Dispatches From The Global VillageWood Lake Publishing Inc. - 192 pages Dispatches from the Global Village is a collection of 30 columns by Derek Evans, former Deputy Secretary General of Amnesty International. While the entry point for these columns (first published by the Naramata and Penticton, B.C., newspapers) is often something seemingly innocuous, perhaps even mundane - like a cup of tea, a croissant, a picture on a wall - the essays themselves are not for the faint of heart. As the leader of more than 60 Amnesty International delegations, and more recently as a consultant to the United Nations and other international organizations, Evans has travelled the globe to meet with African warlords and the Dalai Lama, heads of state and the leaders of rebel armies, victims of torture and peasant farmers; his single-minded objective, to challenge the forces of injustice, violence, and all things that separate people and nations from each other. Yet what shines through in each story - whether he's negotiating with rebel factions in the Sudan; or meeting, under threat of death and in the dead of night, with the families of "disappeared" children in Sri Lanka - is Evans' unfaltering hope that people can find within themselves the wisdom to choose a different path, that somehow we can learn to live in peace despite our differences. Informing, challenging, and inspiring, the stories, images, and hope contained in Dispatches from the Global Village will stay with the reader long after the book is set down. |
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... fact, one can see quite a few walls, like scars on the Earth. It seems there is nothing so apparent as the various constructs by which we try to divide the planet and to distinguish ourselves from each other. You don't need to fly into ...
... suggest that, as a species, 1. We seem to be “hard-wired” not to kill; 2. We need to be deliberately taught to overcome this natural tendency, and; 3. We are good learners. The fact that we are good learners must also mean. 20.
Derek Evans. The fact that we are good learners must also mean that we can choose to unlearn the myth of our separateness from our “enemies,” and can choose to return to and even nurture our “default” or natural resistance to violence ...
... the cold with about a thousand other men who had offended the king, if it hadn't been for one thing – the power of relationship, the fact that we are all deeply connected to each other and can to reach out to each other,. 23.
... fact, the mummies are so well preserved that some of them still have their red hair, and their tartan plaid clothing! Some graves contained both Caucasian and Han people buried together. Apparently, they lived together – peaceably and ...