Annual Meeting, 2002

Theme:
"Exploring Conflicts and Conflict Resolution in the Contemporary Third World."

ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE THIRD WORLD IN THE 21^st CENTURY AB Assensoh and Yvette M Alex-Assensoh	11
AL-QAEDA, TERRORISM AND GLOBALIZATION, WITH A SPECIAL FOCUS ON FINANCING Abdul Karim Bangura	15
VIETNAM’S GLOBALIZATION EFFORT GENERATES GROWTH WITH POVERTY THAT REQUIRES A NATIONAL POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAM Robert L Curry, Jr, and Tran Thi Ut	27
THIRD WORLD DEMOCRACIES: SOUTH-SOUTH LEARNING FROM EACH OTHER Rita Kiki Edozie	35
CONFLICTS AND CRISIS IN AFRICA: AN ANALYSIS OF ETHNIC DIMENSIONS OF CONFLICT Wesley Ekpekurede	45
THE NIGERIAN STATE AND THE NIGER DELTA QUESTION Ojefia Okpomedaye Innocent	51
GENDERCIDE IN TANZANIA:POPULAR THEATER AND SOCIAL WORK COLLABORATE TO FIND SOLUTIONS Delma S Jackson and Frowin P Nyoni	59
HINDU CASTE: A TEST OF THE EFFICACY OF THE MARXIST HISTORY ON RELIGION AND THE SOCIO-HISTORICAL APPROACH Dana Alexandra Loughran	65
SERETSE KHAMA AND THE POLITICAL “MIRACLE” OF BOTSWANA Cathy Skidmore-Hess and Daniel Skidmore-Hess	77
A CROSS CULTURAL COMPARISON OF HEALTH PROMOTING BEHAVIORS AMONG CHRONICALLY ILL GROUPS IN FIJI, NAURU, AND KIRIBATI Philip I Szmedra, KL Sharma and Cathy L Rozmus	81
CUBA’S HUMAN RIGHTS RECORD SINCE 2002 Daniel C Turack	93