Journal of the Research/Action Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change, an interorganizational project of the Organization Development Institute
Vol. XXIV, No.3 Compiled May 2, 2010 Spring 2010
Nonviolent Change helps to network the peace community: providing dialoguing, exchanges of ideas, articles, reviews, reports and announcements of the activities of peace related groups and meetings, reviews of world developments relating to nonviolent change and resource information concerning the development of human relations on the basis of mutual respect.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor’s Comments
Nonviolent Change on the Web
Upcoming Events
Ongoing Activities
World Developments
DIALOGUING:
Quick Links:
- SPIRITUAL AND RELIGIOUS PROGRESSIVES INVITE SECULAR PROGRESSIVES
- DUBIOUS IN DUBAI
- THE REAL THREAT TO ISRAEL’S NATIONAL SECURITY
- TIME TO CHANGE THE STATUS QUO
- EUROPE, THE MISSING KEY TO MIDEAST PEACE
- AN “OBAMA PLAN FOR THE MIDDLE EASY IS A GOOD IDEA
- LEARNING TO LIVE TOGETHER
- A NEW APPRPACH TO THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
- PRIME MINISTER FAYYED’S PLAN: DEVELOPMENT AS LELVERAGE FOR INDEPENDENCE
- HARD MIDEAST TRUTHS
- A RENEWED ZIONISM – A NEW CASE FOR PEACE
- SOLVING THE JERUSALEM PROBLEM
- PALESTINE BETWEEN RELIGION AND SECULARISM
- TIME FOR ASEAN TO RESOLVE SPAT
- REASSESSING THE GENOCIDE RESOLUTION
Spiritual and Religious Progressives Invite Secular Progressives to Join in a United Strategy
To Say “No” to Corporate Dominance of the US Economy and Politics and to
Tea Party Extremists
Uri Avnery, “Dubious in Dubai”
Alon Ben-Meir, “The Real Threat to Israel’s National Security”
Alon Ben-Meir, “Time To Change the Status Quo”
Ghassan Michel Rubeiz, “Europe, the missing key to Mideast peace”
M.J. Rosenberg, “An “Obama Plan” for the Middle East is a good idea”
Josh Simon, “Learning to live together”
Louis Kriesberg, “A new approach to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict”
Walid Salem, “Prime Minister Fayyad’s plan: development as leverage for independence”
Roger Cohen, “Hard Mideast truths”
Alick Isaacs, “A Renewed Zionism – a new case for peace”
Martin Indyk, “Solving the Jerusalem Problem”
Aziz Abu Sarah, “Palestine between religion and secularism“
Michael Vatikiotis, “Time for ASEAN to resolve spat”
Alon Ben-Meir, “Reassessing the Genocide Resolution”
What We Readers Are About
ARTICLES:
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Neil Wollman and Abdulhadi Hairan, “Do We Want a Stable Democracy in Afghanistan –
Or Just a Short Term Ally to Fight the Taliban?”
Bill Glucroft, “Clearing the hurdles”
Uri Avnery, “A Cloud over Jerusalem,”
Sam Bahour and Bernard Avisha, “Independent and interdependent“
Ghassan Michel Rubeiz, “Middle East reconciliation in the Diaspora”
Alon Ben-Meir, “Taking Responsibility for the Palestinian Refugees”
Uri Avnery, “The Big Gamble”
Hussam Ezzedine, “Young Palestinian leadership at the helm of state building”
Guy Ben-Porat and Fany Yuval, “Policing and the Arab minority: from alienation to cooperation”
Alon Ben-Meir, “Syria Must be a Top Priority”
Harry Targ, “United States Foreign Policy: The Possibilities of Shifting from a Permanent
War Economy and the Globalization of Capitalist Empire toe a Post-Imperial International System”
Media Notes
Announcements
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COEDITORS:
Stephen Sachs, 1916 San Pedro, NE. Albuquerque, NM 87110 (505)265-9388, ssachs@earthlink.net
Alon Ben-Meir, NYU (212)866-5998, alon@alonben-meir.com
Ruby Quail, Web Master, 10205 Elmhurst, Albuquerque, NM, (505)400-0900, rubyquail@gmail.com
Robert W. Hotes, American College of Counselors, 824 S. Park Ave., Springfield, IL 62704 (217)698-7668,
NONVIOLENT CHANGE JOURNAL (NCJ) ON THE WEB
Nonviolent Change is on the web at: http://www.nonviolentchangejournal.org, along with several years of back issues. To be notified by E-mail when new issues are posted, send a request to be added to the NCJ notification E-mail list to Steve Sachs at: ssachs@earthlink.net. Issues are usually posted: Fall, in late August or early September; Winter, in January or early February; Spring in mid-March to end of April.
EDITORS COMMENTS
Wishing you a fine spring. The world continues to go through many shifts producing a great many developments in areas of our concern. WE WELCOME YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL THAT IS IN PROGRESS. These pages serve as a networking and dialoguing vehicle. We strongly encourage you to contribute articles (up to 2500 words), news, announcements, comments, queries, responses and art work. It would be very fine if we could develop ongoing discussion from issue to issue. WE ESPECIALLY INVITE YOU TO SEND US A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOUR CONCERNS AND QUERIES, RELATING TO NONVIOLENT CHANGE, FOR OUR “WHAT WE READERS ARE ABOUT” COLUMN.” Whenever possible, please make submissions on disk or via e-mail (ssachs@earthlink.net).
Please SEND WRITINGS AND ART WORK FOR NONVIOLENT CHANGE electronically to Steve Sachs (E-mail address top of p. 2). Steve puts together a draft of each issue, then undertakes e-mailing, printing, snail mailing, while Ruby Quail posts the issue on the web. (Unsigned writings are Steve’s). We welcome additional editors and column writers to cover geographic or topic areas on an ongoing or one time basis. We would very muck like to have additional people share in the compiling of information in each issue.
COMMUNICATING ABOUT ANY OTHER RESEARCH/STUDY TEAM BUSINESS CAN BE DIRECTED TO ANY OF THE COCHAIRS (ADDRESS ON P. 1) or to OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE: DON COLE, ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, 11234 Walnut Ridge Rd., Chesterland, OH 44026 (440)729-7419, DonWCole@aol.com, http://www.odinstitute.org/, who is coordinating networking among organizations.
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