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- Abraham Path An attempt to physically bridge the chasm between Islam, Christianity and Judaism
- Art not Hate A really interesting site about creative responses to conflict, especially artistic ones
- Benny's Blog Great site from an evangelical Christian Church of England/Episcopalian vicar old friend of mine Benny who is contesting Christian condemnation of homosexuality
- Correlates of War Project Excellent source of information on all forms of armed conflict
- Creating Reciprocity Great site about the role of empathy and reciprocity in conflict
- End of Economic Growth: Richard Heinberg Great site for information on why and how economic growth may be over; with profound implications for future conflict
- Equality Trust My old contact Richard Wilkinson’s data based site on economic inequality: an often missed vertical element in conflict
- Grist Organization I like the data driven approach of this environmental site
- Jerome Slater Really interesting Middle East expert and blogger with a mind of his own
- Josh Berer Interesting site on Arabic art by someone who has lived in the Yemen
- Move Him Into the Sun A blog devoted to World War 1 war poetry with unusual selections and critical comment. Very generative
- Natasa in Malawi I am enjoying Natasa’s (from Slovenia) coming to terms with life and working for an NGO in Malawi.
- Peace Mapping A really useful site that shows visual ways to re-frame conflict
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- Right Brain Blogger A really interesting insightful blog on creativity and its blocks. Really powerful insights that will help in conflict, especially our internal conflicts
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Monthly Archives: January 2012
The Holocaust and its Other Victims
No site about conflict can ignore the horrors of the Holocaust. There is a difficult to find German language film on the Wannsee Conference, that planned the annihilation of the Jews, now available on You Tube (thanks to 3 Quarks … Continue reading
American Decline? Robert Kagan’s View
I don’t always agree with Robert Kagan, who seems to me to pay insufficient attention to domestic American issues in his analysis of US foreign policy, but I think he is longish piece in ‘The New Republic’ (via 3 Quarks … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict History, Conflict Processes, Rise of China, The Rise of India, Ways to handle conflict
Tagged American decline, American Empire, american leadership, charles krauthammer, global responsibilities, imperial overstretch, piece in the new republic, robert kagan, world war ii
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‘It’s a Long Way to Tipperary’: Conflict Song
In this case, a great song, accompanied by footage of the march to the slaughter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9jRdPg_ZL8 Over 27,000 Irish men died, serving in the British Army in the First World War out of a total of 886,934 total British deaths. … Continue reading
Trade Not War: Peddar’s Way
This morning I was walking the Peddar’s Way, a 46 mile long, 3000 year old path, across Norfolk, England. It started life in the Bronze Age, and the basic alignment was later used by the Romans for one of their … Continue reading
‘Oh What a Lovely War!’ Conflict Movie
With the current focus on the recent Steven Spielberg movie ‘War Horse‘, I thought it might be appropriate to recall another film about the First World War: Richard Attenborough’s ‘Oh What a Lovely War!‘ Here are some clips: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wfIhl5mn5s&feature=related http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ogUJ8ZnCKmI … Continue reading
Inverting the Economic and Status Pyramid
I think I was fortunate to grow up in South Wales, on the edge of the coalfield, where I was taught that the people who risked their lives digging coal were to be admired. I was just in the graveyard … Continue reading
US Corporate Profits as Percentage of GDP
From the excellent Real World Economics site at: http://rwer.wordpress.com/2011/12/27/us-corporate-profits-after-tax-as-a-percentage-of-gdp/
The Military-Political Complex: US Military Spending 1988-2010
Here are some numbers relevant to today’s posting on Dwight Eisenhower’s warning of the political-military complex: This is what U.S. military spending looks like over a little more than 2 decades: (Data soure: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.) So much for … Continue reading
‘The Shallows: What the Internet is Doing to Our Brains’ by Nicholas Carr
I have been very concerned in recent years about our diminishing attention spans and tried to summarize my worry in my quote: ‘As our problems grow more complex, our attention span diminishes‘. Now Nicholas Carr has written an excellent book … Continue reading
Posted in Conflict Book Reviews, Conflict Poetry, Neuro-science of conflict, Ways to handle conflict
Tagged attention span, attention spans, brain plasticity, extensive reading, more complex societal problems, Nicholas Carr, The Shallows, Wallace Stevens, wallace stevens poem, what the internet is doing to our minds
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