Professors World Peace AcademyPosted on by Frank Kaufmann
We are very fortunate for the good will and availability of Dr. Craig Considine, who has served the mission to improve Christian – Muslim relations conscientiously and sacrificially.
Dr. Considine is energetic, productive, and has enjoyed good success in his efforts. His writing and work is insightful and path breaking, and the fruits of this interview continue this good blessing. Interesting, constructive, and valuable information comes forward in this conversation
Dr. Craig Considine, photo credit http://www.drcraigconsidine.com/about.html
Professors World Peace AcademyPosted on by Frank Kaufmann
Dr. Drissa Kone was raised in a northern Cotes D’Ivoire (Ivory Coast) village, and came to the United States in 2007. In gentle but industrious ways, Dr. Kone followed a path of dedication and service resulting in his recent appointment to Director of the Doctoral Program for Unification Theological Seminary.
Dr. Drissa’s The Path to Peace: Transforming Pain into Love, based on personal life experiences and careful research, provides the source material for this interview. These experiences in conflict ridden Cotes D’Ivoire (at the time) and subsequent research into dynamics of personal transformation comprise the content of this fascinating exchange.
Dr. Drissa Kone
Dr. Kone’s experiences, and insights for transcending the evils of injustice offer important insights and recommendations to help guide our relationship to current challenges regarding race and histories of injustice
Professors World Peace AcademyPosted on by Frank Kaufmann
We are blessed and privileged to have time with Professor Hanoch Ben Pazi of Bar Ilan University who spent time in South Africa researching Post Apartheid, South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
The special benefit of this work is its extreme relevance to the race-related challenges that have erupted and persist in the United States, and now continue worldwide. There is so much to learn from this research, both to understand our current moment, and to understand our respective personal obligations in this time.
Please be sure to listen to this valuable exchange
Professor Hanoch Ben Pazi
Professor Ben Pazi, as you will hear in the program is Chair of the Dept. of Jewish Philosophy at Bar Ilan University (Israel). He researches Contemporary Philosophy and Modern Jewish Thought, especially the philosophical writings and Jewish thought of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas, and Jacques Derrida. Professor Pazi writes on ethics, contemporary philosophy and modern Jewish thought in the framework of religious studies and Interreligious dialogue. His books include: Interpretation as Ethical Act: The Hermeneutics Of Emmanuel Levinas, and Emmanuel Levinas: Educational Contract: Responsibility, Hopefulness, Alliance
Here is the original essay on which this interview is based: Continue reading →
Professors World Peace AcademyPosted on by Frank Kaufmann
WEDNESDAY JUNE 17, 2020
Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov was a Soviet geneticist, botanist and agronomist, and collector of one of the world’s largest seed banks, who was sentenced to death in July 1941 for defending scientific truths about genetics. While he escaped his death sentence, he lived the last twenty years of his life in a Soviet labour camp, disgraced and ostracised. His crime was to have criticised Lamarckian inheritance–the notion that changes to an organism in its lifetime can be passed on to offspring via genetics. Because Lamarckian inheritance emphasised the importance of the environment it was the favoured evolutionary theory among the socialists and communists of the time, and thanks to the advocacy of Trofim Lysenko, scientists who departed from this orthodoxy were shunned, persecuted, and in the case of Vavilov, sent to a gulag. When the siege of Leningrad occurred, Vavilov and a group of botanists who were holed up in a secret vault, famously chose to starve themselves before consuming their seeds, which they were preserving for the sake of humanity. While Vavilov died in obscurity, he is now recognised as one of the greatest Russian scientists of all time.
Professors World Peace AcademyPosted on by Frank Kaufmann
This riveting, haunting, and informative interview touches on a phenomenon of intense impact that moves the listener to concerns of the heart, and to a deeper grasp of delicate geopolitical realities of our time.
Professors World Peace AcademyPosted on by Frank Kaufmann
Acharya Shrivatsa Goswami is a world figure of our time who both inherited and embodies the profound spirituality of Lord Chaitanya Mahaprabhu (Shri Krishna Chaitanya Mahaprabhu), the founder of his tradition and of his family.
This interview draws from the seminal work and research into Acharya Goswami’s life and work by renowned scholar John Stratton Hawley , Claire Tow Professor of Religion at Barnard College, Columbia University, Krishna’s Playground: Vrindavan in the 21st Century (Oxford 2020).
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Professor Charles Selengut continues his important scholarship, taking on challenging and controversial issues with courage and rigor.
In this episode of the PWPA Scholars interview series Professor Selengut discusses his recent article “The New Anti-Semitism” published in The Jewish Standard , in which he posits the dire prospect that Jewish life in America teeters on the brink of radical change, a kind perhaps too haunting to entertain.
The interview examines evidence, implications, and causes. It is captivating:
Near the opening of the article, Selengut writes:
The current wave of anti-Semitic knifing and murderous attacks against Jews and Jewish institutions all over the United Sates, most prominently in the greater New York area but also in places like Texas and Pittsburg, rightly have frightened and terrorized many Jews about their safety in the United States. Rarely a day goes by without a report of harassment or violence in Jewish neighborhoods. These horrific attacks, however, are but an outward sign of the radically changed position of Jews and Judaism in America.
Dr. Anderson offers an engaging comparison between human health, and the health of social and political systems. As scientists desperately hunt for solutions and cures to the debilitating threat of covid-19, might we not similarly use this chance to examine how social and political systems likewise get invaded and attacked by parasitic, destructive forces.
Please enjoy this conversation, and please contact us with your ideas and responses
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Report by Frank Kaufmann
On February 4 and 5, 2020 Professors World Peace Academy, USA, together with the Universal Peace Federation and the Hyo Jeong Academy for the Arts and Sciences convened the four-part World Peace Academic Conference 2020 in Seoul, Korea.
Professor Joseph Terwilliger, American geneticist and professor of neurobiology at the Columbia University Medical Center and the New York State Psychiatric Institute.
Section 1 was for Physical and Natural Science, Section 2 for Political and Social Science, 3 for Religious and Theological scholarship, and Section 4 for Higher Education and University Presidents and administration.
All sections had fours hours of meeting time over the course of two days, comprising presentations from prepared papers, moderated panels, and question and answer segments open to participants.
Speakers of special note, presenting in prominent parts of the schedule included Drs.: Sun-Jin Moon, Modadugu Vinjay Gupta, Marc Vogelaar, and Chan-Yul Lee.
Professors World Peace AcademyPosted on by Frank Kaufmann
by Gordon L. Anderson, Ph.D.
Nicholas Kittrie at Washington College of Law
Professor Nicholas N. Kittrie, President of PWPA-USA and a dear friend and colleague, passed away December 9, 2019. He was 93. I initially became acquainted with him through the Professors World Peace Academy (PWPA). In 1984 I became Secretary-General and, in 1985, he became the President of the U.S. chapter. We became lifelong friends and worked together on many projects including International Journal on World Peace of which I became Editor in Chief and he was a Senior Advisor. Before reminiscing on our work together, I want to provide an overview of his distinguished life and career.
Early Life and Education
Nicholas Norbert Nehemiah Kittrie was born Nehemiah Kronenberg in Bilgoraj, Poland, on March 26, 1926. His youth was shaped by the rise of Hitler. In the 1930s, his family emigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine. His maternal uncle Leon (Leib) Felhendler, who he spent a lot of time with as a child, would later co-lead the October 1943 prisoner uprising from the Sobibor Nazi Death Camp. As a teenager, Kittrie served in the British Middle East Command as a personal aide for Orde Wingate, a Zionist British intelligence officer who pushed for the creation of Israel, while in Cairo in 1944-45. Wingate, a strategic genius, later became Major General and was a lifelong inspiration for Kittrie. Kittrie’s parents, who were British citizens, moved the U.S. in 1944.
Kittrie attended school at the University of Cairo in 1946 and the University of London in 1947 and earned LL.B. and M.A. degrees from the University of Kansas School of Law in Lawrence, Kansas in 1950 and 1951. This was followed by a prestigious fellowship at the University of Chicago School of Law. He was appointed as counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, through the sponsorship of Senator Alexander Wiley (Wis., R) to serve as Special Counsel to its Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee, chaired by Senator Estes Kefauver (Tenn, D). He received his LL.M and S.J.D (doctoral degree in law) from Georgetown University School of Law.
