The Democratic Republic of the Congo remains a concern as big as its size on the map of Africa.
Alan Doss (picture), the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the MONUC, ignored repeated calls by Díaz de Villegas, Commander in Chief of the MONUC for a few week at the end of 2008, to suspend a “Plan of the Separation” signed by the government of Kinshasa days prior to Díaz de Villegas´s appointment.
We sometimes forget that morality and ethics are not the monopoly of religions and their administrators. They are not even unique to humans. Ethologist Marc Bekoff from the University of Colorado thinks that morality is developed during play of social mamals to help learn the rights and wrongs of social interaction.
The article ”Six ‘uniquely’ human traits now found in animals” gives a few examples of animals showing that they are capable of use culture, mind reading, tools, morality, emotions and personality to their benefit.