Reflections

By Ed Laurance  Despite nearly twenty years of growing attention to the problem of armed violence in the world, the latest statistics and news headlines tell us it remains a critical impediment to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.  The prestigious research institution Small Arms Survey in Geneva estimated in 2011 that “more than 526,000 people are read more »

By Julie Reynolds Last year, hundreds of California prison inmates went on a statewide hunger strike to protest conditions in the system’s Security Housing Units, the most tightly controlled isolation cells known as the SHU. Among the occupants of the state’s two SHUs, which function as prisons-within-prisons, are those deemed to be members of any read more »

By Sonja C. Koehler Collaboration: it is messy. We have to deal other people, and confront ourselves. It demands commitment, open mindedness, agility.  Our higher-selves must be present, to be honest, engaged, diplomatic, empathetic. It is hard stuff. So why do we do it? Why do we collaborate? Humans, like other species, are social creatures. read more »

Can you describe your artwork for us? The sculpture seen in this photograph is one of the “rockstacks” which I have been making for nearly twenty years. These rockstacks by and large consist of two or more natural stones, placed in proximity to or balanced on top of each other. They are a composition of read more »