Month: August 1990

Article Reviews ‘Environmental Change and Violent Conflict’ by Thomas F. Homer-Dixon; prepared for the Workshop on ‘Environmental Change and Threats to Security’ at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, … Read more Publications

In Nature Vol. 344, March 1, 1990 appeared three articles on A.D. Sakharov. The main article, by Soviet physicist E.L. Feinberg, entitled ‘The Physicist and the Soviet Citizen’ gives a … Read more More on Sakharov

Canada recently expressed its intention of joining the Organization of American States, and thus its recognition of the obligations of members under the charter of that organization. One member, the … Read more How The OAS Charter Was Violated

by F.W. Rudmin, accepted 1990, Peace Research. (excerpts)

Yuri Kanin, Nature’s Moscow correspondent reported on Chernobyl (With Dosimeter in the Sarcophagus’, Nature, Vol. 339, 171-172, 1990). He describes the events thta have occurred recently as regards returns and … Read more Chernobyl Update

Summary of Lecture by Ross Smyth
Past Pres., World Federalists of Canada
Past Pres., United Nations Assn. (Montreal)
Loyola Jesuit Institute for Studies in International Peace
Lonergan College, Concordia University
April 5, 1990

The Dalai Lama and Peace George Woodcock ‘A blueprint for a better tomorrow’, The Globe and Mail, April 11) writes that the Dalai Lama, following his Nobel Prize speech, spoke … Read more From the Media — Notes and Matters Arising

The Editor received the following in correspondence with Eric Fawcett (Founding President, Science for Peace) while he was in the USSR during the summer of 1990. It is reproduced almost as received because of its obvious interest and relevance for Science for Peace members.

by John McMurtry, Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Ontario The military system has always existed to impose one party’s will on another’s by threat or acts of collective homicide, … Read more The Historic Moment

From The Toronto Star, February 2 — External Affairs Minister Joe Clark has predicted Canada’s policy on Latin America will lead to clashes with Washington. ‘Unquestionably there will be controversy … Read more Quotes and Notes