Thursday, June 5 in NYC: Innovative Community-Based Responses to Conflict: The Promise of the Humanness Model
forwarded announcement from ACR-GNY:
John Jay College of Criminal Justice: 899 Tenth Avenue, Room 630, NYC
Thu, June 05, 2014, 8:00 AM
of Greater New York
and
The CUNY Dispute Resolution Center at John Jay… Continue reading
March 15, NYC: “Singers in the Band”
Reminder:
A Screening and Symposium on Military Sex Trafficking
Organized by the International Institute on Peace Education and the Global Network of Women Peacebuilders, with the support of the Biosophical Institute
March 15, 2014
11:30 AM… Continue reading
Solidarity for Dan Baron’s Cultural Education Project in the Amazon
Dear all,
please read the following message by our friend Dan Baron from the Amazon rainforest. Our support is urgently needed.
With kind regards,
Uli
Films for Human Rights Educators
I found this message from 2012 from Jan Künzl, which I want to share with you all:
Dear Human Rights Educators
Last year, we produced a short animated video clip which gives an overview about Human Rights. Since the video… Continue reading
Film: A Path to Dignity – The Power of Human Rights Education
Dear all,
I recommend to watch this film, freely available at http://www.path-to-dignity.org/. It was jointly produced by Human Rights Education Associates (HREA), Soka Gakkai International (SGI), and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights… Continue reading
Bankers and the Neuroscience of Greed
Another article from 2012 which is important still today:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/jul/02/bankers-greed-brain-changes
Excerpt:
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Researchers at Tilburg University showed that people made to feel more powerful cheated more when they believed themselves to be unobserved. Power also made ordinary people more hypocritical… Continue reading
Free Will? NYT Review of Book by Sam Harris
Have It Your Way
By DANIEL MENAKER
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/books/review/free-will-by-sam-harris.html?pagewanted=all
July 13, 2012
FREE WILL
By Sam Harris
83 pp. Free Press. Paper, $9.99.
For centuries, the question of free will — of whether human beings make choices that are not, or… Continue reading
NYT article: “Compassion Made Easy”, by David de Steno
Dear friends,
I’d like to share an excerpt from this New York Times article from July 14, 2012:
“ALL the major religions place great importance on compassion. Whether it’s the parable of the
good Samaritan in Christianity, Judaism’s “13 attributes… Continue reading
NYT Book Review: “College”, by Andrew Delbanco
Dear friends,
this book is from 2012, but it still caught my attention: Michael S. Roth’s NYT review of the book
COLLEGE – What It Was, Is, and Should Be
By Andrew Delbanco
229 pp. Princeton University Press. $24.95.
Excerpt… Continue reading
International ICT Seagulls Project
Dear friends,
please have a look at the proposal by our friend Hayal Köksal, copied below.
With kind regards,
Uli