I’ve had to find some kind of healing and wholeness without the thing I most wanted, to live and function and even enjoy life without it.

There are plenty of well intentioned heads of government, and any number of enlightened statutes. But creating the perfect world cannot be imposed from on top.

Can big business and activists agree on fighting poverty? Michael Smith reports.

Joanna Grigg meets Alan Porteous a New Zealand climatologist who, not content just to predict weather patterns, is promoting a bid to save a precious part of India's natural heritage.

Fuad Nahdi is publisher and founder-editor of the British Muslim monthly magazine, ‘Q-News’.

Rajmohan Gandhi looks at the challenges facing a world where sovereignty is no longer seen as an absolute.

Www.turning-point.ca is worth visiting. You will find vigorous, frank, constructive discussion between indigenous and non-indigenous Canadians.

Nineteen-year-old Virgilio Tognato from Thiene in northern Italy has just published his first book: no mean achievement for someone who at the age of nine was thought to have an IQ of nil.

Ahmed Hussen Egal arrived in Sweden from Somalia 16 years ago with only the clothes on his back.

On a recent trip to Lviv, Ukraine, I stayed in a hotel just across the street from an Internet cafe. Also close was a McDonald's. But the café and McDonald's had more than proximity in common.

John Bond hears from Africans who are risking their lives to end conflict.

Living with other faiths is about being at home in your own religion and learning to be a guest in others, discovers Paul Williams.

The summer at Caux began with a conference run by young people, mostly from former Soviet Bloc countries, with a smaller number from West Europe and North America, Mexico and an international group from the Swiss association, Youth Exchanges for Peace.

During the summer conferences in Caux prominent figures delivered a weekly series of public lectures. Some are mentioned elsewhere in this issue but here we report four of them.

Kenneth Noble reads a book that dares to suggest that marriage is better than cohabiting.

No wonder that an inter-national team has convened in Paris around a few concerned citizens working for an end to civil war in Congo, Rwanda and Burundi, the so-called ‘Great Lakes’ region of Africa.