Michael Renner: reconciliation from destruction in Aceh.
On a sweltering morning on December 21, 2005, I watched six young men stride onto Blang Padang sports field in the heart of Banda Aceh, the capital of Indonesia's Aceh province. Clad in black uniforms and matching berets, each held an assault rifle across his chest. They marched toward...

A farewell to arms.
Byline: The Register-Guard Though its bloody past is littered with broken promises, the Irish Republican Army's announcement Thursday that it has abandoned armed resistance offers genuine hope for the people of Belfast and Britain. Skeptics - and there are many - can be forgiven for...

Bill & Ted's Irish misadventure.
The Clinton administration's meddling has put Ireland on the road to becoming another Bosnia. But it's not too late to change. Bill Clinton's attempt to make peace in Northern Ireland blew up in his face on February 9, when the Irish Republican Army ended its 17-month cease-fire with...

Decommissioning Russia's obsolete nuclear submarines.
RUSSIA has at last reached a multi-billion dollar agreement with the West to make safe more than a hundred obsolete nuclear submarines of its Northern Fleet rotting abandoned in the Arctic Sea in easy access to terrorists. (See article on the terrorist threat in last month's issue of Contemporary...

The human right to a nuclear free world.
I believe one of the most hopeful trends in the world today is the interconnectedness of the Human Family. Technology has made us interconnected, and trade and the movement of people have made us interdependent. Even in the last 10 years, the world has changed, and the next 20...

Now is the time for Canada to resist US nuclear planning: in pursuing NMD, the US could provoke renewed proliferation of nuclear and other weapons of mass destruction.
Washington's active exploration of ways and occasions to use nuclear weapons, as set out in the recently leaked January 2002 US "Nuclear Posture Review" (NPR), stands in stark, opposite contrast to Canada's own version of a "nuclear posture" statement, issued in April 1999. Canada's official attitude toward nuclear weapons...

Beyond the handshake: grasping for peace in Ulster.
All the world now knows that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has shaken the hand of Gerry Adams, the very visible head of Sinn Fein, the political wing of the IRA. It was a dramatic and potentially significant moment, representing a profound reversal of long-standing British policy. But U-turns of...

Peace in pieces.
WHEN President Clinton came to Ireland before Christmas, he had to cut short his triumphal visit because of Bosnian obligations. But he promised cheering crowds that he would return in the summer, to play his postponed round of golf in Ballybunion, in Kerry, and to celebrate the peace which he...

Luck of the Irish?
LONDON `Where there is intransigence on both sides that becomes impossible." Mo Mowlam, the British Northern Ireland Secretary, was speaking ruefully of her failure to strike a compromise between the Catholic and Protestant communities that would have avoided the disorders that engulfed the province after the Drumcree...

Church leaders welcome IRA 'decommissioning'.
Ecumenical News International Dublin Two prominent Northern Ireland clergy chosen to monitor a key part of an internationally-backed peace process say that "beyond any shadow of doubt" the arms of the Irish Republican Army have now been put beyond use. Rev. Harold Good,...