Introduction: From Concord to Peace

CONCORD biomarker prediction for novel drug introduction to different cancer types

Many cancer therapeutic agents have shown to be effective for treating multiple cancer types. Yet major challenges exist toward introducing a novel drug used in one cancer type to different cancer types, especially when a relatively small number of patients with the other cancer type often benefit from anti-cancer therapy with the drug. Recently, many novel agents were introduced to different c...

From Democratic Peace to Democratic War?

The “democratic peace” is not only a fancy idea of academia, most prominently advanced by the philosopher of Enlightenment Immanuel Kant in his famous essay on “Perpetual Peace” (1795), but two hundred years later, is established as a liberal research program in the U.S. International Relations discipline. The famous statement “democracies do not fight each other” seems so far to represent a re...

Peace from Nervous Suffering

dust-cover from reviews already given by daily papers and other journals. It takes a line somewhat reminiscent of behaviour therapy in encouraging individuals to believe that their symptoms are due to sensitization' and can be overcome by determination and retraining. The book is extremely well and clearly written. The problem with it is that it deals with a limited aspect of a common symptom. ...

FROM POLITICS OF WAR TO POLITICS OF PEACE – NORTHERN UGANDA: Whose War, Whose Peace & Whose Justice

Introduction to the Proceedings of the Conference on Approaches to Creating a Stable World Peace

A conference on Approaches to Creating a Stable World Peace was held by the Maharishi International University (MIU) Institute of World Peace at MIU in the Spring of 1991.1 A common theme in the conference was that the basic structure and dynamics of society must change in order to achieve a stable world peace. The speakers described a variety of ways in which a stable world peace was being pur...