Analysing the war in the Balkans, as well as the student massacre in Colombine High School and racist attacks in Britain, William Rees-Mogg wrote in The Times of London recently about 'the racism that threatens the world's future'.

Current farming controversies give food for thought to Joanna Grigg, a New Zealand hill-country farmer.

Alan Brockman's hope for the 21st century is no less than a revolution in world farming, which will see organic farming coming into its own.

Vision TV, Canada, is a network with a difference--religious but multifaith, incisive but non-confrontational. Choice Okoro meets its Vice-President, Rita Deverell.

John Bocock is a dairy and grain farmer in the Canadian prairies to the north of Edmonton, Alberta.

Many African Americans will tell you that Portland and Oregon are the most racist communities they have ever been in, and most can cite racist hurdles and language they have encountered.

American author Philip Yancey teaches Susan Corcoran a thing or two about grace.

Former Utrecht city councillor Aad Burger discovers how the Dutch police are responding to their country's increasing ethnic diversity.

On 1 July the British Government will hand over decision-making power on a range of subjects to the Welsh National Assembly in Cardiff. It is part of its devolution programme for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland--the biggest constitutional change in Britain for decades.

'Old and new wars: organized violence in a global era' by Mary Kaldor: Blackwell Publishers, 1999, £12.99