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Focuses on antiwar movements in the United States following U.S. bombing of the Taliban in Afghanistan.

Reports that Israeli and Palestinian politicians issued the first joint call for a halt to violence and the resumption of peace negotiations. Discussion of political and public support left in Israel for the peace movement; Mention of the effects of continued violence on the peace process.

Reports United States President Bill Clinton's March 2000 role in Northern Ireland peace negotiations.

Focuses on the Middle East peace talks taking place in West Virginia with the leaders of Israel, Syria and the United States as of January 7, 2000.

Reports the author's contention that the process toward peace in Africa is moving its emphasis away from leadership by the United States and Russia, and toward local African movements, supported by the United States and Russia.

Discusses issues relating to postwar Kosovo in June 1999. The efforts of peacekeepers to keep the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in check and assist with war-crimes investigations; Mention of the peace agreement; Suggestion that the sudden change in events has lifted the spirits of many returning refugees; The launch of postwar operations in Kosovo by international aid organizations; Efforts of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

Examines the United States political ramifications of a peace agreement in Kosovo with Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic. Impact on the public's perception of President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore; Obstacles still remaining for an agreement to be reached; Continuing debate about the US role overseas; Effect on the 2000 presidential campaigns, especially that of Senator John McCain; Divisions in Congress over the US role in Kosovo.

Explains that Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic will likely remain in power despite any loss his country might face in a peace agreement with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Popular opinion in Yugoslavia about Milosevic; Nature of the plan Milosevic will have to accept from NATO; Possible sources for cracks in Milosevic's power; His effective crackdown on the media; Charges against Milosevic by an international war crimes tribunal.

Examines the role of economic sanctions in a possible peace plan for the conflict in Kosovo (Serbia). Need for alternatives to the bombing of Yugoslavia; Idea of United States President Bill Clinton to impose trade and oil sanctions against Yugoslavia; Criticism of sanctions; Russia's condemnation of oil sanctions; Effectiveness of sanctions against Yugoslavia from 1992 to 1995; Need for economic assistance for refugees.

Editorial. Discusses the terms under which the conflict in Kosovo (Serbia) should end. Principles held by the Group of Eight (G8) countries about a peace agreement; Claims of Yugoslavia about eradicating the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); Need for the withdrawal of Yugoslav troops from Kosovo and their replacement by an international peacekeeping force; When the bombing of Yugoslavia should end.

Explains that the withdrawal of Serb forces from Kosovo (Serbia) might indicate their deadlock with the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). Continuation of bombing in Yugoslavia by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); Views of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic about a peace plan proposed by the Group of Eight (G8) countries; How Yugoslav officials see the conflict in Kosovo.

Interviews former United States Senator George Mitchell concerning his role in negotiating the Northern Ireland peace agreement. His faith in the fundamentals of democratic interaction; His book, `Making Peace'; Importance of family to Mitchell; Role of compromise in peace talks; His management style in the talks; Key factors in achieving the agreement; Influence from his wife, Heather; Hiatuses in the peace talks.

Presents world news briefs as of April 12, 1999. The ease of Orthodox Easter attacks on Yugoslavia because of bad weather; Mention of the possibility of peace negotiations between Afghanistan's ruling Taliban movement and opposition forces; German Chancellor Gerhard Schroder expected to be elected chairman of the ruling Social Democratic Party (SPD); More.

Editorial. Suggests that Yasser Arafat threatens to destabilize Israeli-Palestinian relations with his proposal to declare a Palestinian state on May 4, 1999. Why peace talks have made meager progress since the election of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996; Arafat's timing regarding statehood.

Editorial. Discusses the April 2, 1999, deadline for the transfer of authority in Northern Ireland to an executive body formed under the Good Friday peace accord. Impasse over the decommissioning of arms; Role of United States President Bill Clinton in the peace process; Talks between Unionist leader David Trimble and Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams; What is at stake; Need for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to begin to disarm.

Reports that ethnic Albanian rebels accepted a United States-brokered peace plan for Kosovo that denies them independence from Serbia. Pressure on Serbs to accept a plan for self-rule for Kosovo; Serbian resistance to the plan; Plans for the deployment of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) troops in Kosovo; Intransigence of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; Support for NATO airstrikes should the Serbs continue to resist.

Discusses prospects for peace in Afghanistan. Renewed presence by United Nations (UN) aid workers; Calls for a power-sharing agreement between the Taliban and an alliance of opposition parties; Security for aid workers in the country and worldwide; Views of Karina Schmitt of the World Food Program; Afghanistan lacking a UN seat; Problems the UN has had with the Taliban; The Taliban thought to harbor terrorist Osama bin Laden. INSET: Behind two decades of strife.

Explains that United States President Bill Clinton will urge Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and Northern Ireland minister-elect David Trimble to compromise for a peace agreement for the country. Deadline for the agreement set for April 2, 1999; Role of George Mitchell in the peace process; Mitchell to be awarded the Presidential Medal of Honor; Plans for the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to decommission its arms as part of the peace agreement.

Editorial. Discusses the peace between India and Pakistan. Why their steps toward peace are notable; The countries' nuclear arsenals; Summits between their leaders; Cultural exchanges and economic deals; Pakistan's attitude toward negotiation.

Discusses the role of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the peace talks for the region. Success of the KLA; Political differences emerging within the KLA; The KLA's desire for independence from Yugoslavia; Question of whether the KLA will sign the peace agreement; Risks if the KLA rejects the peace plan; Pressure from the international community on the KLA; Role of KLA leader Adem Demaci, and his influence.

Presents several brief articles related to United States news for February 25, 1999. Partial peace accord for Kosovo, Serbia; Views of United Nations (UN) Secretary-General Kofi Annan about the use of UN peacekeeping forces; John William King found guilty in the murder of James Byrd, Jr., in Jasper, Texas; Others.

Discusses prospects for peace in Kosovo, Serbia. Possible impact of an all-out war in the region; Hopes for a peace agreement when talks resume in France on March 15, 1999; Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's rejection of North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) peacekeeping forces; Resumption of fighting between Serb troops and the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); Number of refugees in the region; Concerns about more fighting in the Spring.

Reports that ethnic Albanian leaders have agreed to sign a peace accord for Kosovo in two weeks, as of February 24, 1999. Goal to build popular support for the plan; Agreement meant to isolate Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic; Milosevic's opposition to a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) peacekeeping force in Kosovo; Suspension of NATO airstrikes against Milosevic; Risks in delaying the peace process.

Editorial. Eulogizes Jordan's King Hussein on the occasion of his death in February, 1999. Lack of leaders in today's world; Hussein's courage and leadership; His truth-telling; Gathering of world leaders in Amman for his funeral; Other leaders' lack of vision; How Hussein built a nation; Hussein's inspiration of his people; Need for Middle East peace.

Reports threats to talks aimed at ending the fighting in Serbia's Kosovo province between Serbians and ethnic Albanians. Possible last chance to avoid an all-out war in the region; Peace proposal by the United States and its partners; Threatened airstrikes by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) against the Serbs; Views of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA); Timetable for an agreement; Demands of Albanian delegates.

Describes efforts to make peace in Cyprus. Conflicts between ethnic Turkish and Greek Cypriots; Work of New Zealand's Dame Ann Hercus for the United Nations (UN) toward peace; Greek reversal of its decision to deploy missiles on the island; Role of Cyprus' president, Glafcos Clerides; Brief history of the conflict since 1974; Focus of UN peace efforts; Obstacles to peace; Work of Turkish Cypriot leader Rauf Denktash.

States that as deaths reach 6,000 a year and drug traffic goes on, Colombia resumes direct peace talks, in January 1999. Mention of the opening ceremonies for the first direct talks between the state and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) since the government walked out of talks in Mexico in 1992; The role of United States officials.

Focuses on Northern Ireland's movement towards peace as of December 22, 1998. The refusal so far by the Irish Republican Army and its political wing, Sinn Fein, to agree to the hand over of IRA guns and explosives; Protestant groups that agreed to hand in weapons; The creation of six cross-border committees to coordinate contacts between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic; Others developments.

Focuses on the peacemaking attempts in Sierra Leone following years of civil war and how the country's religious leaders have united to help end the conflict and engage in national reconstruction.

Reports on grass-roots efforts at peace in Northern Ireland. The project Moving Beyond Sectarianism, founded by Sister Celia Clegg, a Scottish Roman Catholic nun in Northern Ireland; How the project works; The line which defines how Protestants and Catholics act; Fears of renewed violence; Comments from Rev. David Stevens, general secretary of the Irish Council of Churches, about moving from the grass-roots level to a national level.

Reports that the administration of United States President Bill Clinton may have to act forcefully to protect the Middle East peace process, in light of escalating tensions between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. American officials' reluctance to make a high-profile foray; Low-key diplomacy seen as an effective way of persuading the two sides to retreat from violent confrontation.

Opinion. Comments on the effort of President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt to visit Washington, in efforts to save the peace process between Arabs and Israelis and to save the Middle East from consequences of a peace effort. American role in the process; Effect of the prestige of the United States government on the process.

Reports on efforts for peace by Moscow, Russia. Mideast peace process over Hebron; Services being offered by Russia; Comments from Alexander Bovin, the Russian ambassador to Israel.

Focuses on the implications of the declaration of Czech-German reconciliation, which will be signed by Prime Minister Vaclav Klaus and Chancellor Helmut Kohl. Last in a series of official peacemaking gestures between Germany and its neighbors; Years of difficult negotiations to produce the declaration; Criticism of the document; Insight into the Czechoslovakia war.

Discusses the impact which Dr. Martin Luther King's antiwar address at Riverside Church, New York City, in 1967, had on the author. Accuracy of King's predictions; Vitality of King's teachings; How the economic and moral crises faced by Americans dates back to the time when American leaders chose war over peace.

Focuses on the complaints to leading Northern Ireland nationalists and republicans, that peace hopes in the area are being tampered with by a parliamentary `numbers game' the British Prime Minister John Major is playing. Suggestions over the declaration of a cease-fire by the Irish Republican Army (IRA); Reference to negative comments of Major.

Reports on the efforts of the United Nations for peacekeeping in Angola. Reference to the 1992 peacekeeping mission; Comments from United STates Undersecretary of State for International Organizations, Princeton Lyman; Information on other peace attempts tin Angola.

Focuses on the Croat statelet Herzeg-Bosna, whose defiance of the Dayton accords is creating problems for the peace process in Bosnia & Hercegovina. Dependence of the Dayton peace process on the dismantling of the statelet; Other factors which will determine the success of Dayton.

Reports on efforts by Catholic and Protestant women in Northern Ireland to pull down psychological walls through the organization Corrymeela. Narration of their experiences with racial hatred; Staffing of the organization; Living along the so-called Peace Line; Emphasis of similarities rather than differences.

Reports that pressure is being exerted on the Irish Republican Army (IRA) to be more open to peace efforts in Northern Ireland as peace talks in Belfast were commenced. Appeal made by Gerry Adams of Sinn Fein to the IRA to reconsider its refusal to renew a cease-fire in the region; Aim to reconcile the two main political traditions in the region; Comments from former US Senator George Mitchell.

Editorial. Describes the possibility of peace in the Middle East. Benefits to Palestinians and Israelis; Why the peace process has stalled; Delay of the process' time table; Meeting of United States President Bill Clinton with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat; Working out difficult details; Opposition to the peace process in Israel; Reviving the process' timetable.

Describes the state of negotiations for peace in the Middle East as of September 30, 1998. Meetings of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat with United States President Bill Clinton on September 28, 1998; Deadlines for stages in the peace progress pushed back; Impending deadline for Palestinian statehood; Pressures on the leaders; Seeking support for peace plan in Israel; Plans for another summit.

Presents numerous brief articles related to world news for September 30, 1998. Middle East peace negotiations; Albanian separatist leaders refusing to cooperate with Kosovo's provisional government; Plans to address Russia's economic crisis.

Reports that Shlomo Livman and Harel Binoun were murdered on August 5, 1998, while guarding the West Bank Jewish settlement of Yitzhar. The murders a planned ambush; Response of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu; Possible impact on peace talks; Both men Jewish seminary students; Tensions between Jews and Palestinians at the yeshiva there.

Suggests that an ongoing military offensive by Serbian forces in Kosovo has weakened the position of ethnic Albanians as the international community pushes for peace talks rather than military intervention. Estimate by the United Nations regarding the number of Kosovars that have been displaced since fighting began in late February 1998; Suggestion that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) moved close to approving contingency plans to use aerial assaults against the Serbs.

Examines the state of the peace accord in Northern Ireland as of July 15, 1998. Violence and the Protestant marching season; Failure of the new regional government to act decisively; Background on recent upheaval; Role of First Minister David Trimble; What must occur for the new system to work; Demands of political equality for all groups involved; Need for nonviolence.

Focuses on the healing of fractured societies. The response to the Protestant Orange Order, whose traditional mid-summer parade sparked protests in Northern Ireland in July 1998. The process of redirecting a society's energies; Whether the riots will slow the peace process; Other examples of fractured societies which are making strides toward peace.

States that British Prime Minister Tony Blair has decided not to call for Northern Irish paramilitary groups to turn in their weapons prior to the June 25, 1998 election. His call for a declaration of permanent peace; Why Blair decided not to call for early disarmament; The belief that pressure can be applied to both sides for disarmament after the election of the general assembly.

Comments on the decision by the majority of Protestants in Northern Ireland to support the peace agreement in the May 1998 referendum. Challenges that Protestants face in implementing the agreement; Issues like the release of terrorist prisoners and the disarming of terrorists; How the support of The Ulster Democratic Party and the Progressive Unionist Party for the peace agreement impacted the referendum; The uncertainty felt by many Protestants.

States that the issue of the release of political prisoners in Northern Ireland as part of the peace agreement may lessen support for the agreement in the referendum on whether to accept it or not. Why groups opposed to the agreement have used the issue of prisoners to help their cause; Support among prisoners for the peace agreement; Number of prisoners who would be affected; Restrictions which will be placed on their release.