Tax Day is always one of protest when anti-war activists and frustrated taxpayers demonstrate objections to their hard-earned money paid in income-tax, being used to fund and support America’s never-ending…
Soldiers of conqueror armies are often congratulated and praised by the leaders of their countries, but does anyone really care to ask them what they feel in their heart of…
Sometimes polls and surveys in conflict zones reveal a rather pessimistic and dismal picture of what people on both sides of the divide think about each other and the possibilities…
At a time when the threat of wars and invasions is increasing, the work of peace movement and peace activists has become more important than ever before, particularly in the…
Documenting Over 100 Voices for Peace in the Midst of More Frequent Roars of Aggression “The truth of the matter is that we are in a heavy militarized society driven…
In the past three months, two people in the United States have taken or risked taking their own lives in an attempt to change U.S. policies on Palestine and call…
Violence causes massive distress in our daily life, as seen in children being beaten and abused, women suffering physical, sexual and emotional assault, school and workplace aggression, bullying, fighting, youth…
War has always been a source of immense human distress. What is more important to point out is that its capacity to cause distress and destruction has been increasing in…
Is large-scale intra-specific warfare Homo sapiens’ condition or can our species strive to achieve global peace? The famous American astronomer Carl Sagan once said, “You have to know the past to understand…
If one is asked to identify three biggest needs of our deeply troubled times these would be—peace, peace and peace. This is because while peace itself is such a compelling…
As despair pours from the eyes and the heart bleeds from pain, solitude crawls in and with it comes peaceAs the past fades out and the present looks bleak, the…
At a time when existing and potential wars dominate the attention of world leadership to such an extent, it may appear very unrealistic to discuss a future for humanity in…
Europe started the first two world wars and played a key role in them, even though the extensive distress caused by them spilled over, directly and indirectly, to the greater…
Can a year which experienced such terrible although entirely avoidable violence and conflict still end on a note of peace and hope? Yes, it can if the remaining few days…
When I was in my early twenties, I seriously considered murdering someone. He had given my best friend genital herpes, which many health practitioners then believed was the agent responsible…
Whenever serious confrontations and disputes emerge in international contexts, there is a frequent tendency among those committed to peace to try to reach some hasty solutions so that at least…
We have not heard much from Ukraine or on Ukraine lately, and this is understandable because the biggest need just now is for ceasefire and peace in Gaza, to be…
At a time when the world is witnessing two major conflicts (Russia-Ukraine, Israel-Palestine) and numerous vulnerable points where conflicts can arise anytime; probably world peace seems a dire need of…
When humans embrace the dehumanization of others, we release our ugliest, most destructive selves. Dehumanization is a perverse force that propagates violence and justifies the lust for war and its…
Every voice for peace is relevant, every voice for peace is needed. Even if it is only a child carrying a placard in a gathering for peace, even if it…
Humanity is a Victim of Wrong Elite’s Thinking and Wrong Actions The trajectory of economic wars causing destruction of Earth, phenomenal climate change, pollution and human habitats, and the coming…
Imagine talking about peace when according to the Secretary General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, the world is just one misunderstanding, just one miscalculation, away from global catastrophe, due…
International Peace Day, observed on the 21st of September every year, stands as a reminder of our collective responsibility to strive for a more peaceful world. Established by the United…
One of the few hopeful signs for world peace has been that at some of the most dangerous moments there has been a very helpful response in the form of…
In most discussions on ongoing conflicts and wars, generally more attention is given to military aspects and to examining which side is likely to be victorious. However from the point…
In these high-risk times the urgency of diplomacy for peace has been increasing steadily, as emphasized by several eminent experts, including those reputed to be among the most experienced in…
The threat of war today looms larger today than it did even during the era of the Cold War [1]. However, the very forces that have brought the world to…
Many people are already investing themselves in the local peace economy as they divest from the economy of war. War is not innate to humanity; it is learned culturally, and…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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