By Sir Jeremy Greenstock, the former Britsh Ambassador to the
UN and the UK government's former Special Representative in Iraq, where he
worked alongside Paul Bremer in the Coalition Provisional Authority until his
resignation in March 2004, three months before the end of the CPA's term.
Johan Galtung is
widely regarded as the 'father' of peace studies. This is a talk he gave
to an informal meeting of the UN General Assembly Plenary in New York on 2 October
2007, the International Day of Nonviolence.
A few months ago I noticed I was feeling tired and out of sorts all the time, writes Julia Stephenson.
I was usually a good sleeper but had suddenly begun waking up early in the morning and finding myself unable to go back to sleep. It wasn’t only me that was drooping. My once lush plants had lost their lustre too. Ridiculous considering how well I look after myself – and my plants.
A Japanese village's strict recycling regime looks to a future free of incinerators and landfill
The inhabitants of Kamikatsi intend to do away with incinerators by 2020, to become Japan's first zero-waste community explains Justin McCurry
(Photograph: Robert Gilhooly)