Articles by Peace

We found 992 results.

How Can the Peace Movement Be More Effective?
Tom Valovic | Massachusetts Peace Action - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Feb 2023

I’m probably not your typical peace activist. As a former research analyst, educator, and political journalist looking at the movement with a fresh pair of eyes, I wanted to share some thoughts about how the peace movement considered as a whole might become more effective.

→ read full article

Nobel Peace Prize Watch: Watchdog Suspends Screening of Nobel Peace Prize Candidates
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

1 Feb 2023 – After 15 years studying the award’s intention, finding out who should have received the NPP over 120 years, and who are the most suitable recipients in our time, we have concluded that the Committee does not contribute for elimination of wars; rather, it takes sides.

→ read full article

(Norsk-Norwegian) Nobel Peace Prize Watch avslutter sine årlige anbefalinger til Nobelkomiteen
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

6. februar 2023 – Etter ti år har vi i år besluttet å ikke publisere vår årlige anbefaling til Nobelkomiteen, en liste over de som er både nominert og kvalifisert til å motta Nobels fredspris. Så lenge Den norske Nobelkomite fortsetter å sabotere Nobels intensjon om fred ved global nedrustning har vårt arbeid med å få frem gode kandidater ingen hensikt opplyse.

→ read full article

The Analysis Is Simple; It Is Economic
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

For a Profound Analysis of Our Political Situation, the Answer Is Simple: It Is Economic

→ read full article

(Français) L’Analyse Est Simple ; C’est Economique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Feb 2023

1 févr. 2023 – Pour une analyse approfondie de notre situation politique, la réponse est simple : c’est économique.

→ read full article

Just Thinking: The Meaning of Our Words
JoAnn McAllister, Ph.D. | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Jan 2023

We string words together and intend for others to ‘get it,’ but how they are understood is up to readers whether colleagues, collaborators, or antagonists. The challenges can arise even among collaborative groups. Some strategies to increase understanding are suggested here.

→ read full article

Nobel Peace Nominations 2023 – Deadline 31 January
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

Nobel Peace Prize Watch will encourage all with nomination rights to nominate a candidate within the original intention of Alfred Nobel for peace by global demilitarization and those who have worked to «reduce or abolish standing armies.»

→ read full article

Looking Forward to 2023
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

1 Jan 2023 – Before looking forward to 2023, let’s look back at 2022 from the perspective of the culture of peace.

→ read full article

(Français) Dans l’Attente de 2023
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Jan 2023

1er janvier 2023 – Avant d’envisager 2023, regardons 2022 du point de vue de la culture de la paix.

→ read full article

Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do?
Kenneth Cloke | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Jan 2023

Mar 2022 Issue – Biden and Harris won the U.S. election, but what exactly did they win? What was lost in the process? What is lost and won in electoral conflicts around the world? The U.S. experience offers some lessons for those who seek to reduce the destructive impact of electoral conflicts.

→ read full article

(Français) Préparons-Nous pour un Nouvel Ordre Mondial
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 décembre 2022 – La culture de la guerre est si fermement établie, en particulier dans l’État moderne, qu’une culture de la paix ne peut être achèvée qu’avec un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale. Pour comprendre la nature du changement radical, je me tourne vers ce vieil expert, Karl Marx.

→ read full article

Prepare for a New World Order
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Dec 2022

1 Dec 2022 – The culture of war is so firmly established in the modern state that it will take a revolutionary change in global governance to move to a culture of peace. To understand the nature of revolutionary change, I turn to that old expert, Karl Marx.

→ read full article

Human Rights Hypocrisy
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

1 Nov 2022 – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is one of the great documents of history. With that in mind, it is especially ironic and unfortunate when human rights is used by the culture of war as part of its weaponry.

→ read full article

(Français) Hypocrisie à Propos des Droits Humains
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

La Déclaration universelle des droits de l’Homme est l’un des grands documents de l’histoire. Dans cet esprit, il est particulièrement ironique et malheureux que les droits de l’Homme soient utilisés par la culture de la guerre comme faisant partie de son armement.

→ read full article

Unapologetic about Arguing for Peace
Ivana Nikolić Hughes | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

1 Nov 2022 – The lack of calls for peace in the mainstream is just the beginning of the problem. As some leaders like Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, Antonio Guterres and Noam Chomsky have called for peace, they’ve been quickly labeled as Putin apologists or worse. The Progressive Caucus in Congress sent a letter to President Biden urging a diplomatic solution, only to withdraw it a day later. When did peace become a bad word, a dirty word?

→ read full article

Do No Harm: Compassionate Actions Supporting the Common Good
Wendy Wood, Ph.D. | The Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Nov 2022

As conflict practitioners and peacebuilders, engaging in ways that do not harm others or the planet requires that we are mindful and compassionate; that we use our words wisely and listen deeply; that we are authentic while embracing the ideals of equity and working for the common good; and that all are actions are accompanied with love and joy for the work we do.

→ read full article

Plastic Recycling Is a Dead-End Street: Year After Year It Declines Even as Plastic Waste Increases
Greenpeace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022

24 Oct 2022 – Most plastic simply cannot be recycled, a new Greenpeace USA report concludes. Circular Claims Fall Flat Again, released today, finds that U.S. households generated an estimated 51 million tons of plastic waste in 2021, only 2.4 million tons of which was recycled. Paper, cardboard, and metals are all recycled at a high rate, but plastic continues to be trash.

→ read full article

Bordering on Failure: A Tale of Discovering the Three Rules of Conflict
Duncan Autrey, MA | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022

How I discovered the Three Rules for Transforming Conflict while working on border conflicts in Ecuador. Poignant lessons about the essential nature of conflict and the existential value of improving our political, social, and environmental discourse. They present a guide to improving collective decision making; teach us to get clear on what the conflict is really about; to include everyone who is involved; and to ensure that the process of transformation is aligned with the desired outcome. Win-Lose processes are dividing us, impeding our healing and progress.

→ read full article

Peace Agenda for Ukraine and the World
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022

Statement of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement Adopted on 21 Sep 2022, International Day of Peace, at the Meeting of Ukrainian Pacifists

→ read full article

Open Letter to UNSG Antonio Guterres: The 2022 Nobel War Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022

6 Oct 2022 – Nobel´s prize should each year serve to remind the nations of the world of the urgent need for demilitarization and for taking the UN Charter obligations very seriously. Unfortunately, the Norwegian award committee is betraying Nobel´s trust, breaking the law and deliberately acting in bad faith. 

→ read full article

Electoral Conflicts and Political Polarization: What Can Mediators Do?
Kenneth Cloke | Journal of Democracy and Peacebuilding – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

In conflict, our options ultimately boil down to two: go it alone or face it together. We make these choices every day, as individuals and neighbors, as organizations, societies, and nations. With the development of mediation, dialogue facilitation, collaborative negotiation, consensus building, and similar skills, we are better able to face our problems together and collaboratively.

→ read full article

A Crisis of Consent in UN Peace Operations
Anjali Dayal | Global Observatory/International Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022

2 Aug 2022 – Last week, at least 15 people died in protests demanding UN peacekeepers leave the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The week before, the military junta ruling Mali halted troop rotations for the UN mission there and ejected the mission’s deputy spokesperson. These incidents highlight deep-seated crises of consent and legitimacy.

→ read full article

Mediation and Restorative Justice in Latin America
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

1 Sep 2022 – Latin America continues to advance towards a culture of peace: Last month we reviewed results of elections in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia; a progressive government has returned to Bolivia following the coup d’état against Evo Morales; Lula da Silva is favored to win the presidency of Brazil in next month’s election.

→ read full article

RIP Mikhail Gorbachev, Nobel Peace Laureate
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

31 Aug 2022 – I am sad to learn of the death of Mikhail Gorbachev on Tue, 30 Aug 2022. I had the honour of meeting him on several occasions at Nobel Peace Summits. May we all be inspired by his spirit, courage, integrity and vision of Nuclear Disarmament and Peace for Russia, the West and the World.

→ read full article

(Français) Médiation et Justice Restauratrice en Amérique Latine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Sep 2022

1 septembre 2022 – L’Amérique latine continue de progresser vers une culture de la paix. Le mois dernier, nous avons passé en revue les résultats progressistes des élections au Mexique, au Chili, au Pérou et en Colombie. Lula da Silva est favori pour remporter la présidence du Brésil au cours de la prochaine l’élection du mois.

→ read full article

Afghanistan, Iraq, and the “War on Terror”
Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov | USFP - TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022

The paper analyzes how the North American people were duped into believing that the proper and necessary response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks was to attack other nations (beyond stateless terrorists); and examines the counterproductive policies pursued in the name of counterterrorism.

→ read full article

Arab Spring, Russian Spring, Latin American Spring?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Aug 2022

1 Aug 2022 – Consciousness becomes a determining factor in history when the dominant regime (i.e. the culture of war) collapses from its own contradictions. This occurred in the 60’s with the Vietnam War and in end of the 80’s with the collapse of the Soviet Empire. We approach another such moment with the imminent collapse of the US Empire.

→ read full article

(Français) Printemps Arabe, Printemps Russe, Printemps Latino-Américain ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Aug 2022

1 août 2022 – La conscience devient un facteur déterminant dans l’histoire lorsque le régime dominant (c’est-à-dire la culture de la guerre) s’effondre de ses propres contradictions. Cela s’est passé dans les années 60 avec la guerre du Vietnam et à la fin des années 80 avec l’effondrement de l’empire soviétique. Nous approchons d’un autre moment de ce genre avec l’effondrement imminent de l’empire Nord Américain.

→ read full article

Nuclear Strategy and Ending the War in Ukraine
Oscar Arias, Nobel Peace Laureate, and Jonathan Granoff | The Hill – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022

19 Jul 2022 – The authors propose that the U.S. and NATO “plan and prepare for withdrawal of all U.S. nuclear warheads from Europe and Turkey” as a way to “get Putin’s attention and bring him to the negotiating table” and possibly agree to end the war. It’s a very interesting and bold proposal that could possibly work.

→ read full article

1980s US Central America Wars
Virginia S. Williams, Roger Peace and Jeremy Kuzmarov | US Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022

Updated January 2022 – Less than a decade after U.S. troops were withdrawn from Vietnam, the United States became deeply involved in Central America. The catalyst was a popularly supported leftist revolution in Nicaragua led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN).

→ read full article

Global Demilitarization – The True Goal of the Nobel Peace Prize
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022

11 Jul 2022 – Dear Mr. Antonio Guterres, Secretary General of the United Nations, since I discovered, in 2007, that Alfred Nobel – in his legally binding will – intended to support general and complete disarmament, I have been using the prize as a wedge to help undo the political influence of global militarism.

→ read full article

(Italiano) La NATO e l’Ucraina
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | Centro Studi Sereno Regis – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022

12 Luglio 2022 – La NATO è la macchina da guerra globale che gli Stati Uniti dominano; la cui politica è la “Full Spectrum Dominance”. Contrariamente alle sue affermazioni, la NATO non è un’organizzazione difensiva. Il suo scopo è stato quello di agire come strumento per il dominio mondiale degli Stati Uniti e di prevenire tutte le sfide all’egemonia statunitense. Avrebbe dovuto essere sciolta nel 1991, dopo lo scioglimento del Patto di Varsavia, ma invece si è espansa in quindici nuovi Paesi.

→ read full article

NATO and Ukraine
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022

NATO is the US dominated global war machine whose policy is ‘Full Spectrum Dominance.’ Contrary to its claims, NATO is not a defensive organization but an instrument for US world domination to prevent all challenges to its hegemony.  It should have been disbanded in 1991 after the dissolution of the Warsaw Pact but instead expanded into fifteen new countries. 

→ read full article

The Role of Value Systems in Conflict Resolution
Abbas Aroua, et al. | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

Jun 2022 – Understanding, “right-sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over- and under-emphasis. Johan Galtung’s “Attitude-Behavior-Contradiction” (ABC) triangle is one useful conflict analysis tool to deal with the role of value systems and other factors in conflict analysis.

→ read full article

(Français) Nécessité de Creer: Un Mouvement Mondial pour le Désarmement Nucléaire
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

Toutes ces questions devraient être à l’ordre du jour d’un mouvement mondial pour le désarmement nucléaire. Il n’y a rien de plus important pour l’avenir de notre espèce et de notre planète.

→ read full article

Needed: A Global Movement for Nuclear Disarmament
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Jul 2022

1 Jul 2022 – The world faces many dangers at this moment of history, famines, global warming, wars in the Ukraine, Yemen, Syria, mass migrations, increasing electoral tendencies towards fascism. But all these are pale in comparison to the danger of a nuclear World War III which could put an end to all of these problems by a suicidal destruction of all human civilization.

→ read full article

The Problem with the Next Trillion Dollar Industry
GNspace4peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

31 May 2022 – This video raises the serious question – at what point does Earth go dark as satellites that run much of the modern world are smashed to bits? Regulation is needed to limit the numbers of satellite launches into these already crowded orbits. Any war in the heavens would exacerbate the problem beyond our imagination.

→ read full article

Collapse of the Us Dollar
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

1 Jun 2022 – Two years ago I wrote that the dollar would lose its global role and be devalued. Reasons: the bloated military budget and national debt to pay for it, the blow-back effect of U.S. sanctions on other countries, and the reaction of countries such as Russia, China, Turkey and India to trade their dollars for gold. According to Zero Hedge, this trend has intensified.

→ read full article

The Great Carbon Capture Scam
Rex Weyler | Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

1 Jun 2022 – We know that Big Oil hid knowledge of global heating for decades, but the captains of petroleum industry devised a plan to swindle money from the public purse by pretending to address the climate issue while using subsidies to increase oil production. One might say their scam was a stroke of genius. How it works.

→ read full article

(Français) Effondrement du Dollar Américain
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022

1er juin 2022 – Il y a deux ans, j’écrivais que le dollar perdrait son rôle mondial et serait dévalué. Raisons : le budget militaire gonflé et la dette nationale pour le payer, l’effet de retour des sanctions américaines sur d’autres pays et la réaction de pays comme la Russie, la Chine, la Turquie et l’Inde à échanger leurs dollars contre de l’or. Selon Zero Hedge, cette tendance s’est intensifiée.

→ read full article

A Nordic Initiative for Peace in Ukraine and Lasting World Peace
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

Oslo, 27 April, 2022 – The war in Ukraine once again shows that the world is like a city with brutal gangs constantly roaming the streets, looting and fighting with loads of heavy weapons. No one will ever feel safe in such a city. The same applies at the international level. No amount of weaponry can make us safe. No country will be safe until also neighboring countries can feel safe. The present international system is broken; to avoid future wars we need deep reforms.

→ read full article

World Military Expenditure Passes $2 Trillion for First Time
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute SIPRI - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

25 Apr 2022 – World military spending continued to grow in 2021, reaching an all-time high of $2.1 trillion. This was the seventh consecutive year that spending increased.

→ read full article

We Can Find the Truth, but Where Can We Find Hope?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

1 May 2022 – Devoted to the courageous individuals who dare to seek and publish the truth in the face of the censorship and outright lies of the information war between NATO and Russia.

→ read full article

(Français) Nous Pouvons Trouver la Vérité, mais Où Pouvons-Nous Trouver l’Espoir ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022

1 Mai 2022 – Consacré aux individus courageux qui osent rechercher et publier la vérité face à la censure et aux mensonges éhontés de la guerre de l’information entre l’OTAN et la Russie.

→ read full article

Easter Call for Heroic Cease Fire
Thor Magnusson | Peace 2000 Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022

17 Apr 2022 – Prof. Johan Galtung, the Internationally recognized father of peace studies who correctly predicted the fall of the Berlin wall, said: “We seem to have come to the point that we ourselves, as the major cause of death and being wounded through violence and war, are our own worst enemies. It takes two to make war. And to make peace. If others do the same, those who do have achieved common security.” 

→ read full article

“Conflicts Should Be Resolved through Negotiations, Not War”
Reiner Braun | IPB, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

7 Apr 2022 – Interview by Reiner Braun, Executive Director of the International Peace Bureau, by email, with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliakhenko, peace activists from Russia and Ukraine respectively.

→ read full article

(Français) La Guerre d’Ukraine Aurait Pu Être Évitée
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

1 avril 2022 – La guerre en Ukraine est le résultat de décisions politiques erronées des États-Unis et de l’OTAN en 1997 qui ont conduit à l’expansion de l’OTAN jusqu’aux frontières de la Russie.

→ read full article

Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence
Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr | Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

4 Apr 1967 – I come to this magnificent house of worship tonight because my conscience leaves me no other choice. I join with you in this meeting because I am in deepest agreement with the aims and work of the organization which has brought us together: Clergy and Laymen Concerned about Vietnam

→ read full article

An Appeal for Peace
Thomas Daffern | World Intellectual Forum/International Institute of Peace Studies and Global Philosophy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

As intellectuals, philosophers, academics, scientists and teachers, we issue this peace appeal to all the citizens of Russia, Ukraine and other countries from today, February 25, 2022, we call for:

→ read full article

The Ukraine War Could Have Been Avoided
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022

1 Apr 2022 – The Ukraine war is the result of mistaken policy decisions by the United States and NATO in 1997 which led to the expansion of NATO up to the borders of Russia.

→ read full article

How the United States Created Vladimir Putin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022

1 Apr 2022 – The title comes from a speech by Vladimir Posner at Yale Sept 27, 2018. Posner was the spokesman for Mikhail Gorbachev in the latter years of the 1980’s and has continued over the years to provide independent, informed journalism from his base in Russia.

→ read full article

(French) Comment Les États-Unis Ont Créé Vladimir Poutine
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022

1 avril 2022 – Le titre de ce blog vient d’un discours de Vladimir Posner à Yale le 27 septembre 2018. Posner était le porte-parole de Mikhaïl Gorbatchev dans les dernières années des années 1980 et a continué au fil des ans à fournir un journalisme indépendant et informé depuis sa base en Russie. .

→ read full article

Russians Resist War
Peace News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022

27 Mar 2022 – Over 15,000 Arrested for Anti-War Protests – Russian citizens continue to protest against the invasion of Ukraine despite harsh repression by the Russian authorities.

→ read full article

U.S. Space Force Becomes More Lethal
GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2022

26 Mar 2022 – What’s the newest branch of the US armed forces, the Space Force, doing in 2022? Find out in this video from the Global Network.

→ read full article

Noam Chomsky on Hope and the Barcelona World Conference
Noam Chomsky | IPB International Peace Bureau – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Mar 2022

Second IPB World Peace Congress: Campaign for Peace, Disarmament & Common Security Apr 2021

→ read full article

Despite Government Crackdown, Russians Continue to Protest the War
Culture of Peace News Network - TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Mar 2022

6 Mar 2022 – CPNN has published several articles recently about Russian opposition to the war, including open letters from scientists, from cultural figures, and from the “Congress of Intelligentsia.” Opposition continues to grow despite draconian, even ridiculous, measures by the Russian government to stifle protest.

→ read full article

(Français) La Chute de Poutine – Un Déjà-vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Mar 2022

J’ai travaillé par intermittence en Union Soviétique dans les années 1970 et 1980 et j’ai observé le crash de l’Empire Soviétique – de l’intérieur. Il y avait trois causes principales: la perte de valeur du rouble, la perte de la guerre en Afghanistan et la perte de confiance du peuple.

→ read full article

The Fall of Putin – a Déjà vu
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Mar 2022

3 Mar 2022 – Déjà vu. I worked on and off in the Soviet Union during the 1970’s and 1980’s and I watched the crash of the Soviet Empire – from inside. Three main causes: the loss of value of the ruble, the loss of the war in Afghanistan and the loss of confidence of the people.

→ read full article

Militarism Is Never the Answer
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate | The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Mar 2022

3 Mar 2022 – The West has always demonized Russia and ignored its border security. The US has successfully stoked another war because NATO always needs an enemy–Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria—and they have now turned their sights back to Russia. It will be the Europeans who reap the fall out of another US/NATO folly.

→ read full article

Did the U.S. and NATO Promise Not to Threaten Russia by Moving the Military Forces of NATO to Its Borders?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2022

22 Feb 2022 – We continue to be threatened by the culture of war, which, as usual in recent history, is monopolized by the nation states.

→ read full article

(Français) Les États-Unis et l’OTAN ont-ils promis de ne pas menacer la Russie en déplaçant les forces militaires de l’OTAN vers ses frontières ?
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Feb 2022

22 février 2022 – Nous continuons d’être menacés par la culture de la guerre qui, comme d’habitude dans l’histoire récente, est monopolisée par les États-nations.

→ read full article

Open Letter to Presidents Biden and Putin
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Feb 2022

18 Feb 2022 – Please, Mr. Presidents, be a light in a dark and dangerous world.  Give the people hope. Please meet each other in friendship and in respect for each other, and the sake of the great peoples of your countries, USA and Russia.

→ read full article

Can Peace Be Researched?
Nils Petter Gleditsch | PRIO-Peace Research Institute Oslo – TRANSCEND Media Service, 14 Feb 2022

Revisiting a 55-Year-Old TV Program

→ read full article

(Français) Guerre à l’étranger, Guerre Dans la Métropole
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

1 février 2022 – C’est une vieille expression selon laquelle “les poulets sont rentrés chez eux pour se percher”. Les guerres que l’Empire américain a menées à l’étranger arrivent aux États-Unis sur son propre territoire ! L’invasion du Capitole il y a un an a marqué le début d’une seconde guerre civile dans la métropole.

→ read full article

NPPW Nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize 2022
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

Shortlist Respecting Nobel’s Antiwar Intention Updated on 5 Feb 2022

→ read full article

War Abroad, War at Home
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Feb 2022

1 Feb 2022 – There is an old expression that “the chickens have come home to roost.” The wars that the American Empire waged abroad have come to the continental USA. The invasion of the Capitol one year ago has signaled the beginning of a second civil war at home.`

→ read full article

USA: The Post-Cold War Era, 1989-2001
Brian D’Haeseleer, Jeremy Kuzmarov and Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jan 2022

Imperial Self-Deception: There is no shortage of books, articles, and websites addressing the history of US foreign policy. There is nevertheless, within the USA, a dearth of understanding and often knowledge about the subject. This is due in part to popular nationalistic history, which tends to obscure, overwrite, and sometimes whitewash actual history.

→ read full article

International Neutrality Project
Edward J. Horgan | Veterans Global Peace Network – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Jan 2022

The UN Charter opted for a more pragmatic system of ‘collective security’, a bit like the Three Musketeers – one for all and all for one. The three musketeers became the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, sometimes known as the five policemen, who were tasked with maintaining or enforcing international peace.

→ read full article

Introduction to Conflict Transformation
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

Language: Arabic. Author: Abbas Aroua. Publisher: Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – The Arab/Muslim world is one of the regions with the highest densities of conflict in the world (intra- and interstate). Yet it is one of the poorest ones in terms of conflict transformation resources, both theoretical and practical.

→ read full article

The Annual Resurrection of a Fake Dr. King
Black Alliance for Peace | Popular Resistance - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

17 Jan 2022 – It is January, and in the U.S. this means it is time for the annual ritual of revisiting the white-washed, de-radicalized, pro- “American” M.L. King fairy tale as part of the official celebration of King’s birthday.

→ read full article

Nobel Peace Prize 2022: Shortlist Respecting Nobel’s Antiwar Intention
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

January 2022 – Nobel Peace Prize Watch hereby presents its list of nominations for the 2022 Nobel Prize “for the champions of peace”. The overarching purpose of the prize, specified in the Nobel testament, is to liberate all nations from weapons, warriors and war.

→ read full article

Nomination of Dr. Edward Horgan for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize
Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022

12 Jan 2022 – Ms. Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, has today nominated Dr. Edward Horgan for the Nobel Peace Prize.

→ read full article

Nobel Nominations 2022 Deadline: 31 January
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Jan 2022

10 Jan 2022 – We in Nobel Peace Prize Watch still encourage those with nomination rights to make nominations by January 31, strictly adhering to and demanding respect for the Nobel goal of promoting global co-operation on a global peace order, based on international law, institutions and disarmament. Information below in English, French, German, Russian, Castellano and Swedish

→ read full article

Big Power Rivalries: The Thugs of Myanmar
José Ramos-Horta, Nobel Peace Laureate | Human Wrongs Watch - TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jan 2022

21 Dec 2021 – ASEAN leaders should explore a joint strategy with China, India and the US. By working together on a conflict that does not directly affect the three powers’ strategic interests, ongoing high tensions between China and US could cool down, and pave the way for additional small building blocks of cooperation and partnership.

→ read full article

(Français) La Biennale de Luanda : Passé et Avenir de la Culture de la Paix en Afrique
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jan 2022

1 Jan 2022 – Maintenant, l’avenir de la culture panafricaine de la paix est là où il devrait être, entre les mains de la jeunesse africaine et de la diaspora. Un nouveau jour se lève. Il a besoin de notre soutien.

→ read full article

The Biennale of Luanda: Past and Future of the Culture of Peace in Africa
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jan 2022

1 Jan 2022 – Now the future of the Pan-African Culture of Peace is where it should be, in the hands of the youth of Africa and the Diaspora. A new day is dawning. It needs our support.

→ read full article

Updating Dire Warnings
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021

7 Dec 2021 – A little over a year ago, I wrote in this blog that we are at a turning point in human history, that the US Empire is crashing and that there is a serious risk of a new North American Civil War. The blog was illustrated by automatic weapons being accumulated by millions of US citizens.

→ read full article

(Français) Mise à Jour des Avertissements
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Dec 2021

7 déc. 2021 – Il y a un peu plus d’un an, j’écrivais dans ce blog que nous étions à un tournant de l’Histoire de l’humanité, que l’empire américain s’effonderait et qu’il existe un risque sérieux d’une nouvelle guerre civile aux USA. Le blog était illustré par les armes automatiques accumulées par des millions de citoyens américains.

→ read full article

Prof Johan Galtung on Peace Journalism, Capitalism, Positive Peace, Structural Violence, Feminism, and Much More
Josef Mühlbauer | Varna Peace Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

3 Dec 2021 – Johan Galtung was at the core of the group of intellectuals who established the Peace Research Institute Oslo in 1959. Without his enormous effort and personality, PRIO would never have come true. He left it in 1969 to become Professor of Conflict and Peace Studies at the University of Oslo and was the founding editor of the Journal of Peace Research in 1964. In 1993 Galtung, Dietrich Fischer, Poka Laenui and wife Fumiko Nishimura founded TRANSCEND-A Peace Development Environment Network in Honolulu, Hawai’i, a Conflict Mediation Organization that thrives to this day with about 400 members worldwide. In 2008 he co-founded TRANSCEND Media Service-TMS with editor Antonio C.S. Rosa.

→ read full article

Peace by Global Disarmament or by Press Freedom?
Fredrik S. Heffermehl | Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

6 Dec 2021 – The Norwegian Nobel Committee never abided by Nobel’s vision of peace and has used the prize to serve its own ideas and interests. It has practiced a concept of Peace without any meaningful limitation; Nobel did not use the word peace in his will. It has been glorifying individuals whereas the task is to promote a political idea: Peace by Disarmament.

→ read full article

The Role of Value Systems in Conflict Resolution
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Dec 2021

Understanding, “right-​sizing,” and adequately respecting the role of value systems in conflict transformation avoids both over-​ and under-​emphasis. It aims at a better understanding of the interplay between tangible conflict issues and religious or secular value systems.

→ read full article

Destitute and Desperate Asylum Seekers and Migrants
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Nov 2021

25 Nov 2021 – It was with deep sadness that on 23 Nov the world watched in horror the news that 27 people had drowned in the English Channel when their flimsy dinghy overturned attempting to cross from Calais to Dover. I am sorry and I ask the forgiveness of migrants and refugees who have been forced to flee their lands. I send my condolences to the families at the loss of their beloved ones in a cold watery tragedy far away from their homes.

→ read full article

$63 Billion Drop in Investments: Impact of Nuclear Weapons Ban Treaty on Nuclear Weapons Business
ICAN, Nobel Peace Laureate - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Nov 2021

14 Nov 2021 – A new report released today by ICAN and PAX has found that the number of banks, pension funds, asset managers and insurance companies investing in the production of nuclear weapons has gone down in 2021, and shows significant drops in the shareholder values of investments in the 25 companies involved in nuclear weapon production around the world.

→ read full article

Speech to Mayors for Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Nov 2021

Text I provided to the first national forum of the AFCDRP (Association of Mayors for Peace, France) that took place October 13 in Montpelier.

→ read full article

U.S. Cold War Interventionism, 1945-1990
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Nov 2021

The idea that the United States should lead the world, replacing the British Empire, had been advanced by various U.S. leaders and influential citizens since the late 19th century. This ambition was in keeping with age-old aspirations of great states and empires, and also with the trajectory of U.S. history. The U.S. expanded across North America in the 19th century, became an imperial power in Asia in 1899, declared Latin America an exclusive sphere of influence in the early 20th century, and became the foremost global economic power prior to the First World War.

→ read full article

(Français) Discours pour l’Association “Maires pour la Paix”
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Nov 2021

Texte que j’ai fourni au premier forum national de l’AFCDRP (Association Maires pour la Paix, France) qui a eu lieu le 13 octobre à Montpellier.

→ read full article

History of the US Space Command
Will Griffin | GNspace4peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 8 Nov 2021

1 Nov 2021 – A general history of the US Space Command (USSPACECOM)

→ read full article

1901-1934: “Yankee Imperialism” in Latin America
Roger Peace | US Foreign Policy - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Oct 2021

On 20 Jun 1898, as U.S. troops prepared to land in Cuba to “pacify” the island, Assist. Sec. State Francis Loomis writing to his boss, Sec. State William Day, declared, “I think it our destiny to control more or less directly most all of the Latin American countries.” One means to this end was economic domination. “It is possible to attain commercial ascendancy in them in much the same way that England does in China, by lending them money and administering their revenues.”

→ read full article

Iraq/Afghanistan: Same Fate?
Kilian Bello | Cordoba Peace Institute Geneva - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Oct 2021

In February 2020, an agreement by the Trump administration and the Taliban was signed in Doha, Qatar, for complete withdrawal of American and NATO troops from Afghanistan in May 2021.

→ read full article

The Nobel Peace Prize Should Have Gone to Julian Assange
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Oct 2021

11 Oct 2021 – To some extent one must applaud the choice of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to two journalists who have dared to defy government pressure. Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov certainly merit the distinction. But there is another journalist who is even more deserving and his recognition would have contributed far more to the cause of world peace. That is Julian Assange.

→ read full article

(Français) Le Prix Nobel de la Paix Aurait du Être Attribué à Julian Assange
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Oct 2021

11 oct. 2021 – Dans une certaine mesure, il faut applaudir le choix du prix Nobel de la paix de cette année à deux journalistes qui ont osé défier la pression du gouvernement. Maria Ressa et Dmitry Muratov méritent certainement la distinction. Mais il y a un autre journaliste qui le mérite encore plus et sa reconnaissance aurait contribué beaucoup plus à la cause de la paix mondiale. C’est Julian Assange.

→ read full article

Afghanistan Today – Overview
UK Afghanistan Peace Project - TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Oct 2021

20 Years of Occupation by 31 of the Richest Countries in the World –
What has US/UK and NATO occupation achieved? Afghanistan today:

→ read full article

Afghanistan Is Not the End
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Sep 2021

1 Sep 2021 – As Karl Marx put it, spending money on the military is like throwing money into the sea. It produces nothing of value. And eventually an economy that produces nothing of value will crash from its own internal contradiction. This is the contradiction that led Johan Galtung to predict the end of the American Empire by the year 2020.

→ read full article

(Français) L’Afghanistan N’Est Pas la Fin
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Sep 2021

1 Sept. 2021 – Comme l’a dit Karl Marx, dépenser de l’argent pour l’armée, c’est comme jeter de l’argent à la mer. Il ne produit pas de valeur. Et finalement, une économie qui ne produit pas de valeur s’effondrera à cause de sa propre contradiction interne. C’est la contradiction qui ont conduit Johan Galtung à prédire la fin de l’empire américain d’ici 2020.

→ read full article

The Afghan War –> 200l-2021
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Aug 2021

17 Aug 2021 – This week, USA/NATO withdrew their troops from Afghanistan. The war cost hundreds of thousands of lives with the USA spending US $2 trillion, little of which went to improve the lives of Afghan people, many of whom are hungry, homeless and living in poverty. Our love, prayers and thoughts go out to the people of Afghanistan who have suffered so much.

→ read full article

The US Legacy in Afghanistan
Maya Evans | Afghanistan Peace Project – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Aug 2021

15 Aug 2021 – The Taliban take all major cities in Afghanistan ~ The Presidential Palace has fallen ~ President Ghani flees the country ~ US pledge to redeploy 5,000 troops ~ All embassy staff leave the country ~ We are now looking at a Taliban led Government ~ The Taliban say they want to take power without violence. The war in Afghanistan can be summed up as chaotic and disastrous.

→ read full article

(Français) Mise à Jour Sur la Culture de la Guerre
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 Aug 2021

Il ne semble pas probable que l’avancée de la démocratie et de la conscience anti-guerre puisse renverser l’empire américain et sa culture de guerre, mais comme son prédécesseur, l’empire soviétique, finira par s’effondrer à cause de ses propres contradictions. Et à ce point lá, le développement de la démocratie et de la conscience anti-guerre sera essentiel si on peut faire un changement radical dans la gouvernance mondiale, une ONU basée directement sur le peuple et promouvant une culture de paix.

→ read full article

Culture of War Update
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Aug 2021

1 Aug 2021 – It does not seem likely that the advance in democracy and anti-war consciousness can overthrow the American empire and its culture of war, but like its predecessor, the Soviet Empire, it will eventually collapse from its own contradictions. At that point, the development of democracy and anti-war consciousness will be essential if we are to make a radical change in global governance, a UN based directly on the people and promoting a culture of peace.

→ read full article

Dangerous US NATO Expansion in Norway
GNspace4peace - TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

1 Jun 2021 – In recent years, the US and NATO have been militarizing the Arctic through Norway as a means to confront Russia. This militarization is increasing tensions between nuclear-armed nations. As the Arctic melts away, these powerful nations are competing for dominance in the region by establishing new routes, building new military bases and constructing new radars, as less efforts are placed on diplomacy.

→ read full article

UN Security Council: Key Reform for a Culture of Peace
David Adams | Transition to a Culture of Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service, 5 Jul 2021

1 Jul 2021 – The key is the reform of the United Nations Security Council, which at the present time is controlled by the nuclear powers and unable to act in the Middle East because of alliances with the State of Israel. What we have now is not promoting a culture of peace. What we need is radical change, and the UNSC is a key point to be changed.

→ read full article

« Older Entries
Newer Entries »