And where are the voices of the organized conflict resolution community - ACR, NAFCM, etc? How silent are our leading trainers and theory builders (Roger Fisher excepted)

Bridget Moix, in "A Call to the Conflict Resolution Community " raises these questions loud and clear. Are we purely neutral on all issues? Are we advocates for a process? Or for a point of view? These are wonderful theoretical questions, but they pale in the context of having input over whether we go into yet another war.

And if you don't think the international scene is that treacherous, Try reading Ron Kraybill's The Wall and 'Supply Side Security. Ron Kraybill prophetically moves us to examine the big picture beyond the immediate Iraq crisis. It is a sobering yet clarion call to engage the root causes of violence rather than treat the symptoms. All the more reason why those with conflict resolution skills should be applying them to the world scene and why the national organizations need to take leadership in promoting negotiated solutions to international crises.

Never were our skills and insights needed more. If you do nothing more than deluge your senators and representatives with CR oriented letters - that's a start. A good resource for doing this is a letter writing wizard on the Friends Committee on National Legislation. It makes locating congress-people and contacting them easy. Check out http://fgc.org and follow prompts to "Legislative Action"

Editorial
Hi. I'm Paul Wahrhaftig. I'll be your server as you explore the international world of conflict resolution. Our specialty of the day is a dialogue on the pros and cons of President Bush's refusal to negotiate with the Talaban.

Witness to Genocide: The Children of Rwanda (Book Review)
The writing in this little book briefly covers the history of the Rwandan Genocide, profiles of some of the children and hopes for the future. But the real story is in the pictures Dr. Raundalen, another psychiatrist, reflects that a traumatized child will have difficulty contributing to building a peaceful society with democratic institutions.

Belgrade Combating Fear Project
Project MOST, of the Centre for Anti-War Action, in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, has been active in helping citizens overcome the trauma of war as a necessary first step towards breaking the cycle of violence in the Balkans. They are exploring a new approach to the problem - focusing on fear.

Finding A Way Out Of Yugoslavia: Lessons From MOVE
Another place - another time - another violent conflict - but haunting parallels. In the 70's and 80's it was the predominately black counter-culture group called MOVE and the City of Philadelphia. It escalated from a conflict between an assertive community group and its neighbors to armed sieges, a shootout in 1978 which killed one policeman, and an armed assault and bombing by the city in 1985 which killed 11 and burned down an entire neighborhood

The Answer Is Blowing In the Wind
At this moment, there is reason for melancholy. Snjenzana Mrse, from Serbia, is sitting in a panel together with representatives of civil society from other parts of post-Yugoslavia: Kosovo, Macedonia and Croatia. She has lived almost all of her life in Belgrade, but her family comes from Croatia. She is a psychologist working for the Centre for Anti War Action. So she represents the Serbia we hear far too little about these days: the opposition that during the whole of Milosevic's regime worked against the war and for democratic changes. Bravely, persistently and at great personal cost.