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Republican Candidates and Congress Quit Climate Change; Private Sector Counters, Creating Consumer Label

Michael Shank | Posted 02.02.2012 | Green

Read More: Violence, Durban, Institute for Economics and Peace, Democratization of Energy, Energy Security, Republican Candidates, Sustainability, Presidential Campaign, Climate Change, Natural Resources, Michael Shank, Usda, South Africa, WindMade Lable, Organic, Companies, Energy, Green News
Michael Shank

We need more of this kind of innovativeness and initiative. The climate isn't cooling anytime soon and it's clear that climate talks will continue to be inconclusive. So companies and consumers, the ball is in your court.

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American War Crimes: Commanders' Responsibility

Seth Engel | Posted 01.25.2012 | Crime

Read More: Violence, Geneva Conventions, War Crimes, Vietnam, International Criminal Court, Marines Urinating, Marines Urinating Taliban, Crime News
Seth Engel

As with any country involved in violent trauma, critically reflecting upon the crimes' occurrence, causes and prevention is a necessary process for the sake of the population's own mental well-being. After 9/11, America replaced self-reflection with going to war.

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Pinker: Pollyanna of Peace?

John Feffer | Posted 01.24.2012 | World

Read More: Violence, Social Movements, Steven Pinker, Progressives, War, Peace, The Better Angels of Our Nature, World News
John Feffer

In his new book, the Harvard psychologist urges us to ignore what we read, what we see, and what our common sense is telling us. The world is not getting more violent. In fact, the world has become demonstrably less violent.

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Our Drug War Is the Virus Spreading Our Violent Economy to Mexico

Stephen Hren | Posted 01.23.2012 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Drug Treatment, Mexico Drug War, Drug Legalization, Economy, Politics News
Stephen Hren

It's not that there aren't millions or even tens of millions of Americans that are trying to solve our problems creatively and help create a just and egalitarian society, it's just that they have no power or voice. Consider the drug war.

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A Resident Reports on Northern Nigeria

Margee Ensign | Posted 01.12.2012 | World

Read More: Violence, Church, Civil War, Mosque, Nigeria, Northern Nigeria, Yola, World News
Margee Ensign

From the air the city looks like any other on a Sunday afternoon-many children were out playing soccer and thousands of motorcycles could be seen movi...

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The Dangerous Relationship Between Economics And Abuse

Donna Addkison | Posted 01.10.2012 | Women

Read More: Violence, Financial Security, Women, Cdc, Domestic Abuse, Poverty, Wow, Domestic Violence, Women News
Donna Addkison

Understanding the depth of financial abuse that accompanies physical abuse and responding to both gives survivors greater protection and a more solid foothold to rebuild their lives and futures.

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Teens Charged With Beating Classmate In Court

AP | Posted 01.09.2012 | Crime

Read More: Video, Florida Crime, Violence, Teens Beat Classmate in Court, Florida, Teen Violence, Crime News

OCALA, Fla. — A judge has placed seven central Fla. teens on home detention after they were charged with punching and kicking a 13-year-old girl...

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Explosion Kills At Least 11 People In Damascus

AP | BASSEM MROUE and ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Posted 01.07.2012 | World

Read More: Syria Blast, Damascus, Video, Midan, Violence, Syria, Explosion, Syrian Police, World News

BEIRUT — A bomb exploded Friday at a busy Damascus intersection, killing 25 people and wounding dozens in the second major attack in the Syrian ...

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Urban Violence Is a National Crisis

Gloria Bonilla Santiago | Posted 12.28.2011 | Crime

Read More: Gun Violence, Education, Police, Violence, Camden New Jersey, Safe Schools, Camden Violence, Urban Violence, School Safety, Crime News
Gloria Bonilla Santiago

Violence and crime are happening in schools in cities like Camden and other poor urban centers throughout the country. Our families have come together to object the violence in our city.

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Some Fragments of a Call

Tim Terhaar | Posted 01.03.2012 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Hunger, Huey Newton, Meat, Class, Glauber Rocha, Revolution, Oppression, Politics News
Tim Terhaar

The revolution will not be mundane, but revolutionary consciousness is essentially an acute perception of the mundane. There is no revolutionary form ...

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House Punt on Payroll Deal Highlights Need for Radical Reform

Michael Shank | Posted 12.21.2011 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Florida, Institute for Economics and Peace, Employment, Prison, Crime, Us Peace Index, Rape, Economic, Michael Shank, Incarceration, Wisconsin, Rep Michael Honda, Ohio, Rep Mike Honda, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Robbery, Payroll Tax Cut, Payroll Tax, Politics News
Michael Shank

America's tendency is to pursue policies that react primarily to violence, not aim to prevent it. As a result, not only is America less economically prosperous, it is less peaceful. The way forward, then, is to learn from what the index is telling us.

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Ron Dicker

The Ultimate Battle For New York

HuffingtonPost.com | Ron Dicker | Posted 12.16.2011 | Business

Read More: Ufc, Javits Convention Center, Randy Couture, Tito Ortiz, Violence, Business News, Mixed Martial Arts, Boxing, Jon Jones, Fox, Dana White, Madison Square Garden, Business News

The Ultimate Fighting Championship, which allows foes to punch, kick, wrestle and choke each other, is a billion-dollar global enterprise that cannot ...

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Violence Erupts On 'Teen Mom 2'

Posted 12.14.2011 | TV

Read More: TV Canada, Reality TV, Video, Abuse, Mtv, Violence, Jenelle Evans, Teen Mom 2, Tv Replay, Drinking, TV News

Jenelle Evans' dramatic decision to stop living with her mother so she could be with her boyfriend is working about as well as her mother predicted on...

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Yoga Nonprofit Helps Inner-City Kids Manage Anger

Posted 12.09.2011 | Impact

Read More: Atman Smith, Ali Smith, Yoga, Video, Baltimore, Crime, Nonprofit Helps Kids, Violence, Nonprofits, Nonprofit, Holistic Life, Innercity-Youth, Benefits of Yoga, Impact News

When brothers Ali and Atman Smith returned to their childhood home in Baltimore, Md., after college they were shocked by the violence, poverty and "la...

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One Season to Go: An Introduction

Michael Evans | Posted 02.06.2012 | Education

Read More: Protestant and Catholic, Sports, Belfast, Achievement Gap, Ciudad Juarez, Violence, Basketball, Diplomacy, Cuba, Education News
Michael Evans

I love basketball. Well, I don't really love the strategy, the competition, or even actually playing the game. I love the camaraderie a player has with his teammates, and I love the role a coach can play in a kid's life.

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Kim Kardashian: Domestic Abuser?

Hayley Rose Horzepa | Posted 02.01.2012 | Celebrity

Read More: Violence, Kim Kardashian Kris Humphries, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Domestic Violence, Domestic Abuse, Celebrity News
Hayley Rose Horzepa

People are horrified over Kim Kardashian taking a closed fist swing at husband Kris Humphries. Despite the entire scenario being caught on camera, many viewers are still wondering, is this domestic violence?

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Denying the Killer Inside Us

Leonce Gaiter | Posted 01.23.2012 | Books

Read More: Leonce Gaiter, Violence, Novels, Rufus Buck, Media Violence, Violent Video Games, Depicting Violence, Books News
Leonce Gaiter

The real alienation risk for the writer is that in an age when most of our media lovingly pet our conceptions of ourselves, audiences will not accept work that makes them question their own morality and their own purity.

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PHOTOS: Tahrir Square Protest

Posted 12.20.2011 | World

Read More: Photography, Photos, Egypt Protests, Cairo, Egypt, Protest, Tahrir Square, Violence, Exposure, World News

The bloodshed in and around Cairo's Tahrir Square, epicenter of the anti-Mubarak revolt, threatens to disrupt Egypt's first free parliamentary electio...

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"Mala Fama" and Heroism in Juárez

Danya Taymor | Posted 01.18.2012 | World

Read More: Photography, Art, Mexico, Violence, Juárez, Theater, Drugs, Heroism, Mala Fama, World News
Danya Taymor

Located just across a bridge from El Paso, Texas, Juárez is a place that has earned its bad reputation, through decades of turmoil and tragedy.

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What To Do When Divorce Turns DANGEROUS

Mark Banschick, MD | Posted 01.16.2012 | Divorce

Read More: Violence, Ex-Spouse, Divorce, Armchair Detective, Divorce News
Mark Banschick, MD

In a malignant divorce, spouses do things to people who they once loved that no one would believe.

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The Mayor & Occupy Wall Street

Ann Medlock | Posted 01.16.2012 | New York

Read More: Violence, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, Zuccotti, Wall Street, Mayor Bloomburg, Jon Stewart, Bloomburg, Zuccotti Park Bathrooms, New York News
Ann Medlock

If it weren't for media coverage, most people working on Wall Street wouldn't even know there was an encampment.

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Penn State's Massive Moral Failure to Put the Most Vulnerable First Instead of Last

Jim Wallis | Posted 01.15.2012 | Sports

Read More: Violence, Suffer the Little Children, Sojourners, Football, Exploitation of Children, Rape, Jim Wallis, Sexual Abuse, Abuse of Power, The Least of These, Jerry Sandusky, Joe Paterno, Moral Failure, Penn State, Child Abuse, Mcqueary, Matthew 25, Vulnerable, Pedophilia, Sports News
Jim Wallis

Big sports at big colleges are big business for both the schools and the surrounding communities. The control and protection of money in so many of our institutions is a leading cause of institutional moral failure -- and the Penn State scandal is a colossal moral failure.

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Boys Don't Cry: The Health Impact Of America's Obsession With Masculinity

Niobe Way, Ph.D. | Posted 01.14.2012 | Healthy Living

Read More: Violence, Adolescents, Penn State, Psychology, Child Abuse, Boys, Empathy, Emotional Intelligence, Healthy Living News
Niobe Way, Ph.D.

It's time we understand that being human and being a man should be one and the same; that the reason why we have survived for so long as a species is because we, men and women, care about others and respond when others are in danger and need our help.

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Perry's Gaffe Represents Poor Texan and U.S. Educational Performance; Civics Lesson Needed

Michael Shank | Posted 01.11.2012 | Education

Read More: Violence, Florida, Institute for Economics and Peace, Louisiana, Politics, Education, Alabama, European Union, Texas, Us Peace Index, Asia, Eu, Nevada, Oecd, Michael Shank, Middle East, Civics Education, Tennessee, Rick Perry, Pisa, Programme for International Student Assessment, Governor Rick Perry, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, Elections 2012, Education News
Michael Shank

Without a strong American commitment to a quality education, it is no surprise that Rick Perry, a son of this education system, cannot recall government agencies.

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Ohio's Collective Bargaining Key to Becoming America's Heartland Again

Michael Shank | Posted 01.09.2012 | Politics

Read More: Violence, Jared Bernstein, Institute for Economics and Peace, Income Inequality, Education, Us Peace Index, Occupy Wall Street, Healthcare, Budget, Columbus, Collective Bargaining, Governor Kasich, Michael Shank, Unions, Ohio, Homicide, Global Peace Index, Poverty, Politics News
Michael Shank

Thanks to the U.S. tax, trade and labor policies of the last 30 years, the American heartland has suffered tremendously. Only now is Washington realizing how those policies have made it very difficult for most of America to simply "get by".

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