Pride, Protests, and the Beijing Olympics Author: Ross Ryan Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on 05/08/2008   It is terribly unfortunate, but pride and peace are not always easy to reconcile with one another. And short of international war, or the World Cup, it is hard to imagine

The Summer Olympics are perhaps the greatest sporting spectacle of modern times, and as such, they illustrate both the best and the worst of what sport has become: greed and commercialization as well as personal inspiration and an affirmation of the importance of play. Mario Nishihara reflects on the 2008