Peace and Disarmament

“It is not acceptable that the millions of people around the world who oppose the genocide and dispossession of the Palestinian people are powerless to stop the genocide. We can demand that the governments of Latin American countries withdraw their…

I want to live without fear, that’s why I build Nonviolence! This was the message that resounded for a month in multiple activities of the Nonviolent October, promoted in its twelfth year by the humanist collective “Espacio No Violento” and…

Join Youth Arts New York/Hibakusha Stories, ICAN and NYCAN for the inaugural event of  Nuclear Ban Week NY The New Manhattan Project: A Concert for Nuclear Abolition Monday, November 27, 7:30 p.m. The Japan Society, 333 East 47th St., New York, NY…

We are living in what feels like a full-action reality show, jumping from conflict to conflict. News coverage is 24/7, with crises from Iraq to Ukraine and now Israel and Palestine. Some media are already working on the next conflict…

On the night of the October 7, 2023 attack in Southern Israel, I was staying overnight at my nephew’s place in Saint Petersburg, in the apartment I had grown up in, prior to emigrating from the Soviet Union over fifty…

Wave upon wave of Israeli aircraft and missiles have been battering the Palestinian population in the Gaza Strip. This violence — the most brutal for decades — has already expended more firepower than the nuclear bomb on Hiroshima and has…

On Sunday, October 29, 2023 (9:00pm Jerusalem | 3:00pm New York) the Combatants for Peace and American Friends of Combatants for Peace community gathered for “Solidarity: A Path to Liberation”. This conversation was led by two Palestinian activists, Rana Salman…

There is only one option for Israel to live in peace and at the same time set an example for other countries around the world: It is to understand that there can only be peace when the same is offered…

Under the title “Peace and Protest: Past and Present”, the programme includes 18 panels and two plenary sessions, as well as exhibitions by various peace organisations and a publications fair. Among the topics to be discussed are current issues such…

Following the vote in the UN General Assembly yesterday and the intensification of the bombing of Gaza, the Co-Presidents of the medical peace organisation IPPNW, Dr. Carlos Umana, Dr. Kati Juva and David Onazi, have written to António Guterres. In…