Peace

by Hillel Schenker  for The Palestine-Israel Journal As we near the April 29th deadline for Israeli-Palestinian negotiations set by U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, some people are afraid of using the word “peace”, thinking its passé, utopian or simply…

www.shekina.it Alex Zanotelli is an Italian priest and a Comboni missionary, the founder of several movements that promote peace and justice in solidarity. He is also one of the promoters of the Arena of Peace and Disarmament which will take…

Prof. Noam Chomsky delivered the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation’s 13th Annual Frank K. Kelly Lecture on Humanity’s Future on February 28, 2014 in Santa Barbara, California. A leading principle of international relations theory is that the highest priority of states…

by Johan Galtung, 17 Feb 2014 – TRANSCEND Media Service Known as IPRA, founded in 1964 in London–and this author, 34 at the time, is the only surviving founder.  IPRA rotates every two years from one peace research center to…

Latin American and Caribbean leaders have wrapped their annual summit of a regional grouping that excludes the United States and Canada. The Community of Latin American and Caribbean States held its first gathering last year as a counterweight to forums…

Havana, Jan 29 (Prensa Latina) The 2nd Summit of the Community of Latin American and Caribbean States (CELAC) is expected to conclude today with important statements, particularly in proclaiming the region as a zone for peace and free of nuclear…

The 5th International Photo Contest “Peace Is” on children’s rights, organized by the Greek office of the international organization “World Without Wars and Violence” was successfully completed. The statistics of the competition are impressive! The competition website received more than…

Vacations are usefull for imagining changes for your future. That is what we discovered this August and we decided to change the Closing Date of your entries! The new Closing Date is November 30th! Judges will take place on December…

By Johan Galtung In this column, Johan Galtung, rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University and author of ‘The Fall of the US Empire – And Then What?’, writes that the future holds many possibilities for humankind, from the rise of…

“World Without Wars and Violence” organizes for the fifth consecutive year the international photography contest “Peace Is” from May 1. The competition theme for 2013 is “children’s rights”. The competition and the exhibitions that will follow, are under the auspices…