(Berkeley, CA : Conari Press, 2000, 263pp). Louise Diamond; a co-founder of the Institute for Multi-Track Diplomacy in Washington, DC; works in areas of inter-ethnic conflict to empower peacebuilders. “Our power to empower is perhaps the most important role; we can play
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“The crisis today in human affairs is represented not by the absence of human capacity, but by the failure to recognize that the capacity exists. What gives hope its power is the release of human energies generated by the longing for something
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Johan Pottier, Alan Bicher, Paul Sillitoe (Eds). (London: Pluto Press, 2003, 332 pp.) Dario Novellino; sets out clearly the framework of this collection of anthropological essays; on the role of local knowledge in conditions of social change. “While the involvement of local
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By René Wadlow. In the Declaration of Principles and Programme of Action; adopted by the 1976 World Employment Conference it is stated, “A basic needs-oriented policy implies the participation of the people in making the decisions which affect them through organizations of
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by Rene Wadlow. “In the day of Victory, the angel of justice strives with the demons of violence; the heart of the victor all too easily is hardened; moderation and far-seeing wisdom appear to him weakness; the excited passion of the people,
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(London: C. Hurst and Co. 2019). This is a lively analysis of Indian politics; since independence. The book is divided in two parts; an account of the long period when the Congress Party was in power; and a second part on the
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