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EDITORIAL

How Political Taboos Subvert Conflict Resolution and Produce Radical Polarization

A fundamental principle of conflict resolution is “Multiply the options for agreement.”  To maximize the chances of achieving sustainable peace, the parties need to consider the widest possible range of choices.  In practice, however, ...

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“Genocide Is the Means, Not the Ends” – Norman Finkelstein

3 Oct 2025 - Political scientist and historian Norman Finkelstein joins this special edition that marks two years since the Oct 7 Hamas-led attack and Israel’s devastating retaliation against Gaza, which genocide scholars around the world have labelled a genocide.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Islam and Gandhi on Peace and Nonviolence

Islam and Mahatma Gandhi’s approaches are remarkable. Both share same aims about common ethical concepts such as nonviolence, compassion for all creation, freedom, justice, patience and tolerance.

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BIOGRAPHIES

Johan Galtung, the Father of Peace Studies (24 Oct 1930 – 17 Feb 2024)

Johan was born in Oslo, Norway on 24 Oct 1930. 15 years later, the UN would come to existence on the same day—an omen of sorts? He received his first Ph.D. in mathematics at age of 25 and would become a sociologist, political scientist, mediator, and the founder of the academic disciplines of Peace and Conflict Studies, among numerous other attributions and qualifications.

My Friend Johan and I: Slices of a Transcendent Reality

I met Prof. Johan Galtung when I was an undergraduate at the University of Hawaii, Honolulu in 1986. He had a personal way of dealing with his students: at the end of each semester Johan would host a small reception in his house. I hardly knew that I was getting a lifelong best friend, well-wisher, employer, and above all--a mentor.

NEWS

Gaza Tribunal: A Historic Statement in the Shadow of Testimony

27 Oct 2025 - Led by Prof. Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, it was history unfolding in real time. After months of hearings, the Tribunal has now delivered its final judgment — which lands in the conscience of the world.

SPECIAL FEATURE

Genocide in Pictures: Worth a Trillion Words

Parental Guidance Advised: Pornographic Violence GAZA, WEST BANK 27 Oct 2025

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The Gaza Peoples’ Tribunal: Exploring Palestinian Erasure

21 Oct 2025 - By rewarding impunity for genocide, Trump’s ceasefire proves why a civil society-led tribunal is needed to uphold accountability and document Palestine’s fight for justice.

A View from Istanbul: On the Savagery of the West’s Genocide in Gaza

25 Oct 2025 - Last night I had gone to bed with, and woke up this morning thinking about, the image of Gaza, I saw at the Archaeological Museum. That is, the Gaza battle scene on the sarcophagus named Alexandar, yes, that Macedonian empire-builder remembered as Alexandar the Great.

Complexity of Interaction with a Configuration of Cognitive Mirrors

As a continuation of the exchanges with AIs with respect to Gaza, the complexity of such a mirror can be exploratively modelled in greater detail as a strange nexus for coherent comprehension in a period of chaotic fragmentation.

Israel’s Physical and Ecological Destruction of Gaza

21 Oct 2025 - Beyond population destruction, the architects of Israel’s genocide in Gaza have evidently made even the environment their target of physical destruction in order to render it “unlivable.”

Growing Concern on U.S.-Venezuela Tensions

On 15 Oct 2025, the Foreign Ministers of the Non-Aligned Movement issued a statement of solidarity with Venezuela at their meeting in Uganda, the current chair of the Non-Aligned Movement. Time for positive action is now, before greater tensions develop.

A Tale of Two Ceasefires: Gaza and DRC

22 Oct 2025 - The US has negotiated ceasefires in Gaza and the DRC’s eastern Kivu Provinces, but the killing, displacement, and devastation in both continue. 

Two Conferences in Shanghai: Reflections on Discourse, Dialogue, and the Non-Studies of Peace

In October 2025, I attended two major academic conferences in Shanghai. What unfolded was a journey through two distinct but interwoven events—each offering a lens into China’s intellectual landscape and its evolving role in the world.

The Pact of Betrayal: Sarkozy, Gaddafi and NATO’s War on Africa

In 2007, the Libyan leader was received in Paris with red carpets and diplomatic smiles. His tent was pitched on the Champs-Élysées, a symbol of renewed Franco-African friendship. Behind the velvet words, however, a secret deal was already being written — one that would stain both men forever.

Environmental Destruction and Endless Wars versus One Human Reality—Now or Never

Seeking a new paradigm is not so much a matter of looking for ideas that have not previously been found, for a new paradigm has already emerged during the last century that is entirely adequate to what is needed.

The Ramayana as a Treatise on Peace and Social Harmony

An Analysis (Template) of Duty, Sacrifice, and Resilience in the Present Era -  "When the path of dharma (duties) is clouded by despair, devotion lifts mountains."

NONVIOLENCE

The Disarming Force: Why Active Nonviolence Is Not the Same as Non-Violence

25 Oct 2025 - In light of the Sumud Global Flotilla, it makes sense to question the real power of unarmed resistance in the face of overwhelming force. Beyond the specific act, whose humanitarian value is unquestionable, this journey is a potent symbol of a tradition that underpins it: active nonviolence.

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

Turning Back from the Brink of Nuclear War

22 Oct 2025 - Legislators in the U.S. Congress and Senate introduced resolutions for the U.S. government to lead an effort to halt the nuclear arms race. Russia and the US, which together possess 87 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons, have scrapped nearly all their nuclear arms control agreements. 

IN FOCUS

They Tell Us to Fear Muslims While the US Empire Terrorizes the World

25 Oct 2025 - The empire we live under is everything we’re trained to fear. Our own rulers are the murderers. Our own rulers are the terrorists. Our own rulers are the tyrants. Our own rulers are the problem. Hell, the most abusive Muslim states are US partners in crime like Saudi Arabia and the UAE.

A Ceasefire of the Perpetrators: How the West Repackaged Occupation as Peace

16 Oct 2025 - Trump is being lavishly credited with ending Israel’s massacre of Gaza’s population. We are told he persuaded both Netanyahu and Hamas into accepting his “deal.” In truth, Hamas had consented to nearly identical terms more than a year ago. It was Israel that torpedoed the effort.

Political Insanity Drives Aggressive Wars in Palestine and Ukraine: How to Make Peace?

Few against Many and Insanity without Borders

ANGLO AMERICA

From Illusion to Real Peace: Trump’s Test in Gaza and Ukraine

23 Oct 2025 - Real peace demands Palestinian statehood, Ukrainian neutrality and the courage to defy the war lobby.

MILITARISM

Trump Orders CIA to Attack Venezuela: US Military Kills Innocent People Based on Lies

The US military has killed dozens of Venezuelans on boats in international waters, which UN experts have condemned as “extrajudicial executions.” Among the victims have been fishermen from Colombia and Trinidad and Tobago, whose families were interviewed by The Guardian.

ASIA-UPDATES ON MYANMAR ROHINGYA GENOCIDE

Expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine: The Greatest Strategic Error

24 Oct 2025 - In the game of geopolitics, the most important rule is ‘self-interest first’. In Rakhine, every actor sought their own interest, making a complex situation for the Rohingya. But ‘expelling Rohingyas from Rakhine’ was the biggest strategic miscalculations by the junta and the civilian govt.

BRICS

Creation of Unified BRICS Currency Threatens Dollar Supremacy in International Trade

24 Oct 2025 - Emerging nations are uniting to question the dollar’s reign. The BRICS bloc, along with new members, is intensifying discussions on a unified currency. This proposal gains traction amid geopolitical tensions and economic sanctions exposing vulnerabilities in the current system.

EUROPE

France in Free Fall: Macron, the French, and Their Dance Macabre

26 Oct 2025 - France! The cradle of liberty, the homeland of the Enlightenment that under Macron resembles more a dusty Molière comedy: a blend of arrogance, absurdity and tragedy, where the actors—the French—lament while applauding their own shipwreck.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Why Trump Is Bailing Out Argentina’s Corrupt Leader Javier Milei with $40 Billion

25 Oct 2025 - Trump is using $20 billion of US government money plus $20B more in private loans to bail out Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, meddling in the South American nation’s election.

PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE

Global Pariah: The True Cost of the Gaza Genocide Revealed

No amount of money, newspaper coverage, or Netflix specials can ever successfully polish the image of a state that has so openly committed a genocide, one of the most thoroughly documented in recorded history.

The Gaza Ceasefire Expands Israel’s Middle East Hegemony

On 14 Oct, the Gaza War came to an end. Hamas returned all 20 remaining hostages and the bodies of the dead ones (the rest are buried under rubble). Israel lavishly praised Trump for achieving the ceasefire. However, fighting has since resumed.

JUSTICE

Int’l Court of Justice Finds Israelis Broke Law by Starving Palestinians of Gaza

23 Oct 2025 - The ICJ issued an advisory opinion yesterday branding the Israeli blockade on food and medical aid into the occupied Gaza Strip illegal. I mean, surely this conclusion is simple common sense.

CAPITALISM

UN Report Lists Companies Complicit in Israel’s Genocide: Which Are Them?

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese has issued a report naming several US giants among companies aiding Israel’s occupation and war on Gaza. Companies from other countries – from China to Mexico – are also named.

MEDIA

The 2025 Integrity Media Awards Goes to Julian Assange

27 Oct 2025 - Julian Assange was awarded the 2025 inaugural Courage in Journalism Award. His brother, Gabriel Shipton, accepted the award on Julian’s behalf.

Reversing the Truth: The Gaza ‘Ceasefire’ and British Complicity in Genocide

21 Oct 2025 - We live in a time when truth is reversed in plain sight. Competition for this year’s Peace Prize was fierce. Time magazine’s cover greeted the latest pause in Israel’s US-armed genocide in Gaza with a portrait of self-proclaimed Nobel front-runner Donald Trump: ‘HIS TRIUMPH’

UNITED NATIONS

UN Rights Office Sounds Alarm over ‘Skyrocketing’ Israeli Settler Violence During Olive Harvest

21 Oct 2025 - The UN human rights office in the Occupied Palestinian Territory has warned of an alarming rise in violence and restrictions by Israeli settlers and security forces against Palestinian farmers, as the crucial olive harvest season gets underway.

ECONOMICS

Which Countries Owe the IMF the Most Money in 2025?

16 Oct 2025 - From Argentina to Egypt, at least 86 countries collectively owe the International Monetary Fund more than $162bn.

EDUCATION

Democracy and Education for Peace

All men tend to be free. Freedom is the birth right of every man irrespective caste, creed, colour. Rousseau asserts, “Man is born free”, but he realized and said also, “that he is everywhere in chains.”

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Français) L’Arménie en Voie de Tyrannie

26 octobre 2025 - Pashinyan, le Petit Jupiter du Caucase, et sa Croisade contre les Cloches d’Echmiadzin - Ah, l'Arménie ! Cette nation antique, berceau du christianisme et rempart contre les invasions ottomanes.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

Inside Israel’s War of Imprisonment against Palestinians (PODCAST)

21 Oct 2025 - Palestine Behind Bars - What can the release of Palestinian detainees tell us about the ceasefire and the future of Israeli occupation? Please click and listen to horror stories:

SHORT VIDEO CLIPS

‘I Have Seen the Unthinkable, the Inhumane’: Dr Mimi Syed’s Testimony at Gaza Tribunal

"The children of Gaza, with their eyes wide open and full of innocence, have been subjected to horrors that no child should ever face. I have seen them murdered, starved and denied the most basic of human rights.”

Somewhere Only We Know (Music Video of the Week)

The Classic from 2009 with Lyrics

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Effect and Cause

20 Oct 2025 - The Pantomime Continues