disaster relief

• March 31, 2013

  Less Violence

  This podcast introduces a new direction of analysis that is best expressed by the phrase “Less Violence”, which is neither peace nor nonviolence nor exactly conflict resolution. It is a new way of examining the processes by which human institutions move from a state of greater violence to less and less violence and finally approaching nonviolence and positive peace. Click here to listen to this short podcast on Less Violence…

• September 30, 2008

  HOLDING TOGETHER COMMUNITY IN TIMES OF DISASTER: WHITHER AMERICA

  Is America learning from its disasters how to hold people together in community, how to prevent and manage conflict? It is not clear that anything will be learned from the current direction of leadership. The level of corruption from the Republican administration has been astonishing, and can only guarantee that people will be at each other’s throats. This is not how to prevent conflict and build community. Here is this note of concern on FEMA’s response to Ike:

  With hurricanes Gustav and Ike slamming ashore, focus again turns to FEMA’s performance, and we continue to be less than inspired. After Gustav, the agency admitted that it underestimated how much food and water and other goods that Louisiana would need. It promised the people of Houston ice and water in the immediate aftermath of Ike. It turns out that the Salvation Army had hot meals going and a local radio station

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