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Dark Underbelly of the World’s Most ‘Peaceful’ Countries

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By Riane Eisler in The Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 2007 Some nations that rank well in the Global Peace Index are notorious for violence against women and children. Out of 121 countries studied, the United States ranked 96;…

A Time for Partnership

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Reprinted from the September 1995 UNESCO Courier. This article was the lead article for the issue, Women: one half of heaven, highlighting the United Nations Beijing Women’s Conference. Riane Eisler is an internationally renowned peace, development, and human rights scholar,…

Creating Partnership Futures: My Life, Work and Vision of the Future

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Some people think the vision of a more equitable, less violent future is merely a utopian dream. A goal of my work has been showing it can be a viable model for transformative change and that the key components of…

Pragmatopia: Revisioning Human Possibilities

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We all know the word ?utopia.? It means a place that doesn?t?and can?t?exist. A “pragmatopia” is a less violent, more humane and equitable place?a place where beliefs and social structures support relations based on partnership. We all know the word…

From the Blade to The Chalice

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Copyright 2005 RIANE EISLER Exerpted and adapted from Riane Eisler, The Chalice and The Blade: Our History, Our Future. We stand at an evolutionary crossroads: breakdown or breakthrough. Ours is a time when the lethal power of the Blade ?…