Looking for Square Two examines a myriad of issues that are critical
to our future, and the book has many interesting anecdotes about
peace activities, citizen diplomacy, many travels, and the difficultly
of working full-time as head a an international peace organization
and, at the same time, full-time for wages as a senior engineer/manager
in the world of high tech corporations.
Looking for Square Two is an "intellectual study that covers the
social, political, and economic ramifications of nuclear disarmament
(and the war business itself), and offers some achievable solutions
to many frightening real conundrums. Mattern offers a point of
view that is refreshingly straightforward and human--a realistic
answer to today's convoluted political atmosphere."
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LOOKING FOR SQUARE TWO - Moving from
War and Violence to Global Community
by Douglas Mattern, President of the Association of World Citizens;
a San Francisco based international peace organization with United
Nations NGO status.
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With the conflict raging in the Middle
East, and with nuclear proliferation on the increase, the content
of this book is more urgent than ever.
On the front cover Sir Arthur C. Clarke
writes: "Just as guns are the crutches of impotent men,
nuclear weapons are the crutches of impotent nations. In Looking
for Square Two, Douglas Mattern shows us one way to end the long
childhood of our species. Would enough of us listen to him?"
Jane Goodall
writes on the back cover: "Looking for Square Two explains
in frightening clarity why nuclear disarmament is so desperately
important for the future of our children and our planet. It is
something none of us can afford to ignore: read this book, talk
about the issues, send copies to friends, neighbors, and politicians."
Tadatoshi Akiba,
the Mayor of Hiroshima and the President of Mayors for Peace
representing over 1,000 cities around the world writes: "...to
survive this century, we must somehow graduate from a culture
of war to a culture of peace. Mr. Mattern's book, Looking for
Square Two, is an important contribution to this task....This
book should be required reading for all world leaders"
Noted author and futurist, Hazel Henderson
says about this book: "Important global strategies for
peace by a preeminent global citizen."
Chapters cover:
- The nuclear weapons nightmare
- Anti-war activism
- The war system as "There's no Business
Like War Business"
- Weapons in Space
- Citizens Diplomacy (six CD trips to the
former Soviet Union in the 1980s including a meeting with President
Gorbachev in 1988) and the first U.S./USSR peoples rally for
nuclear disarmament
- The corporate world and globalization
- How our democracy is declining to a plutocracy
- Choosing Wisdom over Fools and Folly
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