Peacekeeping: Acting as a Good Tailor When the Need Arises Presented by: Jan Pronk London, 10th September, 2012 In his essay on UN peacekeeping, published shortly before his untimely death in 1996, Erskine Childers quoted United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld, who had warned against a straight jacket approach (1). According to Hammarskjöld the UN ‘cannot …
2012 ANNUAL ERSKINE CHILDERS LECTURE – HILTON LONDON Read More »
The Canadian National Newspaper reported on Erskine Childers Lecture 2012 held in Hilton Hotel London and also on Vijay Mehta’s book The Economics of Killing as a headline news on 28th September posted by Ameer Tarin [Read more…]
Vijay Mehta proposes a shift from war economy to green economy In 1973 the Nobel laureate Konrad Lorenz described the paradoxical relationship between market economics and the threat of ecological catastrophe: “ All the advantages that man has gained from his ever-deepening understanding of the natural world that surrounds him, his technological, chemical and medical …
On the 67th anniversay of Hiroshima (6th of August 1945) the dropping of the first atomic bomb Vijay Mehta gave a interview to PressTV [View Video]
It is with regret to note that Sir Alastair Burnet, journalist and broadcaster has passed away on 20th July, 2012. He was a brilliant journalist, Editor of The Economist, presenter of the News At 10 at ITN. He was very kind to attend my book discussion of The Economics of Killing at Hilton Hotel London …
Vijay Mehta went to Kendal to attend the book launch of Luckshan Abeysuriya’s book title ‘The UN War Crimes Tribunal in former Yugoslavia’ some of the prominent speakers who gave contribution Luckshan Abeysuriya, (Author), John Bateson former Kendal Mayor and chair, Dr Barbra Long Tonge and Vijay Mehta chair Uniting for Peace. Vijay Mehta also wrote …
THE UN WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL IN FORMER YUGOSLAVIA BOOK LAUNCH Read More »
Pulitzer Price Winning author and peace activist Alice Walker presents a submission to Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board quoting Vijay Mehta’s new book ‘The Economics of Killing’ [Read more…]
Sunday, 03 June 2012 09:46 Mike Phipps reviews The Economics of Killing, by Vijay Mehta, published by Pluto, price £14.99 pbk and Capitalism: a structural genocide, by Garry Leech, published by Zed, price £12.99 pbk. Sunday, 03 June 2012 Why did the global economy crash in 2008? asks Vijay Mehta in his new book. The …
A visiting peace activists says The Hague should put disarmament back on the political agenda.
Vijay Mehta’s book review on The Economics of Killing appeared in the Spectrezine haunting Europe on 5 September 2012 [Read more…]
