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Minerva
Minerva is a ten-year-old twice-yearly journal, now supported by the World Federalist Institute of Citizens for Global Solutions. It is named in honor of one of the four women signers of the United Nations Charter, Minerva Bernardino, who helped found the UN Commission on the Status of Women.
To subscribe to Minerva, please contact Thesil Morlan at
thesil [at] midcoast.com
or
Minerva
PO Box 397
Waldoboro, ME 04572
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Call for Responsibility to Protect Essays
Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
Roger Cohen in his 21 February 2008 New York Times column, “A Change to Believe In”, wrote:
"I believe the tide will eventually turn. R2P will be a reference. It is part of what Lawrence Weschler has called “the decades-long, at times maddeningly halting, vexed, and compromised effort to expand the territory of law itself.
"The 'territory of law' is now also the universal territory on which human life is protected. Westphalian principles meet R2P. An R2P generation is coming."
If you are part of an 'R2P Generation', how does that principle characterize your views, intentions, and expectations? What might a world governed by such a generation look like? How should the Responsibility to Protect be expressed in global citizenship?
Send your thoughts on these and any related questions to the address below by 1 September 2008. Several essays will be selected for publication in future editions.
thesil [at] midcoast.com
or
Minerva
PO Box 397
Waldoboro, ME 04572
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Minerva, vol 32
Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
You can download Minerva volume 32 in full (PDF, 3.99MB ), or download each part separately below.
Part 1: (1.88 MB) |
Security: The New Paradigm of Interconnectedness by Nafis Sadik |
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Overcoming Wars and Empire by Incentivizing Justice and Democracy by Lucy Law Webster
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Part 2: (682k)
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The Responsibility to Protect: Catchphrase or Cornerstone of International Relations? by Ingrid Harder
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Part 3: (591k)
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The Responsibility to Protect and the ICC: America's New Priorities by Kelly Whitley
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Letter supporting the establishment of the United Nations Emergency Peace Service
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International Justice and the Challenge of Enforcement by Fatou Bensouda |
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Justice as an Essential Component of Peace by Karen Odaba Mosoti |
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The Economics of Insecurity by Caroline Thomas |
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An EU Covenant on the Right to Water: An Idea Whose Time has Come by Maude Barlow |
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Part 5: (772k)
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BOOK REVIEW: Lydia Swart and Estelle Perry's Global Enviornmental Governance, Perspectives on the Current Debate reviewed by Marquita K. Hill
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BOOK REVIEW: James A. Yunker's Political Globalization: A New Vision of Federal World Government reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop |
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BOOK DISCUSSION: Didier Jacob's Global Democracy- The Struggle for Political and Civil Rights in the 21st Century, discussed by Claude Buettner, Didier Jacobs, and Joseph Schwartzberg |
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BOOK REVIEW: Strobe Talbott's The Great Experiment: The Story of Ancient Empires, Modern States, and the Quest for a Global Nation reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop |
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NOTES AND RESOURCES |
Minerva, vol 31
Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
You can download Minerva volume 31 in full (PDF, 3100k), or download each part separately below.
Part 1: (1681k) |
Conviviality: Wishes and Consequence by Thesil Morlan |
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Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace by Michael Renner & Zoe Chafe
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Sustainable Water Supply in the 21st Century by Margaret Catley-Carlson
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Part 2: (476k)
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Population: Closing the "Baby Gap" by Barbara Crossette
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Dark Underbelly of the World's Most "Peaceful" Countries (Gap in Global Peace Index) by Riane Eisler |
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Rape and Post-Conflict Justice by Noeleen Heyzer
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BOOK REVIEW: Naomi Roht-Arriaza's The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights, reviewed by Mary Ann Tetreault
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BOOK REVIEW: Robert Johansen's A United Nations Emergency Peace Service: to Prevent Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, reviewed by Ron Glossop
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Part 3: (639k)
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INTERVIEW with Carolyn McAskie, Assistant Secretary General for Peacebuilding Support, by Anja Papenfuβ
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PROFILE: Peace Secured by World Federation and Disarmament: Marion McVitty, WFA Pioneer at the UN by Barbara Walker & Lydia Walker
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On the Value of Weighted Decisions in UN Voting and Representation by Lucy Law Webster
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INTERVIEW: Women's Engagement with the UN Human Rights Council, with Mary Jane Real, Coordinator for the International Campaign on Women Human Rights Defenders, by Isis International |
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NOTES & RESOURCES
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Minerva, vol 30
Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
You can download Minerva volume 30 in full (PDF, 588k), or download each part separately below.
Part 1: (465k) |
Congruence of Civilizations by Thesil Morlan |
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Passive Acceptance of Others' Peculiarities Not Enough! by Kofi Annan |
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An Unavoidable Clash of Civilizations? by Ghassan Tueni |
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Critical Cosmopolitans: New Sovereignty/New Enlightenment by Madhavi Sunder |
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NOTES: Complementarity |
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When Culture Overrides the Law, by Kathambi Kinotri |
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NOTES: Cosmopolitan Education, by Amartya Sen |
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Substantive Citizenship: Feminist Politics in a Fundamentalist World, by Gita Sen |
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The Current State of International Law, by S. James Anaya |
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Indigenous Peoples and the International Criminal Court, by Eva Nudd |
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NOTES: Quandaries of Identity, by Joan Cocks |
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| Part 3: (262k) |
The Case for Contamination, by Kwame Anthony Appiah |
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NOTES: Challenges of Association, by Maura Leen |
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BOOK REVIEW: Theda Skocpol's Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, reviewed by Tony Fleming |
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RESOURCES |
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LETTER |
Minerva, vol 29
Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
You can download Minerva volume 29 in full (PDF, 418k), or download each part separately below.
Part 1: (237k) |
Armory for Human Security by Thesil Morlan |
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Renewing the Commitment to the Rule of Law & Human Rights by Mary Robinson |
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Terrorism as an International Crime by Leila Nadya Sadat |
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NOTES: Borders and People at Risk |
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INTERVIEW with Antonio Guterres,UN Commissioner for Refugees, by Kathleen Newland & Kirin Kalia |
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Trafficking, Smuggling, and Human Rights,by Jacqueline Bhabha |
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Dilemmas of Contemporary Trafficking Work, by Alice Miller |
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The UN Trafficking Protocol and CEDAW: At Legal Odds, By Phyllis Coontz & Catherine Griebel |
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UPDATES: CEDAW |
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Millennium Development Goals and CEDAW, by Caren Grown |
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A New Way of Doing Business (Post-Summit), by Mary Robinson |
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NOTES: Some Other Reactions to UN Reform Summit |
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Post-Summit Reaction: The Good News, by Barbara Crossette |
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NOTES: Home Improvement/Planet Renovation |
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RESOURCES |
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Minerva, vol 28
Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
You can download Minerva volume 28 in full (PDF, 692k), or download each part separately below.
Part 1: (295k)
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Tempered Confidence by Thesil Morlan |
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Speaking Law to Power by Joan Fitzpatrick |
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| Part 2: (130k) |
Beyond the Hague by Richard Dicker & Elise Keppler |
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PROFILE: Gloria Atiba-Davies at the ICC by Diana Belletieri |
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Juvenile Justice and Child Soldiering by Christina Clark |
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| Part 3: (255k) |
California’s CEDAW Bill, The New Massachusetts Human Rights Bill and Related Efforts |
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NOTES: Planet Renovation |
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| Part 4: (307k) |
The Globalization of Pollution by Marquita K. Hil |
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Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Within the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin by Elizabeth Burleson |
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RESOURCES |
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LETTERS: Vahida Nainar, Robert Haines
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