by Charles Cameron | Oct 12, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — breaking the grip of the war and peace, militant vs pacifist duality, with justice as the proposed “missing” third ingredient ] . ** The purpose of war is never peace in the beginning, or there’d be no need of it, no...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 29, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — when is a sword just a metaphor, when does it spill blood, and what can be done about it when it does? ] . Hayder al-Khoei is presently in Rome for an interfaith conference on “Religions and Cultures in Dialogue” organised by...
by Charles Cameron | Sep 2, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — shall we say, not a great enthusiast for war? ] . . This image of Winston Churchill in the bombed out ruins of Coventry Cathedral is almost a self-referential paradox in itself, if you still believe the canard that he knew the Germans were...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 5, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — what can these two stunning performances tell us about conflict and / or peace? ] . I’m not sure if I’ve said it here before, but conflict resolution is pretty much the same as peace making, hence my title for both parts of...
by Charles Cameron | Jun 30, 2013 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — of Ozymandias, as Shelley’s story-teller friend reminds us, all that remains are “vast and trunkless legs of stone” ] . I am very fond of the long view, in which each of us becomes (physical) dust and enters (mental)...
