Index for Volume 7, Issue 3
October - December 1995
Preparing for the next evolutionary leap
Fourth International Dialogue on the Transition to a Global Society, meeting
outside of Washington, D.C., considers how to smooth the path to a peaceful
future.
Science, religion and the strategy for global development
PERSPECTIVE -- The tasks entailed in the development of a
global society call for levels of capacity far beyond anything the human
race has so far been able to muster. Reaching these levels will require
an enormous expansion in access to knowledge, on the part of individuals
and social organizations alike.
Reforesting a mountain desert on Bolivia's altiplano
In the Andes mountains just to the west of this central
Bolivian city is the altiplano: a high, ruggged plataeu on which only the
hardiest of peoples can survive. Graduates of the Dorothy Baker Environmental
Studies Center from four communities in Tapacari Province have organized
their friends and neighbors to help build more than 2,000 small check dams
during 1994 and 1995 -- dams which promise to improve the harsh environment
here.
New York seminar focuses on the role of an international force
NEW YORK -- At a special one-day seminar on restructuring the United Nations,
representatives form select government missions, NGOs and UN agencies generally
agreed that the upgrading of UN peacekeeping operations into a genuine international
force will be required if the UN is to become more effective at containing
war.
In Berlin, NGOs consider the possiblities for global governance
BERLIN -- Representatives from European non-governmental organizations
(NGOs) called for a variety of mearsures to reform and restructure the
United Nations and the international order at a special one-day forum
on global governance, held here on 20 September 1995.
Does good science require a leap of faith?
REVIEW -- In his new book,
The Universe Within: An Exploration
of the Human Spirit, Anjam Khursheed opens a penetrating exploration
of the inherent harmonies between science and religion with a deceptively
simple question: what is this thing called self-awareness?
