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| Interdependency on Diverse Strategies to Overcome Problems |
Humanity's long-term wellbeing is dependent on the incorporation of diverse and co-operative strategies: incorporating the sciences and religion as standard fare alongside the traditional political and economic methods. It is becoming clearer that integrated long term solutions are required and that many "quick fixes" actually create more problems than they solve. Such comments are coming being reflected from a range of fronts, including those battling against AIDS, to looking for solutions to overcome poverty, to finding peace.
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| Iraq: Taking Responsiblity for Peace Making |
The Iraqi people are again demonstrating wisdom and resiliency as they attempt to form a framework that encourages peace, in spite of the provocations from various violence mongerers. Over 800 tribal chiefs have unaminously signed a pact of honour pledging to support the Iraqi prime minister's national reconciliation plan to wipe out sectarian violence and terrorism that has been tearing the country apart.
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| Kyoto: Religions for Peace World Assembly |
The theme of the eigth Peace World Assembly is "confronting violence and advancing shared security." During the four day conference participants are discussing wasy to eliminate violence and work on developing shared security through conflict transformation, peace building and sustainable development. The four day conference is being attended by 2000 people from over 100 countries; including 500 religious leaders from 70 countries.
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| Building The Vocabulary For Religious Diversity |
Religious Diversity. What is it? How do we do it? Should we be doing it? Would our God approve? What does that mean? How do we cohabitate with "the other" without losing or compromising what makes us unique? These are the sort of questions that are starting to be discussed. The mystics tell us that before something can be made manifest within this world, it must first be understood and envisaged. These are important discussions and questions that will shape our world and civilizations not just for the next few days or months, but for decades and generations to come.
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| Ethical Stem Cell Research Breakthrough? |
The science pages are humming that there might have been a breakthrough in embryonic stem cell research, where cells can be harvested without damaging the embryo. If true, this is excellent news. However this potentially lucrative market has already proven it can elevate fraudulent science with the recent Korean scandal. Therefore the cynical would call for evidence of "safely harvested" embryos then being allowed to grow to maturity to demonstrate that the embryo is both viable and suffers no congenital defects as a result of the stem cell harvesting.
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| AIDS: Exposes Realities of Human Sexuality & Indiscretions |
There are clear patterns emerging in the AIDS pandemic that throw light on human sexuality and promiscuity. Because AIDS is such an honest mirror into human activity (you can only catch it through the exchange of bodily fluids and not from sneezing) it is as effective as pregnancy for proving something happened.
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| Technocrats Taking On Sustainability |
Subscribing to news bulletins can bring up the quirkiest of articles. For example an excellent article from Engineer Live where Dr Robin Batterham considers how chemical engineering has developed as a discipline, and postulates how it will need to operate to meet the major challenges on the path to sustainability.
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| Peace Comes When You Heal Rather Than Judge |
The most profound healings often rise up from the ashes of our failures. Well known author Charles Handy often comments that success can blind us to the need to change, and that can often be the thing that leads to our failing. Confronted with an uncomfortable future, both nations and individuals can try to restore their past glory using outdated strategies based on superceded paradigms. Yet sometimes the solution is not to restore the past but to contemplate the future and the implications of choices.
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| Social Economies to Transcend Knowledge & Industrial Economies |
The size of one's economy or population or natural resources is no handicap to being able to add-value to the global community. Cultural, intellectual and spiritual resources are going to be our best weapons in the struggle to come to grips with AIDS pandemic, overdependence on violent solutions, the end of the oil age, the need to adequate provide and care for the enviroment and world's citizens.
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| AIDS: A Reformation Looking Beyond Death to Living |
"We must stop helping people to die and start helping them to live" commented Rev. J.P. Heath at this week's International AIDS conference. The long-term nature of the AIDS crisis makes religion a key player comments UN's Dr Peter Piot. He explains that because mosques, churches and temples endure for generations and address the needs of their communities over generations, this makes them the ideal institutions to take on the fight against AIDS. Some authors, such as James Pinkerton are seeing the signs of a coming Reformation that will give a second wind to the existing activists in their fight against AIDS. And the possibilties of genuine multi-disciplinary collaboration across the sciences, social sciences and politics is giving some observers hope.
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