The cover page and Bulletin Motif were taken from a Piatto de Pompa (Plate), Motif à l’Agneau mystique, Deruta, Italy 1510-1520 faïece lustrée (majolique) on exhibit Musée Arianna, Geneva Switzerland.
Cover art by Nicholas A. Backer
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Emancipating the Mind in the New Era
The Bulletin of the Coalition for Peace & Ethics
Editor in Chief
Donna J. Backer
Managing Editor
Flora Sapio
Coalition for Peace & Ethics
Managing Director
Donna J. Backer
Members
Larry Catá Backer
Flora Sapio
Shan Gao
Keren Wang
James Korman
Kelly Kay
Lucinda B. Ashley
Arianna F. Backer
Miaoqiang Dai
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Information for Readers, Submissions, and Editorial Policy
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The Coalition for Peace & Ethics, founded in 2006, is an independent, non-partisan, research and information focused organization. CPE avoids ideology, adopts no specific political or religious doctrine, and owes allegiance to no master. CPE is a growing community of scholars dedicated to advancing an understanding of peace and ethics, and their application to every aspect of individual and communal human activity.
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Issues
The Bulletin is published twice a year, with additional special issues form time to time. Issue 1 No.1 was circulated in June 2006. The issues were initially made available only to members of the Coalition for Peace and Ethics. In 2019, the CPE announced that it would start making the Bulletin available to readers on line. Little Sir Press agreed to publish the Bulletin. The initial work made available is Volume 14 No. 1. Prior issues will be posted.
ISSN: 2689-0283 ((print); 2689-0291 (online))
Current Issue–Volume 16
Volume 16 No. 1 (Spring/Summer 2021)
Essays on Contemporary China–Heartland, Periphery, and Silk Roads. The essays are organized from a core or hub and then outward along its spokes to the Chinese periphery and then as a project of internationalization. The object is to examine contemporary rationalizations of the Chinese Heartland; China and its Autonomous Regions; and China in Africa. Essays are written by CPE Members. At their center is the consideration of the way in which Chinese Marxist-Leninism constructs its own symbolic universe as an iterative self-construction of theory and experience that progress through time replicating responses that change as context changes .
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Volume 16 No. 2 (Winter 2021)
The essays in this issue suggest the ways that the current movement from the sovereign legal to plural legalities–that is from the formal, qualitative, and public expression of command, to its insinuation into the practices, habits, and expectations of collective bodies—have become deeply embedded each in the other. One does not speak here of zero sum binaries. One speaks here of union that produces new forms of managing individuals and in the process reshaping the institutions developed for that purpose. In the process the legal becomes both more variegated and diffuse. The essays are organized in two parts. The first, The Condition of Law, considers the modalities of insinuation of disciplinary legalities alongside, beneath, and within the traditional architecture of law its public institutions. The second, Algorithmic Law and Platform Governance, suggest the ways that the condition of law is further shaped by the modalities used to0 express and apply it.
Volume 15
Volume 15 No. 1 (Spring 2020)
The theme of the essays in this issue is: Evolutions Converging?: Human Rights Internationalism and the Chinese Political-Economic Model from Reform and Opening Up to New Era Thought . The first part consists of a series of essays on the 8th U.N. Forum for Business and Human Rights. The second part includes a series of essays on the development of the Chinese political-economic model from Reform and Opening Up to New Era Thought through the lens of speeches by Xi Zhongxun (1986) and his son Xi Jinping (2018).
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Volume 15 No. 2 (Special Issue–Coronavirus and International Affairs); Summer 2020
This issue includes the proceedings and Conference essays of the Conference Roundtable held virtually 17 April 2020, sponsored by CPE, the Research Network for Law & International Affairs, Penn State Law and the Penn State School of International Affairs. Conference-Roundtable interventions, interviews and essays touched on a variety of aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic at the height of its early stages through the summer of 2020. Special focus was made on effects in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa, as well as its collateral effects on governance, the global trade and political order, and the state and nature of law and governance.
Volume 15 No. 3 (Winter 2020)
Interventions, Delivered Inputs, Articles and Essays by CPE Members and Invited Contributors on issues of Business and Human Rights and on Cuban Economic and Political Reform
Volume 14
Volume Title: From Globalization to Empire: Essays From the Coalition for Peace & Ethics Working Group on Empire
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Volume 14 No. 2 (Special Issue)
Commentary on the U.N. Inter-Governmental Working Group (Geneva) 2019 Draft “Legally Binding Instrument to Regulate, in International Human Rights Law, The Activities of Corporations and Other Business Enterprises” (Textual and Conceptual Analysis)