Countries are increasingly facing the question of transgenerational transmission of trauma from their previous acts of war, ethnic cleansing, and genocide. How countries choose to confront that past has significance on the future course of their society. Truth commissions have been used in many countries as a means to collect accounts of torture,…

Most people in South Korea expressed deep sympathy for the innocent victims of the September 11th attacks, but, unlike their government's official position that supported U.S. military action, many were opposed to the war the United States began in Afghanistan. The president asked for emphasis on peace and anti-terrorism education. Since the role…

This report is devoted to the role and effectiveness of the state: what the state should do, how it should do it, and how it can do it better in a rapidly changing world. The pathways to an effective state are many and varied. The report provides a framework for guiding these efforts, in the form of a two-part strategy. The first part of the…

This teaching guide is intended to encourage and facilitate the inclusion of the National Peace Essay Contest (NPEC) in the high school curriculum, featuring all of the details of the 1999-2000 NPEC. The guide contains lesson plans for teachers, bibliographic materials, and factual material to prepare students to enter their essays in the contest.…

Article considered what can be done to relate education to social and economic needs. (Author/RK)

Author considered the future of comparative education in terms of four interrelated worlds of discourse'', the world of new nations, crises in old nations, the world of scholarship, and the professional world of teacher education. (Author/RK)

Offers a contemporary analysis of the interaction of man and the rest of the biota. Suggests that the dependence of man on nature is, more than the crisis of energy and world economics, the emergent scientific and political issue of the next years. (JR)

Four specialists analyze the multiple functions of the United Nations in the field of human population. (Editor/JR)

Discusses the threat of a race for first-strike capacity as a factor influencing the achievement of world disarmament. Indicates that the process of graduated unilateral disarmament'' would be better than that of first-strike capacity by leaving enough time for one side to take comparable action after completion of disarmament efforts by the…

A rationale for adding a global perspective to teaching is developed. Emphasis is placed on inquiry, the development of critical thinking and decision-making skills, clarification regarding value formation, and acquisition of sufficient information for analysis and understanding of other human beings. (SM)

This article focuses on the evolution of school projects in three areas of concern: appreciation of different cultures, understanding world problems, and commitment to international cooperation. Each section covers the general lines of educational development and detailed descriptions of individual projects representative of basic trends. (SM)

The author, who was working on this article at the time of his death, expresses his views on the energy crisis and the problems of environmental pollution associated with it. In his estimation, both problems are products of the population explosion. (Editor/JR)

The problems of Southern Africa are significant for Americans because they involve issues of racial, economic, and political injustice so stark and so closely related to our own society's greatest shortcomings that our failure to respond adequately raises doubts about the sincerity of our avowed human commitments at home as well as abroad. (Author)

Discusses problems that make the development of education in the developing countries very difficult, if not impossible.'' (Author)

In paper read at the annual meeting of the National Association for foreign Student Affairs, Kansas City, April 29, 1970, author urges that instead of Americanizing foreign students, we should internationalize education on our own campuses. (IR)