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Please, watch and share this short testimony: February 4: LIVE CONFERENCE — In Support of Pope Francis’s Initiative for Peace Negotiations When: Feb 4, 2023 10:00 AM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: The Age of Reason or the Annihilation…

Are Peace chatbots in the near future? Here we go! AI-based language computer models and programs, such as chatbots are currently trending over the internet. There is much talk about AI, as well as it’s human-to-human connectivity, and the projected…

Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz is concerned about increasing social inequality in the world. The gap between rich and poor is widening. To reverse the trend, he calls for the super-rich to pay a higher income tax and a wealth…

Cold War II or Cold War 2.0 are not the titles of a fictional film (yet) but terms used by unimaginative analysts who insist that history is repeating itself, as a parallel to the Cold War between 1945 and 1991,…

By Daisaku Ikeda The following is the text of the statement by peacebuilder and Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda, who is president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI). The Ukraine crisis that erupted in February last year continues with no prospect…

The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience, good men; what…

The four words “Rules-Based International Order” (RBIO) are surrounded by controversies.  I will review some controversies as a prelude to a proposal.  The proposal will recommend discarding the currently dominant discourses that are, as Michel Foucault might say, the historical…

Nonviolence seems distant and agonizing in a historical situation where only Pope Francis makes appeals for peace. The war that we are most concerned about at this moment in history is the one being fought in Ukraine; by now the…

The history classes of my school days bring back both good and bad memories. It clearly depended on who was responsible for teaching it in the classroom and how they did it. Looking back, I understood that the study of…

“The first casualty of war is truth,” said US Senator Hiram W. Johnson of California in 1929, during the debate on the ratification of the Kellogg-Briand pact, a noble but ultimately unsuccessful attempt to ban war. Reflecting on World War…