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  • War and Peace: A Case for Individual Responsibility?

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    Is conflict a part of human nature? An interesting question indeed. This short film illustrates what happens when you take individuals from opposite sides of the pack mentality and place them in a neutral environment. There is no denying the human race is obsessed with conflict. Our history as a […]

  • Peace can be found. Photo taken by Jimmy Brown on Flickr, part of Yahoo Public Domain

    The clash of civilizations and the peace hypothesis

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    Nearly seven billion human beings live on this planet called Earth. Although these seven billion belong to the same species, they are very different. Hundreds and maybe thousands of beliefs occupy their minds. Differences in race, ethnicity, culture, and geographical position have turned mankind into a competing, violent, intolerant race […]

  • El encuentro con el otro: en busca de nuevos caminos

      Abstract: Just a brief look at our everyday environment verifies the presence of conflict as an inherent fact in community life. From the most basic relational structures as the family, to the more complex forms of human association as the nation-state, implicitly involve places of disagreement between different interests […]