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INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PEACE STUDIES AND GLOBAL PHILOSOPHY Rhos y Gallt, Llanerfyl, Near Welshpool, Powys, Wales, SY21 OER Tel/Fax: 01938 820586 website: www.educationaid.net email: [email protected] Director, Thomas Clough Daffern B.A. (Hons) D.Sc. (Hon) PGCE email: [email protected] Tel. 01938 820586 Mobile: (m) 07960 971620 Secretary General, Mary Napper White (B.A. Hons.) 01939 233834 email: [email protected] Treasurer: Jenny Wheatcroft B.A. (Hons.) Tel. 00 64 4 2932987Email: [email protected] IIPSGP SUMMER 2005 NEWSLETTER 1. IIPSGP PARLIAMENTARY WORK: The interested in coming, either to present a talk, or developing All Party Parliamentary Group For simply to listen in, please contact: International Peace And Conflict Resolution will hopefully be Institute for Peace Studies and Global Philosophy, restarting its work now that a new UK parliament Rhos Gallt, Llanerfyl, Powys, Wales, SY21 OER, has been elected, with an expected meeting in Tel. 01938 820586 email: [email protected] parliament to take place in November 2005. Further details to IIPGSP members and associates once the 3. 2005 GENERAL ELECTION U.K.: A paper date has been finalised. from IIPSGP Director was issued in the run up to the general election, in the form of an election 2. DR. JOHN DEE (1527-1608) SYMPOSIUM – response document, entitled: A GARLAND OF JULY 16, 2005: This special event is being IDEAS: A PHILOSOPHICAL CONTRIBUTION organised by IIPSGP to commemorate the life and TO THE DEBATES IN THE BRITISH work and influence of Dr John Dee, one of the ELECTION, APRIL 2005. It had 23 numbered unsung heroes of the Elizabethan Renaissance. The proposals, to be taken up by any or all parties Symposium has been organised on the Saturday contesting the election, as follows: closest to his birthday, which was on 13 July 1527. Dee was born in London to a Welsh father 1 Why can’t Rover make hydro cars ? (Rowland Dee) from Radnorshire and an English 2 Solving UK and global immigration crises mother (Joanna Wild), and all his life was interested by helping facilitate peace and justice all in the peaceful symbiosis of his Welsh and English over the world ! heritage. Dee was a friend of Guillaume Postel in 3 Solving the problems of corruption in France, Mercator in the Netherlands, and many of politics by proportional funding of political the leading scientists and philosophers of his day. parties: He was a hermetic mystic at the court of Queen 4 Solving the lack of airtime for non voters in st Elizabeth 1 , who sought through his learning and the UK media his studies to bring into being a new world based on 5 Lawyers to be volunteers peace and wisdom. His students included Sir Philip 6 Service ethic not profits Sidney. Sir Walter Raleigh, the Earl of st 7 Solving the problem of oppositional Northumberland and even Queen Elizabeth 1 politics: redesigning Parliament into a herself. Educated at Cambridge, where he was a circular shape, Circle space not student at St John’s College, he became a founding oppositional fellow of Trinity College when it was founded in 8 Reform of house of lords 1546, and became an under-reader in Greek, which 9 Solving the problems of lack of money in tongue he knew well. The Symposium is taking education through an international place at a Welsh Country house in Education Aid day Montgomeryshire, near Welshpool, whose owner 10 Solving the problems of ethnic and possesses a rare oil portrait of Dee on a wood panel religious conflicts in the UK and abroad by which has been dated to not long after his time, and funding the MMEMS which may well contain an original likeness. 11 Solving the problems of the National Health Researchers with an interest in Dee as a historical service by emphasising preventative figure are invited to offer a paper on the subject of medicine and healing and renaming it the Dee and his influences. Places at the Symposium National Healing Service will be limited due to space constraints so if you are 1 13 Solving the problems of transport and activities, stalls, events, workshops; if you are railway travel by major expansion to interested in seeing alternative lifestyles in action, railway facilities and infrastructure and meeting new and old friends, come along – 14 Solving the problems of environmental IIPSGP Director, Thomas Daffern, has been invited research by funding the Global Green to give a talk on The Greening of History: University Factoring back in the transpersonal dimension in to 15 Solving the problem of lack of voices the historiographical record in the Main Tent of the speaking up for peace and conflict Ethics / Philosophy / Spirituality Field on Friday resolution by establishing a Ministry of August 5th, from 16.00 – 17.30. All IIPSGP Peace members and friends in the West country area do try 16 Solving the problem of corruption in postal and come along – a day ticket to the BGG is ballots by making voting compulsory inexpensive and well worth the effort (details from 17 Solving the problem of unaccountable their website). In addition, IIPSGP friend Rowena government by independently enforcing the Stone will be in the ESP field with her yurt creating code of conduct from the Privy Council a Trees of Life space, with the help of Rona 18 Solving the problems of schools by Crawford, Thomas Daffern and others. Full details enforcing effective school discipline and of the Yurt activities from Rowena (in Glastonbury) reforming the curriculum and structures of on 01458 830723. schools 19 Solving the problem of spam by effective 6. POST DEATH SURIVAL EVIDENCE: IIPSGP blockings on the internet was recently sent details of the work of Victor 20 Solving the problem of drugs and crime by Zammit, a former active Australian Judge in New a Royal Commission of Inquiry, and a strict South Wales, who has argued that the evidence for licensing system survival after death is now so overwhelming that it 21 Solving the problems of international would stand up in a court of law, were the evidence conflict by binding non-aggression treaties and contra evidence ever to be weighed up under 22 Solving the problems of war in the 21st due legal process. He has sent IIPSGP a copy of a century letter he wrote to the Pope explaining the basis of 23 Intelligence and wisdom: a proposal for his findings, which were undertaken in a spirit of funding an international peace intelligence objective and scientific research and discovery, service under UN auspices asking that the Vatican up date its after-death theology to take cognisance of the new findings from parapsychology and near death research, to the Anyone wishing a copy of the full text (by email or effect that whereas post mortem consciousness post) please write in to the IIPSGP office. survival is upheld, the notion of eternal damnation and a fear based post mortem expectation simply 4. THE DRUID PEACE ORDER (DEEP) continues does not coincide with the facts available to para- its gradual work, alongside the Order of Wandering empirical researchers. Victor James Zammit, Peace Poets (more aimed at Bards both in the B.A.(Psych), Grad. Dip. Ed., M.A.(Legal Hist.), British Isles and abroad) and works alongside the LL.B, Ph.D, is an attorney-at-law and Solicitor of Council of British Druid Orders and other Druid the Supreme Court of the New South Wales and the groups , orders and associations, both in the UK and High Court of Australia (ret.) and was raised and internationally. Recently, IIPSGP Director educated in Sydney, Australia. See participated in an excellent Druid Spirit Challenge www.victorzammit.com for full details of this work. Camp in Shropshire, UK, which brought together a number of new and old friends, and led to many 7. ACADEMIC RESEARCH NETWORK ON interesting exchanges and networkings. The Council HUMILIATION AND DIGNITY STUDIES: A of British Druid Orders continues to meet quarterly, new international research network has recently and is currently being chaired by David Morgan- come into being, facilitated through the work of Dr. Brown of the Druids of Albion, with its next Evelin Lindner, a psychologist at the University of meeting in London on June 5th at 76 Antrobus Road, Oslo, who completed her Ph.D. there on the W4 5NQ (Tel. 020 8994 6216) psychology of humiliation and its relationship to conflict causation in 2001. The new network she has 5. THE BIG GREEN GATHERING takes place this created is based loosely at Columbia University, year in Somerset and will feature many interesting New York, and includes active participation from 2 many leading thinkers in peace and conflict focused on Towards a Transpersonal resolution worldwide, such as Dr. Ada Aharoni who Historiography. An extended version of this latter is a specialist in literature and conflict resolution talk will form Thomas’ contribution to the Big (and is busy organising the First World Congress of Green Gathering on August 5th 2005. Consult the Jews from Egypt in Haifa from May 9-12 2006.); WRG website for further details of its own Dr. Heidi Burgess of the University of Colorado, extensive activities, facilitated by Nigel Blair of Conflict Research Consortium and co-editor of the Sherborne, a new IIPSGP member, Encyclopaedia of Conflict Resolution (ABC-Clio, 1999); Dr. William A. Callahan, a sinologist at the 10. OWPP-THE ORDER OF WANDERING University of Durham; Dr. Asbjorn Eide of the PEACE POETS remains the main ‘bardic network’ Norwegian Institute of Human Rights; Prof. facilitated by IIPSGP worldwide as a networking Thomas Hylland Eriksen of the University of Oslo, tool for poets and related inspired artists of the an anthropologist interested in Darwin and history Word to use their magical tools for the advancement and many other peace thinkers and academics.
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