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Science, hegemony and violence

The United Nations University's Programme on Peace and Global Transformation was a major world-wide project whose purpose was to develop new insights about the interlinkages between questions of peace, conflict resolution, and the process of transformation. The research in this project, under six major themes, was co-ordinated by a 12-member core group in different regions of the world: East Asia, South-East Asia (including the Pacific), South Asia, the Arab region' Africa, western Europe, Eastern Europe, North America, and Latin America. The themes covered were: Conflicts over Natural Resources; Security, Vulnerability, and Violence; Human Rights and Cultural Survival in a Changing Pluralistic World; The Role of Science and Technology in Peace and Transformation; The Role of the State in Peace and Global Transformation; and Global Economic Crisis. The project also included a special project on Peace and Regional Security.

A Requiem for Modernity

Edited by

ASHIS NANDY

THE UNITED NATIONS UNIVERSITY

TOKYO, JAPAN

DELHI

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS

1988

Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford' OX2 6DP

NEW YORK TORONTO

DELHI BOMBAY CALCUTTA MADRAS KARACHI

KUALA LUMPUR SINGAPORE HONG KONG TOKYO

NAIROBI DAR ES SALAAM

MELBOURNE AUCKLAND

and associates in

BERLIN IBADAN

The United Nations University

Toho Seimei Building, 15-1 Shibuya 2-chome

Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150, Japan

© The United Nations University, 1988

Printed in India by P. K. Ghosh at Eastend Printers, 3 Dr Suresh Sarkar Road, Calcutta 700014 and published by S. K. Mookerjee, Oxford University Press YMCA Library Building, Jai Singh Road, New Delhi 110001

 

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