Category Archives: Introductions

Introduction to IJWP, December 2011 This issue of IJWP contains three articles that reveal some of the toughest challenges to peace that relate to imbalances in power, imbalances in wealth, and imbalances in the treatment of individuals and groups. Our … Continue reading →

Introduction to IJWP, September 2011 Rule of law is necessary for the order, stability, and peace of any nation.Without rule of law there is anarchy in which gangs, warlords, and conquerors compete for control to establish their own rule of … Continue reading →

Introduction to IJWP, June 2011 As the Soviet empire collapsed around 1990, there was great hope that the many peoples whose national identities had been suppressed would get their own nation-states. The ideal of a nation-state as the normal form … Continue reading →

Download .pdf from Paragon House, $5.95 Introduction to IJWP, December 2010 This issue of IJWP focuses on democracy: how to establish it and its relation to violence. We continue from the September issue’s last article “Internal vs. External Requisites of … Continue reading →

Download .pdf from Paragon House, $5.95 Introduction to IJWP, September 2010 Twenty-five years ago, from August 16-20, 1985, the Professors World Peace Academy sponsored a conference on “The Fall of the Soviet Empire: Prospects for Transition to a Post-Soviet World,” … Continue reading →