Forgiveness: Hindu and Western Perspectives

This paper compares Hindu and Christian beliefs on forgiveness: it argues that forgiveness is an important element within the Hindu religious world-view, even if less explicitly so than within the Christian tradition. Before the late 1980s, discussion of forgiveness in the West was for the most part confined to Christian communities, seldom reaching mainstream publications in other areas. The situation has now changed dramatically. Since the 1990s, scholars from different disciplines have written dozens of books and journal articles on forgiveness, which also featured in numerous popular essays, exhibitions, websites, and other media. There are four major areas for forgiveness research in the West: religion, philosophy, psychology and, perhaps surprisingly at first sight, politics. However, relatively little analysis of forgiveness in other faiths, except Judaism, has appeared

Lorentz Violation and Short-Baseline Neutrino Experiments

A general discussion is given of signals for broken Lorentz symmetry in short-baseline neutrino experiments. Among the effects that Lorentz violation can introduce are a dependence on energy differing from that of the usual massive-neutrino solution and a dependence on the direction of neutrino propagation. Using the results of the LSND experiment, explicit analysis of the effects of broken Lorentz symmetry yields a nonzero value (3+/-1) x 10^{-19} GeV for a combination of coefficients for Lorentz violation. This lies in the range expected for effects originating from the Planck scale in an underlying unified theory.Comment: 4 pages REVTe

New perspectives on conflict prevention

This article reviews three books offering potential new insights for preventing conflict violence. The rationale for preventative response to warnings of imminent conflict seems obvious: effective early interventions might avert the humanitarian catastrophes of armed conflict, and should also cost far less in terms of development losses and political instability. Publisher statement: This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Peacebuilding on 17 Nov 2014, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21647259.2014.973665