Fall | Winter 2004
The Sacred Artist
GLOBAL GOVERNANCE
At Home in the Cosmos
by Maurice Strong
What form of global governance is appropriate for the 21st century?
International Law in a Unipolar World
by Richard Falk
Should the US seek a permission slip before it wages war?
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Total Corporate Responsibility
by Frank Dixon
For economic sustainability only a systems approach will suffice.
Parliament of World’s Religions 2004
by InterSpiritual Dialogue Council
Spirituality and religion meet in Barcelona revealing different levels of understanding and practices.
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IN THEIR OWN WORDS
United Nations DPI/NGO Conference 2004
by Patricia Szczerba and DePaul University Students
Is there any value in large international conferences? Let’s hear what youth have to say.
WORLD WITHOUT VIOLENCE
Barcelona, June 2004
by Cora Weiss
Is a world without violence a utopian dream? See what one group of activists is doing about it.
Performers at World Culture Open
World Culture Open, September 2004
by Nancy Roof
Kosmos introduces an integral perspective at the United Nations Conference on World Culture.
SALUTE
Honoring Avon Mattison
Kosmos honors Avon Mattison for her capacity to transcend and synthesize the many facets and levels of peace and for her role in the declaration of the International Day of Peace.
NEWS COVERAGE
News of the World and the World of News
by Danny Schechter
Are the media and policymakers misreading the American public?
BOOKS
Planetary Citizenship
Review by Surinder Deol
Planetary Citizenship: Your Values, Beliefs and Actions can Shape a Sustainable World, by Hazel Henderson and Daisaku Ikeda.
FILMS
Fahrenheit 9/11, The Corporation, What the #$*! (Bleep) Do We Know
Review by Dale Ironson
The great work of our times is the evolution of consciousness. Can media speed the process?
POETRY
“Inner Circle”
by John O’Donohue
Poetry by John O’Donohue.
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE HUMAN
Towards a New Humanity
by Janis Roze
Hidden sources of help in times of crisis. Read now
Photo © Harold Feinstein
THE CREATIVE IMPULSE OF CULTURE
Beauty: The Divine Embrace
by John O’Donohue
With swift sheer grace, beauty is like a divine breath that blows the heart open.
International Law in a Unipolar World
Article
Should the US seek a permission slip before it wages war? Vice President Dick Cheney received thunderous applause when he declared to the Republican National Convention “George W. Bush will never seek a permission slip to defend the American people.” This bold assertion echoed the language used by President Bush in his 2004 State of the Union Address to underscore an ethos of non-accountability
Tension in Barcelona:Parliament of World’s Religions 2004
Article
On July 7-13, some 8000 persons gathered at the Forum Barcelona, Spain, for the 2004 Parliament of the World’s Religions. The 2004 theme was Pathways to Peace: The Wisdom of Listening, The Power of Commitment.
The Rama J. Vernon Story
Article
The world is like the kink of a dogs tail, said one great master from the Far East, as long as you are holding it you think it is straight but the moment you let go, it just kinks up again. This phrase haunted me as I sojourned to the Soviet Union at the height of the cold war between the US and USSR. I was not a peace activist.
The Social Artist – Leadership for the 21st century
Article
Let us explore the nature and development of our call to service in ways that link inner and outer realities, universal plans and passionate commitment. Let us ask what to do, where to go, how to take initiative and how to understand our role as leader and social artist in this most compelling moment of human history.