International Journal on World Peace articles from September 2005

International Journal on World Peace archives from September 2005

Religion and terror: a post-9/11 analysis.
September 1, 2005... Recent discussions of religion and terror suggest important considerations for theology and politics in the post-9/11 era. This era will, in all likelihood, be characterized by intense religious activity. Comparative and historical analysis...

Encounters and responses: sameness and difference in world religions.(research)
September 1, 2005... Religious polemics and conflicts often occur because people fail to recognize the common core of the world's religions (encounters with the other of all socially constituted worlds) and that differences between religions stem from different...

Peace and development in Africa.
September 1, 2005... Vicious cycles of war, disease, and poverty currently plague much of Africa. With regard to poverty, economic development, mutual aid, and even better self-reliance, are discussed. Two positive examples are the use of micro-credits and of...

At this time.(MISCELLANY)(Burt Bacharach)(Column)
September 1, 2005... Introduction After six decades of writing love songs, my latest album At This Time addresses the state of our world today. People ask why I am suddenly rocking the boat. I had to do it. I have two little kids and a 19-year-old son, and I...

The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century.(book)(Book review)
September 1, 2005... THE WORLD IS FLAT: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Thomas L. Friedman New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publishers, 2005 Hardcover, 488 pp., index, $27.50 Thomas Friedman brings us this globalization sequel to...

Taming Intractable Conflicts: Mediation in the Hardest Cases.(book)(Book review)
September 1, 2005... TAMING INTRACTABLE CONFLICTS: MEDIATION IN THE HARDEST CASES Chester A. Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson, and Pamela Aall Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace Press, 2004 Paperback, 224 pages, $14.95 The authors of a new...

This Was Not Our War: Bosnian Women Reclaiming the Peace.(book)(Book review)
September 1, 2005... THIS WAS NOT OUR WAR: BOSNIAN WOMEN RECLAIMING THE PEACE Swanee Hunt Foreword by William Jefferson Clinton Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press, 2004 Hardcover, 307 pages, index, $29.95 This is a heartbreaking...

Biblical Interpretation and Middle East Policy: The Promised Land, America, and Israel 1917-2002.(book)(Book review)
September 1, 2005... BIBLICAL INTERPRETATION AND MIDDLE EAST POLICY: THE PROMISED LAND, AMERICA, AND ISRAEL 1917-2002 Irvine H. Anderson Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005 Hardcover, 188 pages, $39.95 JERUSALEM BESIEGED: FROM ANCIENT...