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The Exploding Methodology Symposium was an event that took place on September 20th, 2007. It was held at Goldsmiths University in London, UK. The event enabled researchers and scholars to submit papers dealing with a variety of methodological issues, mostly in the field of sociology. The papers were then presented to small groups by another indivvidual who had read the paper.

• Wednesday OCT 3rd at 7:30 p.m. at CPS Auditorium, Arr: Students' Network for Peace

This entry attempts to create a comprehensive list of journals relating to peace.  Contributions are warmly welcomed.

Journals:

The Canadian Journal of Peace Studies

Journal of Peace Education

Journal of Peace Research

Peace and Change

In this video Steven Pinker shows that society is actually becoming more peaceful, or at least less people are being killed by others. He looks at why this could be and the impacts it could have on our understandings of peace and war..

Film at Verdensteatret at 1700 (The Cats of Mirikitani)
Dinner at Driv at 1900 (3rd floor)

We will be welcoming the new students and celebrating with the old students.  The fun will begin at Verdensteatret with a showing of the Peace Film winner 'The Cats of Mirikitani.'  After the moving at about 19:00 we will walk to Driv where we will enjoy dinner and short program.

In this bracingly honest and funny talk, international security strategist Thomas P.M. Barnett outlines a post-Cold War solution for the foundering US miltary: Break it into two. He suggests the military re-form into two groups: a Leviathan force, a small group of young and fierce soldiers capable of swift and immediate victories; and an internationally supported network of System Administrators, an older, wiser, more diverse organization that actually has the diplomacy and power it takes to build and maintain peace.

The Visual Cultural Studies is a department at the University of Tromsø.  The linked video is one example of their work:  http://uit.no/breifilm/4490/1

Jacqueline Novogratz is pioneering new ways of tackling poverty. In her view, traditional charity rarely delivers lasting results. Her solution as seen in the video is "patient capital": support for "bottom of the pyramid" businesses which the commercial market alone couldn't provide. The result: sustainable jobs, goods, service -and dignity- for the world's poorest.