Can We Harness Conflict?
By Mark Gerzon
PUBLISHED IN FALL | WINTER 2016
Notice that the question in the title is not can we ‘end’ conflict, or even ‘manage’ or ‘contain’ it. These are old and usually unproductive approaches. The more useful question about conflict today is: Can we harness it?
After studying and working directly with conflict around the world for the last quarter century, and now witnessing my…
Realigning Our Energy
Dear Reader,
At first, I thought this edition of Kosmos Online was an eclectic mix of good articles without a common thread, and was about to say so. Reading through again, the theme that was teasing me suddenly shone through. Each of these essays talks about the ways we need to harness and realign our creative, often contradictory, and healing energies.
Richard Hames, CEO of Centre for the…
Book | The new expanded edition of Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth
Hearing the Cry of the Earth, Preface to the Second Edition by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
When we first published Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth in the autumn of 2013, the understanding that there was a spiritual dimension to our ecological crisis was still a fringe idea. The mainstream of environmental discussion and activity was focused on science and technology, politics and economics.…
Keep Calm & Wake Up
By Richard Hames, CEO, Centre for the Future
Humans shape and construct systems deliberately – but then those same systems shape us - sometimes in ways that are least expected. All systems are designed to deliver what we need. Where the outputs are not what we want (or had intended) then we really only have two options.
1. If it is at all feasible we can redesign the system so that it…
Confessions of a Hypocrite: Utopia in the Age of Ecocide
By Shaun Chamberlin
PUBLISHED IN FALL | WINTER 2016
I confess! I love eating Magnum ice creams!!
But surely as a good, responsible eco-citizen, I must be aware that these relatively cheap, beautifully packaged nuggets of deliciousness are inescapably products of the industrial system that is destroying all that I hold dear?
That Magnums are produced by Unilever, not only the world’s…
The Systems View of Life | Our Pathway Into the Future
By Mark Phillips, via his blog
featured image, Cliff Matias | Standing Rock Youth gather with supporters in Brooklyn. The new scientific understanding of the universe reveals the radical interdependence of all life on Earth.
A growing chorus of voices is acknowledging that the fundamental roots of the environmental disaster lie in the attitudes, values, perceptions, and basic…
Confessions of a Hypocrite: Utopia in the Age of Ecocide
I confess! I love eating Magnum ice creams!!
But surely as a good, responsible eco-citizen, I must be aware that these relatively cheap, beautifully packaged nuggets of deliciousness are inescapably products of the industrial system that is destroying all that I hold dear?
That Magnums are produced by Unilever, not only the world’s biggest ice cream manufacturer but the world’s third…
Can We Harness Conflict?
By Mark Gerzon
Notice that the question in the title is not can we ‘end’ conflict, or even ‘manage’ or ‘contain’ it. These are old and usually unproductive approaches. The more useful question about conflict today is: Can we harness it?
After studying and working directly with conflict around the world for the last quarter century, and now witnessing my home country of America bitterly divided, this question…
Special Preview | Kosmos Journal New Fall/Winter Edition
Dear Readers,
The new Fall/Winter edition of Kosmos Journal has arrived! Print and digital subscribers will be able to access all content online very soon, and the beautiful keepsake print journal is at the printer. In the new edition we reflect on the shifts we have witnessed since we began publishing Kosmos in 2001:
As we begin to unravel the question of how Kosmos and our world has changed…
Excerpt | Can We Harness Conflict?
by Mark Gerzon, coming in Kosmos Journal, Fall | Winter 2016
Notice that the question in the title is not can we ‘end’ conflict, or even ‘manage’ or ‘contain’ it. These are old and usually unproductive approaches. The more useful question about conflict today is: Can we harness it?
After studying and working directly with conflict around the world for the last quarter century, and now…