Do Canada's aboriginal people hold the key to national unity? Keith Newman examines a controversial report which calls for a new relationship between First Nations and settlers and describes efforts to bring about healing.

The Right Revd Richard Chartres is the Bishop of London

Liberian peace-worker Samuel Doe describes how an encounter with a starving child changed the course of his life.

Many whites have no idea what African Americans really feel about the situation.

The question facing Cambodia today is: How do you deal with the remnants of a regime which turned the country into the killing fields and now says 'We have defected'?

As Hong Kong returns to China, she has more than business acumen to offer, maintains Leung Siu-Wai.

As Hong Kong returns to China, James Hore-Ruthven offers a British perspective.

Native American journalist Gordon Regguinti believes the media has an important role to play in community relations.

An international media forum in Sydney discusses the media's freedom of press versus responsibility to society.

Over the last two decades the Maori people of New Zealand have found new confidence through a movement which runs 'language nests' for pre-school children. Mary Lean visited the headquarters of the Kohanga Reo Trust in Wellington to discover what has happened since we last covered the story in May 1991.

'The Politics of Hope' by Jonathan Sacks: Jonathan Cape, 1997, £15.99

'Invisible Allies' by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: The Harvill Press, 1997, £9.99

Over a billion people in the developing countries suffer from the burden of debt repayments to the West. Will our governments take the opportunity of the new Millenium to cancel these debts?