Who are the saints among us?
IN A WORLD THAT SEEMS TO BE AT LEAST KNEE-deep in evil and selfishness, it may be difficult to believe that we are surrounded by good people, more than a few of whom are, in fact, saints. The words saint and saintly are, of course, widely overused. Nevertheless we...

No Harm: How Aid Can Support Peace or War.
Mary B. Anderson Lynne Rienner Publishers, Inc., 1999 160 pages including references, paperback This slender volume is for the most part a compilation of reports and insights from aid workers who have tried to lend assistance in recent war zones, most of them...

Conflict mediation and the postmodern: chaos, catastrophe, and psychoanalytic semiotics.
There is no way to peace, peace is the way. - A.J. Muste Peace work is not a means. Each step we make should be peace. Each step we make should be joy. Each step we make should be happiness. We don't need the future....

War destroys country and Church.
Catholic missionaries have disappeared, churches are looted, infrastructure crumbles, and communication becomes increasingly difficult as the Congo continues to be wracked by civil war. According to the international Catholic news agency Fides, the situation in the central African country has deteriorated rapidly in the last two years...

GLOBALIZATION AND CROSS-CULTURAL VALUES: THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY AND JUDGMENT.
When the Soviet Union collapsed, and the human race found itself with only one superpower, the bipolar world ended. Did that help or hinder globalization? Politically the Cold War was indeed a globalizing experience. Who ruled poverty-stricken Somalia became a matter of strategic significance for policymakers in Moscow and...

THE HANDBOOK OF INTERETHNIC COEXISTENCE.
Eugene Weiner, ed. New York: Continuum, 1998 653 pp., pbk., $29.95 This review is being written in mid-April 1999 when the Kosovo crisis is in full swing underlining the importance of the three assumptions which form the basis of this useful collection of...

CULTURE AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION.
Kevin Avruch Washington DC, United States Institute of Peace Press, 1998 172 pages, $29.95 cloth, $14.95 paper Since the end of the Second World War, the study of conflict in societies, nations and between nations, its prevention, management, and resolution, has expanded to...

CPA activities: the Canadian scene: new speakers in Quebec and Saskatchewan.
Quebec On March 12, 1996, Jean-Pierre Charbonneau was elected President of the Quebec National Assembly. He was born in Saint-Eustache, near Montreal, on January 3, 1950 and holds a diploma from Ahuntsic College in social science and a Bachelor's degree in criminology from the University of Montreal....

Kenyan ambassador for peace: Bethuel Kiplagat believes that Africa's development depends on peace and security.
The heads of state of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda are due to meet in Arusha, Tanzania, on 30 November to officially inaugurate the East Africa Community. If all goes well, it will be a major step towards co-operation between the three countries. There are ambitious plans to create a...

Fleas for children.
`Protecting children is the moral litmus test of our humanity,' the President of the Children's Defense Fund, Marian Wright Edelman, said in her Jubilee Lecture. The state of the world's children represented both a `triumph' for humankind--because of the dramatic decline of deaths from disease--and a `failure'--because of the...