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At the start of her Introduction, MacMillan quotes Belarussian journalist Svetlana Alexievich, ‘War remains, as it always has been, one of the chief human mysteries’, and confirms this at the end o...

This book analyses how the ‘triple disaster’ of Fukushima (‘3.11ʹ) (earthquake, tsunami and nuclear reactor meltdown) changed the literary ‘image’ (including ‘twitter-poems’) of Japan held by the J...

The Fukushima disaster of 11 March 2011 shocked Japan and the world, especially their nuclear industries. But we must not forget that the tsunami that followed the earthquake caused nearly 20,000 d...

The Institute for Economics and Peace has ranked 162 territories within the United Nations according to how they score on a scale of 1.0 (most peaceful) to 5.0 (least peaceful) in a 'Global Peace Index' (GPI). The GPI 2015 values range from 1.148 (Iceland) to 3.645 (Syria). In this pilot study, we report significant correlations (Spearman rank coefficients) between each country's GPI and indicators of the health of its citizens (life expectancies, death rates and health expenditures): these significances are marginally enhanced when Sub-Saharan African countries are excluded. Our findings may indicate avenues for promoting a healthy global society, but more detailed and comprehensive analyses should be conducted in order for the factors behind the correlations to be identified and applied with more certainty.

Contemporary conflict resolution, by Oliver Ramsbotham, Tom Woodhouse and Hugh Miall, 3rd edition, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2011, 507 pp., including chapter notes, references and index, £24.99 (pap...

Adam Curle, music-lover and peace-student extraordinaire died on 28 September 2006, three months after his ninetieth birthday. Born in France to parents who hated war (his mother lost three brother...