This is an account of the experiences of my father, George Andrew Moran, who was an Absolute Conscientious Objector during the First World War. He was one of the 35 sentenced to death for refusing to obey an order under the Military Service Act of 1916. The events recorded are a true account of what happened to my father, as told to me. Little has been written about the treatment of these men. I envisage that the overall message to be conveyed by such a presentation, would be that the destructive effects of the First World War-linked with the Second World War, have yet to be worked out in...

Darwin named Geography as 'Queen of the sciences'. His observations of geographical connections had revealed the phenomenon of Life in a remarkably structured Earth-world as inter-locked dynamic systems. This 'Systems View of Life' is reviving at a time when we are facing a crisis of collapse in world systems, and the prospect of a breaking world, as a result of reckless human activities driven by amoral values. We are all geographers, embarked on a voyage in search of the optimum location with the promise of support and betterment of our future living conditions. But, for most of the world's...