Professors World Peace Academy

Mod­ern soci­ety con­sists of three major com­po­nents: cul­ture, gov­ern­ment, and the econ­omy. The founders of the United States spec­i­fied the rela­tion­ship between cul­ture and gov­ern­ment in the first amend­ment, which for­bids the estab­lish­ment of reli­gion, but they did not make a sim­i­lar dec­la­ra­tion with respect to the rela­tion­ship between gov­ern­ment and the econ­omy. In their […]

From the early United Nations plans for a two-state solu­tion in the Mid­dle East to the present, plans for a two-state solu­tion have come up against immov­able obsta­cles. The orig­i­nal UN plan for Israel would have led to a state that was inde­fen­si­ble in a hos­tile envi­ron­ment. The plan for a Pales­tin­ian state failed to […]

Russia’s For­eign Min­is­ter Lavrov cre­ated quite a stir when he with­drew his arti­cle “Con­tain­ing Rus­sia: Back to the Future?” from pub­li­ca­tion in For­eign Affairs and sub­mit­ted its uncen­sored ver­sion to Rus­sia in Global Affairs. In that arti­cle he lamented what looks to be a return of a Cold War men­tal­ity in some U.S. for­eign policy […]

Ben­jamin Franklin (Jan­u­ary 17, 1706–April 17, 1790) was born in Boston, Mass­a­chu­setts, to a tallow-maker. He became a news­pa­per edi­tor, printer, mer­chant, and phil­an­thropist in Philadel­phia, Penn­syl­va­nia. He was one of the most promi­nent of Founders and early polit­i­cal fig­ures and states­men of the United States. As a “self-made man” noted for his curios­ity, ingenuity, […]

Decem­ber 18, 2002 (PWPA Foun­da­tion Day)((PWPA-International was Founded, Seoul, Korea, Dec. 18, 1983))

Decem­ber 18 is the anniver­sary of the found­ing of PWPA Inter­na­tional. One stal­wart mem­ber of PWPA involved in its found­ing was Alexan­der Shtro­mas. Pro­fes­sor Shtro­mas passed away in June 1999. This mem­ory was writ­ten in his honor on PWPA Foun­da­tion Day 2002.