Steps to Improve our World

Each session will include lecture and discussion on how action may improve both local and global welfare, including the following topics: philosophy and our ideal world, psychology and dealing with human nature, political sociology and choice of government, political science and ways to exert power, economics and managing money, political economy and its improvement, religion and our spirituality, and community participation and new rituals. While discussion of these topics may raise difficult issues and conflict can be upsetting, sharing and mutual support may help us to act correctly and do what we really want to do. 

 Readings: Background material is available from library copies of Joseph de Rivera, Forming a Global Community, ISBN 978-1648895166 and Tools for Peace at www.pwpp.org. 

Joseph de Rivera, PhD Stanford, is a social psychologist who served in the Navy and taught at Dartmouth and NYU before Clark University where he formed its program in Peace and Conflict Studies.