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Making Friends in High Places

by: Kathy Kelly, Jerica Arents, and David Smith-Ferri
Subtitle: Three American peace activists meet their young Afghani counterparts
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Three American peace activists meet their young Afghani counterparts.

Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
Tagged Afghan Peace, Afghan Youth, afghanistan, AYPV, Bamiyan, humanism, humanitarianism, kabul, pacifism, Pashtun, peace initiatives, poverty, violence, war | Leave a comment

SPECIAL BOOK EXCERPT: War is A Lie

by: David Swanson
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“There has probably never been a war that hasn’t been explained as an absolutely necessary, inevitable, and unavoidable last resort.”

Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
Tagged anthropology, books, global peace index, hunter-gatherer, pacifism, peace, violence, war, war is a lie, warfare, warrior | Leave a comment

Speaking of Sex

Subtitle: An interview with psychologist Christopher Ryan, co-author of the New York Times bestseller Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
by: Barry F. Seidman and Arnell Dowret
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home Subtitle: : An interview with psychologist Christopher Ryan
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The psychologist and co-author of Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality looks at what the evidence says about humans’ “natural” state.

Published in the March / April 2011 Humanist
Tagged aggression, bonobo, bonobos, books, chimp, chimpanzee, gender, interview, lgbt, matriarchy, primates, primatology, sex, sexuality, violence | Leave a comment

Defusing the Neuron Bomb

by: Clay Farris Naff
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On learning that the suspect aboard Northwest Flight 235 on Christmas Day was a young Nigerian born to privilege and wealth, I again thought of a girl I once knew—I’ll call her Alice Kim. When I was a grad student