The summer conferences at 'Initiatives of Change' at Caux, Switzerland are featured in this issue. 'Globalisation', 'Africans who pay the price of peace', 'Living with other faiths', 'From conflict to community at home' were some of the themes discussed during the sessions. Other highlights in this issue are the FAC essay by Rajmohan Gandhi: 'After intervention what next?' and a profile of a New Zealand climatologist, who promotes a bid to save a precious part of India's natural heritage.
THERE ARE 18 ARTICLES IN THIS ISSUE
Rajmohan Gandhi looks at the challenges facing a world where sovereignty is no longer seen as an absolute.
Becoming Myself (En)
I've had to find some kind of healing and wholeness without the thing I most wanted...
There are plenty of well intentioned heads of government, and any number of enlightened statutes.
Caux Lectures (En)
During the summer conferences in Caux prominent figures delivered a weekly series of public lectures.
To make genuine progress we must learn first and foremost to be human.
Defeating Silence (En)
For someone who at the age of nine was thought to have an IQ of nil, Virgilio Tognato published his first book.
On www.turning-point.ca you will find vigorous, frank, constructive discussion between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians.
No wonder that an inter-national team has convened in Paris around a few concerned citizens working for an end to civil war in C
Can big business and activists agree on fighting poverty?
Living with other faiths is about being at home in your own religion and learning to be a guest in others.
A book that dares to suggest that marriage is better than cohabiting.
A Caux conference run by young people, mostly from former Soviet Bloc countries.
Only Connect (En)
On a recent trip to Lviv, Ukraine, I stayed in a hotel just across the street from an Internet cafe.
La paz tiene un precio muy alto, y su establecimiento es difícil y peligroso. Africanos que quieren finalizar el conflicto
Pagar o Preço da Paz (En)
Africanos arriscam suas vidas para acabar com conflitos. A paz tem um preço, a construção da paz é difícil e perigosa.
Africans who are risking their lives to end conflict. Peace carries a high price, and peace-making is difficult and dangerous.
Refugee Thinks Big (En)
Ahmed Hussen Egal arrived in Sweden from Somalia 16 years ago with only the clothes on his back.
Joanna Grigg meets Alan Porteous a New Zealand climatologist who, not content just to predict weather patterns, is promoting a b
