connections-20080112

• Met through Science for Peace, formed in 1980.
• Intended to do peace research.
• Burkhardt suggested to have a research project on appropriateness of weapons systems.
• Rapoport said nyet, all weapons are bad, which ended the project.

Some agreements.

• Some people say war is part of human nature.
• Burkhardt and Rapoport disagree.
• In Toronto, we have social order
• Rapoport said we have national peace, we should extend this to global order.
• Buddhists say that change comes from within, but possible to do from the outside without changing human beings.