billingsgazette.com top headlines (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
The Institute for Peace Studies on Friday evening will present the Jeannette Rankin Peace Award to local contractor Terry Fettig for his work with several nonprofit organizations. The award is given each year to a Montanan or person with Montana ties ...
Ryan McCarl (Free subscription) | 11/13/2008
After several years of intensely studying history and international relations, I feel as though my beliefs about war and international politics are more or less settled, and I've developed a fairly coherent personal philosophy that guides my political writing. I believe, for example: -Belief in the fundamental equality of individual human beings - regardless of accidents of birthplace, nationality,...
Peace Action Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2008
Join author DAVID CORTRIGHT for a discussion and signing event for his latest book, PEACE: A History of Movements and Ideas. Friday, November 14, 6:00-7:30 p.m. In the Langston room at Busboys & Poets 14th and V Streets, Washington, DC View Table of Contents [pdf] for PEACE More about David Cortright Veteran scholar and peace activist David Cortright [...]
the Big Sky Blog (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
Mr. Terry Fettig is the 2008 recipient of the Jeannette Rankin Peace Award, presented by the Institute for Peace Studies at Rocky Mountain College. He joins such notable past recipients as: U.S. Senator Mike Mansfield; Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen; C.A.I. founder Greg Mortenson; U.N. Ambassador George McGovern; and more outstanding peacemakers who reside in Montana or [...]...
Newswise (Free subscription) | 10/31/2008
St. Lawrence University has a new, interdisciplinary minor program in peace studies, whose purpose is to "investigate a variety of concepts of peace and to explore the potential for nonviolent methods of building social, political and economic justice."
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 11/11/2008
Prendergast Returns to USD for Two-Week Residency with School of Peace Studies SAN DIEGO, Nov. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- They come with a message that "Enough is enough." Members of the University of San Diego's STAND student chapter will join activist and bestselling author John Prendergast and special guests, including actress Emmanuelle Chriqui (Cadillac Records, You Don't Mess...
Some Soldier's Mom (Free subscription) | 11/03/2008
Our local paper features a local "guest columnist" who is so far left that he is entirely off the page. He teaches at a local "alternative college"... and -- you cannot make this up -- he teaches peace studies and social thought . Around town you don't even have to use his name... people say "the local professor of unproductive thought and navel gazing". He is a "peace at any cost"...
Atlas Shrugs (Free subscription) | 10/27/2008
First watch this .... I'll wait. When I read Bruce Bawer's article, The Peace Racket, in the summer of 2007, I never imagined that the "peace department" would/could indeed become a reality. Neither did I believe the extreme example Ayn Rand put forth in Atlas Shrugged to demonstrate her philosophy and prove her epistemology would be rendered pale, almost timid, by the Orwellian plot...
Gabrielle Cusumano (Free subscription) | 10/20/2008
... called the Small Schools Workshop, which promoted public schools that advanced themes such as peace studies, multiculturalism and environmentalism.From 1998-2002, the CAC gave the Small Schools Workshop at least $800,000 in grants, according to publicly available IRS 990 forms filed by the CAC.In 2001, according to the records of the Illinois State Board of Elections, Ayers made a...
