Peace and Disarmament

Around 100 organisations from 114 countries and nearly 3,000 activists are meeting this weekend in Barcelona to participate in the Second World Peace Congress, organised by the International Peace Bureau (IPB). The aim of this second congress is to provide…

On no subject is the bipartisan consensus more unshakable than on the Russian threat. By James W. Carden In his latest book, The Stupidity of War: American Foreign Policy and the Case for Complacency, American political scientist John Mueller demonstrates…

A wrongly targeted Afghan aid worker and his family are among the latest casualties. By Leonard C. Goodman On August 29, in the final days of our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, the United States launched a drone strike, firing a…

A few days before the IPB World Peace Congress 2021 in Barcelona, we talked to Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) about how the peace movement, trade unions and the environmental movement can come together, why…

The Latin American March closes with the Forum Towards a Nonviolent Future for Latin America On Friday, October 1st, the event kicked off at the Centro Cívico por la paz de Heredia with words of welcome and support for the…

ON PEACE     by Genevieve Balance-Kupang “I wish people would love everybody else,  the way they love me. The world would be a better world.” -Muhammad Ali Muhammad Ali’s wish of a better world is imprinted in our DNA…

The Nobel Committee has yet again awarded a peace prize that violates the will of Alfred Nobel and the purpose for which the prize was created, selecting recipients who blatantly are not “the person who has done the most or best to…

Reception in San Ramón of the First Latin American March for Multiethnic and Pluricultural Nonviolence. A report by Roxana Cedeño Sequeira. With the support of the Centro Cultural e Histórico José Figueres Ferrer (CCHJFF) we welcomed the First Latin American…

The Life March comes to an end with a ceremony of well-being and a fraternal embrace. The 3rd and final day of this Latin American March for Nonviolence in its traditional Live Version, like the previous days, was full of…

Last July, the European Commission announced loudly that we finally have a common “European Green Deal”. Its goal is to “reduce clean greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% by 2030, compared to 1990 levels.” Briefly, it focuses on the…