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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.

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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


Minerva, vol 32

Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
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Part 1: (1.88 MB)
Security: The New Paradigm of Interconnectedness by Nafis Sadik
  Overcoming Wars and Empire by Incentivizing Justice and Democracy by Lucy Law Webster 
   
Part 2: (682k)
The Responsibility to Protect: Catchphrase or Cornerstone of International Relations? by Ingrid Harder
   
Part 3: (591k)
The Responsibility to Protect and the ICC: America's New Priorities by Kelly Whitley
  Letter supporting the establishment of the United Nations Emergency Peace Service
  International Justice and the Challenge of Enforcement by Fatou Bensouda
  Justice as an Essential Component of Peace by Karen Odaba Mosoti
   
Part 4: (359k)
The Economics of Insecurity by Caroline Thomas
  An EU Covenant on the Right to Water: An Idea Whose Time has Come by Maude Barlow
   

 Part 5: (772k)

 BOOK REVIEW: Lydia Swart and Estelle Perry's Global Enviornmental Governance, Perspectives on the Current Debate reviewed by Marquita K. Hill

   BOOK REVIEW: James A. Yunker's Political Globalization: A New Vision of Federal World Government reviewed by Ronald J. Glossop
   
   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
   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
   NOTES AND RESOURCES
 


Minerva, vol 31

Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
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Part 1: (1681k)
Conviviality: Wishes and Consequence by Thesil Morlan
  Beyond Disasters: Creating Opportunities for Peace by Michael Renner & Zoe Chafe
  Sustainable Water Supply in the 21st Century by Margaret Catley-Carlson
   
Part 2: (476k)
Population: Closing the "Baby Gap" by Barbara Crossette
  Dark Underbelly of the World's Most "Peaceful" Countries (Gap in Global Peace Index) by Riane Eisler
  Rape and Post-Conflict Justice by Noeleen Heyzer
  BOOK REVIEW: Naomi Roht-Arriaza's The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights, reviewed by Mary Ann Tetreault
  BOOK REVIEW: Robert Johansen's A United Nations Emergency Peace Service: to Prevent Genocide and Crimes against Humanity, reviewed by Ron Glossop
   
Part 3: (639k)
INTERVIEW with Carolyn McAskie, Assistant Secretary General for Peacebuilding Support, by Anja Papenfuβ
  PROFILE: Peace Secured by World Federation and Disarmament: Marion McVitty, WFA Pioneer at the UN by Barbara Walker & Lydia Walker
  On the Value of Weighted Decisions in UN Voting and Representation by Lucy Law Webster
  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
   
Part 4: (1206k) NOTES & RESOURCES

Minerva, vol 30
Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
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Part 1: (465k)

Congruence of Civilizations by Thesil Morlan
  Passive Acceptance of Others' Peculiarities Not Enough! by Kofi Annan
  An Unavoidable Clash of Civilizations? by Ghassan Tueni
  Critical Cosmopolitans: New Sovereignty/New Enlightenment by Madhavi Sunder
  NOTES: Complementarity
  When Culture Overrides the Law, by Kathambi Kinotri
  NOTES: Cosmopolitan Education, by Amartya Sen
  Substantive Citizenship: Feminist Politics in a Fundamentalist World, by Gita Sen
   
Part 2: (300k) The Current State of International Law, by S. James Anaya
  Indigenous Peoples and the International Criminal Court, by Eva Nudd
  NOTES: Quandaries of Identity, by Joan Cocks
   
Part 3: (262k) The Case for Contamination, by Kwame Anthony Appiah
  NOTES: Challenges of Association, by Maura Leen
   
Part 4: (357k) BOOK REVIEW: Theda Skocpol's Diminished Democracy: From Membership to Management in American Civic Life, reviewed by Tony Fleming
  RESOURCES
  LETTER

Minerva, vol 29
Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
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Part 1: (237k)

Armory for Human Security by Thesil Morlan
  Renewing the Commitment to the Rule of Law & Human Rights by Mary Robinson
  Terrorism as an International Crime by Leila Nadya Sadat
  NOTES: Borders and People at Risk
   
Part 2: (144k) INTERVIEW with Antonio Guterres,UN Commissioner for Refugees, by Kathleen Newland & Kirin Kalia
  Trafficking, Smuggling, and Human Rights,by Jacqueline Bhabha
  Dilemmas of Contemporary Trafficking Work, by Alice Miller
  The UN Trafficking Protocol and CEDAW: At Legal Odds, By Phyllis Coontz & Catherine Griebel
  UPDATES: CEDAW
   
Part 3: (207k) Millennium Development Goals and CEDAW, by Caren Grown
  A New Way of Doing Business (Post-Summit), by Mary Robinson
  NOTES: Some Other Reactions to UN Reform Summit
  Post-Summit Reaction: The Good News, by Barbara Crossette
  NOTES: Home Improvement/Planet Renovation
  RESOURCES
   
   

Minerva, vol 28

Editor: Thesil Morlan, WFI Steering Committee
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Part 1: (295k)

Tempered Confidence by Thesil Morlan
  Speaking Law to Power by Joan Fitzpatrick
   
Part 2: (130k) Beyond the Hague by Richard Dicker & Elise Keppler
  PROFILE: Gloria Atiba-Davies at the ICC by Diana Belletieri
  Juvenile Justice and Child Soldiering by Christina Clark
   
Part 3: (255k)
California’s CEDAW Bill, The New Massachusetts Human Rights Bill and Related Efforts
  NOTES: Planet Renovation
   
Part 4: (307k) The Globalization of Pollution by Marquita K. Hil
  Equitable and Reasonable Use of Water Within the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin by Elizabeth Burleson
  RESOURCES
 

LETTERS: Vahida Nainar, Robert Haines

     

 

 

 

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