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Volume X, No. 6, June 15, 2006; Next Issue, July 15, 2006
CONTENTS
EDITORIAL
*Reorganizing For Peace In South Asia, Pritam K.
Rohila, Ph. D.
PEACE & HARMONY
NEWS
ESSAY/CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST
*Indiana
University India
Studies
PEACE CAMPIGNS
*End The War –
Bring All The Troops Home, Now!
PEACE EVENTS
*June
22, New York, NY, USA: Disarmament And An Empowered UN.
*June 23-28, Vancouver,
BC: WORLD PEACE FORUM 2006
*June 24, Vancouver, B.C., Canada: WAR AND PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA
*August 6-9, Lahore,
Pakistan: VISA-FREE & PEACEFUL SOUTH
ASIA
*August-October:
INDIA-PAKISTAN PEACE DAY 2006
*September 21: PEACE ONE DAY
PEACE ORGANIZATIONS
*The
Society for the Study of Peace, Conflict, and Violence:
WEBSITES
*www.focuslanka.
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EDITORIAL
*Reorganizing For Peace In South
Asia, Pritam K. Rohila, Ph. D.
Organized people-to-people
efforts to promote peace in South Asia started more than
a decade ago. Since then several peace groups have come into existence.
Most of the outfits are devoted
to improving India-Pakistan relations. Also most of them are ad-hoc in nature,
and have informal structure, very limited membership, and no regular funding
source.
In pursuit of their objectives,
they have organized a few conventions, delegation exchanges, marches, vigils,
and petition drives. But they have neither been able to win the hearts of the
general public, nor have they made much impression on the government
bureaucracies.
For increased probability of
success of their efforts, the peace organizations need better focus for their
work. They should develop more dependable and adequate ways to raise funds for
their activities. They ought to use modern marketing techniques to publicize
and to enlist popular support for their work. Further, they will have to rise
above personality politics and coordinate their work with other peace
organizations. Finally more attention needs to be directed to improving
relations among various religious, sectarian, and caste communities and between
all south Asian nations.
The Association for Communal
Harmony in Asia (ACHA) was founded in 1993, in Portland
area of Oregon, USA,
to promote peace in South Asia and harmony among South
Asians everywhere. For the last few months, we have been in the process of
re-evaluating and reorganizing ourselves.
We have already decided to
utilize internet facility to further expand and deepen our worldwide reach. We
plan to establish better contacts with other South Asian organizations.
Effective January 2007, we will do away with dues for ACHA membership. Instead
our membership will be available to all those who expressly endorse our Mission
and abide by our Declaration of Commitment. More changes in our structure and
ways are in the offing.
We appreciate your support for
our work. We hope to be able to count on it in the future.
PEACE & HARMONY NEWS
*Sufi
path to Indo-Pak amity DECCAN HERALD |Tuesday, June 13,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301635&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
SRINAGAR: The ongoing Indo-Pak sufi musical festival has become the centre of
attraction for music lovers here. The five-day festival began on Sunday evening
at SKICC, on the bank of the Dal lake
here. The artistes of the two countries mesmerised
the audience with their performances. Mr Pawan Kumar Verma, Director
General of ICCR, said the festival is part of cultural diplomacy between the
two countries. “The festival is aimed at building cultural bridges between the
two neighbouring countries,” he said.
*Pakistan donates computers to Nepal Army TIMES OF INDIA |Tuesday,
June 13, http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301481&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
KATHMANDU: Pakistan has gifted ten computers to the Nepal Army for
conducting training programmes for family members of
armed forces personnel. The training will be provided on regular basis to the
unemployed members of the soldiers' families at free of cost and each 
of the trainee will also get Rs
700 as monthly allowance, a release issued by the Nepalese Army said.
*Karachi Nazim
for better ties with India THE NEWS |Tuesday, June 13,2006 http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301539&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
KARACHI:
City Nazim Syed Mustafa Kamal on Monday said that tension between India
and Pakistan
could be defused only through strong trade relations. Speaking at a reception for an Indian
delegation from Mumbai, City Naib Nazim
Nasreen Jalil called for
declaring Karachi and Mumbai as
sister cities, as according to her, the problems of both the cities have quite
a lot of similarity.
*Minority
welfare a priority: Sonia The Hindu |Tuesday, June 13,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301563&category=Frontend&Country=INDIA
NEW
DELHI:
Recounting the commitment of the United Progressive Alliance Government to
social harmony and the welfare of minorities, Congress president Sonia Gandhi
said the endeavour now was to move the debate to
specifics and make efforts to produce results in a specified time frame.
*Karachi-Mumbai
education forum formed DAILY TIMES |Monday, June 12,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301314&category=frontend&Country=main&pro=0
KARACHI: Karachi-Mumbai Exchange Programme
organised by the South Asia Free Media Association
(SAFMA) has decided to establish a Mumbai-Karachi education forum. They
discussed the exchange of faculty and students, for which the Pakistani side
resolved it would contact the competent authorities to
do away with red tape. The two sides also agreed on department-to-department
exchanges and a swapping of lists of research institutions in the two countries.
*'Koirala's India visit successful' THE HINDU |Monday, June 12,2006 http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301282&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
KATHMANDU:
Leaders of various political parties, businessmen and diplomats in the
Himalayan Kingdon said that Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala's recent
visit to India
has strengthened bilateral ties between the two countries.
*J&K
working groups in a week: Azad DECCAN HERALD |Monday, June 12,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301301&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
JAMMU: After
parleying with the two major political parties in Jammu and Kashmir, Chief
Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has decided to set up the five working groups proposed
by the Prime Minister within a week and give “due representation” to all
sections.
*Consensus to amend Hudood
Ordinance in Pakistan THE NEWS |Monday, June 12, http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301237&category=Frontend&Country=PAKISTAN
KARACHI: In a major breakthrough some eminent Islamic
scholars on Sunday reached a consensus in a Geo TV programme
about rectifying the lacunae in a much-talked-about Islamic law promulgated
during the dictatorship of Gen Ziaul Haq in 1979.
*Saleem urges talks with Baloch
militants DAILY TIMES |Monday, June 12,2006 http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301334&category=Frontend&Country=PAKISTAN
QUETTA: Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination Saleem Saifullah Khan asked
insurgents in Balochistan on Sunday to give up their
armed struggle and negotiate with the government to bring peace to the
province.
*Indo-Pak children to
attend peace camp DAILY TIMES |Saturday, June 10,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=300707&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
LAHORE:
Twelve schoolchildren each from both India
and Pakistan
will participate in the summer camp of Seeds of Peace program in Maine,
USA beginning
from June 26 to promote peace and friendship among new generations of the
henceforth rival South Asian nations. The US based organization Seeds of Peace
promotes friendship among conflicting regions.
*Indo-Pak music fest in Kashmir
valley ASIAN AGE |Saturday, June 10,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=300750&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
Srinagar: From this Sunday, the Valley of Kashmir is going to be enthralled by a five-day
India-Pakistan Sufi music festival. Several noted singers and musicians from
the two South Asian neighbours, besides local singing
groups and individuals, will perform at three different places with picturesque
settings.
*Trade between Karachi, Mumbai stressed DAWN |Sunday,
June 11,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=300976&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
KARACHI:
Civil society representatives of Pakistan
and India on
Saturday reaffirmed their resolve to building bridges of understanding and
cooperation between the two peoples and called for strengthening linkages
between industry and business community, media and other areas and transforming
South Asia into the second largest economy after China.
The views were expressed in the inaugural session of the Karachi-Mumbai
exchange programme, organised
by the South Asian Free Media Association (Safma) to
welcome the visiting Indian delegation. The Indian delegation comprising
businessmen and representatives of media and showbiz arrived here in the
morning.
*Indian bank to open
branch in Pakistan HINDUSTAN TIMES | June 11,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=301050&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
LUCKNOW:
THE Punjab National Bank (PNB) is firming up plans to open a branch in Pakistan.“We have sought RBI permission to
set up a branch in Pakistan.
In all likelihood, the branch will be set up in Pakistan’s
commercial capital Karachi,” S C
Gupta, PNB Chairman and Managing Director (CMD) said here on Saturday.
*Karachi:
550 Afghan DPs leave for home
DAWN |Saturday, June 10,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=300896&category=Frontend&Country=AFGHANISTAN
KARACHI:
About 550 displaced persons of 130 Afghan families on Friday left for their
homeland under voluntary repatriation programme
launched by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees in 2002. They had
been living in Afghan refugees camps set up along Super
Highway in 1985. According to UNHCR Karachi Office
chief Tahira Gulafshan,
they left in buses and trucks destined for Kabul,
Qandahar and Sandus. She said that they would enter Afghanistan
via Chaman, Balochistan.
Under the programme, she said that around 1,200 to
1,500 refugees were leaving for their hometown every week.
*India,
Naga rebels to talk peace June 22 AFP | Friday, June 09,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=300623&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
GUWAHATI: Nagaland separatists
have agreed to hold regular monthly peace talks with the Indian government
starting June 22 in Amsterdam to
try to strike a peace deal, a rebel leader said.
*Sri Lanka’s new Constitution LTTE to be involved DAILY MIRROR | Friday, June 09,2006 http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=300462&category=Frontend&Country=SRI%20LANKA
COLOMBO: The
Government Peace Secretariat said it would get the LTTE also involved in the
task of drafting a new constitution aimed at ending the ethnic issue.Secretariat Head Palitha Kohona told the Times of India, that he was “optimistic”
that the LTTE would respond positively to the move. “This will be the first
time that a government will be inviting them to get involved directly in the
drafting process,” he said before leaving for Oslo
to discuss the role of the SLMM.
* India
promises all help to Nepal TIMES OF INDIA | Thursday, June 08,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=300291&category=frontend&Country=main&pro=0
NEW DELHI:
Describing G P Koirala as a towering personality, PM Manmohan Singh on Wednesday pledged India's
unstinting support to re-build Nepal's
shattered economy.
*A new bond between Delhi
and Lahore THE HINDU |Wednesday, June 07,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=300036&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
NEW DELHI:
It might be one of the most debatable subjects between India
and Pakistan,
but Delhi University's
Ramjas College
has decided to go beyond just talking about history. Opening up a whole new
chapter in cross-border dialogue, it has now become the first college in the
University to have signed a full-fledged memorandum of understanding with one
of Pakistan's premier educational institutions, the Lahore University of
Management Sciences, better known by its acronym LUMS.
*Kashmiri toddler reunited with relatives, THE HINDU | Tuesday, June 06,2006 http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=299766&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
SRINAGAR:
Movez Ishaq Bhat, a two-year-old toddler who was orphaned in the
devastating earthquake in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK)
on October 8 last and granted Indian citizenship on Friday, holds the hands of
his uncles and asks them to take him to a mosque every time a
"muezzin" calls for prayers.
*Indo-Bangladesh
bodies to persuade govts, The Daily Star, June 5, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=299343&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
DHAKA: Business leaders of Bnagladesh and India
have agreed to persuade their agreements for a bilateral transport agreement to
facilitate goods and passengers o boost trade.
*Singh to flag off Poonch-Rawalakote bus, Kashmir Times, June 5, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=299350&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
POONCH: Prime Minister Manmohan
Singh is expected to flag off the inaugural Poonch-Rawalakote
bus service between India
and Pakistan on
June 19.
*Lanka govt not to go to war: Rajapakse,
Colombo Page, June 5, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=299352&category=Frontend&Country=SRI%20LANKA
COLOMBO: Sti Lankan President Mahinda Rajapakse yesterday said his government has invited the
LTTE for peace talks as the government does not have a ‘a war mentality.”
*Nepal HOR seeks end
to untouchability, The Himalayan Times, June 5,
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=299363&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
KATHMANDU: The House of Representatives
unanimously passed a proposal forwarded by MP Parasu
Ram Meghi Gurung to
announce Nepal as a state free of discrimination
and untouchability, which was tabled on Sunday.
*India, Pak talk TV, movies, Rediff.com, June 01, 2006 16:59 IST
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/jun/01pak.htm?q=np&file=.htm
India and Pakistan
on Thursday held official-level talks aimed at increasing cultural exchanges,
including flow of tourists. Cultural Secretary Badal Das met his Pakistani counterpart Jalil
Abbas on the first day of the two-day talks in New
Delhi on Promotion of Friendly Exchanges.
*Pak,
India
to trade 500 prisoners, DAILY TIMES | Thursday, June 01,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=298176&category=frontend&Country=main&pro=0
ISLAMABAD:
Pakistan and India
agreed on Wednesday to exchange 500 civilian prisoners and fishermen by June 30, 2006 during the third round
of Pak-India secretary-level talks on terrorism, drug trafficking and civilian
prisoners.
*68 members of divided
families cross LoC HINDUSTANTIMES | June 01,2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=298223&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
JAMMU:
Sixty-eight members of divided Kashmiri families crossed over via Roshi point along the Line of Control in Mendhar sector of Poonch district
of Jammu and Kashmir on Tuesday, official sources said.
*Nepal army vows to obey govt orders, Reuters, May 29, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=297457&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
KATHMANDU:
The chief of Nepal’s
army said on Sunday the military would accept the orders of the new government,
his first comments since parliament curbed King Gyanendra’s
powers, including his control over the armed forces.
*Quest to save the unborn girl in India,
India West, May
26, 2006
NEW DELHI:
Actvists of women’s organizations, health networks,
and civil rights groups here May 19 protested growing sex selection in the
country, leading to a dramatic drop since the 1991 census in child sex ratio
against girls, especially in northern states.
*Bangladesh celebrates Tagore’s birthday, India
West, May 26, 2006
DHAKA
(PTI): Bangladesh
May 8 celebrated the 145th birth anniversary of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore with the
country’s leaders remembering his contribution to the Bengali language.
*South Asian states
vow to boost ties, Dawn, May 28,
2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=297133&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
BHURBAN: Six South Asian countries, including Pakistan
and India, have
unanimously pledged to enhance cooperation in social development to optimise the effectiveness of their policies.
*Bangladesh hands over 9 militants to India,
New Kerala, May 28, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=297185&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
KHOWAI: Indian officials said this was the first instance of
Bangladesh
extraditing terrorists to India,
adding, it was a good gesture that would help in improving the relations
between the two countries
*India, Pak agree on Sir Creek Survey, The
News, May 27, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=296932&category=frontend&Country=main&pro=0
NEW DELHI: In a
significant step towards resolving one of the eight issues within the framework
of composite dialogue, Pakistan
and India on
Friday agreed to conduct a joint survey of Sir Creek and adjoining waters
within five months.
*India will help Bhutan conduct 2008 polls, Times of India, May 27, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=297118&category=Frontend&Country=BHUTAN
GUWAHATI: India
will help Bhutan
to hold the first ever national election in 2008, when the Himalayan kingdom
formally makes its transition from monarchy to a parliamentary domocracy.
*Opportunity for peace must be grabbed, Dawn, May 26, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=296778&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
LAHORE: The
Indian stance on Kashmir has softened and they now want
to resolve the isssue through dialogue, according to
leader of opposition Maulana Fazlur
Rehman.
*Indian grant for goiter control in Nepal,
The Himalayan Times, May 24, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=296184&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
KTAHMANDU: India
has agreed to provide a grant assistance of Rs. 116
million for the control of goiter and iodine deficiency disorders in Nepal.
*Kabul
wants weapons free Asia, Zee News, May 22, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=295703&category=Frontend&Country=AFGHANISTAN
KABUL: Afghanistan’s
Foreign Minister today Rangeen Dadfar
Spanta said, “Afghanistan
wants an Asia free from nuclear weapons.”
*40 years after last ferry to Karachi,
varsity plans voyage on naval ship, Snehal Rebello snehal.rebello@expressindia.com, Mumbai Express,
(via Kartik Desai)
MUMBAI: As part of its sesqui-centennial
year—150th anniversary—celebrations, the university is planning to sail in
November or December, around 100 members, comprising students and faculty
members, on a maiden goodwill voyage to Karachi in a naval ship—the
Mumbai-Karachi ferry services were stopped after the 1965 Indo-Pak war. They
will visit universities in Pakistan—Karachi
and Sindh—which were part of the Bombay Presidency in
the pre-Independence era.
*Peace in Afghanistan a must for Pakistan, Daily
Times, May 21, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=295481&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
PESHAWAR: Pakistan’s Interior Minister Aftab
Ahmad Khan Sherpao said on Saturday that peace in
Afghanistan was essential for a prosperous Pakistan and that Islamabad was
taking all possible measures to ensure durable peace in that country.
*Pak for visa-free access to journalists, News Today,
May 21, 20006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=295496&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
DHAKA: Pakistan
will consider giving visa-free access to South Asian journalists and would
bring up the matter on Monday’s meeting of tourism ministers of the seven SAARC
countries at Cox’s Bazaar in Bangladesh.
*Indian president Kalam with maulvis on a mission, Rediff.com, May 18, 2006
http://ia.rediff.com/news/2006/may/18look3.htm?q=np&file=.htm
Thirty-five Muslim scholars from the militancy-affected
areas Jammu & Kashmir, on a mission to spread the message of peace in the
valley met president A P J Abdul Kalam at Rashtrapati Bhavan on
Thursday.
*India
joins Afghanistan
gas pipeline project, Rediff.com, May
19, 2006
http://ia.rediff.com/money/2006/may/19gas.htm?q=bp&file=.htm
NEW DELHI: The
Cabinet on Thursday approved India
joining the Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan natural gas pipeline.
*Nepal
to be a secular state, Financial Express, May 18, 2006
KATHMANDU: In a historic step, Nepal’s
Parliament on Thursday unanimously decided to drastically curtail the king’s
political and military powers, and proclaimed Nepal
to be a secular state.
*’Boli’, not ‘goli’ to move ahead: Fazl,
Hindu, May 18, 2006 http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=294792&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
NEW DELHI:
Lamenting the absence of warmth in the relations between India
and Pakistan,
Leader of the Opposition in Pakistan’s
National Asssemly Maulan Fazlur Rehman said here on
Wednesday that boli (dialogue) and not goli (bullet) was the only way to move forward.
*Peshawar-Jalalabad bus next
week, Daily Times, May 18, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=294699&category=Frontend&Country=MAIN
PESHAWAR: The
Pak-Afghan Dosti Bus service between Peshawar
and Jalalabad is likely to be inaugurated on both
sides next week, after a break of 27 years, transport officials said Wednesday.
*Indian extends help to the Maldives
in information sector, IRNA, May
18, 2006
http://www.southasianmedia.net/index_story.cfm?id=294824&category=Frontend&Country=MALDIVES
NEW DELHI: A Maldives delegation now visiting India has been
informed that it is willing to extend all possible help to its neighbor in the
field of information and broadcasting as well as other areas, according to the
Indian Minister of Information, Broadcasting and Parlaimentary
Affairs P. R. Dasmunsi.
ESSAY/CREATIVE WRITING CONTEST
*July 31 is the deadline for
Indiana University India Studies Program’s 2006 Kishor
M. Kulkarni ARTS AND HUMANITIES PRIZE ON MODERN INDIA.
First place $1,500, second place $1,000 and third place $500. Entries must be
accompanied by fully completed application form available at www.indiana.edu/~isp/kulkarni.htm
PEACE CAMPIGNS
*United for Peace and Justice
(UFPJ) has teamed up with the creative activists at BringThemHomeNow.com to
raise money for its “SUPPORT THE TROOPS, END THE WAR – BRING ALL THE TROOPS
HOME, NOW!” campaign by putting a peace sign emblazoned with a yellow ribbon on
a real 39 cent stamp. The stamps can be purchased at www.goodstorm.com/click/155311/11
PEACE EVENTS
*June 22, New York, NY, USA: A SPIRITUAL AGENDA FOR PEACE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE THROUGH DISARMAMENT AND
AN EMPOWERED UNITED NATIONS. This one day’s conference to be held 10:00 –
12:00 and 14:00 – 16:00, in United Nations Conference Room 2, at 326 East 48th
Street, will take up the theme of the first gathering of October, 2005
and is designed to discuss in more detail a proposed action plan: More info
from Anke Kreutzer (CEO, ACWR US), A Centre for the
World Religions, Saegestr. 37, D 79737 Herrischried, Germany,
Tel: 0049-2253-930279, email: steea@t-online.de
*June 23-28, Vancouver, BC:
WORLD PEACE FORUM 2006: WORKING TOGETHER TO END WAR AND BUILD A PEACEFUL, JUST
AND SUSTAINABLE WORLD. More info from www.worldpeaceforum.ca or 604.687.3223.
*June 24, Vancouver, B.C., Canada: WAR AND
PEACE IN SOUTH ASIA, a public forum being organized by SANSAD, in conjunction with the World Peace Forum, and featuring speeches by Aziz Baloch, Hassan
Gardezi, Imran Munir, Haider Nizamani, Promod Puri, Abi Sharma, and Hari Sharma, 2 pm to 6 pm, Langara
College, 100 West 49th Ave, Room A 122 A. Admission is free. More info from Dr.
Hari Sharma (604) 420-2972, sansad@sfu.ca
*August 6-9, Lahore,
Pakistan: SECOND VISA-FREE & PEACEFUL SOUTH ASIA
CONVENTION. More info from Rajeshwar Ojha
at ojha@valleyus.com
*August-October:
INDIA-PAKISTAN PEACE DAY 2006. The Association for Communal Harmony in Asia
(ACHA) pritamr@open.org invites suggestions regarding this year’s
theme and core project for this year’s celebrations. More info at www.indiapakistanpeace.org
*September 21: PEACE ONE DAY. This year, for the first time in
the history, Peace One Day will attempt to manifest commitments for its
celebration in all 191 member-states of the United Nations. Also
people are urged to join the global effort to observe a minute of silence for
peace at 12-noon on 21 September. More
info from www.peaceoneday.org, or
Jeremy Gilley Founder, Peace One Day, Block D, The Old Truman Brewery, 91 Brick
Lane, London E1 6QL, Tel: +44 (0) 207 456 9180, Fax: +44 (0) 207 375 2007,
Email: info@peaceoneday.org
PEACE ORGANIZATIONS
*The Society for the Study of
Peace, Conflict, and Violence: Peace Psychology Division (Division 48) of
the American Psychological Association, 750 First Street NE, Washington, D.C.
20002-4242. Contact Person: Dr. Linda M. Woolf woolflm@webster.edu
“Peace is possible: Think it.
Plan it. Do it,” is the Society’s slogan. It works to promote peace in the world
at large and within nations, communities, and families. It encourages
psychological and multidisciplinary research, education and training on issues
concerning peace, non-violent conflict resolution, reconciliation and the
causes, consequences, and prevention of violence and destructive conflict.
Besides other things the Society publishes Peace and
Conflict, a quarterly journal, and Peace Psychology, a quarterly newsletter.
More information can be found at www.peacepsych.org
WEBSITES
*www.focuslanka.org is the Colombo,
Sri Lanka-based, interactive website of the Social Scientists’ Association for
“the open exchange of alternative and independent news and original analysis
relating o current issues.”