by Rene Wadlow. 22 August has been set by the United Nations General Assembly as the “International Day Commemorating the Victims of Acts of Violence Based on Religion or Belief”. Due to Nazi and Japanese militarist persecution of religious groups during the
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Vijay Mehta. When the drums of war start beating; can cooler heads prevail and negotiations in good faith start?. Vijay Mehta has written a useful overview of efforts to create a Department of Peace; within governments so that there would be an
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(St.Paul, MN: Paragon House, 2013) Carol Rittner and John Roth have edited a fine study; for use in the campaign against the use of rape as an instrument of war. This is a campaign; in which the Association of World Citizens has
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by Rene Wadlow. L’Abbe Pierre, champion of the homeless and world citizen; died 22 January 2007 in Paris at 94 years old. He was born in 1912 and named Henri Groues. He was brought up in Lyon in a bourgeois family and
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There is a sense of great opportunity and hope that a new world can be built in which social and economic progress; environmental protection and better standards of living can be realized through global solidarity and cooperation. Nowhere can these goals be
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Contemporary movements that stressed the need for world citizenship started on the eve of World War II when the spirit of aggressive nationalism was at its height in the policies of Germany, Italy and Japan. There was a need to develop balance
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