David Cortright Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas

Photo by Christian Wiediger on Unsplash. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008, 376pp.) David Cortright;  Director of Policy Studies at Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies;  and an activist especially on nuclear arms issues;  has set out a clear and up-to-date
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Langston Hughes. A People’s Poet.

Winold Reiss, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. (1 Feb 1902 – 22 May 1967) “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.” Langston Hughes Langston Hughes was an African-American poet;  through Negro was the
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Albert Einstein: Remember Your Humanity and Forget the Rest.

Featured Image: Albert Einstein (1947). By Photograph by Orren Jack Turner, Princeton, N.J. Modified with Photoshop by PM_Poon and later by Dantadd., Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. There lies before us, if we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge and wisdom.  Shall we,
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Citizens of the World Diplomacy.

Picture by  Artem Beliaikin on Pexels “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
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David W. Augsburger. Conflict Mediation Across Cultures : Pathways and Patterns.

Photo by Charl Folscher on Unsplash. (Louisville KY: Westminster/John Knox Press, 1992, 310pp). John Paul Lederach tells the story of one of his intercultural mediation workshops in Panama where:  “someone said that mediators were like guides leading people through complexities. The image
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Burma: An Alternative to Military Rule Takes Form.

Featured picture credit: MgHla (aka) Htin Linn Aye, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons On 1 February 2021, the Myanmar military, known as the Tatmadaw, taking advantage of a clause of the Myanmar constitution providing the possibility for the military to
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Nicosia Beyond Barriers. Voices From A Divided City

A.Savin (Wikimedia Commons · WikiPhotoSpace), FAL, Alev Adil, Aydin Mehmet Ali, Bahriye Kemal, Maria Petrides (Eds.) (London: Saqi Books, 2019, 249pp.) Negotiations on the future of Cyprus encouraged by the United Nations remain deadlocked.  There is on the one hand a largely Greek-led Cyprus which
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Our mothers. The Fundamental Pillar of Society.

Photo by Giftpundits.com in Pexels Perhaps many expect the typical article that should be titled:   “Congratulations to all the mothers on their day” or   “Mothers celebrate their day.” Something like this to cite some examples. But it is not the goal. An image
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A Multilateral Framework for Afghan Negotiations.

U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, Afghan Negotiations: Joint Statement of Extended Troika on Peaceful Settlement in Afghanistan. On 30 April 2021, the representatives of what is called the Extended Troika – the U.S.A., Russia, China and Pakistan –
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Rabindranath Tagore: The Call of the Universal Real.

Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The same stream of life that runs through my veins night and day runs through the world and dances in rhythmic measures. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust
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