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With the title “to achieve world peace” the last session of the World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates took place in Barcelona. Panellists were asked how they could imagine their country in peace. Former President Oscar Arias from Costa Rica…

New front-line of nuclear escalation in Europe The relationship between the US and Russia is at all-time low since end of Cold War, and tensions continue to escalate. The US and Russia are no longer negotiating any arms control agreements.…

The United Nations General Assembly met today on tackling the global refugee crisis in the shadow of last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris and Beirut, with top officials pleading that the door for genuine refuge not be slammed shut in…

The focus on terrorism is obscuring the issues of refugees, and it is important to consider its impact on Europe, after the shock of Paris. Of course, the impact of terrorism in the daily life of ordinary citizens is going…

 As the culture of war, which has dominated human civilization for 5,000 years, begins to crumble, its contradictions become more evident. This is especially so in the matter of terrorism. By David Adams, World Beyond War http://worldbeyondwar.org/a-culture-of-peace-is-the-best-alternative-to-terrorism/ What is terrorism?…

Unofficial blockade on Nepal by India – Humanist Movement Nepal’s “worldwide Appeal” This blockade is having the following effects on Nepal’s ordinary people in their everyday lives: *Fuel for transportation and gas for cooking are in short supply and this can…

  As expectations build for a global consensus to emerge from the United Nations climate conference in Paris, starting on 30 November 2015, that could agree to taking action to limit any rise in global temperature to 2 degrees celsius,…

The voices of peace and the voices of war all have something to say about Paris. “Every time there’s a terrorist attack, Western leaders exploit that attack to do more wars,” Greenwald says. “Which in turn means they transfer huge…

Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service 15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – Barcelona, 13-15 November 2015 I would like to thank the Major of Barcelona, Ada Colau I Ballano, the Permanent Secretariat of the World…

By George Lakey for Waging Nonviolence “Suffragette,” a British film now in U.S. theaters, tells a gripping story drawn from the direct action wing of Britain’s woman suffrage movement. Because it spotlights one tactic – property destruction – the film…