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Issue 2444 | September - November 2001

Editorial: Emancipate your enemy

by Ippy D | Comment | September - November 2001

Carlo Giuliani was a young man killed by another young man: a conscript policeman who was travelling in a vehicle which was being attacked by protesters during the G8 protests in Genoa. ...

More Israeli Conscientious Objectors ...read

Reviews

Rob Evans, 'Gassed. British Chemical Warfare Experiments on Humans at Porton Down'
Andrew Rigby, 'Justice and Reconciliation after the Violence'
Consolidated, 'The End of Meaning'
Simon Fisher, Dekha lbrahim Abdi, Jawed Ludin, Richard Smith, Steve Williams & Sue Williams, 'Working with Conflict: Skills and Strategies for Action'
Teresa Hayter, 'Open Borders: the case against immigration controls'
Alex Begg, 'Empowering the Earth'
Colin Hines, 'Localisation: A Global Manifesto'
Tony Evans, 'The Politics of Human Rights: a global perspective'
Nicholas Griffin (ed), 'The Selected Letters of Bertrand Russell: the public years, 1914-1970'
Bill Moyer and JoAnn MacAllister, Mary Lou Finley and Steve Soifer, 'Doing Democracy. The MAP Model for Organizing Social Movements'

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Children, war and peace

Beyond violence and nonviolence

by Starhawk | Comment | September - November 2001

I had a hard time coming back from Quebec City. I know because, almost two months later, I still have the map in my backpack. ...

Empowerment world-wide

by Julia Kraft and Andreas Speck | Comment | September - November 2001

In February 2001, a little later than originally planned, 70 people from 20 countries on five continents met for a week at the Gandhi Labour Foundation in Puri on the Gulf of Benga ...

The space of peace and freedom: Eritrea at 10

by Matt Meyer | Comment | September - November 2001

Brighter than New Year's Eve, the fireworks of midnight 23 May, that lit up the southern shores of the Red Sea, signified freedom from colonial subjugation and from war. ...

Nonviolence training in schools

by Andreas Peters and Milan Rai | Feature | September - November 2001

First act

7:45 at a school in Germany. A group of pupils stand outside the door of a school building. ...

The torture of children: the hidden scandal

by Amnesty International | Feature | September - November 2001

“He had a pair of pliers in his hand. He kept asking where the mobile [phone] was. I told him I had not seen it... He got hold of my thumb and placed it between the pliers. ...

The quiet war

by Kathy Kelly and Denis Halliday | Feature | September - November 2001

PN: Denis, in your 1998 resignation speech at Harvard you made some very unequivocal statements about the impact of sanctions on children in Iraq. ...

Children as leaders. Lessons from Colombia's Children's Movement for Peace

by Sara Cameron | Feature | September - November 2001

For more than 20 years, Colombia has been caught up in a brutal conflict between political opponents. ...

Civic duty?

by Matt Mahlen | Feature | September - November 2001

In France, the strong ties that bind the national education system and the army are as old as compulsory schooling itself. Both institutions served in the building of the nation. ...

Childhood in Burkina Faso

by Julia Guest | Feature | September - November 2001

Sitting under the scant shade of a tree, a small huddle of boys started to talk about their life. I want to be the boss of a garage, said Xavier, a small boy; they all did. ...

Our only hope?

Feature | September - November 2001

Children are the future, right? ...

Child soldiers: kids playing at deadly adults' games

by Judit Arenas | Feature | September - November 2001

The stark images of child soldiers in armed conflicts today are shocking: sometimes under 10, dressed in uniforms too large or sportsgear that belongs in a park, armed with high powered we ...

A community repairs its broken dreams

by Luis Tricot | Feature | September - November 2001

Valparaiso sits staring at the Pacific Ocean, its multicolour houses hanging from its 37 hills, indifferent to the rain and wind that sweep through the city's narrow, winding streets. ...

School violence: a result of bad parenting or militarism?

by Rick Jahnkow | Feature | September - November 2001

When a student takes a gun to school and goes on a shooting rampage—as one 15-year-old is charged with doing in a community near me in California— the public immediately expresses its shoc ...

Did the G8 deliver in Genoa?

by Alison Marshall | News | September - November 2001

“Ultimately these Summits must be judged by the benefits they deliver to the world's poor. ...

Active opposition to the Bourget arms show

by Francois Maliet | News | September - November 2001

The Bourget air show is generally presented as being a fair for big kids, with aeroplanes, and parachutists performing impressive technical feats. ...

F-16s kill

by Scott Mathern-Jacobson | News | September - November 2001

In July, activists gathered in Duluth, USA, with the message “F-16s Kill,” in a nonviolent response to the Air National Guard 148th Fighter Wing's F-16 Fighting Falcon, which was on displa ...

Trial and truth in a Georgia courtroom

by Claire Hanrahan | News | September - November 2001

For three days in May in a US courtroom, 26 citizens attempted to break through government deceit to speak the truth: that the US Army School of the Americas – renamed the Western Hemisphere Instit ...