Peaceful Pastimes 1930 - 1950

Liberal Education On The Great Plains American Experiments, Canadian Flirtations, 1930-1950

Justice and Peaceful Cooperation

Justice is important, but so is peaceful cooperation. In this article, I argue that if one takes seriously the autonomy of individuals and groups and the fact of moral pluralism, a just system of cooperation cannot guarantee peaceful cooperation in a pluralistic world. As a response to this consideration, I develop a contractarian theory that can secure peaceful cooperation in a pluralistic wor...

Peaceful collaborations deserve support.

THE FORMER RAND AFRIKAANS UNIVERSITY, now University of Johannesburg, has acted against its own and the South African national interest by terminating the 25-year-old collaboration with the Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Around the World item “End to partnership with Israeli university,” News of the Week, 1 April, p. 19). Boycotts of Israeli scientists, science institutions, and worse, res...

Creating Peaceful Classrooms

EEPING schools safe while preserving productive learning environments is an increasing concern for educators everywhere. Teachers and administrators are seeking strategies that will help students learn to act respectfully and responsibly. Researchers who are also teachers, administrators, and specialists in Michigan, Minnesota, and Oregon are documenting how the constitutional language of right...

Topological Combinatorics" A Peaceful Pursuit

The diversion of science to destructive purposes is as old as science itself. The observation that a club, knife, spear or arrow useful to bring down an animal could be used to similar effect against "the enemy" in the next village was readily perverted to the design of weapons strictly for anti-personnel purposes. Even while enhancing the human condition, science has degraded and brutalized it...