Short Video: Dr. Joseph Bock addressing Rotarian Breakout Session at the RI Convention in Lisbon
See the video Dr. Bock made for Rotarians attending the 2013 Rotary International Convention in Lisbon here.
Short Video: RAGFP Member Ann Frisch & Nobel Laureate Jody Williams talking about Rotary & Peace
View this short video featuring Rotarian Action Group For Peace Member and Nonviolent Peaceforce Senior Advisor Ann Frisch as well as Nobel Laureate Jody Williams speaking about the role of Rotarians in peacebuilding.
Inequality Is a Choice
by Joseph E. Stiglitz, Nobel Economics Laureate – The New York Times It’s well known by now that income and wealth inequality in most rich countries, especially the United States, have soared in recent decades and, tragically, worsened even more since the Great Recession. But what about the rest of [...]
Peace in Syria
by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service XIII World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Warsaw, Poland Oct 2l-23, 2013 Dear Friends, In May, 2013 I led a 16-person peace delegation to Syria at the invitation of Mussalaha National Movement. What we witnessed inside Syria was not being [...]
The US Calamities: There Are Solutions
by Johan Galtung, 21 Oct 2013 - TRANSCEND Media Service Manassas, VA, USA Political terrorism failed. The House Republicans used voting in one US chamber to put millions of people inside and outside the US at livelihood risk for their own political goals. And made the mistake of most terrorists, non-state [...]
War toys–what’s the harm?
"I had war toys when I was a boy and I turned out fine." Really? Are you sure about that? One of my students posted about taking her four-year-old nephew into the supermarket, giving him her phone to play with to amuse himself. He played Angry Birds and squealed with [...]