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Science Matters: Taking the planet for a spin
Perspective is everything. From 50,000 kilometres away, the Earth is just a giant blue ball floating in a dark universe. Zoom in to 5,000...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 20053 min read
Nuclear Alert
We are at a critical point. The NPT Review Conference in May failed. The Nuclear Weapon States (NWS) stonewall on their commitment to...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 20053 min read
Albert Einstein
2005 is the 100 year anniversary of Albert Einstein’s “Miracle Year”. Young Einstein is pictured here before the Einsteins moved from...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 20052 min read
Update on OISE/IKIT Research
Strong opposition to the proposed research partnership between the Ontario Institute for Education’s (OISE) Institute for Knowledge,...
Science for Peace
May 14, 20053 min read
Terminators Galore!
The author is Professor Emeritus at the University of Western Ontario. In Canada, the Seed Sector Review advisory committee issued a...
Science for Peace
May 14, 20055 min read
Kyoto primer
Research compiled for the Sustainable Energy Fair at the University of Toronto on March 30, 2005 by Max Touzel, Julie Tan and Eugenia Tam...
Science for Peace
May 14, 20058 min read
The Reciprocal Signalling Cascade Between State and Non-State Terrorists
An excerpt from a discussion paper for the Pugwash Conference, Seoul, Korea October 2004. (In the section leading up to this discussion,...
Science for Peace
Feb 14, 20057 min read
IHTEC and the Working Group on Peace and Sustainability Education
Science for Peace continues to give the International Holistic Tourism Education Centre (IHTEC) support for their Global Sustainability...
Science for Peace
Feb 14, 20051 min read
Norman Alcock is Awarded the Order of Canada
Norman Alcock, physicist and founder of Canada’s first peace research institute in 1960, received the Order of Canada in the late fall of...
Science for Peace
Feb 14, 20051 min read
Global Sustainability Education Video Conference
On October 13, 2004, a satellite videoconference on “Global Sustainability Education” (GSE) was held, co-chaired by Julia Morton-Marr and...
Science for Peace
Feb 14, 20051 min read
Writing a Letter to the Prime Minister
Most people want their letters to be effective, but some are not aware of how to achieve this. A letter to the Prime Minister can: reach...
Science for Peace
Feb 14, 20052 min read
Videos Available at the SFP office
Several videos which have been used in showings organized for public viewing are kept in the SfP office. These may be borrowed by...
Science for Peace
Feb 14, 20052 min read
Social Science Commentary on Abu Ghraib
Reprinted from International Society of Political Psychology News, Vol. 15, No. 2 (Fall 2004), p. 9. Abstract: The torture of male,...
Science for Peace
Feb 14, 20055 min read
Rational Scheme for a Reformed UN Security Council
Review of Joseph Schwartzberg’s monograph, “Revitalizing the United Nations,” Institute for Global Policy, 2004, 80pp. (A slightly...
Science for Peace
Feb 14, 20054 min read
The Basis of Peace is the Security of the Commons
Introduction “In order to understand a thing, one must change it.” Maria Mies “Maintaining a culture of peace requires an economic...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 200412 min read
Justifications and Racism: Hiroshima Day – August 2, 2004
by Paul Hamel It is encouraging that we continue to gather to remember the atrocity that occurred 59 years ago today. In the next couple...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 20043 min read
Eliminate Launch on Warning
by Alan Phillips and Steven Starr Russian and US long-range nuclear weapons are still at “Launch on Warning,” which makes a purely...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 200411 min read
Electrical Energy Consumption: The Human Side of the Problem
A Brief to the Parliamentary Committee, Queen’s Park, 24 August 2004 From the old path to the new All forms of unceasing growth in...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 200417 min read
Crossing the Lines: Kashmir, Pakistan and India
a documentary by Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy and Zia Mian After four wars, Kashmiris and their land are divided between Pakistan and India, the...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 20041 min read
War as an Institution
Given at the “War as an Institution” Forum with Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy at Innis Town Hall, Friday July 16, 2004. Co-sponsored by Family of...
Science for Peace
Sep 20, 20044 min read
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