Fall | Winter 2004

The Sacred Artist

Photo © Lynsey Addario

GLOBAL GOVERNANCE

At Home in the Cosmos

by Maurice Strong

What form of global governance is appropriate for the 21st century?


CIVIL SOCIETY

The Social Artist

by Jean Houston

Leadership for the 21st century.
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INTERNATIONAL LAW

International Law in a Unipolar World

by Richard Falk

Should the US seek a permission slip before it wages war?
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NEW ECONOMICS

Total Corporate Responsibility

by Frank Dixon

For economic sustainability only a systems approach will suffice.

TENSION IN BARCELONA

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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Photos © Subhankar Banerjee

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

CENTER STAGE AT LINCOLN CENTER AND THE UNITED NATIONS

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.