War and Peace: Global Leaders Who Betrayed the Humanity
“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.” Albert Einstein How…
Peace
From Ploughshares to Swords—Sudden Militarism of Those Who Once Stood for Peace
At a time when the world needs peace more than ever before, it has been extremely distressing to see that some groups and opinion-makers in the west who were earlier…
Linking Local with Global Will Help Peace Movement to Have A Broad Base
As threats of war, weapons and violence increase at many levels in a deeply troubled world, the peace movement, in all its nobility and good intentions, is found to be…
To End All Wars, Close All Bases
A Gazan Ph.D. candidate studying in India, Mohammad Abunahel steadily refines and updates a map on the World BEYOND War website, dedicating a portion of every day to continue researching…
The Concept And The Causes Of War
There are many definitions and/or understandings of war. However, from the very academic point of view, war can be understood as an armed conflict between at least two sides usually…
War, What Is It Good For?
I was born on July 20, 1944, amid a vast global conflict already known as World War II. Though it ended with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in…
Role of Peace Movement in a Divided World
Disturbing events in recent months have led to a deepening divide of the world between two fast consolidating power blocks, one led by the US and the NATO and the…
The Tragic U.S. Choice to Prioritize War Over Peacemaking
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God. - Matthew 5:9 In a brilliant Op-Ed published in…
A Gandhian Solution To ‘Nuclearisation’
In a world defined by competition over cooperation, and the acquisition of arms prioritised over the pursuit of diplomacy, the threat of a nuclear weapon being used is higher than…
The Basic Issue is not of Taking Sides in Superpower Rivalry, it is of Durable Peace to Save Earth’s Life
After the cold war shadow of several decades, the best hopes of ending superpower rivalry appeared around the early 1990s. The assurances given to Gorbachev by top western leaders appeared…
Why Avoiding Catastrophic War is the Biggest Priority Today
For most of human history justice and peace have been the biggest concerns, the most important issues determining welfare and safety of our world. Those who understood this, and they…
World Leaders Who could not Make Peace but Wars and Disdained Future
“The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were according to their standards and their conscience, good men; what was bad in…
A Time of Unity for Peace Movements in Europe
Europe is passing through critical times when a lot of caution as well determination is needed to avoid the possibility of large scale destruction. Hence this is a time for…
The Deafening Silence of Intellectuals in the Face of Growing Global Conflicts
Intellectuals do not have a monopoly on culture, on values, or on truth, much less on the meanings attributed to any one of these “domains of the spirit,” as they…
We must stop the march towards World War III, now!
In Europe, North America and a few other countries that feed themselves with information from the western media, it can have escaped no one’s attention that we are actually on…
March Against The War Machine: Hundreds Join Anti-War Rally In Washington DC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyDJf8rOA4I Hundreds of protesters gathered in Washington, DC Sunday for the ‘March Against the War Machine’ rally, with a number of prominent speakers from across the political spectrum of U.S.…
Anti-War Duck and Cover
As the nuclear “Doomsday Clock” inches towards midnight, peace, anti-war and Climate Crisis activists took the streets today across the country to protest their “Rage against the War Machine” demanding…
Why Europe Should be A Force for Peace, Not War
As the prospects of world peace worsen and those of a war much beyond Ukraine increase, the role of Europe becomes increasingly important. Europe was at the center of the…
War and Peace: Animosity and Insanity Destroying the Earth and Humanity
The hell of human suffering, evil and oppression is paved with good intentions. The men who have most injured and oppressed humanity, who have most deeply sinned against it, were…
Give Peace a Chance – Is There a World Beyond War?
I like to sing and what I like best is to do so at the top of my lungs when I’m all alone. Last summer, taking a walk through the…
The Changes A Peace Activist Desires Most in the USA
While peace and environment protection have always been important, now these have acquired the greatest urgency in the form of survival issues as basic life nurturing conditions are threatened now…
Decry the Merchants of Death
Peace activists take on the Pentagon and its corporate outposts. Days after a U.S. warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of…
2023 should see overdue shift from war to peace, from high risks to reason
If 2022 was witness to a worsening of the most high-risk problems facing our planet, can 2023 bring a true message of hope? The dawn of a new year is…
Nations of the World Unite!
Russia’s war upon Ukraine should remind us that violent international conflicts not only persist, but constitute a plague upon the world. Over thousands of years, wars have brought immense suffering…
Reimagining Global Peace and One Humanity beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness
In all ages wicked men tried to plot Against God’s Way, but they never Succeeded and were covered with shame In ways unexpected. The righteous see good in God’s Word,…
Christmas Just the Right Time to Plan for A More Effective and Broad-Based Peace Movement
At a time of increasing threats to world peace, a need often felt has been re-emphasized with increased urgency—our deeply troubled world should have a much stronger, much more broad-based…
We need a world without wars and invasions
Two statements made by NATO Secretary General Jens Stolenberg on December 9 (quoted in The Telegraph, UK, next day), have attracted much attention. “I fear that the war in Ukraine…
Peace or War: To be Optimistic or Pessimistic about the Future of Humanity
“Pity the nation whose people are sheep And whose shepherds mislead them Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves Pity…
In Ukraine and Other Conflict Zones, Let Christmas Month Bring Peace
There is increasing realization that prolonging or escalation of Ukraine conflict can bring very high risks for the entire world. Elsewhere in the world, many less talked about conflicts in…
Global Peace and Humanity: We, the People are Victims of Failed Global Leadership
Looking Beyond the Obvious Lens of Human Consciousness Cop 27 has just ended in Sharm el-Shaikh (Egypt) without any candid measures to deal with a readily available “Time Bomb”, of…
The Need for Global Unity: How World Law Can Save Us All
If humanity is to survive in the face of climate change, nuclear proliferation, and international political conflict, we must muster the courage to act with conviction and unity. On every…
From the History of Global Politics and International Relations: The Clausewitzian Viewpoint of War
The focal questions about war In dealing from both theoretical and practical points of view about war, at least six fundamental questions arise: 1) What is war?; 2) What types…
Challenge of Preventing the Third World War
Since the end of the Second World War in 1945, there has been no other year when the possibility of a Third World War has been discussed as much as…
How Peace Movement Can be Stronger, Steady and Sustained
The peace movement is extremely important for our increasingly troubled and violent world, particularly at a time when the world leadership is strangely getting less and less cautious about the…
There Is an Alternative to War
The war in Ukraine provides us with yet another opportunity to consider what might be done about the wars that continue to ravage the world. The current Russian war of…
Russo-Ukraine War: How Gandhi can show the way!
“…The greatest revolution of our time is, therefore, a procedural revolution, removal of injustice through a mode of action characterized by justice. The question here is not so much the…
Arms Control Efforts Provide A Small Window of Hope, but it is Already Half-Shut
In the middle of the increasing proliferation of arms and weapons in most parts of the world, a small window of hope is still provided by the partial success of…
Getting Priorities Right in a Dangerous World
If the single most important feature of the present phase of human history is to be identified, then clearly it is that this phase is the most dangerous in human…
Global Peace and Conflict Management: How Ignorance and Wickedness Pushing Humanity to Third World War
Leaders who could not Lead to Human Unity, Peace and Sustainable Future-Making The political adversaries against universal peace and brotherhood are propagating a new era of catastrophic fault lines for…
Global Democracy and Peace
Democracy in all its forms are products of working class struggles against feudalism, colonialism, imperialism and capitalism. These struggles are integral for the establishment of various forms of democracy across…
To All Who Care about Humanity’s and the Planet’s Future – Petition Campaign
Humanity has reached a tipping point. It is time for governments, international institutions and people everywhere to take stock and act with renewed urgency. The Ukraine conflict is inflicting death,…
Peace is the Way–Let Us Give Peace a Chance!
People everywhere appear to be wearied with the way things are in the world today. Present-day society is experiencing a profound breakdown and the minds of peoples of the world are in a state of utter confusion. From Black Sea to Korean peninsula to the Middle East to China…
Global Peace and Conflict Resolution Needs Leaders of Proactive Vision, Intelligence and Effective Communication
Egoistic Leaders are Misleading the Humanity Leaders create leaders. But most contemporary leaders are not good readers of history as they never learnt any lesson from their own wrong thinking…
The Clash of Leadership, Global Peace and Humanity at Crossroads
“….Human nature is at least in part wicked and in part foolish, how can human beings be prevented from suffering from the results of their wickedness and folly? ….Men simply…
Why Peace and Disarmament Must be the Number One Priority Today
Many eminent persons, individually and in groups, have been trying to convince the world leadership to give much more attention to environment protection, particularly to checking climate change. This is…
War Scars the Earth. To Heal, We Must Cultivate Hope, not Harm
by Kathy Kelly and Matt Gannon “No War 2022, July 8 – 10,” hosted by World BEYOND War, will consider major and growing threats faced in today’s world. Emphasizing “Resistance…
Why Peace and Disarmament Are at the Heart of Nonalignment
As our world spirals toward the catastrophe of nuclear war, there has never been a greater need for a new global balancing, a rejection of great power war, exploitation, and…
Is lasting peace possible?
The wise men of the establishment are again telling us that hopes for lasting peace are a delusion. They declare that human nature makes it impossible, that war is built…
To be strong and effective, peace movement must be a continuing process among people
All those who are committed to peace are once again passing through a sad phase of introspection regarding why they cannot be effective enough to check what is very clearly…
In favor of non-violent human civilization
Splintered lies the ethics, In varying degrees Which both have bent The Pandavas less, the Kauravas more Oh, when will this bloodletting end …? ('Andha Yug', Dharamveer Bharati) 1 The…
Reject Raytheon AVL shuts down Pratt & Whitney
It was an Earth Day to remember. On a beautiful sunny spring day, our local citizen coalition Reject Raytheon in Asheville, NC pulled off a three-part demonstration for the protection…
Now Is the Time for Nonalignment and Peace
by Roger McKenzie and Vijay Prashad War is an ugly part of the human experience. Everything about it is hideous. War is most obviously the act of invasion and the…
Societies Can Prevent Wars From Starting—and the Future of Humanity Requires Peace
Experts in peace and conflict studies explain the scientific evidence that societies can choose peace, and that warfare is also a choice, not a necessity. Humanity’s future existence hinges on…
An Option Taken Off the Table
As most readers know, whenever the US seeks to force a nation to accede to its wishes, a spokesperson will say, “All options are on the table,” meaning the use…
Climate Change Cannot be Resolved Without Strong Commitment Also to Justice and Peace
It is becoming increasingly clearer by the day, and confirmed further by COP 26 deliberations, that the climate change crisis cannot be resolved without accompanying strong commitment to…
Global Leadership, Peace and Conflict Resolutions beyond the Lens of Rationality
“And if we do act, in however small a way, we don’t have to wait for some grand utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to…
Why Does Congress Fight Over Childcare But Not F-35s?
by Medea Benjamin and Nicolas J. S. Davies President Biden and the Democratic Congress are facing a crisis as the popular domestic agenda they ran on in the 2020 election…
Increasing Need for Worldwide Peace Movement With Continuity
The increasing conflict in many parts of the world and the near ruin of several once prosperous and well-resourced countries in recent times due to war, invasion and civil strife…
Art Against Drones
At the High Line, a popular tourist attraction in New York City, visitors to the West side of Lower Manhattan ascend above street level to what was once an elevated…
Denis Halliday: A Voice of Reason in an Insane World
Denis Halliday is an exceptional figure in the world of diplomacy. In 1998, after a 34-year career with the United Nations—including as an Assistant Secretary-General and the UN Humanitarian Coordinator…
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