga, which struck North Korea in July 1999, threatens to set back the country's recovery from terrible famines that have killed over 2 million people since 1995. North Korea suffers not only from "famine," but from lack of Chinese...

TENSION HIGH AS INDIA AND PAKISTAN SKIRMISH.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Tensions rose between India and Pakistan on August 17 when Indian jets shot down a Pakistani military plane, killing all 16 crew members. The following day, Pakistan retaliated, firing a missile at helicopters flying journalists to the crash...

CONFERENCE ON PEACE AND NONVIOLENT ACTION.
September 1, 1999... The Fourth International Conference on Peace and Nonviolent Action, "Ahimsa, Peacemaking, and Conflict Prevention and Management," will be held November 10-14,1999 in New Delhi, India. The conference is hosted under the auspices of His Holiness...

JOURNAL OF GENOCIDE RESEARCH.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Journal of Genocide Research is designed to serve as an international forum for a broad spectrum of scholars: theologians, philosophers, jurists, moralists, ethicists, political scientists and, of course, historians. Given the contemporary...

The Wages of Peace: Disarmament in a Small Industrialized Economy.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Nils Petter Gleditsch, Adne Cappelen and Olav Bjerkholt California: Sage Publications, 1994 Cloth $75.00 Two publications by the International Peace Research Institute (PRIO), Peace by Peaceful Means: Peace and Conflict,...

No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace or War.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Mary B. Anderson Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1999 160 pages including references, paperback This slender volume is for the most part a compilation of reports and insights from aid workers who have tried to lend assistance in...

Demanding Sacrifice: War and Negotiation in Sir Lanka.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Jeremy Armon and Liz Philipson (Eds). London: Conciliation Resources, Lancaster House, 1999 This important study is largely devoted to the Sri Lankan Government-LTTE conflict. Unlike other studies in the Accord series--Liberia,...

Corporate Social Investing: The Breakthrough Strategy for Giving and Getting Corporate Contributions.(Review)
September 1, 1999... Curt Weeden Berrert-Koehler Publications, Inc., 1998 236 pp. with references and index - ISBN 345-38304-4. Hardbound $29.95. Curt Weeden is a former Johnson & Johnson vice president who directed that corporation's $146...

MORE DIE IN CONGO FIGHTING.(Brief Article)
September 1, 1999... Civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (former Zaire) continued as rebels work to unseat Congolese President Laurent Kabila. On August 1 a cease-fire was signed by six African governments, including Rwanda and Uganda, who back the...