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Current Concerns No 1, 2004 - Contents

• Instead of Getting Used to War ...
• Finding the Will to Live by the Values We Proclaim
  'Do we still have universal values?'
  Kofi Annan at Tübingen University, Germany, on 12 December, 2003
• New Year Thoughts for 2004: Professor Dr. h.c. Hsiao Kuriki, Tokyo
  Establishing Practical Concordance - Worrying Situation in the World Today
• On the Eve of 2004
  by Roberta M. Gilbert M.D., Basye, Virginia
• Violence Is Not Law of Nature
  Seville Statement on Violence (1986)
• War Watch #6
  by Joseph D. Douglass, Jr., Washington D.C.
• New Year Thoughts for 2004: Prof. Dr. Oktay Sinanoglu, Turkey/USA
  Living in Peace and Mutual Respect
• New Year Thoughts for 2004: Radek Vogl, Prague/Czech Republic
  Peace and Justice for the Year 2004
• After the Russian Elections - Back to the Soviet Empire?
  by Professor Werner Gumpel, Munich
• New Year Thoughts for 2004: Dr. Zoltan Adorjan, Slovakia
  Peace is the first step
• Gold Wars
  by Ferdinand Lips, Switzerland
• Militarization, Eastern Expansion and Core Europe
  The European Union in the Year 2004
  by Karl Müller, Germany
• New Year Thoughts for 2004: Professor Jean-Paul Bled,Paris
  Iraq Invasion Opened Pandora's Box
• Peace is possible and it is a duty! An Ever Timely Commitment: Teaching Peace
  Message of Pope John Paul II for the Celebration Of The World Day Of Peace, 1 January 2004
• New Year Thoughts for 2004: Neil Francis Young PhD., USA
  Greetings for the New Year
• Genetically Modified Energy
  Seeds of Destruction in the Polish Countryside
  by Julian Rose, International Coalition to Protect the Polish Countryside
• Radioactive Hazard in Kazakhstan
• Iraq and the Problem of Peak Oil
  by F. William Engdahl
• OECD: The Trojan Horse Within
  Short history of the OECD and its PISA activities
  by Fred Naylor, Educational Consultant, UK
• Our Youth is Our Hope for the Future
  by Joseph M. Kyalangilwa, President of the Civil Society of the South Kivu Region/Africa
• New Year Thoughts for 2004: Students of the Petit Seminare St Paul school, Buta, Burundi
  Peace for the world