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Mapping a Freedom to Learn: Why Students Must Maintain Their Right to Organize on Canadian Campuses
Our contemporary university and college campuses are sites of great transformation these days. Corporate donors are driving academic...
Science for Peace
Nov 15, 20115 min read
The US Military Assault on Global Climate
By every measure, the Pentagon is the largest institutional user of petroleum products and energy…Yet the Pentagon has a blanket...
Science for Peace
Nov 15, 201113 min read
Evolving with the Times
On behalf of my late parents, John and Lois Dove, I send you 30th birthday greetings from Berlin, Germany. My parents were active in...
Science for Peace
Nov 15, 20111 min read
Climate Politics at the Crossroads
Introduction For nearly 20 years the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has been the international body responsible...
Science for Peace
Nov 15, 20119 min read
The Future of Science for Peace
Originally the work of Science for Peace focused on the science of the nuclear age, a phenomenon that our members saw as a suicidal use...
Science for Peace
Nov 15, 20113 min read
President's Letter: Science and Reason
This year Science for Peace celebrates its 30th anniversary. We can look back with pride at our history of vibrant, challenging...
Science for Peace
Nov 15, 20115 min read
On the Shoulders of Giants
We are where we are now because we have stood on the shoulders of giants. I remember several who are no longer with us — Eric Fawcett,...
Science for Peace
Nov 15, 20114 min read
Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose: a 30-Year Retrospective of Science for Peace
This is a mere summary meant to celebrate our history, a selection of some representative activities of Science for Peace on the occasion...
Science for Peace
Nov 15, 20116 min read
Message from the President of Science for Peace
The current Arab democratic revolutions are deeply stirring. Among the many trajectories for consideration is the relation of individual...
Science for Peace
Apr 5, 20113 min read
Celebrate Our 30th!
This month marks the 30th anniversary of the founding of Science for Peace. Seventeen directors signed the incorporation papers and they...
Science for Peace
Apr 5, 20112 min read
The Silent Casualty of War: The Global Environment
The brunt of war in the 20th and early 21st centuries has shifted from combatant soldiers to civilians due to more powerful war weapons,...
Science for Peace
Apr 5, 20115 min read
Sudan’s Secession Referendum: A Historical Punctuation Mark in the Making
On January 30th, 2011, the results of the historic referendum for the secession of South Sudan were made public, with the official...
Science for Peace
Apr 5, 20116 min read
Peace and Democracy in Russia
When Gorbachev came to power, over 90 percent of Soviet citizens conformed to the demands of the state without complaining. My book...
Science for Peace
Apr 5, 20115 min read
In Memoriam: Terry Gardner, A Man to Remember
Science for Peace will long be grateful for all the ways Dr. Terrell Gardner contributed to its birth and life. Terry was the founder and...
Science for Peace
Apr 5, 20114 min read
Editor's Book Nook
Books Swimming Against the Tide: The Peace Pledge Union Story 1934-2009. (Peace Pledge Union, 2010). Mountain Justice: Homegrown...
Science for Peace
Apr 5, 20111 min read
Transnational Security Challenges: Threats without Enemies, Security without Borders
The world is interdependent in areas as diverse as financial markets, infectious diseases, climate change, terrorism, nuclear safety and...
Science for Peace
Jan 11, 201111 min read
Editor's Book Nook
The Russian Quest for Peace and Democracy by Metta Spencer. Lexington books, 2010. “In this book Metta Spencer tells the important but...
Science for Peace
Oct 28, 20102 min read
Climate Change and Industrial Agriculture
Our society depends on industrial agriculture for cheap foods. Yet ongoing climate change already has led to extreme weather, including...
Science for Peace
Oct 28, 20104 min read
Message from the President of Science for Peace
A task for Science for Peace, a small organization of hard-working and vocal people, is to pick and choose how to best channel our...
Science for Peace
Oct 28, 20103 min read
Can the U of T Be an Agent for Social Change?
Universities are often publicly perceived to be spaces for objective research and critical thinking to challenge the existing status quo...
Science for Peace
Oct 28, 20104 min read
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