Article – Peace as an Organizing Principle

Article: Peace as an Organizing Principle, by By Louise Diamond, Ph.D.
Peace as an organizing principle is an intriguing and revolutionary idea that, if applied at the global, national, and individual levels, would radically change the world we live in. To explore that further, let us consider how it would be if peace were truly [...]

Fogotten wisdom: Eisenhower’s vision of America

Here are some good quotes on America’s role in the world, from the farewell address of US president Dwight D. Eisenhower.
“America’s leadership and prestige depend, not merely upon our unmatched material progress, riches and military strength, but on how we use our power in the interests of world peace and human betterment…”
“Throughout America’s [...]

CNN and Negative News Bias

Open letter to CNN and CNN International:
24 April 2006
Our good friends at CNN and CNN International unfortunately continue to exercise poor judgment in the matter of selection of headlines and regular news stories. A strong negative bias is evident–that is, a narrow focus on stories which portray conflict, aggression and divisiveness.
The most recent illustration [...]

Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace, March 2006, Seville, Spain

The Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for peace took place in Seville (Sevilla), Spain from 19 to 22 March 2006.
From their final declaration:
“In the name of the One Creator and Master of the Universe, the Compassionate and All Merciful, we Muslim and Jewish leaders and representatives, gathered for the Second [...]

Peace Quotations

If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
In order to rally people, governments need enemies… if they do not have a real enemy, they will invent one [...]

Cost of Iraq War

At the Iraq war outset, the Bush administration produced an initial cost estimate of about $250 billion. They also announced that, using oil revenue, Iraq could “refinance its own reconstruction.”
Two economists, Linda Bilmes and Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, have now estimated the total (current and future) cost of the Iraq war to US [...]

Philosophy

Welcome to my Peace Psychology blog.
For now, this format is just an experiment, as it appears much easier to keep a weblog like this than to keep my various websites up to date.
The basic motivating philosophy is this:

That how we, as human beings, construe reality is determined by mental patterns or schema, which [...]