There is a generation of leaders in the world, students of Gandhi, who used non-violent means to change their regions of the world. They are passing before our eyes. One of them was lost yesterday.

These are leaders who watched the Kennedys break all tradition and publicly stand up...

Spokesmen for President Kgalema Motlanthe had little explanation for the decision to refuse His Holiness the Dalai Lama a visa to attend the now-canceled peace conference in Johannesburg on Friday.

The best they could come up with was that the conference was World Cup-related, and they didn't want...

Apparently the Burmese people just have not been made to suffer enough, because Time.com is recommending this morning that we "give war a chance" and consider military invasion as a solution to the country's ongoing humanitarian and human rights catastrophe. There's no byline on the article. We can only assume...

It's been a while since I've wanted to go out and march in a protest. I outgrew them after college, when I got a job and got real. But today, a few decades later, I marked April 7 in my calendar. That's the day the Olympic torch moves through San...

In working with Nobel Peace Prize winners over the last seven years, I have often said that there are "Mandelas and Gandhis" sprinkled around the world who are too little recognized.

As a democracy activist under two military regimes in South Korea, Kim Dae Jung survived three assassination attempts, was...