LINKS to:  Science, society/culture, health, psychology,
        philosophy, evolution, systems thinking,
      complexity, racism, gender equality and education
         in the context of world problems.   A WORK IN PROGRESS by Gregory Kagira-Watson

I am still in the process of transferring my documents and outside links to this site.  Abundance of material, or lack of it, is not a sign of interest or lack of it, but rather the availability and plethora of materials on the web and their quality. All topics are selected within the broader theme of their relationship to each other -- an integration. Some effort is made to avoid overly-technical information, without diluting the contributions of original thinkers. Most of the information is presented on more than one level of understanding. 

This page is for a general audience with varied and specific interests-- thus journal articles are not always the best introductions (though many are used).  The idea is to map the territory of some interrelated domains (perhaps not always seen as related), though no effort is made to chart a course through this territory.  (In some ways this page maps significant aspects of my own intellectual journey and interests, though most of my own thinking is left out.)  The objective is to provide at least one link for each category, so that each visitor to this page can begin the journey of exploration from at least one point of embarkation in any domain here. 

Eventually this page will look more like a Table of Contents and the categories will have secondary pages so the page will not be so big.  (It is not yet well organized.)  However, for now, it is nonetheless a salutary exercise just to read down the entire list and reflect on the human condition-- with its vast challenges.  (Some links are temporary place-holders. Suggestions and observations are welcome.  I am sure there must be some candidates that should be included here.  Please suggest.  My thanks to Bill Huitt for some of these links in psychology, education.  His extraordinary example inspired me to put this page together and this service he has provided saved me lots of time.)

(Disclaimer/warning:  Not all links found on a "google" FIND page are equally bona fide, nor have they been evaluated for content validity. Use at your own risk.  Best to verify the accuracy of any information in them from more than one source, especially if it does not come through an academic publication--albeit academic research should also be subject to checks for accuracy.  Suggestions for corrections, additions or deletions are welcome.)    

"Knowledge is a single point, but the ignorant have multiplied it."

Society and World Problems

• Segregation, Ethnic Segregation, Genocide

• Bosnia-Herzegovina

• CIA World Fact Book on BiH
• OSCE -- Mission to Bosnia-Herzegovina ONLINE
• Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE)  -- 

• Rwanda

• CIA World Fact Book on Rwanda
• Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire, Meeting the 'Devil' in  Rwanda   (National Public Radio --NPR -- Listen)

• Sudan (Global Nomads Group report)

• CIA World Fact Book on Sudan 
• Should the Mass Killing in Sudan Be Considered a Genocide? (Feb5, 2005) A Debate Between Africa Action and Kofi Annan’s Advisor

Long Island, New York:  An influx of immigrants has brought segregation -- and violence -- to a Long Island community

Segregation, Racism, and Civil Rights in the United States (Harvard Civil Rights Project)  See PDF (Greg Kagira-Watson)

"...the country [United States] is in the throes of the largest migration in American history... And while only a half century ago the country was nearly 90% white, within the next fifty years there will be no racial majority, and non-Europeans will actually outnumber whites in the general population - a demographic shift already appearing in an accelerating number of institutions and communities.  There is no greater challenge facing our nation than race.  ...Evidence of stark inequality abounds in virtually every economic and social sphere, and too many members of racial and ethnic minority groups live in a reality where opportunity remains color-coded. Unattended, this tragedy may well prove apocalyptic...  If we continue to ignore growing inequalities and divisions, we will become a thoroughly balkanized society dominated by a declining white minority. History and headlines worldwide provide ample evidence of the grievous consequences along that path."  http://www.civilrightsproject.harvard.edu/aboutus.php

• The Consciousness of World Citizenship (and implications for Race Unity) --"The Biggest Educational Task of All"
  -- a paper presented at Harvard University's Sixth Annual International Forum (Greg Kagira-Watson)  See update at: Part ONE and Part TWO
• War --  PowerPoint fatalities chart in some major wars (Greg Kagira-Watson)  PDF version
• Death Tolls for the Major Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century
• Secondary Wars and Atrocities of the Twentieth Century
• Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons (a definition)
• The AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa  (8,000 people dying every day)

• Statistics: AVERT and CDC
• World Bank Analysis on AIDS and relationship to Poverty  (Video)

• Eldis analysis of World Bank HIV/AIDS Interventions:  Ex-ante and Ex-post Evaluation

• U.S. State Department  (CRS Report on Appropriations for FY 2003-2005 for international AIDS, et.al. relief)
• AIDS report 2004  (National Public Radio -- npr)
• Kenyan Newspapers
• Treatment Action Campaign in South Africa  (Nelson Mandela advocates publicity of AIDS)
• UNICEF research on AIDS impact on child survival and population growth
• AIDS orphans -- the most overlooked impact of the disease (UN Envoy decries indifference to AIDS orphans)
• The Stephen Lewis Foundation (Lewis is the UN Secretary General's Special Envoy on HIV/AIDS in Africa)

• AFSC's list of issues   (AFSC-- Amercian Friends Service Committee)

• Immigrant's rights / Refugees / Displaced people
• The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict and The Wall 

• The Middle East (NPR -- National Public Radio)
• Exponential Population Growth  (World Bank data bank linking to other online databases)

• example:  50 years ago Africa was 1/3 the population of Europe, by 2050 it will be three times greater.

• Eradicating Poverty through Justice and Equality -- Reducing the Gap Between Rich and Poor

• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Congressional Hunger Center
• Daily, G., & Ehrlich, P. (1995). Socioeconomic equity: A critical element in sustainability. Ambio, 24(1).  Retrieved November 2004, from http://dieoff.org/page101.htm.
• Garrett, L. (2003). Gaps between the rich and the poor. EMBO Reports, 4.  Retrieved November 2004, from http://emboreports.npgjournals.com/cgi/reprint/4/suppl_1/S15.
• O'Rouke, P. J. (1997, June). Closing the wealth gap. Presentation at the CATO conference, Shanghai, China. Retrieved November 2004, from http://www.cato.org/speeches/sp-pjo061897.html.
• Peck, B. (2001). The poor stay poor and the rich stay rich. Issues in Educational Research, 11(2). Retrieved November 2004, from http://education.curtin.edu.au/iier/iier11/peck.html.
• Sala-i-Martin, X. (2002). The disturbing "rise" of global income inequality. Cambridge, MA: National Bureau of Economic Research. Retrieved November 2004, from http://papers.nber.org/papers/w8904.pdf.

<>"The End of Poverty"  (Jeffrey D. Sachs book by the same name.  Time Magazine article -- Official TIME URL -- on Sach's book.)

• National Sovereignty and the United Nations

• Model United Nations (Univ. of Michigan)

• World Terrorism
• Remaining Nuclear Threats: North Korea / Terrorists / Eliminating Nuclear Arsenals

• Signed statement by 60 retired generals from 17 countries
• Washington Post: "The Bush administration's claim this week that North Korea appears to have been the supplier of converted uranium to Libya is based on evidence that could just as easily point to Pakistan"

• BioTerrorism
• Racial Equity in Education: How Far has South Africa Come?  (Council on Foreign Relations)
• The Tsunami Effect on Donor Fatigue  See  Stephen Lewis Foundation
• Democracy

• Dewey and Democracy at the Dawn of the Twenty First Century  (A review of Westbrook's John Dewey and American Democracy)
• Redistribution of authority "to the people" in a world of interdependence (Greg Kagira-Watson)

• Sustainable Development

• A whole page of links on SD
• UN Commission on Sustainable Development
• UN Agenda 21
• United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development   (DESD -- 2005-2014)
• Communicating Sustainability through Global Vision : The Pattern that Connects to our own way of seeing it
• Participatory Planning (Varela)
• Answer to the Exportation of America:  "The Revenge of the Right Brain "

• Article suggests that the new age will be ruled by artistry, empathy and emotion.

• Australian Research Institute in Education (ARIES) -- informs policy and practice in Education for Sustainability

• Education for Sustainability Portal   http://www.aries.mq.edu.au/efsportal.htm

• Links at St. Cloud State college

• Waging Peace through International Outreach, Relationship, Philanthropy and Advocacy

• The Carter Center
• The Tahirih Justice Center (women's rights)

• The illiteracy crisis in America  (Greg Kagira-Watson)

World Citizenship 

• Problems and Possibilities for Relating Citizenship Education and Religious Education in Europe
• Whole-School approaches to Sustainability
• Teaching "world citizenship" in schools around the world.  Presentation at the Forum for Integrated Education and Educational Reform sponsored by the Council for Global Integrative Education, Santa Cruz, CA.  (Greg Kagira-Watson -- 2004).   Part ONE and Part TWO  and Part THREE (PowerPoint -- See notes for PowerPoint viewing.)
• World views: from integration to fragmentation
• Education for greater international understanding (CIES documents)
• More Links

Establishing the Equality of Women and Men

• CEDAW: Treaty for the Rights of Women
• WomensNet from the Progressive Directory
• Women's Studies resources from the University of Maryland--College Park
• Women's Studies worldwide
• The National Organization for Women
• Research Center for Equal Opportunities: Resources in both English and Greek
• The United Nations Division for the Advancement of Women
• The United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women
• Excerpts from Pope John Paul II's letter "To the Women of the World"
• The status of women in Islam

Psychology and Health

• History of psychology -- weaning itself from philosophy and becoming its own domain (topical highlights)

• Sigmund Freud and psychotherapy
• Carl Jung, dreams, symbolism and archetypes
• B.F. Skinner and Behaviorism (behavior modification)
• Humanistic psychology, the "Third Force"
• Developmental psychology Links (by sub-topic)
• Cognitive science (Chomsky, Fodor, et.al.)  Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Abnormal psychology & some interesting areas of investigation

• Social deviance
• Psychology of violence
• Drug abuse, addictive behavior, and the brain
• Obsessive compulsive disorders  / anorexia  /  et. al.
• Criminal genes
• Profiling personality types
• Personality disorders
• Bonding and Attachment disorders

• Bonding : Recent Observations That Alter Perinatal Care
• Study of parental bonding in patients with various personality disorders

• Psycholinguistics
• Neuropsychology
• Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP)  
• Parasychology, Telepathy, extrasensory perception (ESP), etc.
• Developmental psychology  --  going beyond childhood, a site with good links to the literature and organizations

• Psychological health and its dependency on the culture, the environment, parents, etc.
• Recommended Graduate Training Program in Clinical Psychology
• Youth "at risk"

• Developmental Trajectories Toward Violence in Middle Childhood
• National Youth-at-Risk conference
• Essays and links
• Project IF at Harvard

• Sense of self and identity -- self-percept, self-concept, self-esteem
• The Metaphysics of John Dewey’s Conception of The Self (commentary on self realization as the moral ideal by Craig Cunningham, Northeastern Illinois University)
• Sense of self and identity as related to the groups to which one belongs
• Psychology of the "other"
• Prejudice and Moral Dilemmas  (Also see >> HERE )
• Understanding Prejudice -- a Knowledge-Base Essay on prejudice reduction
• Project Implicit--implicit associations test for determining one's own prejudices www.yale.edu/implicit/  (Univ. of Wisconsin review)

• https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/demo/measureyourattitudes.html  ( https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/  << on-going research)

• Emotional development (competence)

• Socio-Emotionally Intelligent Development Politics (connecting socio-emotional development to socio-economic development)

• Volitional competence
• Memory
• Summary Chart on the ANISA Model -- illustrating relationship between actualization of psychological potentialities and the domains of knowledge (Greg Kagira-Watson)
• Mind / Body (or mind / brain) studies (including how psychological health is dependent on the health of the body)
• Exercise and psychological health
• Psychosomatic illness
• Varieties of religious experience and spiritual conditions
• Altered states and baseline consciousness
• Selfhood and Identity in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and Hinduism: Contrasts With the West (DOC file)  also HTML
• The Politics of Experience

• "Even facts become fictions without adequate ways of seeing the 'facts'. We do not need theories so much as the experience that is the source of the theory. We are not satisfied with faith, in the sense of an implausible hypothesis irrationally held: we demand to experience the 'evidence'.  We can see other people’s behaviour, but not their experience. This has led some people to insist that psychology has nothing to do with the other person’s experience…"

• Transcendental experience
• Religious Theories of Personality and Psychotherapy: East Meets West
• Epistemological Psychology   (Edmund Husserl)
• Psychotherapy East and West
• Yoga and meditation
• Identifying psychophysiological risk for psychopathology: substance abuse and schizophrenia
• The ethnopharmacological study of psychoactive drugs
• The Guru Chela relationship -- the possibility of a therapeutic paradigm
• Psychological Science in Cultural Context (Draft copy for American Psychologist, 1996, 51, 496-503.)
• Interview with Larry Dossey, M.D., former head of the Office of Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• Alternative Medicine and Unconventional Methods complementary to the Sciences of Heath and Healing

• Full text of the landmark study by the Office of Technology Assessment of the U.S. Congress - Unconventional Cancer Treatments, which Michael Lerner participated on as principal consultant.  http://www.wws.princeton.edu/~ota/disk2/1990/9044.html -- (at Princeton University)

• Example of Heath Education (Grade 6)-
• The Science of Healthy Behavior (an EDC report series)
• Book review from New England Journal of Medicine:  NEJM -- Choices in Healing: Integrating the Best of Conventional ...
  Book Review from The New England Journal of Medicine -- Choices in Healing: Integrating
  the Best of Conventional and Complementary Approaches to Cancer. ... content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/331/18/1244 - Similar pages

Education, Psychology and Learning

• 14 Chapters of Vygotsky's Investigation into the Historical Meaning of the Crisis in Psychology (as precipitated by practitioners)
• Multiple Intelligences  (Howard Gardner)
• Localization, modularity and the rewiring of the brain
• Educational research: Competencies for analysis and application (6th ed.). Prentice Hall. Recommends this site as a source of educational links.
• Educational Psychology from The Encyclopedia Britannica Internet Guide
• Educational Psychology: General Weblinks from McGraw-Hill
• Educational Psychology & Pedagogy: Donny Lee, Harding University
• Class Resources from Miami University Department of Educational Psychology
• Resources and References for LRO880, University of Pretoria
• Special Education Resources/Information from The Teachers' Nook by Shawn Marsh
• Introduction to Psychology: The Free University Project
• Psychology: from NatureIQ
• RX for Piaget's Complaint: A Science of Education
• A Summary Statement on the ANISA Model
• Summary Chart on the ANISA Model (Greg Kagira-Watson)
• Using Educational Principles from Psychology and the World's Religions to Improve Education -- A Paper Presented at the Ninth International Literacy
  and Education Research Network Conference on Learning, Beijing, China, July 16-20, 2002 (Rodney Clarken, School of Education,  Northern Michigan University.
• A new possibility for literacy  (Greg Kagira-Watson)
• The Brain Sciences, in relationship to lanaguage acquisiton and literacy
• Language acquisition and literacy in deaf children -- a proposal for Nigeria (Greg Kagira-Watson)
• The Theory of Formative Causation and the Morphogenetic Process of Resonance in Memory and Learning (Rupert Sheldrake)
• String Theory: Putting together the Theory of Relativity with Quantum Mechanics (an interview with Brian Greene)
• The Collective Unconscious and the Collective Conscious

• "I believe it will seem very strange to the historian of the future, that a literal-minded generation began to accept the actuality of a 'collective unconscious' before it could even admit the possibility of a 'collective conscious' -- in the shape of the phenomenal world." -- Owen Barfield

• The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC), sponsored by the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U.S. Department of Education, produces the world’s premier database of journal and non-journal education literature.
• What is ERICDigests.org?  -- The ERIC Clearinghouse system was eliminated in 2003. ERIC was massively reorganized...  For information on these changes, see http://www.lib.msu.edu/corby/education/doe.htm )

Systems Thinking, Evolutionary Systems, and the Sciences of Complexity:

• What are Cybernetics and Systems Science?
• The nature of complex, adaptive, self-regulating systems that we might call "cybernetic"
• Feedback
• Biofeedback and psychophysiological health
• History of Cybernetics and Systems Science
• The Sciences of Complexity ("complex adaptive systems")
• Self-organization Theory
• What is complexity?
• A review of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization (Peter Senge)

• The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook  (updated to The Dance of Change)
• SoL, Society for Organizational Learning (Peter Senge) 
• "Schools that Learn" (article by Senge on the Harvard Graduate School of Education web site -- Schools that Learn is a resource book, and as such includes numerous exercises, techniques, and stories)  (Table of Contents and list of contributing authors at the "fieldbook" website)

• The Management Theory of MIT Professor Chris Argyris

• Theories of action, double-loop learning and organizational learning
• Teaching Smart People How to Learn

• Erwin Laszlo (Co-founder, Club of Rome):

• Evolution: The Grand Synthesis
• The Systems View of the World - A Holistic Vision for Our Time.
• The Inner Limits of Mankind

• Global Science curriculum inspired by Laszlo's thinking
• The Creative Learning Exchange (CLE)— facilitates communication among teachers and schools and to create a network of schools using systems education.
• A Brief Introduction to "Critical Systems Thinking for Professionals & Citizens" by Werner Ulrich (Also in PDF )
• The Genesis of Complexity (To appear in a text edited by Alfonso Montuori in the series, Advances in Systems Theory, Complexity, and the Human Sciences)
• The Growth of Complexity
• "Complexity": an important new framework for understanding warfare?
• Systems Science: Creating Transdisciplinary knowledge for conscious evolution (W.V. van Huyssteen (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. NY: Macmillan)
• World-view and book outline various meanings of worldviews (World views: from integration to fragmentation)
• Developmental Worldview  (PDF) (Greg Kagira-Watson, based on a synthesis of two articles by R. & H. Danesh and private conversations with the authors.)
• History of Evolution
• Evolutionary Theory / Darwinian Evolution
• Natural Selection
• Evolutionary Cybernetics
• Evolutionary Epistemology
• Evolutionary Philosophy necessary to explain the Development of Human Society: Cultural and Biological Evolution
• The Social Superorganism and its Global Brain
• Gaia hypothesis or philosophy and the first scientific form of the idea
• Evolutionary Ethics
• Cybernetic philosophy and Metasystem Transition Theory (MSTT)
• The Human Use of Human Beings (Norbert Wiener, who coined the term "cybernetics")
• Self-Organizing Universe: Scientific and Human Implications of the Emerging Paradigm of Evolution
• Evolutionary Models and Artificial Life / Intelligence
• Great Thinkers and Visionaries
• Autopoiesis Theory / Biology of cognition / Neurophenomenology (Francisco Varela)
• The Systems' View of Life (Fritjof Capra)
• Review of the movie: MINDWALK based on Capra's book Turning Point (Movie stars Liv Ullman, Sam Waterston, and John Heard)
• How do we think in terms of wholes?   (Buckminster Fuller)
• Mind and Nature and Ecology of Mind  (Gregory Bateson)

• Gregory Bateson's Theory of Mind:  Practical Applications to Pedagogy  (A good introduction to Bateson's epistemology.)

• Gregory Bateson on deutero-learning and double bind: A brief conceptual history by Max Visser (requires university affiliation to download: another link)
• A few brief comments at Spike Hall's weblog on deutero-learning (learning to learn) with some good links: Learning to Learn (LTL) cited by the US Department of Education.
• Evolutionary Science applied to human social systems and The Conscious Universe TEXT (Ervin Laszlo)
• The Universe as a Hologram ("the whole in every part") -- Neurophysiologist Karl Pribram
• Web dictionary of Cybernetics and Systems
• "Systems Science and Cybernetics" -- a UNESCO EOLSS book of articles by leading thinkers

• Edited by : Francisco Parra-Luna, Departamento de Sociologia I, Facultad de Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain

• The Macroscope: A book on the systems approach to learning and problem solving

• Introduction: The Macroscope
• One. Through the Macroscope
• Two. The Systemic Revolution: A New Culture
• Three. Energy and Survival
• Four. Information and the Interactive Society
• Five. Time and Evolution
• Six. Values and Education
• Seven. Scenario for a World

Philosophy

• Process Philosophy and Speculative Philosophy
• Whitehead's Process Philosophy  (Alfred North Whitehead)
• Association for Process Philosophy of Education -- The philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead
• Epistemology

• Dictionary of the History of Ideas

• Metaphysics and the Physical Foundations of Causation
• The Science of Rationality and the Rationality of Science
• The Fateful Separation of Transcendental Philosophy and Psychology  (Edmund Husserl)
• Dialectical Materialism
• Descartes' Dualism? (google links
)

Science and Religion

• http://www.metanexus.net/metanexus_online/show_article.asp?9253  (Charles Townes Wins 2005 Templeton Prize)
• http://www.templeton.org/milestones/ (program launched in 2003 at the University of California Santa Barbara and funded by the John Templeton Foundation)
• http://www.templeton.org/science_and_religion/index.asp
• http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-07-2002/0001664446&EDATE=
• http://www.spirituality.ucla.edu/
• http://www.stnews.org/
• http://www.whatthebleep.com/scientists/
• http://michaelacorey.com/biblio.html
• Systems Science: Creating Transdisciplinary knowledge for conscious evolution (W.V. van Huyssteen (Ed.) Encyclopedia of Science and Religion. NY: Macmillan)
• The Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
• Origins -- a PBS series with physicist/host Neil deGrasse Tyson  (A number of religious themes are expressed, with some scientific theorists expressing religious belief as complementary to their science.)   Own the video and the book.

"Origins: Back to the Beginning" explores how the colossal, mind-boggling forces of the early universe made it possible for habitable worlds to emerge. The clues begin with a race among scientists to capture lingering echoes of the big bang's ferocious energy in a microwave "whisper" from deep space. 

• The Elegant Universe / The Fabric of Time  (Brian Greene -- listen to interview on NPR program Fresh Air. Go to the 12 minute mark.)

• Watch the Elegant Universe (3 hours) online.

• The Lab, the Temple, and The Market  Chapter 4: Promoting a Discourse on Science, Religion, and Development

• http://web.idrc.ca/ev_en.php?ID=5570&ID2=DO_TOPIC  and  http://integrative.homestead.com/LabTempleMarket.htm

• Physicist Stephen Hawking's Meditation on "The Beginning"-- a brief commentary on science and religion by Greg Kagira-Watson)
• Recent discoveries about the origins of the universe

• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dp65co.html
• http://www2.glos.ac.uk/gdn/origins/earth/ch1_2.htm
• http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/universe/howbig_micro.html
• http://www.supercrawler.com/Science/Astronomy/Cosmology/ (Cosmology)
• http://www.alltheinternet.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/Cosmology/ (Cosmology)

• Relating the Physics and Religion of David Bohm
• Evolution versus Creationism:  Ontogeny and phylogeny  (The "Creationist" point of view)
• Ethics and morality in Science
• Living at The Monastery of Christ in the Desert and studying Teilhard de Chardin
• The Varieties of Religious Experience
• William James' lecture on the Pragmatism of Religion and the Settling of Metaphysical Disputes
• How shall we determine whether religion has been the cause of human advancement or retrogression?
• To the World's Religious Leaders -- "...If religious leadership is to rise to the challenge that this latter perception represents, such response must begin by acknowledging that religion and science are the two indispensable knowledge systems through which the potentialities of consciousness develop. Far from being in conflict with one another, these fundamental modes of the mind's exploration of reality are mutually dependent and have been most productive in those rare but happy periods of history when their complementary nature has been recognized and they have been able to work together...  It is surely unnecessary to cite in detail the horrors being visited upon hapless populations today by outbursts of fanaticism that shame the name of religion. Nor is the phenomenon a recent one....
          To this accounting must be added a betrayal of the life of the mind which, more than any other factor, has robbed religion of the capacity it inherently possesses to play a decisive role in the shaping of world affairs. Locked into preoccupation with agendas that disperse and vitiate human energies, religious institutions have too often been the chief agents in discouraging exploration of reality and the exercise of those intellectual faculties that distinguish humankind. Denunciations of materialism or terrorism are of no real assistance in coping with the contemporary moral crisis if they do not begin by addressing candidly the failure of responsibility that has left believing masses exposed and vulnerable to these influences.
          Such reflections, however painful, are less an indictment of organized religion than a reminder of the unique power it represents. Religion, as we are all aware, reaches to the roots of motivation. When it has been faithful to the spirit and example of the transcendent Figures who gave the world its great belief systems, it has awakened in whole populations capacities to love, to forgive, to create, to dare greatly, to overcome prejudice, to sacrifice for the common good and to discipline the impulses of animal instinct. Unquestionably, the seminal force in the civilizing of human nature has been the influence of the succession of these Manifestations of the Divine that extends back to the dawn of recorded history."                                     (in other languages)

Moral Education, Character Development, Prevention of Violence

• Axiology
• Morals Development, Values and Religion: from Online Learning Center, Adolescence by Santrock
• Initial Behavior Outcomes for the PeaceBuilders Universal School-Based Violence Prevention Program (Journal of Developmental Psychology)
• The Virtues project
• "From Violence to Virtues: Creating Safe, Caring Schools" -- an article published in the Ontario Advocate (2004) by Virtues Consulting
• Character Education (another page of links)
• The Role of the Bystander in the Prevention of School Violence
• "Inventing the Future"  (Youth mentoring program at Harvard)  Also see:  HGSE News
• Moral Development
• NUR University
• Pedagogical Foundations of Education, Gary W. Kinsey, California State Polytechnic University, Pamona
• Character Education at Michigan State University Extension, 4-H Youth Development
• Moral Development at George Mason University
• Character Counts in Michigan! by The Josephson Institute of Ethics
• Missouri 4-H Youth Programs, University Outreach and Extension, University of Missouri
• Internet Resources on Character Education
• Character Education Resources from Singapore Polytechnic Library
• Research on Moral Education by Yaunari Hayashi, Joetsu University of Education, Japan
• Resources for WebQuest Theory Fact Sheet: by Barbara Leys
• Hot Topics in Education from History, Arts & Libraries, State of Michigan
• School Violence Resource Center: Briefing paper on Character Development, University of Arkansas System
• Character Education via Experiential Education Programs by James Neill, Outdoor Education Research & Evaluation Center
• Teaching Character Education: from Geometry, the online learning resource
• Moral and Character Development, form Learning and Teaching Support Network: Psychology
• Emurian, H. (2003). Fostering citizenship via the Internet. Information Resources Management Journal, 17(1), i. Retrieved March 2004, from http://nasa1.ifsm.umbc.edu/cv/PostEditorialIRMJ2003.pdf
• Etzioni, A. (1999). The truths we must face to curb youth violence. Education Week on the Web.
• Gobal, T. (2001). Impressing software engineers on the vitality of ethics. Paper delivered at the ICIE-Symposium, Conceptions of Information Ethics, March 28 - April 4. Retrieved March 2004 from http://www.capurro.de/augsburg-papers.htm
• School Violence Resource Center. (2001). Character education (Briefing Paper). Little Rock, AR: Author. Retrieved March 2004.
• World Wide Web (WWW) Links Pertaining to Public Education William Ray Arney & Rita Pougiales at Evergreen University, Seattle, Washington.
• Character Education Lesson Plans: North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
• Character Education Guidelines: Georgia Quality Core Curriculum--search subject [character education] for desired grade level
• Character Through The Arts: Whole-school reform focusing on implementing Bernstein's Artful Learning Instructional Model
• Character Education Internet Resources: Compiled by Gene Bavis, Wayne Central School District, Ontario Center, NY
• Resources for Character Education and the Arts: Indiana Department of Education
• Values: Making Good Choices for Life: A ThinkQuest activity
• The Character Counts! Coalition
• Full Circle Learning -- Habits of the Heart

Conflict Resolution

• INCORE (International Conflict Research): University of Ulster and United Nations University
• Conflict Management Group / Mercy Corps
• Conflict Resolution Consortium: University of Colorado
• Conflict Resolution: The Online Library
• Conflict Resolution the Peaceful Way: Suggested activities
• Danesh, H., & Danesh, R. (2002, Spring/Summer). Has conflict resolution grown up? Toward a developmental model of decision making and conflict resolution. International Journal of Peace Studies. Retrieved September 2004, from http://www.efpinternational.org/news/publications/Has_Conflict_Resolution_Grown_Up.pdf.
• Davidson, M. (2001, September). Know thine adversary: The impact of race on styles of dealing with conflict. Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. Retrieved April 2003, from http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2294/2001_Sept/84397365/p1/article.jhtml?term=conation
• Mitchell, J., & Quan, K. (2001). Service learning and conflict resolution education. OJPCR, 4(1). Retrieved December 2002, from http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/4_1mitqua.htm.
• Salla, M. (2001). Conflict resolution, genetics, and alchemy - The evolution of conflict transmutation. OJPCR, 3(3). Retrieved December 2002, from http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/3_3salla.htm.
• Sarsar, S., & Raby, J. (1999). Images of conflict and peace. OJPCR, 2(1). Retrieved December 2002, from http://www.trinstitute.org/ojpcr/toc2_1.htm.
• Thorsborne, M. (2004). School violence and community conferencing: The benefits of restorative justice. Queensland, Australia: Transformative Justice Australia. Retrieved October 2004, from http://win.waldenu.edu/wwwlogs/misc/pdk/current/0460.html.

Multi-Cultural and Peace Education

• A course on the "Fundamental Concepts of Peace Education"
• Philosophy of Peace Education in a Postmodern Era, Gur-Ze'ev, Ilan, Educational Theory, 0013-2004, June 1, 2001, Vol. 51, Issue 3
• Peace Psychology and the Prevention of Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts
• Teacher's College/ Columbia University:  A course on the "Fundamental Concepts of Peace Education"
• Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• PeaceNet from the Progressive Directory
• Nonviolence.org
• Quest for Peace International
• World Goodwill Home Page
• World Peace Day Home Page
• Pax Christi, Czech Republic: International Christian human-rights org, whose aim is to help foster world peace and reconciliation between peoples and nations
• The Journey of Man -- National Geographic film on the genetic proofs of the Oneness of the Human Family

• http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7442.html (The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey)

• Model Multicultural Program in a Washington School  (a PointPoint presentation by Greg Kagira-Watson)
• Teaching Tolerance (Tolerance.org)-- Pioneering Anti-Bias Education  (Southern Poverty Law Center)
• The National Association For Multicultural Education
• Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections: Mailing lists to help teachers and students link with partners in other countries
• Extensive multicultural websites collection at the University of Virginia
• Multicultural Pavilion Teachers Corner
• Center for Educational Pluralism at Western Washington University
• Education for Peace: International Education for Peace Institute
• Multicultural Resources and calendars K-12 from Edmonds School District #15, Lynnwood, WA
• Artists Against Racism
• Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee
• New pluralism: Report on a talk by Maxine Green of Teacher's College, Columbia
• Native Net
• global nomads group (fostering dialogue and understanding among the world's youth)
• African Studies WWW (U of Penn)
• Black Quest: Power Resource Links from Arthur Blair
• European Community Folk Culture
• Hans Christian Andersen Schools of Many Voices Multicultural Laboratory Demonstration Site: school in Minnesota focused on developing "multicultural students"
• Project Cape Town: Education and Integration in South Africa Example of case-method teaching using WWW
• Bilingual Education Resources Page - University of Texas at Austin
• French Speaking Countries and Cultures from: Cedar Secondary School, Vancouver Island, Canada
• French Language Resources
• Bilingual Books for Kids: Source of Spanish/English resource materials (books, games, audiotapes, videotapes, CDs)
• Global Nomads (www.gng.org)  (Global Nomads Group report)

see video of kids around the world talking with each other live.

• Mosaic http://www.innovating.com/docs/SAQ.pdf

Establishing Racial Unity and Eliminating Prejudice

• Mosaic http://www.innovating.com/docs/SAQ.pdf
• Click here for a page of links
• "Savage Inequalities" (in education)  Sections of and a few  reactions-- ONE and TWO and THREE to Johnathan Kozol's book.
• The Multi Racial Unity Living Experience (MRULE -- Michigan State University)

Interfaith Dialogue and Comparative Religion

• Harvard Pluralism Project: Harvard University's mission to engage in religious diversity
• A look at Samuel P. Huntington's seminal work, wherein he posits that civilizations are mostly divided along religious lines
• Religious education, communal identity and national politics in the Muslim world
• A Bosnian Muslim's view of Huntington's characterization of the "clash of civilizations"
• A PowerPoint on Comparative Religion -- in Art, Architecture and Music  (Greg Kagira-Watson)
• The Oslo (Norway) Coalition on School Education -- Teaching for Tolerance and Freedom of Religion or Belief
• The Oslo Project:  "Teaching for Tolerance and Freedom of Religion or Belief"
• Schools as Bridges:  Education for Living with Diversity  (Belfast Ireland)
• Videoconference to connect Christian, Jewish and Muslim Youth
• "Islam: Empire of Faith" (http://www.pbs.org/empires/islam/ )
• Problems and Possibilities for Relating Citizenship Education and Religious Education  (RE: education systems in Europe)
• Back to the scriptures themselves:  A minor effort to help reconcile Muslim and Christian beliefs through dialogue  (Greg Kagira-Watson))
• To the World's Religious Leaders -- "This is the message. This is the moment," said Professor Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth. "We are facing the greatest challenge that God has ever given us and this is the message we need." (in other languages)

Reference Resources

· Beyond Intractability -- a free Knowledge Base on more Constructive Approaches to Destructive Conflict

· Questia:  The World's Largest Online Library in the Humanities and Social Sciences

· MIT OPEN COURSEWARE

· MIT  CogNet -The Brain Sciences Connection

· Educational Policy Studies at the University of Illinois  (School of Education search engine will reveal many papers online)

· Dictionary of the History of Ideas

· Standford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

· Principia Cybernetica Table of Contents

· ibiblio -- the public's library and digital archive

· Classics in the History of Psychology

· Wikipedia -- free content encyclopedia that "anyone" can edit

· Online Dictionary of Philosophy (Foldop 3.0 -- Swifilosofia)

· Links to other academic search engines

· Google for Scholars  (click here to launch it >> http://scholar.google.com )

· questia -- "the world's largest online library"

o International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration

· Finding Federal Money for your project  (Greg Kagira-Watson)

· Writing tips

· Super Crawler on the web (science)

o Example: http://www.supercrawler.com/Science/Astronomy/Cosmology/

· http://www.alltheinternet.com/Top/Science/Astronomy/Cosmology/ (Cosmology)

· http://www.canadiancontent.net/dir/Top/Science/Astronomy/Cosmology/ (Cosmology)

· http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com

· The Macroscope: A book on the systems approach to learning and problem solving

o Introduction: The Macroscope

o One. Through the Macroscope

o Two. The Systemic Revolution: A New Culture

o Three. Energy and Survival

o Four. Information and the Interactive Society

o Five. Time and Evolution

o Six. Values and Education

o Seven. Scenario for a World

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