[PN] A Culture of Peace? (3 Nov. 2003)

[Steve McCarty]

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* Reference Websites

ESL MiniConference Online: http://www.eslminiconf.net
Robb Scott <jayhawk76@yahoo.com>
Includes "Dueling letters from readers on whether there's a
difference between ESL and EFL, and whether it matters"
http://www.ESLminiconf.net/mail.html
TESOL Peace Forum in DC
http://www.ESLminiconf.net/nov2003/peace.html
[The DC UNESCO head spoke there, and UNESCO has been advocating a
culture of peace. Could there be any connection to US Congressional
attempts to cut off UNESCO funding before renewal? More below - Ed.]

English Listening and Reading
[free, graded for all levels - Ed.]
http://www.time4english.com/

* Articles on American culture and politics

Interview with Joe Wilson
[George Bush, Sr. had called him a "true American hero" - Ed.]
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17091

Dark heart of the American dream
Observer Magazine (The Guardian, UK), June 16, 2002
"It's the most polluted state in the planet's most powerful country.
Ed Vulliamy goes into George Bush's backyard to reveal how big oil
got in bed with big politics and the price paid by the little people"
[Even special interests call the Bush dynasty a "vending machine"
for oil and other Texas energy companies - Ed.]
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,11913,738196,00.html

UNESCO Funding in Trouble
National Coalition for History (NCH)
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=H-NCH&month=0310&week=e&msg=FsruEpnusiEu9aSCyqCuHw&user=&pw=
Or click on REVISED: NCH Washington Update ... 30 October 2003) at:
http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~nch

[Do you think that a culture of peace is realistic -- as an aim
or as a practice? Post-War Japan does have it in the sense of a
war-renouncing Constitution (made in USA) and an educational
ideology that has helped to produce a society admirably free of
overt violence. But Japan is criticized for 'peace senility'
(to translate the Japanese) in face of the missle threat from
North Korea, as well as for free-riding under the American
nuclear umbrella to concentrate on wealth-building exports.
To practice a culture of peace would also mean not attacking
those with whom one strongly disagrees. Such dissent may be
too subtle and nuanced to be effective politically in achieving
more peacemaking regimes. Are there 'best practices' here too? - Ed.]

Collegially, Steve McCarty, Professor, Kagawa JC, Japan
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