Nonviolence

By European Bureau for Conscientious Objection www.ebco-beoc.org, April 21, 2023 The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) met with its member organisation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (Український Рух Пацифістів), in Kiev on 15 and 16 April 2023. EBCO also met with conscientious objectors and members…

In Europe, Ukraine, Russia, and all over the world, people want peace while governments demand more and more weapons and human resources for war. People are asking for the right to health, education, work, and a liveable planet, but governments…

Following interviews with Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva and Silo‘s speech in Punta de Vacas on May 4, 2004, we continue our series of short inspirational videos with the “message of hope for activists” launched by Desmond Tutu in Cape…

After the interviews with Vandana Shiva we continue our series of short inspirational videos on the theme of “Humanity and Hope” with an excerpt from a speech given by Silo in Punta de Vacas on May 4, 2004. Almost two…

World BEYOND War’s Zaporizhzhya Protection Project will send a team of four volunteers to Ukraine on April 7, invited by people in close proximity to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant on the front lines of the war. These four are…

We are constantly updating the photos coming to us from all parts of the world testifying to the adhesion to the campaign “Let’s take peace in our hands” and colouring cities and countries all over the world with peace and…

Responding to the call of the collective “Europe for Peace“, which can be read here, a group of humanist activists promoted a rally for peace and nonviolence in the centre of the city of Porto, in Portugal, during the afternoon…

Yesterday during the day of mobilization for Peace and Nonviolence launched by EuropeforPeace.eu, among exchanges of opinion, interventions, moments of reflection and poetry there was also a moment dedicated to a Request made from the heart and inspired by the…

Following the interview with Noam Chomsky, we continue our series of short inspirational videos on the theme of “Humanity and Hope” with an excerpt from an interview with Vandana Shiva conducted on March 8, 2021, by Pressenza’s Juana Perez, the…

In struggles, the radicality of violence is often contrasted with the softness of nonviolence. So how is nonviolence radical? Transcript of the video In reality, violence is not radical because it does not act on the causes of the conflict.…