Speaking Our Peace

Peace in Our Time

A s we don our armor for the second Great War of Internet Governance, we need to know the cost of the combat and the real weapons that we bring to the fight. The field of battle began filling the moment the US Department of Commerce announced, on 14 March, that it would no longer be the political guarantor of the Internet Domain Name System (DNS). This war merely continues the first Great War o...

Walk in peace: banish landmines from our globe.

These words are akdicated to the memory of Diana, Princess of Mles. She, perhaps w e than any other individual, in reaching out to the ravaged victim of landmines, &wed the growing demand for a total ban on these vile weapons. Her courage in exposing the hypocrisy of gomrnmals, her own include4 and her compassion for the suffering in mine infsted countries, must not be to no mail. Rather it is ...

Violence , Peace , and Peace Research

The hundred-plus-year war between physicians and attorneys: peace in our time?

Presidential address 2005: peace-making is the answer: spiritual valorization and the future of our field.

The address given by each president of the American Association on Mental Retardation (AAMR) is an opportunity to summarize the most important things one has learned in a career that culminated in the presidency of AAMR. It is also an opportunity to offer some advice about how to deal with the challenges of the present and future. My focus here is not on my professional journey as a physician a...