Here's another book that sounds like it's worth looking up when i've got a few hours....



http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2011/11/23/f-vp-stewart.html

Samantha Nutt and the 'Damned Nations' of guns and aid

By Brian Stewart, special to CBC News 

Posted: Nov 23, 2011 8:09 PM ET

Every so often a new book arrives with the force of a much-needed whack over the head.

That's the jolting effect of Samantha Nutt'sDamned Nations: Greed, Guns, Armies and Aid, which is causing a sensation within the increasingly troubled world of humanitarian aid.

Written by one of Canada's most influential humanitarian activists, it's the clearest examination I've read in quite a while of the economic incentives — and our own Western inadequacies — that fuel the seemingly intractable violence in so many war-torn countries, particularly in mineral-rich Africa.

A medical doctor and the co-founder of War Child Canada, Nutt is someone who speaks with remarkable moral authority, after spending more than 16 years struggling to help the most vulnerable targets, children and women, in the world's most dangerous conflict areas.

the world peace game

One to watch: John Hunter
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_UTgoPUTLQ

World peace game. Movie called World Peace and other 4th grade achievements.

http://theworldpeacegame.com/

Can't wait to see the game and the film.

Canadian Play: The Monument

I was just reading the Sept. 2010 issue of readers digest, and found an article about a play written by Canadian Colleen Wagner, and how it is being performed in Rwanda, to help with the healing process there.  If the performing arts can help with the healing process by telling a powerful story, then that's a good thing.  The story sounds pretty harsh, but it connects with people that have lived through very difficult times.