PJSA Blog: Commentaries, Viewpoints, and Visions

Best Book in Peace Education

Robin Crews posted this list to the Peace Studies Association website shortly before its merger with COPRED, which led to the founding of PJSA. I've been meaning to find a home for it on the PJSA website. This blog seems like the right place since it can be a "living"
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Tag(s): peace studies; education; best books

Added by Amy Shuster on 2010-02-28 10:32:43 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Obama's proposals for nuclear power ill-advised and sad

All,
Below find just a few links that describe the extensive and growing problems and risks at the 104 nuclear reactors currently operating in the United States. Included are comprehensive websites by groups such as the Union of Concerned Scientists [1] and the Nuclear Information and Resource Service
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Tag(s): nuclear power; nonproliferation; sustainability

Added by Joseph Miller on 2010-02-20 15:46:58 View Replies (0) Post Reply

The Art of War

The New York Times had an intriguing "idea of the day," The Morality of Web War Footage. It leads us to an online magazine that is new to me: Guernica - a Magazine of Art & Politics and specifically to an article by Nicholas Sautin, The Pleasure of Flinching.
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Tag(s): art`; photography

Added by Susan Ives on 2010-02-19 09:59:26 View Replies (0) Post Reply

We won't sentence a corporation to the Death Penalty

But we do collectively sentence other ‘legal persons’ to death. According to Amnesty International, there are as many as 3,300 inmates on death row in the United States alone, as of today; mostly male; many with mental illnesses; many abused as children; many guilty of the accused crimes; many innocent
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Tag(s): corporate personhood; solidarity; cooperation; death penalty

Added by Stephanie Van Hook on 2010-02-22 13:37:45 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Teaching Nonviolence

Teaching Nonviolence
Helen Fox, University of Michigan
From 'War: Interdisciplinary Investigations' from the 4th Global Conference on War, Virtual War and Human Security held in Budapest, May, 2007
I am a pacifist. My pacifism is rooted in my Quaker faith. In a declaration to King Charles the Second in 1661, Quakers said, [i]“We
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Tag(s): Alternatives to militarism; teaching; introductory courses; war; college students

Added by Helen Fox on 2010-02-05 10:01:15 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Personal Corporatehood?

Coping with the Reason Divided of Citizens United
by Randall Amster
published by Truthout, Jan. 29, 2010
There's great consternation brewing over the recent Supreme Court decision that cements and extends the misbegotten logic of "corporate personhood," and rightly so. Surely, one of the most farcical and tortuous doctrines ever established in our
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Tag(s): dehumanization; Supreme Court; corporate personhood

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-02-04 19:53:49 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Remembering Our Humanity

"Remember our humanity, and forget all the rest."
Albert Einstein
The decade has not begun with a paean to human wisdom. Two recent acts of folly in particular share a deep and pernicious connection that bears some pondering, and I am not even referring to the capture of Ted Kennedy's seat
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Tag(s): dehumanization; identity

Added by Michael Nagler on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (1) Post Reply

Remembering Howard Zinn

Like many in the fields of peace, justice, nonviolence, and social change, we are saddened by the passing of Howard Zinn. We are also thankful for the legacy of inspiration that he leaves behind and for his re-reading of a shared people's history that will inform our collective future.
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Tag(s): nonviolence; history; Howard Zinn; in memoriam; awards

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (0) Post Reply

Haitian Nonviolence

Building on the thesis from Dustin's last post on "Emergency Nonviolence," in this essay (posted by our friends at Waging Nonviolence -- please check them out) I explore nonviolence in Haiti's past, present, and (hopefully) future. Here's the gist:
"If Haitians are to surmount this time of profound crisis and
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Tag(s): Haiti; grassroots; humanitarianism; nonviolence; disasters

Added by Randall Amster on 2010-02-04 16:43:07 View Replies (1) Post Reply

Solidarity, Not Charity: Helping Haitians Help Themselves

In the wake of a disaster such as Haiti is experiencing right now, there's a strong impetus to help coming from people across a wide range of persuasions and perspectives. This is a good thing, of course, and yet even empathetic intentions can go awry when they foster conditions that
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Tag(s): Haiti; disasters; ecology; grassroots; solidarity