February 1999
Contents and Introduction
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Issue number 67 February 1999 Contents and Introduction | |
 Click on the UN flag above to look through the pages in sequence – or go directly to any of them below.
In this issue
GLOBAL POVERTY The UN Human Development Report
THE ORIGINAL MOTHER'S DAY PROCLAMATION
MOMENTUM BUILDS FOR AN END TO NUCLEAR WEAPONS Cr
Robert Green RN
TRIDENT PLOUGHSHARES 2000 CAMPAIGN
ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON World Peace
UNOY 2nd GLOBAL YOUTH PEACE CONFERENCE
WHO OWNS OUR GENES? UNESCO "Sources"
PEACE AND SECURITY IN THE NEW ERA The Stanley Foundation, USA.
1999 – The UN International Year of Older Persons
THE IX INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION
CULTURE AND PEACE
ALL TEACHERS FOR PEACE? Joint message by UNESCO, ILO, UNDP and UNICEF
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This could be an opportune moment to reflect on the daunting thought that we along with other life forms – are the product of a 15-million-year evolutionary process." The scientists also estimate that our sun will continue to sustain life on earth for another 2000 to 3000 million more years. According to the US physicist Sidney Liebes *: "In each of us, three million potassium atoms explode every minute-far-reaching remnants of the supernova explosion that gave birth to our solar system – reminders that we are truly stardust." It is the ability to think that has re-connected humanity with its celestial home and made us aware of the origin we have in common with all other forms of life, from atoms to stars. And our sense of awe and wonder grows as the universe reveals to us its secrets, its laws and its breathtaking beauty. Turning then our gaze towards our own little planet, we see the state of affairs of the world today – the product one might say of our own evolutionary journey – reflecting the kind of thought and feeling with which we have predominantly to date ruled our domain. We seem to have forgotten the meaning of the name we gave to that Whole of which we now know ourselves to be a part. Engrossed in a continuous striving for more knowledge; exploring and experimenting and reaching ever further insights into the mechanics of life as we know it, we still seem uncertain as to the overall meaning and purpose. In spite of our enhanced knowledge of the laws of nature and of the universe, disunity appears at present the preferred sovereign. Long before humanity had acquired today's technical expertise and based mainly on a sense of unity – a feeling yet to be proven to be true – we named this our heavenly home "the Universe" (L", universus: combined into One). Now proven to be true, we must re-discover the sense of unity and re-connect with the essential rhythm 'of universal law and work with renewed understanding to restore health and beauty the life and meaning - to this part of the whole for which we are responsible. * Co-author, "A Walk Through Time, from Stardust to Us", published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York.
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