Introduction
In the past some participants from the South have attended our conferences: mainly from Central-America and Asia, and since the 2002 conference also from Africa. Of course their concerns are different from ours, but we have also something in common: death and taxes. Western participants have been discussing their concerns at previous conferences. This time we want to listen in a more systematic way to the experience of people from the South and hear from which perspective they look at issues of war and taxes.