The Darfur response.
[ILLUSTRATIONS OMITTED] STAFF THE FIGURES are startling for what as been called "the forgotten war" --Darfur. The continuing conflict between the government of Sudan and the southern rebels of the Sudan People's Liberation Army began in 2004 and has, according to United Nations...

War and public health: our responsibility to those who serve.
As the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan continues, the casualties of war grow. Yet fewer resources are available to take care of U.S. troops who are suffering physically or mentally because of the conflict. Since the war began, more than 4,000 U.S. troops have died and more...

Canada and United Nations peace operations: challenges, opportunities, and Canada's response.
Canadians take pride in the peacekeeping legacy of their country. Looking back over the history of United Nations (UN) peace operations, episodes that loom large include Lester B. Pearson's role in the creation of the first peacekeeping force, the rapid deployment of Canadian troops to Cyprus, the battles of...

OBITUARIES.
Byline: The Register-Guard Rella Clark COTTAGE GROVE - The funeral will be at 2 p.m. Monday, April 7, at Smith-Lund-Mills Funeral Chapel in Cottage Grove for Rella Clark of Cottage Grove. She died April 2 of age-related causes at age 77. Visitation will be from...

Building cultures of peace in the world: one peace center at a time.
The world has become "out of balance," according to sociologist and peace researcher Elise Boulding (2002). Many societies throughout the world today presume that war and violent confrontation are necessary in order to resolve conflict. This is simply not true. We need not allow the warring and violent nature...

Military-economic confrontation: its essence, basic trends and forms.
Editorial note: The author presents his own opinion on the problem dealing with interstate military-economic confrontation based on World War II experience. Some of his judgments may seem obscure or cause objections due to certain omissions and insufficiencies. That is why the editorial staff is requesting the readers to...

Bell, J. Bowyer (with a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz). Assassin: Theory and Practice of Political Violence.
Bell, J. Bowyer (with a new introduction by Irving Louis Horowitz). Assassin: Theory and Practice of Political Violence. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 2005. xiii + 310 pages. Paper, $24.95. On the first night of the Iraq War in March 2003, President George W. Bush ordered a...

The John W. Holmes lecture: Building Peace.
In Making War and Building Peace, Nicholas Sambanis and I conducted a large-scale comparative study of success and failure in peacebuilding after civil war. (1) The study assumes that every peacebuilding effort, like every civil war, is different. We are interested in the dimensions that describe and determine the...

Civil War.
The Civil War was a conflict between the Northern states (the Union) and the Southern states (the Confederacy) from 1861 to 1865. After Abraham Lincoln won the presidency in 1860, seven southern states seceded from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America with Jefferson Davis as...

Books received.
Amir, Amos. Trans. By Ruvik Danieli. Fire in the Sky: Flying in Defence of Israel. UK: Pen & Sword, 2005. Photographs. Index. Pp. 292 19.99 [pounds sterling] ISBN: 1-84415-156-5 Boyne, Walter J. Today's Best Military Writing: The Finest Articles on the Past, Present, and Future of the...