Mindful Politics
This is an essay by the Dalai Lama from an anthology of Buddhist writers. The name of the book is Mindful Politics: A Buddhist Guide to Making the World a Better Place. I highly recommend this book. ~ Wanda Guthrie
The U.S.
Mr. McCoy is J.R.W. Smail Professor of History at the University
of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of A Question of Torture: CIA
Interrogation, from the Cold War to the War on Terror (
Out of Iraq: A Practical plan for Withdrawal Now
Former Democratic presidential nominee George McGovern and vetaran Middle East expert William Polk call for a phased withdrawal of American Troops from Iraq. Their new book is summarized in this must read article.
Article for Presbyterian Peacemakers' written by Rick St. John
This is a very good article, an example for those who are asked to explain NSP and our contribution to peace and social justice.
NSParticleforPresbyterianPeacemakers.doc
The Older and Wiser Hypothesis
The Older and Wiser Hypothesis.pdf
By STEPHEN S. HALL
In 1950, the psychoanalyst Erik H. Erikson, in a famous treatise on the phases of life development, identified wisdom as a likely, but not inevitable, byproduct of growing older. Wisdom arose, he suggested, during the eighth and final stage of psychosocial development, which he described as “ego integrity versus despair.” If an individual had achieved enough “ego integrity” over the course of a lifetime, then the imminent approach of infirmity and death would be accompanied by the virtue of wisdom. Unfortunately for researchers who followed, Erikson didn’t bother to define wisdom
Topics: networking, peacemaking, conflicts in history
An Interview with Elise Boulding
Professor
Emeritus of Sociology at
Listen/Read Selected Interview Segments on the
Following Topics:
- The
Importance of Networking
- Women
in Peacemaking
- Visioning
and Future Studies
- Resist
the Temptation to Move Faster
- Practice
Networking
- How
to Approach a Peacemaking Situation
- A
Holistic Picture of Peacemakers
- Conflicts
in History