Reading for Action
Reading is one way of learning. It does not replace reflecting on experience or meditation or intuition, but reading books and reports can be a powerful tool for appropriate action, for innovation and creativity.
Reading can provide insights into new organizational structures and working relationships. In the Association of World Citizens‘ central activity of conflict resolution, books can provide analysis of power relations and the patterns of struggle centered on class, ethnic and religious conflicts and relations among States.
Books can also develop values of respect, benevolence and gratitude toward one another, toward dialogue and reconciliation.
Citizens of the World: U.S. Women and Global Government.
Citizens of the World: U.S. Women and Global Government. (Philadelphia. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022, 238 pp.) As Lucia Ames Mead, one of the nine women highlighted in…
Women as Peacemakers.
Featured Image: Cynthia Cockburn. The strength of Critique: Trajectories of Marxism – Feminism Internationaler Kongress Berlin 2015. By Rosa Luxemburg-Stiftung, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Seeing with eyes…
Completing Piaget’s Project. Transpersonal Philosophy and the Future of Psychology.
Featured Image Jean Piaget By Roland Zumbühl of Picswiss as part of a cooperation project. Wikimedia Commons. Edward J. Dale. Completing Piaget’s Project. Transpersonal Philosophy and the Future of Psychology. (St.Paul, MN: Paragon House…
Vaclav Havel: Resistance and Vision.
Vaclav Havel on Wenceslas Square on November 17, 2009. By Ben Skála, CC BY-SA 2.5 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5>, via Wikimedia Commons. “He rejects the ritual and breaks the rules of the game. …
Leo Tolstoy: The Law of Love.
Featured Image: Portrait of Leo Tolstoy (1887). By Ilya Repin, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. “We possess a single infallible guide, the Universal Spirit that lives in men as a…
Alfred de Zayas. Building A Just World Order.
Featured Image: Prof. Dr. Alfred de Zayas. By Anonym (ein Gefälligkeitsfoto für Prof. Alfred de Zayas), CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Alfred de Zayas, a long-time member of…
The Utopians of Tahrir Square: Poetry of witness and protest from Iraq.
Featured Image: a Crowd of protesters in Tahrir square (30 October 2019). By Revoulation2019, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons. Translated by Dr Anba Jawi and Catherine Temma Davidson…
26 June: International Day Against Torture.
Featured Image: Painting in museum DPRK. By AgainErick, CC BY-SA 3.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0>, via Wikimedia Commons Torture has a bad name among the police and security agencies of most countries. Thus…
Simone Panter-Brick: Gandhi and Nationalism.
Featured Image: Gandhi spinning at Birla House, Mumbai, August 1942. By Kanu Gandhi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Path to Indian Independence (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, 225pp) Simone Panter-Brick….
Oliver P. Richmond and Henry F. Carey (Eds); Subcontracting Peace.
Featured Image: Prof. Oliver Richmond By Arianit, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Challenges of the NGO Peacebuilding (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005, 267pp.) As Kim Reimann writes in…