2 new listserve discussion groups on peace

[Floyd Rudmin <frudmin at psyk.uit.no>]

Good morning,

A new peace education organization has been created, called the Canadian
Peace Institute (CPI).  This organization was proposed last June at the
annual convention of the Canadian Peace Research and Education Association
(CPREA).

Whereas CPREA has traditionally been more focussed on promoting peace
research by means of an annual convention and by means of the journal
"Peace Research", the new CPI will be more directly focussed on peace
education.  The opening paragraph of the CPI mission statement reads:

"The Canadian Peace Institute offers an interdisciplinary graduate program
challenging students both in and outside the classroom in peace theory and
development; students arbitrate alternatives to the aberration of violence
and war. Education is virtually the only source of a foundation for peace,
to overcome ignorance and intolerance. We have never discovered how to
share the planet, or to save it from ourselves, and we must; it is our
responsibility to all future generations, and ourselves. Historically, it
is students who successfully depose despots peacefully, and affect
dramatic, long-term change in establishing equitable and fair governance."

Listserve discussion groups have now been set up for both groups:

a) CPREAdiscussion at yahoogroups.com  can be subscribed to at

      http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CPREAdiscussion

      Or you can simply send an empty email from your computer to
      CPREAdiscussion-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

b) CPIdiscussion at yahoogroups.com  can be subscribed to at

      http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CPIdiscussion

Or you can simply send an empty email from your computer to
      CPIdiscussion-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

Both of these are open and unmoderated discussion groups.  Anyone can sign
onto them and join the discussion.  Welcome.

There are three very, very nice options in the yahoogroups system that you
should know about.

1) YOU CHOOSE HOW AND WHEN YOUR MESSAGES COME TO YOU
Once you register by sending an email to either or both of these addresses

      CPREAdiscussion-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

      CPIdiscussion-subscribe at yahoogroups.com

then you can go to the yahoo web page for the discussion groups at

      http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CPREAdiscussion

      http://groups.yahoo.com/group/CPIdiscussion

and there find your name.  On the right of your name there is a menu where
you
can choose how you want your group's email messages to come to you.  The
choices are:
a) instanteously into your email account,
b) only once per day as a package of messages sent to your account
c) never, which means that the group's messages will not be sent into your
personal email, but that you will go to the website and read them there.

2) ARCHIVED COPIES, BUT NOT IN YOUR OWN PC
All of the messages stay displayed and available on the yahoogroups
website.  You do not have to save these into your own computer if you want
to have the prospect of seeing them again.

3) SEARCH ENGINE
Yahoo has very nicely made a search engine for each yahoogroup.  So, over
the years as these messages increase in number, and you want to find
something that was discussed last year, or three years ago, there is a
search system to do that. You no longer have to open and close and open and
close, email after email,
trying to find that file you have some memory about, but not enouth memory
to recall directly.

I think that this new system will please everyone.


Floyd Rudmin

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Floyd W. Rudmin

Institute of Psychology
University of Tromsø
Tromsø, Norway, N-9037

Tel: +47 77 64 59 53
Email: FRudmin at Psyk.UiT.No
FAX: +47 77 64 52 91