Index for Volume 9, Issue 2 July - September 1997

In Cambodia, a literacy project aims to promote peace and empowerment

The “Hope for the Heart” project seeks not only to improve reading and writing skills but also to instill the values needed to create a nonviolent culture.

The Exigences of Globalization

PERSPECTIVE— Currently in international circles there is a great debate over globalization and whether it is a force for good or bad. That statement oversimplifies the matter, of course. But the issue of globalization and our collective response to it promises to define who prospers and who does not well into the 21st century.

Around the world, Bahá'í youth workshops promote tolerance

PLAU, Germany — After touring through 19 countries in 12 months, members of the Diversity Dance Workshop were used to surprises, from finding a planned border crossing through Croatia impossible because of war to a quirky new minibus that had an unusual series of three flat tires.

“Orphanage Without Borders” in Togo is a testimony to individual effort

SOTOUBOUA, Togo, West Africa — Amgna Kotoko comes from a poor farm family, and, growing up outside this small agricultural town near the Mono River in Togo's heartland, his childhood was one of hardship.

Restrospective exhibition on Mark Tobey opens in November at Madrid's perstigious Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia

MADRID — An international retrospective exhibition on the work of artist Mark Tobey is scheduled to open in November at the prestigious Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia featuring some 130 works from more than 50 separate collections.

One World, Ready or Not: The Manic Logic of Global Captialism By William Grieder

REVIEW— Question: What do metalworking unionists in Zurich, Muslim women in Malaysia, and peasant-farmers-turned-aircraft-partsmakers in China have in common?