By TFF associates
Chaiwat Satha-Anand
9/11, 9/20 and Gandhi’s Puzzle: Fighting Postmodern Terror/ Modern Warfare with Peaceful Alternatives
This paper is an attempt to understand the conditions of the world as different peoples and states turn more to the prospects of violence as evident in Afghanistan, Palestine, Philippines, Nepal or India/Pakistan, among others, and a way out of this tyranny of violence.
Jonathan Power, TFF associate, Jan. 10, 2002
Poverty could breed more bin Ladens
It’s an undisputable, well-researched, fact that poverty, particularly when it exists in a society of gross inequalities, breeds violence, crime and the urge to deal out deadly punishment on conventional society.
Jonathan Power, TFF associate, Dec. 18, 2001
Will the lost children of the street be the next bin Ladens?
Despite fifty or more years of the Third World foreign aid industry the rich countries have still not got their priorities right. Problems of this magnitude left unattended will come back to us. Will these children, once adults, revenge their lost childhood in awful, bloody ways too? I fear many of them will.
Evelin Lindner, TFF associate, Dec. 12, 2001
The lessons of humiliation
An unconventional, deeply personal account of how the author came to study humiliation, write a second doctoral thesis and live as a global citizen. To reach the maturity that permits us to give up the idea of revenge and work to reconciliate and forgive is about the most important thing we can study. And do.
Free and innovative research in the essential spirit of TFF. We congratulate our dear associate as doctor of psychology!
Else Hammerich, TFF board, December 12, 2001
Working with conflicts in Zone 1 – the example of “the war on terrorism”
When international crises occur, we tend to react due to impulsive feelings and mainstream attitudes. Prejudice, enemy images and ideas of retaliation and revenge form public opinions. Then follows the escalation of violent hostilities.The conflict worker, however, has the possibility of using the methods of conflict resolution in order to stay more balanced, think more deeply and come up with sober arguments and alternatives to the use of violence.
Richard Falk, Nov 29, 2001
Defining a Just War
I have never since my childhood supported a shooting war in which the U.S. was involved, The war in Afghanistan against apocalyptic terrorism qualifies in my understanding as the first truly just war since World War II. See some reactions to this controversial analysis in The Nation.
David Krieger, November 18, 2001
The unity of lemmings
Before we reach the edge of the cliff and go over like lemmings, it’s time to stop blindly following the path of military force. We should instead give leadership to strengthening an international system through the United Nations capable of ending terrorism and the conditions that give birth to it.
Daisaku Ikeda, 18 november, 2001
A spiritual response to September 11
For much of our history, humanity has been trapped in vicious cycles of hatred and reprisal. We must redouble our efforts to break this cycle and transform distrust into trust. I believe that this is the most effective and fundamental antidote to terrorism and its repugnant worship of violence.
Maj Britt Theorin, 17 november, 2001
Utplåna grunden för terrorismen
En massiv Marshallplan under FN:s ledning för fattigdomsbekämpning och demokratibistånd i tredje världen är ett bättre sätt att bekämpa terrorism än militärt krig. De verkliga förlorarna i Afghanistan är kvinnor och barn.
Wilhelm Nolte, TFF associate, October 19, 2001
Geheiligter Krieg?
Je militärischer der Verteidiger, desto geringer seine Siegchance im Terrorkrieg…So stehen wir dann im eigenen, “humanitär” selbst geheiligten Krieg – gegen die Kämpfer des „Heiligen Krieges”?
PressInfo # 137, October 17, 2001
A new Marshall Plan: Advancing human security and controlling terrorism
Our priorities must change now. Instead of a war coalition, rich nations should build a coalition to eradicate hunger, immunize children, provide clean water and combat illiteracy. It would be cheaper, too.
By Michael Renner, TFF Associate, & Dick Bell.
PressInfo # 134, 17 oktober, 2001
Sverige og 11. september
En konkretisering af PressInfo 133 – om Sveriges støtte til bombningerne i stedet for at understrege FNs Charter om fred med fredelige midler. Og om hvorledes kritiken vokser.
Robert Jay Lifton, FreshAir online (Radio)
Three interviews about cults, September 11 and Aum Shinrikyo
RealAudio
PressInfo # 134, October 17, 2001
Sverige och 11 september
Konkretisering av PressInfo 133 – om Sveriges stöd till bombningar istället för att understryka FN:s stadgans normer om fred med fredliga medel . Och om hur kritiken växer.
Robert Jay Lifton, TFF Associate, LA Times, Oct 12, 2001
Interpreter of organized evil – with and about RJL
PressInfo # 135, October 10, 2001
Preventing a terrorist mushroom cloud
Is there any reason to believe that terrorists who hate us would not seek to attack the United States with nuclear weapons or other weapons of mass destruction if they could obtain them?
Daisaku Ikeda, TFF associate, October 9, 2001
Initial perspectives on the terror – a plea for nonviolence
Because we cherish Western civilization, we urge humanity to resolutely pursue the path of nonviolence. We insist that a just and equitable international tribunal be established to try those responsible for acts of war and terrorism.
PressInfo # 134, October 9, 2001
Sweden and September 11
Concrete examples of how the Swedish government chooses to acquiesce in the policies of the U.S. and the European Union (EU) rather than defending the interests of small states and the UN norm of peace by peaceful means.
Maj Britt Theorin, TFF rådgivare & Ingrid Segerstedt-Wiberg, October 1, 2001
Vi ska exportera fred – inte mer våld
Sverige bör åter tala med fredens röst. Vi skall inte exportera en armé för att bekämpa terrorn, utan en fredspolitik och en fredsfilosofi.
Radmila Nakarada with Miroslav Pejulic, October 1, 2001
The tragedy of a tragedy – global terrorism and repressive globalisation
The hawks may exploit this moment to create a global garrison state. But there are principled alternatives – among them superior ethics.
Chaiwat Satha-Anand, October 1, 2001
Understanding terror and making the right choice
A Muslim and researcher of peace and non-violence argues that for peace to prevail at this precarious moment, the conditions for the success of terrorism must be undermined.
Wilhelm Nolte, September 30, 2001
Stellungsnahme zu dem Massentötungsterror in New York
Die heimtückischen, perfiden und brutalen Terrormassenmorde in New York erklären Entsetzen, Empörung, Erbitterung, Wut, Trauer und Schmerz. Sie rechtfertigen in einer rechtsstaatlichen Gesellschaft keineswegs den Ruf nach Lynchjustiz („dead or alive”, Bush).
Robert Jay Lifton, in Chronical of Higher Education
September 28, 2001
Giving Meaning to Survival – about responding to Sept 11
PressInfo # 132, Sept. 27, 2001
A just response
The Bush administration lacks the sort of political, moral and spiritual imagination that might help us better cope with this catastrophe. But civil society must try, and be principled. Unilateralism and militarism is unacceptable. By Richard Falk.
PressInfo # 131, Sept. 26, 2001
Seven steps to improving U.S. and global security
The US response to the attacks should adhere to three basic criteria: it should be legal, moral and thoughtful. Here follow a series of non-military proposals. By TFF associate David Krieger.
PressInfo # 130, Sept. 25, 2001
Constructive thoughts two weeks after September 11 (B)
The events of that date can be met with humility and soul-searching, with political and legal means, and in a ‘soft’ mode. A series of ideas and proposals.
PressInfo # 129, Sept. 25, 2001
Constructive thoughts two weeks after September 11 (A)
Can something positive come out of the terrible events in New York and Washington on September 11? Can the innocent victims of many nationalities and walks of life be honoured by hard thinking about a more peaceful world?
Per Gahrton, TFF rådgivare, 23 sept 2001
Kriga inte – skipa rätt
Om terrordådet och motreaktionen definieras som krigshandling och vedergällning kommer terroristerna och deras anhängare att jubla. Då har deras gnista varit effektiv nog att tända den stora präriebranden.
PressInfo # 128, Sept. 20, 2001
Is it possible for America to say ‘Sorry’?
Do we want to make the situation worse or do we want to take a momentous leap of imagination and reach out to make it better?
Jørgen Johansen, TFF rådgivare, September 20, 2001
Kampen mot terrorismen får nye dimensjoner
Spørsmålene om årsak og virkning trenges til side for en primitiv ryggmargsrefleks om hevn. Ethvert militært svar på det som skjedd vill skape grobunn for generasjoner av kreative og offervillige USA-hatere. Besinnelse nu!
Jørgen Johansen, TFF rådgivare, September 20, 2001
Makten över begreppen – terror, krig, demokrati
Det finns en ovanligt vårdslös användning av begrepp som påverkar vår uppfattning av vad det var som hände. USA underminerar sin egen demokrati.
David Krieger, TFF associate, September 20, 2001
Reflections on the terrorist attacks
Some Americans are calling for vengeance. But we are fighting phantoms, and our military power is not sufficient to assure an end to future threats.
Peter Jarman, TFF associate, September 17, 2001
The terrorist attacks in the USA – A personal view
I am anxious that rather than addressing the causes of unrest in the world today, the British and American governments may increase this unrest by military actions.
PressInfo # 127 September 12, 2001
For the arrogance of power America now pays a terrible price
Long before George Bush became president America has been turning in on itself, to the point of self-destructiveness. It needs a new way of looking at the world. To meet the attack eye for eye and tooth for tooth, as Gandhi once said, is to make everybody blind.
Elsewhere
Yoshikazu Sakamoto, Sekai, Japan, Jan. 2002
The Politics of Terrorism and “Civilization: How to respond as a human being
Professor emeritus, University of Tokyo, one of the most distinguished Japanese peace researchers, criticises the Western interpretation of September 11, analyses the international legal aspects and suggests a new policy for Japan, including a Human Security Corps.
Chris Patten warns that US unilateralism
will be self-defeating
Financial Times, Feb 15, 2002
Sluta vara USA:s transportkompani
Sverker Åström &Anna Lindhs utrikesdeklaration
DN 13 februari 2002
Feature – David R. Loy, Bunkyo University,
Japan, Febr 12, 2002
A new holy war against evil?
A Buddhist response to 11/9
William Bole, National Catholic Reporter,
Feb 12, 2002
Forgiveness makes future possible
Is it purely imaginary to think of an international strategy that deploys forgiveness in the post-World Trade Center era?
Feature – Richard E. Rubenstein, February 8, 2002
Bush’s State of the Union Address and the New Imperialism
The failure of the Democratic Party and the mainstream news media to criticize President Bush’s overwrought, alarmingly bellicose State of the Union speech is no less appalling for being predictable. Their vacuous, timid responses remind us once again that democracy and freedom depend ultimately on ideas and the courage to voice them, not just on forms of legality.
Reconciliation: American victims meet Afghan victims
The Independent, January 16, 2002
The real story behind America’s war
ZNet ecember 27, 2001
Coalition allies lament: It’s still ‘America first’
Peter Ford, Christian Science Monitor
December 27, 2001
Varför så tyst Persson?
Sverker Åström
Aftonbladet 19 december 2001
Talk of town – September 11, 2001
The New Yorker
September 24, 2001
Contributions from John Updike,
Jonathan Franzen, Denis Johnson,
Roger Angell, Aharon Appelfeld,
Rebecca Mead, Susan Sontag,
Amitav Ghosh, and Donald Antrim.
Guds krigare i mörkrets advent
Margareta Zetterström
Brännpunkt, SvDagbladet 16. dec 2001
Terrorkriget föder sina egna mål
Göran Rosenberg
DN 12 december 2001
Humanism viktigare än teknik
Said Irandoust och Ulf Hanning,
Brännpunkt, Svenska Dagbladet
12 december 2001
UN-related resources on Afghanistan
UN Association, U.K.
Ett Song My i Afghanisatan
Olle Svenning, Aftonbladet
30 november 2001
UN talks on Afghanistan
-and much more
UNIC, Bonn
We are the war criminals now
Dr. Robert Fisk
The Independent Nov 29, 2001
Nya terrorlagarna hotar rättsstaten
Leif Silbersky
Aftonbladet 27 november 2001
Christian Science Monitor’s
excellent interactive explainers
Stoppa bombningarna
Olle Svenning
Aftonbladet 7 nov 2001
De ljuger om kriget.
John Pilger i Aftonbladet
29 oktober 2001
A shameful silence as
the bombs drop
Jonathan Steele,
The Guardian,
October 17, 2001
John Pilger on the
bombing of Afghanistan
Sign petition for avoiding war as a response to the terrorist attacks
Here
The 9-11 peace.org
How the world views a US military response…basically negatively (Gallup)
What bin Laden
actually said (BBC)
Svenskt upprop
för bekämning av terrorism med ickevåldsliga medel och för upprättandet av en FN domstol.
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