Month: October 1986

Christian Bay, On the Contest between Politics and Pseudopolitics, paper delivered at 9th annual meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology,Amsterdam, July, 1986. 36th Pugwash Conference on Science and World Affairs. Papers available on request: List of participants George Ignatieff, The Role of Non-Nuclear-Weapons States in Efforts to Reduce the Nuclear Danger Within Alliances. … Read more Bookshelf

Anatol Rapoport and I represented SfP at the 9th annual meeting of the Intl Soc. of Political Psychology this summer in Amsterdam. The ISPP brings together academics from all the social and behavioural sciences (even the occasional biologist) with theorists and practitioners of politics from all parts of the world. This year peace and conflict … Read more Psychology Of Peacemaking Discussed In Amsterdam

Not The Right Answer OTTAWA — A letter signed by a group of leaders of the Canadian organization Science for Peace was published recently in THE GLOBE AND MAIL. The name of G. Ignatieff, President of this organization, a high ranking diplomat in the past, the former representative of Canada in the UN Security Council, … Read more Notes

Toronto, 27 Aug. May I say how very much I agree with your letter in today’s Globe and Mail? I very much resent being told by Washington that a ban on the testing of nuclear weapons in not in my interest. I am also concerned at the speed with which Russian proposals in this area … Read more Letters

A recent Reuters report entitled, “Virus lost by US lab said enough to infest everyone in the world” (The Globe and Mail Sept. 24, 1986) describes the 1981 disappearance of a large quantity of chikungunya virus from a refrigerator in an unguarded US Army laboratory. There was apparently no proper investigation of this loss and, … Read more The case of the Lost Virus

The U of T Philosophers for Peace were charged during CPA meetings in Winnipeg this summer with organizing a session at the 1987 Learned Societies meetings in Hamilton. The group was asked to initiate a modest newsletter. Over 30 people attended a roundtable discussion on “Philosophical Perspectives on the Origins of War”, following which some … Read more Newsworthy

OTTAWA– Our service members have long been in the forefront of the UN’s efforts to ease tensions around the world. Between 1947 and 1985 some 77,000 Canadian Forces personnel have taken part in 15 UN peacekeeping operations and in three truce supervisory missions conducted outside the United Nations.Through collective security as well as our international … Read more International Day of Peace

In the quest for peace I am inclined to agree with Charles Dickens when he says in Little Dorrit, “Whatever was required to be done, the Circumlocution Office was beforehand with all the public departments in the art of perceiving — HOW NOT TO DO IT.” As Derek Paul reminded us in his paper for … Read more President's Corner