For A Change articles from October 2000

For A Change archives from October 2000

Whole story.
October 1, 2000... Let's start with a simple, maybe simplistic, premise: there is at least as much good in the world as bad. In fact there is probably more: more longing for peace than lust for war; more altruism than ruthless self-interest; more love than hate....

Aquiring the tools to make a difference ... participants new and old at the first of this summer's conferences in Caux, Switzerland.
October 1, 2000... What are the values I live by? How do I go about changing things for the better in the world around me? What ought to be different in my own way of living? These are important questions in a world that is developing so fast that the amount...

Think and vote.
October 1, 2000... The conference at Caux this summer was largely planned by a group of Moldovans, who, after a visiting course, had structured their ideas into a programme of change for their country, concentrating on such issues as business ethics and electoral...

Art as a force of change: a bishop who said that playing the piano made him a better person was one of the many artists at a special Caux session.
October 1, 2000... A bishop who said that playing the piano made him a better person was one of many artists at a special Caux session. Kenneth Noble attended an enriching week. A group from Yorkshire, UK, demonstrating break dancing and body popping; a...

Climbing the mountain of peace: the Agenda for Reconciliation conference at Mountain House, Caux, was dedicated to healing the gulfs between people from conflict situations.
October 1, 2000... The Agenda for Reconciliation conference at Mountain House, Caux, was dedicated to healing the gulfs between people from conflict situations. Caz Ford and Sandy Hore-Ruthven sample the atmosphere. `I was taught that if you want to shoot...

Kenyan ambassador for peace: Bethuel Kiplagat believes that Africa's development depends on peace and security.
October 1, 2000... The heads of state of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are due to meet in Arusha, Tanzania, on 30 November to officially inaugurate the East Africa Community. If all goes well, it will be a major step towards co-operation between the three countries....

Globalizing the hearts of East and West: Indian historian Rajmohan Gandhi spoke on `Money, Globalization and Equality' during the Caux conference for Business and Industry.
October 1, 2000... My famous grandfather, Mahatma Gandhi, believed in the dictum, `The less I have, the more I am.' In fact he was born in a fairly affluent home, and after a nervous beginning he soon started earning handsomely as a lawyer in South Africa. But...

Business leaders look to the heart of partnership.
October 1, 2000... Globalization, international debt remission and the role of business in inner city community development were among the issues tackled at the 27th annual Caux Conference for Business and Industry (CCBI), held from 25-30 July. In his...

Call for next US president to spearhead `moral regeneration'.
October 1, 2000... The next US President's first initiative should be to bring together the nation's spiritual and religious leaders to spearhead `a moral regeneration', said the Rev B Herbert Martin from Chicago, addressing CCBI's `Heart of partnership'...

Religion - source of conflict or compassion?
October 1, 2000... `Healing history and reconciling adversaries: a multi-faith conversation' was the theme of a panel discussion in Caux this summer in which people of the Abrahamic family of faiths took part. `In Jewish tradition forgiveness is part of...

Orthodox voice.
October 1, 2000... `A united Europe must draw on Orthodoxy, otherwise she cannot be united, neither can she be Europe,' Monsignor Damaskinos (left), the Metropolitan of Switzerland, Exarch of Europe and representative of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople...

History: a narrative of pain or of grace? Is history a subject which excites or depresses you ... or might it offer, as Thomas Cahill suggests, an unexpected course of action?
October 1, 2000... Whether you are jaded at the thought of history, or maybe just have never contemplated it, I enthusiastically commend to your reading a series of books, already best-sellers in the United States, from the American author Thomas Cahill. A...

Malta - island fortress or bridge of peace.
October 1, 2000... Malta--island fortress or bridge of peace by Ian Sciortino New Cherwell Press, Oxford UK Price [pounds sterling] 6.00. In this book Ian Sciortino articulates his vision for the Mediterranean land of his father (his mother was Scottish) and...

Snow king in Africa: Otto Pulkkinen has spent years working with the underprivileged at great personal cost.
October 1, 2000... Not much in Otto Pulkkinen's early life marked him out as someone who would devote much of his life to the underprivileged in Africa--except possibly the fact that his own background was poor by European standards. He was born in 1945 on the...

Monsoon thoughts.
October 1, 2000... Last year's war between India and Pakistan over Jammu and Kashmir took place at 14,000-17,000 ft above sea-level in Kargil. It was the first battle fought at such heights in the world. `Fate draws geographical lines on paper maps,' writes Jyoti...

Harvest time for Jubilee 2000.
October 1, 2000... Ten years ago I first coined the name `Jubilee 2000' for a new campaign to win remission of the unpayable debts of the world's 50 or so low-income countries. In so doing, I followed the Biblical model of Jubilee, using the year 2000 as a...