Vol.26, No.1: January-March 2010

In this issue

Zero Nuclear Weapons
Four national peace organizations got together to hold a two-day forum in Toronto. The voices of the pro-nuclear lobby were missing, which may have been a pity, as there was no chance to refute their arguments. Still, it was a top-notch strategizing session, and videoconferencing technology meant that colleagues from overseas were able to participate in a carbon-friendly way. Metta Spencer reports.
Nine hours of conference audio, and five hours of video, are now available on our sister site: www.zeronuclearweapons.com.

The Prospects for Indonesian-Papuan Dialogue
Indonesian and Papuan experts have proposed a “road map” for dealing with the decades-long conflict between the Indonesian state and the half-island of West Papua, writes Carmel Budiardjo, a renowned Indonesia-watcher.

‘Peacing it Together’ on Film
Young Canadians, Israelis, and Palestinians came to learn filmmaking on Canada’s West Coast, and in the process learned something about peacemaking, writes Jennifer Hansford.

On the web: System upgrade!

Five years ago, in celebration of Peace Magazine‘s 20th anniversary, we put all the magazine’s archives online. We designed a flexible, PHP-based system which allowed for full searching, links to contributors’ other articles (even for articles with multiple authors) and automatic links to cover art for each issue.

Our flat-text database was indeed flexible and easy to navigate, but hard to edit and update. That’s why we have now — in time for our 25th anniversary! — done an (almost) invisible upgrade which keeps most of the handcrafted features of the original site, but adds a powerful backend. A few features, like our search engine, have different addresses, but the 2000-plus articles in our archive have the same names as before.

The Peace Calendar archive, which covers the period 1983-1984, has also been rejigged, and is fully searchable. It also has a new location: http://tpc.peacemagazine.org.

Our cover gallery can be found at www.peacemagazine.org/covers.htm. Below each cover thumbnail is a link to the article index for that issue.

Updated 26 December 2009