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The Editors of the Fourth World Journal invite submissions from leaders and activists from Fourth World Nations (native communities, nations, first nations), philosophers and spiritual leaders, educators, historians, keepers of laws, academics (University, College, Secondary Schools), and researchers.

The Fourth World Journal publishes contributions that address the following areas:

FOURTH WORLD GEOPOLITICS:

National Initiatives, Nation/State Relations, International Legislation, International Organizations, Conflict/Dispute Resolution, Nations and New International Rules of Conduct.

ECONOMICS:

Natural Resource Development/Exploitation, Environmental (bio- diversity/cultural) Issues, Trade Relations (i.e. Traditional Trade, GATT, NAFTA), Traditional Economic Systems.

SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & DEVELOPMENT:

Modes of Thought, Governments, Institutional Change, Decision- Making, Drugs, Pharmaceuticals, Chemicals and Energy; Eco-Tourism, Traditional Science, Architecture, Transportation.

CULTURAL SECURITY:

Land Rights, Artifacts, Traditional Territorial Duty, Music, Fine Arts, Ceremony, Decision-Making, the Relationship Between the Cosmos, Spirit and the Material Realm; Intellectual Property, Cultural Property, Bio-Diversity and Cultural Diversity, Traditions, History.

SOCIETY AND COMMUNITY:

Tradition, Change, Health, Education, Well-Being, Nutrition, Group Relations, Human Mediated and Natural Trauma, Community, Gender Studies, Public Health, Traditional Medicine and Healing; Research Methods, Domestic Relations.

Submissions may be articles, essays, book reviews, commentaries, or reports that address current developments or events, and refereed articles that are final papers or essays that the author submits for peer review. Manuscripts may be 2,000 to 6,000 words, plus references.

Manuscripts may be submitted in ASCII text, Wordperfect, or Microsoft Word formats.

If you wish to receive your manuscript back (in the event it is not selected for publication) please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope.

The Fourth World Journal is available by subscription. The first electronic issue will be available for subscription beginning in June 1996. The electronic issue will be made available by way of ftp and the World Wide Web.

For additional information e-mail the Journal FWJ@speakeasy.org.

• Rudolph C. Ryser, PhD, Editor in Chief and Publisher
• Leslie E. Korn, PhD, MPH, Managing Editor
• Richard A Griggs, PhD, Associate Editor (Africa)
• Rosalee Tizya,
• Chief George Manuel Chair for Fourth World Politics,
• Associate Editor (Canada)
• David Hyndman, PhD, Associate Editor (Australasia)
• Faye Cohen, PhD, Associate Editor (North America)
• Ralph Eluska, Associate Editor (North America)
• Levita Duhaylungsod, PhD, Associate Editor (Melanesia)
• Christian Scherrer, PhD, Associate Editor (Europe)
• Karen Aka, Associate Editor (Oceania and Asia)
• Gordon Pullar, MA, Associate Editor (North America)
• Sharon Eluska, Associate Editor (North America)
• John H. Burrows, Copy Editor
• Tina Benshoof, Copy Editor
• Morgan Ryser, Subscriptions Manager