Journal of the Research/Action Team on Nonviolent Large Systems Change,
an interorganizational project of the Organization Development Institute
Vol. XIX, No.2 Winter, 2005
Nonviolent Change helps to network the peace community: providing dialoguing, exchanges of ideas, articles, reviews, reports and announcements of the activities of peace related groups and meetings, reviews of world developments relating to nonviolent change and resource information concerning the development of human relations on the basis of mutual respect.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Editor's Comments - Nonviolent Change on the Web
Upcoming Events - Announcements
Dialoguing - What We Are About:
Security Scholars for a Sensible Foreign Policy, An Open Letter to the American People:
729 security scholars want 'fundamental reassessment' of Iraq war policy
Letter from Search for Common Ground, Fall 2004
Thoughts from Ingrid Sato. The Worst of Nature is Evoking the best of Mankind
Niko Kyriakou, "Cultivating Empathy: A Nonviolent Strategy"
Christopher Schwartz, "The 21 st Century Palestinian"
Sami Awad, "A practical guide to a successful non-violent strategy"
Yossi Alpher, " Non-violence in the Abu Mazen era"
Miftah editorial, "Nonviolent resistance may be a miracle recipe"
Ephraim Sneh, " Sharon?s plan will perpetuate war"
Mohammad Daraghmeh, " Four Years after it Began, Did the Palestinian Intifada Fall Victim
to its Own Mistakes?"
Akiva Eldar, " Learning all the wrong facts"
Josie Mendelson, " Begin with the Children"
Lauren Gelfond Feldinger, "Israeli, Palestinian Pediatricians Partner to Treat Palestinian Children"
Jon Leyne, " OEWater Factory? Aims to Filter Tensions"
Rami G. Khouri, "Washington and Damascus - Make Deals, Not Wars"
Jason Erb and Noha Bakr, " Clash or Dialogue: Reality and Perception"
Robert W. Hotes, "Using Appreciative Inquiry to Facilitate Positive change In America's Most
Impoverished Big City: Exploring Strategies for Positive Change in an Urban Setting"
COEDITORS:
Stephen Sachs ( until March 1 ) Marilee Niehoff Robert W. Hotes
4820 Broadway St. 5550 S. South Shore Dr. #502 American College of Counselors
Indianapolis, IN 46205 Chicago, IL 60637 824 S. Park Ave.
(317)924-5965 (773)753-4622 Springfield, IL 62704
ssachs@earthlink.net Marilka834@aol.com (217)698-7668
dbdoc@sbcglobal.net
Beginning March 1, Steve Sachs will be at 1916 San Pedro, NE, Albuquerque, NM 87110 (505)265-9388. E-mail remains unchanged.
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NONVIOLENT CHANGE JOURNAL ( NCJ ) ON THE WEB
Nonviolent Change is on the web at: http://mypage.iu.edu/~ssachs/ , along with back issues beginning Spring 2004. Several years of previous back issues are at www.circlepoint.org. To be notified by E-mail when new issues are posted, send a request to be added to the NCJ notification E-mail list to Steve Sachs at: ssachs@earthlink.net . Issues are usually posted: Fall, in late September or October; Winter, in January or early February; Spring in mid-March to end of April.
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EDITORS COMMENTS
Wishing you a fine New Year. The world continues to go through many shifts producing a great many developments in areas of our concern. Beginning with this issue, the winter issue will focus on articles and commentary, and will not carry the compilation of news and notes of the spring and fall issues . WE WELCOME YOUR THOUGHTS ABOUT ALL THAT IS IN PROGRESS. These pages serve as a networking and dialoguing vehicle between annual meetings. We strongly encourage you to contribute articles (up to 1500 words), news, announcements, comments, queries, responses and art work. It would be very fine if we could develop ongoing discussion from issue to issue. WE ESPECIALLY INVITE YOU TO SEND US A BRIEF NOTE ABOUT WHAT YOU ARE DOING, YOUR CONCERNS AND QUERIES, RELATING TO NONVIOLENT CHANGE, FOR OUR "WHAT WE ARE ABOUT" COLUMN." Whenever possible, please make submissions on disk or via e-mail (ssachs@earthlink.net).
Please SEND WRITINGS AND ART WORK FOR NONVIOLENT CHANGE to Steve Sachs (address top of p. 2 ). Steve puts together a draft of each issue and sends it to Marliee Niehoff and Bob Hotes for Editing. Steve then undertakes e-mailing, printing and snail mailing, and posts the issue on the web (unsigned writings are Steve's). We are looking for someone who may be able to format our issues in a better way and who might handle our e-mailing and putting the issues on the web . We would welcome their joining in the editing and writing. We welcome additional editors and column writers to cover geographic or topic areas on an ongoing or one time basis.
COMMUNICATING ABOUT ANY OTHER RESEARCH/STUDY TEAM BUSINESS CAN BE DIRECTED TO ANY OF THE COCHAIRS (ADDRESS ON P. 1) or to OTHER MEMBERS OF THE COORDINATING COMMITTEE: DON COLE, ORGANIZATION DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE, 11234 Walnut Ridge Rd., Chesterland, OH 44026 (440)729-7419, DonWCole@aol.com, www.odinstitute.org, who is coordinating networking among organizations.
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