June 2001
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Contents:
June 2001
2 From the Editor's Desk
4 Managing, Preventing, and Resolving Conflict in Africa: A
View from the United Nations
by Kevin Joseph and Bridget Moix
"The prevention of conflict begins and ends with the
promotion of human security and human development." --Kofi
Annan
6 HIV/AIDS in Africa: A Social Time Bomb
by Ntsiki Kabane-Landford and David Scondras
When the history of our time is written, how do we tell future
generations that we watched the death of 40 million people, at
least half of which we could have prevented, and did nothing?
9 War and the Need for Citizen Action: Talking about Sierra
Leone
interview with Claudia Anthony by Anna Gyorgy
Like the greedy, incompetent political leaders, revenge, violence,
and the seeds of poverty had always been there. These were enough
ignition for a war
10 A Voice from Civil Society: The Way Forward for Peace in
Sierra Leone
by Amy Smythe
Trade unions, teachers, the business community, market women,
school groups, the religious institutions, all are stakeholders,
all have to be part of the peace process
11 Losing Balance: A Report from Palestine
by Martin Federman
Here in Hebron, I cannot avoid the dark images created by my
own people
13 Open Letters: on Palestine, Human Rights, Missiles, and
Energy
15 Smart Sanctions are Still Sanctions
from the Iraq Network
An emergency commodity assistance program like oil-for-food,
no matter how well funded, cannot reverse the devastating consequences
of war and ten years' shut-down of Iraq's economy
16 Thinking Big about the Living Wage
by Paul Shannon
The coming together of so many diverse constituencies in Harvard
Yard this spring may be a microcosm of a great in-gathering of
peoples around the world, creating the just community in which
every person matters
17 Billionaires Applaud Buy-Partisan Plan to End Estate Tax
from United for a Fair Economy
Billionaires for Unlimited Inheritance are letting the champagne
corks fly
18 Supremacy Crimes
by Gloria Steinem
Our national self-examination is ignoring something fundamental,
precisely because it's like the air we breathe: the white
male factor, the middle-class and heterosexual one, and the promise
of superiority it carries
19 School Shootings and White Denial
by Tim Wise
Mass murder; wholesale slaughter; take-a-gun-and-see-how-many-you-can-kill
kinda craziness seems made for those safe places: the white suburbs
or rural communities
20 Index 2000
compiled by Mary Biggins
Peacework's contents for the year 2000, listed by subject
22 PIECES: Events, Campaigns, Gatherings, Opportunities, Resources
24 Geologist Fired for Posting Maps of the Arctic National
Wildlife Refuge
by Ian Thomas
High-level political decision to set an example to other federal
scientists comes as a surprise to a dedicated map-maker
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