Vol. 16 No. 2 (2018)

Activist scholarship offers the world careful and systematic thought and analysis with a conscious understanding that knowledge has applications in the lives of human beings and all other life. The knowledge from Fourth World scholars benefits specific communities by capturing the essence and details of cultures in all their aspects. As I have pointed out in previous editions of the Fourth World Journal, conducting research and preparing analyses is crucial, but facilitating the actual testing of ideas or implementing studied proposals in Fourth World nations is essential. Once again, scholars offer deeply informative scholarship that explains, describes, analyzes, and proposes valuable insights touching on deep cultural realities and knowledge, obstacles, and opportunities before Fourth World nations, and in this issue in particular, hopeful analyses pointing to new solutions to long-standing problems. Please feast on these remarkable exhibits of activist scholarship.