Essays worked on from July 12, 2001 to July 22, 2001:

• "We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families" by Philip Gourevitch. The story of the Hutus and the Tutsis in Rwanda. My journal additions are in my thoughts in answer to the discussion questions. July 12, 2001.

• jeanne's journal on learning Devoted to good comments and therefore names used. Trust me, if it's not good, you'll know privately. July 12, 2001.

• Exciting exchange on Habermas list on real-world deliberations. July 13, 2001.

• Habermas and Public Debate Will include some of my notes on real-world deliberations. July 13, 2001.

• Gay Life/Queer Art by Fredrick C. Corey, an assistant professor at Arizona State University, who "teaches performance studies in the Department of Communication and coordinates the HIV Studies Network in the College of Public Programs." This will be included as an optional reading in queer theory in Graduate Theory this Fall. Notes up later. July 13, 2001.

• NGOs and Common Ground A close look at transforming discourse on the nation state and group level. More notes up later. July 13, 2001.

• Comments on Religion and the Frankfurt School I put up a Hab list post, but haven't gotten to putting up my notes yet. July 14, 2001.

• Responsibility in an Adversarial Environment Introduction to a dilemma I want to consider in Transforming Discourse. More later . . .

• Art, Dramaturgy, and Social Psychology, After TR Young Notes based on PSN posts by TR Young and Lauren Langman. More later . . .

• Religion and Neuroscience Images of the brain reveal that transcendence, intense meditative concentration, produces actual changes in the brain. Vince Rause's description of Andrew Newberg's work in neuroscience is both fascinating and very readable.

• Amnesty International Amnesty International Report 2001 Source for updates on Human Rights around the world. Started lecture notes on Law of the Sea and difficulty of getting international agreement.

• Religion and Civilisational Dialogues I have already put up an URL to the Islam21 Site. This represents the first step in our undertaking to adequately read on Islam in our disscussions of social justice. July 16, 2001.

• The Alliance for Democracy Just have the site up today. Check out Susan George's Homepage, too. More later . . . July 16, 2001.

• Beginning discussion on art and its meaning on our site. These notes will deal with my planning of our participation in Art for Peace in the Fall of 2001.July 17, 2001.

• Writing to Us: Some Guidelines Link added July 18, 2001.

• Keep your eye on the ball. Which ball? Eric Boria's post to PSN. On the difficulties of communicating the need to tackle most social problems across several systems. Those focused on one system fail to understand how others can focus on a different system. Have several pieces on this, including an e-mail exchange with Eric that is not up yet. Link added July 18, 2001. Explanation added July 24, 2001.

• killing the revolutionaries Susan's story of structural violence. Link added July 18, 2001.

• You Made Your Choice: Sometimes We Don't Listen to Ourselves in Good Faith This is an essay on forgiveness, and how we are capable of more than we think. Link added July 22, 2001.

• Stem Cell Research and Pressuring the Outliers Looking at the research on stem cells as a status characteristic differential theory problem. If abortion is bad, and if an embryo is like a fetus, and if embryos are killed in the process of obtaining stem cells, then stem cell research is bad. The adjective "bad" here is the status attached to the characteristic of not letting the fertilized egg become a fetus. Link added July 22, 2001.