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Relationships – Reflections on Refugees
Dr Hakim, Afghan Peace Volunteers – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
As relationships are built on various aspects of love, they are powerful. If we build more and more relationships, they will be an alternative power to the abusive power of governments and corporations, and that’s when governments and corporations will become more obvious in their efforts to sabotage relationships.
→ read full articleHow Does It End?
Winslow Myers, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jan 2016
What makes our own arrogant and pompous leaders one whit less adolescent than theirs? We are subject like the North Koreans to the same self-perpetuating paranoia, the same lack of moral imagination, the same suppression of truth-telling, the same wildly unnecessary secrets and lies, the same demagogic rationalizations of the status quo, the same folly of an endless arms race, the same nuclear dictatorship that leaves citizens without a voice when world-ending decisions are made.
→ read full articleSurveillance and Surveys in Kabul
Kathy Kelly, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Jan 2016
Billions of dollars have been invested in a variety of blimps which various vendors such as Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, Northrup Grumman, and Aeros have shipped to Afghanistan. All of this surveillance purportedly helps establish “patterns of life” and bring security to people living here …tax money to the insatiable appetite of the “defense” corporations and their illusions of omniscient security.
→ read full articleWe Are Living at the Edge of a Nuclear Precipice
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2016
With nuclear weapons, what could possibly go wrong? The short answer is: Everything. The ever-present dangers of nuclear proliferation, nuclear accidents and miscalculations, nuclear terrorism and nuclear war. Instead of nuclear deterrence and modernization of arsenals, we need to negotiate in good faith for the prohibition and elimination of nuclear weapons. That is, we need to break free of our acidic complacency and commit ourselves to achieving a nuclear zero world.
→ read full articleThis Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 Jan 2016
January 9, 1987 – Dean Rusk (1909-1994), a former Secretary of State (1961-69) under presidents John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson who received many awards during his career including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, spoke out against nuclear weapons with a statement that, “Nuclear war not only eliminates all the answers, but eliminates all the questions.”
→ read full articleA Review of Stephen Prothero’s ‘Why Liberals Win the Culture Wars (Even When They Lose Elections)’
James A. Haught, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Social progress occurs because liberal-minded reformers defeat conservative resistance.
→ read full articleYou Say ISIL, I Say ISIS, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
Tom H. Hastings, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
Who benefits? Who loses? US elites benefit. Owners of military contractors benefit the most ($711,000,000 the last day of 2015 alone, nearly $40 million per hour around the clock), and they share their largesse with those who serve them best—friendly bellicose politicians, persuasive media, high-level military officers.
→ read full articleSyria – A Light to the World
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jan 2016
In November 2015 I visited Syria together with an International Peace delegation. This was my third visit to Syria in the last three years. There is hope and Syria is a light to the world as there are many people working for peace and reconciliation, dialogue and negotiations, and this is where the hope lies and what we can all support by rejecting violence and war in Syria, the Middle East and our World.
→ read full articleGot Fascism? The 1942 Norwegian Teachers’ Nonviolent Resistance to Nazis Has Answers
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Dec 2015
In April 1940, the Nazis invaded Norway and occupied the country. In 1942, as part of an attempt to implement a fascist curriculum in the schools, Minister-President Vidkun Quisling, a Norwegian collaborator, disbanded the existing teachers’ union and required all teachers to register with the new Norwegian Teachers’ Union by February 5.
→ read full articleWhat the Women of Berlin’s Rosenstraße Protest Can Teach Us about Trump
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
The parallels between the 1930s-40s in Germany and the United States in 2015 are frightening. It is clear to many citizens that the rise of bigotry and fascism in our nation cannot be allowed to continue unchallenged. Organized resistance is essential. In this effort, revisiting the history of resistance to the Nazis offers us some tantalizing concepts.
→ read full articleSanctuary for Refugees: André Trocmé and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2015
What are we going to do? The moral obligation of compassion is clear. U.S. governors, like the officials in Europe, like the Vichy government and the Nazis, and all the cruel oppressors throughout history, must be resisted nonviolently. Like André Trocmé and Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, we must make our communities havens for those fleeing violence and death.
→ read full articleHow Our Naive Understanding of Violence Helps ISIS
Paul K. Chappell, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2015
During the era of the Internet revolution, it is naive to believe that we can use violence to defeat the ideologies that sustain terrorism. ISIS and Al Qaida are global movements, and with the Internet and social media, they can recruit people from all over the world, including people on American and European soil. And they only have to recruit a tiny amount of Americans and Europeans, initiate a single attack, and kill a few people to cause the huge overreactions that they want from their opponents.
→ read full articleNo to War! Call for Peaceful Nonviolent Resistance to United Kingdom’s Air Strikes against Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Dec 2015
On 2nd December, 2015 the United Kingdom Parliament voted to bomb Syria and the world watched as British planes, equipped with the latest bombs aptly named ‘Brimstone’ were dropped on Syrian targets.
→ read full articleReflections about the Dam Burst in Brazil and the (In)Visibility of Structural Violence
Roberta Holanda Maschietto, Peace Reflections – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
In a 1969 article, Johan Galtung stated that violence is “the cause of the difference between the potential and the actual, between what could have been and what is”. If a political system allows corporate interests to determine the path of a country’s economic development, this system is not democratic. It is a privatized political system that responds to the interests of a rich minority.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Delegation to Syria 24-30 Nov. 2015
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
These are the findings of our delegation, consisting of eleven peace and human rights advocates from six countries. Over the course of five days, we met with internally displaced persons, refugees, affected communities, religious leaders, combatants, government representatives and many others in Syria.
→ read full articleMontgomery
Andrew Moss, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks boarded a Montgomery city bus on her way home from work, and, fatigued, refused to give up her seat to a white man when the bus had filled up. Parks was arrested for violating the city’s segregation statutes, and within a few days, the African-American leaders of Montgomery responded with a highly successful boycott of the city’s bus system.
→ read full articleAn Eye for an Eye Makes the Whole World Blind
John Dear, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2015
To start paying for nonviolent solutions, we can close all our nuclear weapons plants, disarm our nuclear arsenal, and allocate those many billions of dollars to the many problems we face in the world. We have spent some seven trillion dollars on nuclear weapons since Hiroshima. It’s time we instead spent serious money on nonviolent conflict resolution instead.
→ read full articleDam Collapse in Brazil Destroys Towns and Turns River into Muddy Wasteland
Bruno Weis – Greenpeace,
18 Nov 2015
On Thursday, November 5th, two dams holding millions of cubic meters of mining waste gave way – launching one of the worst environmental disasters in Brazilian history. Over 25,000 Olympic swimming pools worth of mud – full of dangerous metals like manganese and mercury – quickly overtook the nearby mining community of Mariana in Minas Gerais state.
→ read full articleEnding the Era of Wars
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
15th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – Barcelona, 13-15 November 2015
→ read full articleArming Dictators: An American Tradition
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
10 Nov 2015 – Recently the Obama administration announced another military aid package for Pakistan: eight F-16 fighter jets. Once again considerations of human rights and democratic values have been sacrificed to strategic calculations.
→ read full article(Português) Madeira ilegal da Amazônia chega impunemente à Europa
Greenpeace Brasil – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Nov 2015
Nova investigação expõe 26 empresas europeias que estão importando produtos de fornecedor ligado ao comércio de madeira ilegal da Amazônia.
→ read full articleBurundi’s Crisis and the World’s Inability to Prevent Violence
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Nov 2015
9 Nov 2015 – The big – not great – powers of the world have embassies everywhere, plenty of intelligence services, special forces on the ground and satellites in space. They can even hit and kill individuals they don’t like.
→ read full articleTime for Nuclear Sharing to End
Xanthe Hall – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
9 Nov 2015
You have to keep threatening to use nuclear weapons to make nuclear deterrence work. A view from Germany on the planned deployment of new US nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleNovember: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2015
November 16, 1994 – After receiving formal promises of security assurances from the leaders of the U.S., Russia, and Britain, President Leonid Kuchma recommended that Ukraine formally accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty as a nonnuclear weapons state and agree to transfer its stockpile of strategic nuclear warheads to Russia, which was accomplished on June 1, 1996.
→ read full articleWorking Paper on Countries without Armies
Christophe Barbey - The Åland Islands Peace Institute,
2 Nov 2015
There are at least 26 countries around the world that have chosen to exist without an army. Christophe Barbey from the APRED Participative Institute for the Progress of Peace, offers a thorough mapping of these countries in the new working paper “Non-militarisation: Countries without Armies.
→ read full articleTen Articles on the Nuclear Treaty with Iran
Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 Oct 2015
Given the generally insufficient and/or biased knowledge in media and politics about Iran and this cluster of issues, we have a world renowned expert with Iranian roots sharing his knowledge: Dr. Farhang Jahanpour, Oxford University.
→ read full articleHow Can We Win America’s Peace?
Robert Hinds, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
The current map of instability in the Middle East can be traced back to the Sykes-Picot Agreement and the Balfour Declaration in World War I. The war in Afghanistan and the rise of the Taliban are repercussions from the Cold War, which was itself a result of WWII. Forty-five years after Nixon’s disastrous decision to continue the war in Vietnam, the lesson should seem clear. A policy that favors warfare more than diplomacy will not bring peace.
→ read full articleReclaiming the Heart of Our Humanity: Working Together for a World of Compassion, Peace, Justice and Sustainability
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Oct 2015
Ideological extremism and fundamentalism, whether religious/political, or of any other kind, cannot be bombed out of existence and there are no military or paramilitary solutions to many of the violent conflicts we are now living through.
→ read full articleManipulating Reality: Facebook Is Listening to You
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Oct 2015
We have become all too used to our reality being manipulated. Invading another country is defensive, rigged elections are democracy in action, more guns (or nuclear weapons) ensure the peace, trade and foreign investment increase jobs at home. Orwellian logic has become commonplace.
→ read full articleThe Enlightenment Keeps on Winning
James A. Haught, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Oct 2015
If you study history, you’ll see episodes that changed civilization. For three centuries, by fits and starts, Western progress has been mostly a chronicle of progressives defeating conservative resistance. Reformers repeatedly toppled old privileges, hierarchies and establishments. Look at the historical record:
→ read full articleOctober: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
5 Oct 2015
October 4, 1957 – The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, the world’s first artificial satellite, as the Space Age began. U.S. government leaders concerned that a missile capable of launching satellites might soon be able to place a nuclear warhead on U.S. or allied territory led to fears of a “missile gap.”
→ read full articleWhat Is Nonviolence Anyhow?
Tom H. Hastings, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
What is it, this nonviolence? Who gets to define it?
→ read full articleIPB 2015 MacBride Prize Awarded to Two Island Communities
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
The International Peace Bureau is delighted to announce its decision to award the annual Sean MacBride Peace Prize to two island communities that, in different circumstances, show proof of a profound commitment to peace and social justice: Lampedusa (Italy) and Gangjeon Village, Jeju Island (S. Korea). It will be formally awarded on Oct 23, 2015 in Padova, Italy.
→ read full articleAfter the Iran Nuclear Agreement: Will the Nuclear Powers also Play by the Rules?
Lawrence S. Wittner, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
Despite the insistence of the nuclear powers that Iran comply with the NPT, it is pretty clear that these nuclear-armed countries do not consider themselves bound to comply with this landmark agreement, signed by 189 nations. Some of the nuclear powers, in fact, have been quite brazen in rejecting it.
→ read full articleSergeant Bowe Bergdahl and the Psychology of War
Arnold Oliver, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2015
It is seldom reported that rates of PTSD greatly increase for veterans that have harmed prisoners or civilians. Among Vietnam veterans, about 13 percent reported personally inflicting harm to those groups. Their rates of PTSD were quadruple those of non-harming vets according to a study by the National Institutes of Health.
→ read full articleFrom the Dept of Sacred Satire: God Responds to Kim Davis
Rob Okun, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Sep 2015
To: Kim Davis
From: God
Re: My Authority
I’m writing to clarify my position on your citing Me as the reason you refused to issues marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Rethinking Syria
Mel Gurtov, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
The current U.S. policy of simultaneously seeking to overthrow Assad and push back ISIS is simply unworkable.
→ read full articleBreaking the Cycle: How to Build Sustainable Peace Using Contact Theory
Thomas B. Etzel, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Contact Theory posits that negative attitudes can be reduced by promoting contact and familiarity between conflicting groups. It emphasizes the development of personal relationships on a more intimate level and works best when applied to youth and children’s peace building programs.
→ read full articleAn Appeal for Shimon Perez and the Israeli Government to Do the Right Thing and Free Vanunu
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
After 31 years of punishment, Mordechai should be allowed to leave Israel, he is no threat to Israeli security, and it is wrong of the Israeli government to continue to punish him in this way.
→ read full articleEquality in the USA: More Work to Be Done
Wim Laven, Peace Voice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2015
Even though we are in the year 2015, equality is still not something many have in the U.S. We can help rediscover the dream and the passion for equality by staying vigilant and understanding that there is still work to be done to create a better system and a better society.
→ read full articleAppeal to UK to Talk with Syrian Government and Islamic Militants to Help Solve Middle East Refugee Crisis
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire calls upon the UK government to move from military proposals, such as bombing Syria, to humanitarian solutions in tackling the refugee crisis, one of the greatest tragedies and human suffering facing Europe since the WWII.
→ read full articleRedefining Youth as Peacebuilders – #youth4peace
Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Perhaps one of the greatest achievements of the Global Forum on Youth, Peace and Security was to bring together not only youth and policy makers, but also youth from around the world who might not otherwise have the chance to exchange and learn from colleagues.
→ read full articleNuclear War Theme Parks: Mass Destruction for the Whole Family
John LaForge, Peace Voice – Transcend Media Service,
7 Sep 2015
Hoping perhaps to show that the bomb from hell can be transformed from a vengeful, self-destructive, nightmare demon, into a benign, peace-loving, fairy-tale prince, nuclear propagandists and their friends in Congress are establishing nuclear war theme parks — without the taint of mass destruction — at former bomb factories and nuclear weapons launch pads all across the country.
→ read full articleSeptember: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
7 Sep 2015
September 4, 1978 – War Resisters League (WRL) members and their supporters demonstrated against nuclear weapons and civilian nuclear power plants simultaneously in Red Square near the Kremlin in Moscow and on the White House front lawn in Washington, DC.
→ read full articleHumanize, Not Modernize
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
7 Sep 2015
In the Nuclear Age, our technological capacity for destruction has outpaced our spiritual and moral capacity to control these destructive technologies. The Foundation is a voice for those committed to exercising conscience and choosing a decent future for all humanity.
→ read full article
Hiroshima Day Peace Lantern Ceremony – Canada
Nuno Ramalho, PeaceQuest – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2015
The Hiroshima Day Peace Lantern Ceremony takes place every year on August 6 to remember the atomic bombings by the United States of America over Japan.
→ read full articleReflections on the 70th Anniversary of the Atomic Bombings
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
10 Aug 2015
On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, killing some 90,000 people immediately and another 55,000 by the end of 1945. Three days later, the United States dropped another atomic bomb on Nagasaki, killing some 40,000 people immediately and another 35,000 by the end of 1945.
→ read full articleIn Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Aug 2015
The heat of summer is oppressive.
Children pass by in groups, chattering.
August: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
10 Aug 2015
August 6, 1945 – Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets piloted the 509th Composite Group’s B-29 Superfortress bomber named Enola Gay, in honor of the pilot’s mother, from Tinian in the Marianas chain of Pacific Ocean islands to Hiroshima, Japan where the enriched uranium-fueled fission bomb code named “Little Boy” was dropped over a city of a quarter million inhabitants at 8:15:17 a.m. local time.
→ read full articleNeeded: Political Will . . .
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
A solution to the problem of global warming is not a technical problem, but rather a political problem. The means are available. The Earth Policy Institute published “Seven Surprising Realities behind the Great Transition to Renewable Energy” showing that the global transition to clean, renewable energy and away from nuclear and fossils is well under way. Their “seven surprising realities:”
→ read full articleNGO Open letter to Member States of the General Assembly on the Selection Process of the UN Secretary-General
Culture of Peace News Network – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The selection of the new Secretary-General in 2016 will be one of the most important decisions the General Assembly will make in the next ten years. The new Secretary-General will have to address a world confronted with increasingly dangerous civil wars, humanitarian and environmental disasters, terrorism, regressive development, economic and financial turmoil, and inequality.
→ read full articleWake Up!
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Aug 2015
The alarm is sounding.
Can you hear it?
Can you hear the bells
of Nagasaki
ringing out for peace?
Protecting Schools 80 Years after Roerich
Bede Sheppard, Human Rights Watch – Culture of Peace News Network,
3 Aug 2015
The Declaration is a political commitment to do more to protect students, teachers, schools and universities from attack and from military use during times of armed conflict. It calls upon armed forces to refrain from converting schools or universities into military bases, barracks, defensive positions, detention centers, and weapons caches, as well as from harassment, rape, and forced recruitment by the soldiers inside the school.
→ read full articleBolivia: Mediators Are Formed In Culture of Peace
Henry A. Aira Gutiérrez, Correo del Sur - Culture of Peace News Network,
3 Aug 2015
July 22, 2015 – Culture of peace and conflict resolution are new phrases that Bolivians can use to avoid going to court. With the implementation of the new moral codes as of August 6, it is also the expression of the mediators, whose job is to reduce the caseload in the courts for civil and commercial matters.
→ read full articleTutu: The Slow Genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar (Burma)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – Newsweek,
27 Jul 2015
I would be more inclined to heed the warnings of eminent scholars and researchers including Amartya Sen, the Nobel laureate in economics, who say this is a deliberately false narrative to camouflage the slow genocide being committed against the Rohingya people. There’s evidence, they say, that anti-Rohingya sentiment has been carefully cultivated by the government itself.
→ read full articleIran’s Nuclear Deal, a Great Achievement, but Hard Work Ahead
Prof. Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
20 Jul 2015
14 Jul 2015 – The announcement of the nuclear deal between Iran and six world powers is a rare moment in history that gives us hope and provides a basis for optimism. By contemplating what the alternative would have entailed, any agreement, no matter how defective, is a great achievement and has to be welcomed.
→ read full articleWelcoming the Iran Nuclear Deal and Calling on Israel to Dismantle Its Nuclear Arsenal for a Nuclear-Free Middle East
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jul 2015
This Agreement is indeed to be welcomed, and it is a triumph for dialogue and diplomacy and proves that problems can be solved at the negotiating table instead of using the unethical, immoral and counter-productive method of military threats and attacks.
→ read full articleCongratulations and Thank You, Iran!
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
20 Jul 2015
It is a revolution – namely, solving problems at the table rather than through yet another failed, counterproductive and self-defeating Western war on a Middle Eastern country. A victory for nonviolence and intelligence over violence and human folly; for civilisation, for civilised manners – and with the “object” itself being a civilisation.
→ read full article2015 International Women Walk for Peace and Reunification of Korea
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2015
Delegation Visits North/South Korea May 19–25, 2015 – On 24 May 2015, International Women’s Day for Peace and Disarmament, thirty women peacemakers from 15 countries, made a historic crossing of the two mile wide de-militarized zone DMZ from North to South Korea.
→ read full articleJuly: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Jul 2015
July 1, 1968 – The U.S., U.K., the Soviet Union, and 58 other nations signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Preamble of the agreement, which today includes 191 state parties, referred explicitly to the need for a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which has not yet been realized due mostly to the U.S. Senate’s unwillingness to ratify it.
→ read full articleNot Just Apologies but Repentance
Nassrine Azimi – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Jul 2015
Few countries have been as mired in as much warfare within as brief a period of history as the United States. Since WWII, the number of revolutions, coups d’état, invasions and wars it has directly or indirectly instigated has been staggering. The United States has yet to apologize for unleashing nuclear terror on civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
→ read full article(Castellano) Colombia: La Cátedra de la Paz
Ernesto Amézquita en Cronica del Quindio – Culture of Peace News Network,
6 Jul 2015
28 jun 2015 – En desarrollo de la ley 1732 del 2014, el gobierno nacional acaba de dictar el decreto “por el cual se reglamente la cátedra de la Paz en todas las Instituciones educativas del País. Para responder al mandato constitucional consagrado en los arts. 22 y 41 de la Constitución Nacional, el carácter de la cátedra de la Paz, será obligatorio”.
→ read full articleColombia: Teaching Peace
Ernesto Amézquita en Cronica del Quindio – Culture of Peace News Network,
6 Jul 2015
28 Jun 2015 – According to law 1732, adopted in 2014, the national government has to issue a decree “by which the teaching of Peace is regulated in all educational institutions of the country”. Article number 2: “to meet the constitutional mandate enshrined in the articles 22 and 41 of the Constitution, the teaching of Peace is compulsory.”
→ read full articleThe Nuclear Age at Seventy
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Jul 2015
The first explosion of a nuclear device took place at Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. Just three weeks later, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima and three days after that on the Japanese city of Nagasaki.
→ read full articleOutrageus Attempt at Killing a Deal with Iran
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
29 Jun 2015
25 Jun 2015 – Internal elite power games in Washington are now putting Middle Eastern and global stability and peace at stake. The Iran nuclear issue can only be solved through mutual respect, dialogue and fairness and a principled policy that precludes the idea of “one set of rules for you and one for us”.
→ read full article2015 Global Peace Index
Institute for Economics & Peace, Vision of Humanity – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2015
The 2015 Global Peace Index shows that the world is becoming increasingly divided with some countries enjoying unprecedented levels of peace and prosperity while others spiral further into violence and conflict.
→ read full articleJune: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
June 3, 1980 – President Jimmy Carter’s National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski was awakened by his military assistant, General William Odom, around 2:30 a.m. and informed that NORAD’s computers had detected a launch of 2,200 Soviet ICBMs heading for U.S. targets. The incident was one of many so-called “false warnings.”
→ read full articleBreaking the Promise to Russia
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
8 Jun 2015
President Bill Clinton decided to expand NATO’s membership to former members of the Soviet Union’s Warsaw Pact. George Kennan, America’s elder statesman on Russian issues, characterized it as the most dangerous foreign policy decision that the US had made since the end of the Second World War.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons: Grand Bargain Is Not So Grand
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2015
The five nuclear-armed countries that are parties to the NPT (US, Russia, UK, France and China) appear more comfortable working together to maintain and modernize their nuclear arsenals than they do to fulfilling their disarmament obligations under the treaty. Their common strategy appears to be “nuclear weapons forever.” The US plans to spend $1 trillion on modernizing its nuclear arsenal over the next three decades.
→ read full articleGreenpeace Releases Confidential IAEA Fukushima-Daiichi Accident Report
Justin McKeating – Greenpeace International,
8 Jun 2015
The International Atomic Energy Agency report fails to accurately reflect the scale and consequences of the Fukushima disaster.
→ read full articleThe Friends of Nukes Are Losing
Gunnar Westberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
1 Jun 2015
There is more hope today for a ban on nuclear weapons than we have seen for twenty years. No less than 159 states agreed that they must be abolished. Even more important, 107 countries asked for legal measures for a prohibition of nuclear weapons – use, threat, production, storage.
→ read full articleWill THIS Spill in California Change Anything?
Preeti Desai – Greenpeace,
25 May 2015
State of Emergency Declared: California Oil Spill Now Estimated at 105,000 Gallons
→ read full articleBurundi: Plan Genuine Humanitarian Intervention Now!
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
18 May 2015
The coup d’etat of May 13 [2015] has failed, its masters being arrested. President Nkurunziza who was in Tanzania when ousted will return as soon as he feels he can trust enough loyalists; there may well be increased repression of the people everywhere and violence between loyalists and opposition. Toward civil war? Toward genocide?
→ read full articleToday’s V-Day as a Lost Opportunity for Peace-Making
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
11 May 2015
Today, May 9, Russia commemorates V-Day – 70 years ago they won over Nazi Germany. The price they paid were 20-26 million human beings of which 9 million soldiers. But on the order of Washington, all European leaders–recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize–with the remarkable exception of Chancellor Merkel, today ignore the sufferings of the Soviet citizens and stay away as a protest. Permit me to call it insensitive, shortsighted and narrow-minded.
→ read full articleBurundi: Denying or Hoping Won’t Do
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
11 May 2015
Everyone who cares will see all the red lamps and hear the alarm bells. We have a history of genocide in this country and neighbouring Rwanda just a few years ago. There is something to build our early warnings on. But who is listening? Who is taking action, serious political action?
→ read full articleMay: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 May 2015
May 1, 1982 – The Washington Post featured an article by Bill Prochnau titled, “With the Bomb, There Is No Answer,” in which he reported that marijuana was discovered in one of the underground missile control launch centers of a Minuteman ICBM squadron at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana.
→ read full articleHubris versus Wisdom
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
11 May 2015
Humankind must not be complacent in the face of the threat posed by nuclear weapons. The future of humanity and all life depends upon the outcome of the ongoing struggle between hubris and wisdom. Hubris is an ancient Greek word meaning extreme arrogance. Wisdom is cautionary good sense.
→ read full articleLatin America in Perspective: Between Successes and New Challenges
Raffaele Morgantini and Tarik Bouafia – Culture of Peace News Network,
4 May 2015
Movements against governmental fiscal austerity, are they part of the global movement for a culture of peace? Austerity cures imposed on some countries in the region by the IMF and the WB have been abandoned in favor of stimulus policies where the state has taken up a key role in managing the economy.
→ read full articleClosing of the World Social Forum: Citizens of the World versus Terrorism and Oppression
Sihem Oubraham, El Moudjahid – Culture of Peace News Network,
4 May 2015
6 Apr 2015 – The 13th edition of the World Social Forum 2015, which took place over four days in the Tunisian capital, completed its work under the slogan of “all-out solidarity with all oppressed peoples.”
→ read full article
Galtung Book Launching
Perdana Global Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 May 2015
Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad, former Prime Minister of Malaysia, launches Johan Galtung’s two new books at the closing of the International Conference The ‘New World Order: A Recipe for War or Peace!’ in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
→ read full articleBehind Every Refugee Stands an Arms Trader
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
4 May 2015
These boat refugees run away to another continent without shoes, money or belongings because their lives are unbearable and they have absolutely no hope. Refugees are not happiness-seekers. Using “migrants” instead of “refugees” takes away our attention from why they flee, from our own complicity in all this and it reduces our responsibility to protect refugees.
→ read full articleBurundi: Early Warning and Violence Prevention
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
4 May 2015
The present conflict is rooted in power politics, structural-economic inequality throughout society and in woefully inadequate international attention and assistance. The Hutu-Tutsi difference is not a basic cause, but, of course, cynical manipulators may later use it to mobilise energy for violence.
→ read full articleNobel Women Initiative’s Conference – Building Global Support for Women Human Rights Defenders
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
Breaking the silence on Israel’s human rights abuse of Palestinians is the best way to help Palestinian women human rights defenders and peacemakers.
→ read full articleIPRA 2016 Global Peace Conference to Be Held in Freetown, Sierra Leone
International Peace Research Association – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Apr 2015
The 26th biennial conference of the Interna¬tional Peace Research Association (IPRA) is billed to take place in Freetown, Sierra Leone in November 2016, marking the second time Africa has hosted the conference since the founding of IPRA in 1964.
→ read full articleWhat Can Be Done to Abolish War?
International Peace Bureau - TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Photography and Essay Competitions – £100 prize for the winners. Write an essay answering the following question: WHAT CAN BE DONE TO ABOLISH WAR? Or: Take an original photograph that interprets the question: WHAT DOES PEACE MEAN TO YOU?
→ read full articleWhy Are We Planning to Walk Across the Demilitarized Zone That Separates North and South Korea?
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Seventy years ago, as the Cold War was being waged, the USA unilaterally drew the line across the 38th parallel—later with the former USSR’s agreement—dividing an ancient country that had just suffered 35 years of Japanese colonial occupation. Now the conflict on the Korean peninsula threatens peace in the Asia Pacific and throughout our world.
→ read full articleIran Nuclear Deal – They’ve Done It!
Farhang Jahanpour - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Apr 2015
The truth of the matter is that both sides have made some concessions and sacrifices, with Iran making the greatest concessions in return for as yet uncertain rewards. However, under the present circumstances and in the current highly charged climate this was the best outcome that one could hope for.
→ read full articleCasualty Figures after 10 Years of the “War on Terror” – Body Count
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, Nobel Peace Laureates, et al. – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Apr 2015
Editors:
International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War
Physicians for Social Responsibility
Physicians for Global Survival
2014: USA Leads Upward Trend in Arms Exports – Asian, Gulf States Lead Imports
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
16 Mar 2015 – The United States has taken a firm lead as the major arms exporter globally according to new data on international arms transfers published today. Overall, the volume of international transfers of major conventional weapons grew by 16 per cent between 2005–2009 and 2010–14.
→ read full articleTransitional Justice for Rank-And-File Combatants in Colombia
Silke Pfeiffer, Norwegian Peace Building Resource Center-NOREF - TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
As the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia and the Colombian government negotiate a viable transitional justice formula, they will need to devise a solution for combatants who do not fall into the category of being most responsible for the most serious crimes, but are involved to a lesser extent with serious crimes.
→ read full articleLetter to Palestinian Women
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Mar 2015
We have dulled our consciences and lost our moral compass. Humanity, for all its new found knowledge, was never more lost for a united purpose and vision than perhaps any generation before us. Without wisdom, moral values and principles, such knowledge could lead to our very destruction.
→ read full articleFrom Preventing to Making Peace in Ukraine
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
16 Mar 2015
You’ve heard everybody involved in the Ukraine conflict solemnly declared that there is no military solution. And what do they all do? Right, they militarise the situation further, use bellicose language, speak bad about each other, take provocative steps, use propaganda and flex their military muscles. These men – sorry, but they are all men – who are competent in war and violence run our world.
→ read full article(Svenska-Swedish) Lay Down Your Arms
The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Mar 2015
Hemlighetsmakeriet kring Nobels fredspris har missbrukats och måste upphöra. Detta är en av flera krav som den nybildade föreningen “Lay Down Your Arms” har skickats till de tre organ som ansvarar för tilldelning av fredspris: Nobelkommittén i Oslo, parlamentet som väljer kommittén, och Nobelstiftelsen i Stockholm, som har den överlägsna ansvar att se till att alla markeringar överensstämmer med Alfred Nobels krav.
→ read full articleMarch: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
9 Mar 2015
March 1, 1982 – President Ronald Reagan watched the Pentagon’s National Military Command Center rehearse a full-scale nuclear exchange between the United States and Soviet Union…
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Watch Launched
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Mar 2015
On March 3, 2015 major news sources broke the quite extraordinary story that the chairman of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee had been demoted; it’s the first time it has ever happened. The ‘Lay Down Your Arms Association’ was incorporated and registered in Sweden and set up the Nobel Peace Prize Watch where you can acquaint yourself with the Prize, its history, background, the criticism over time, etc.
→ read full articleLay Down Your Arms
The Nobel Peace Prize Watch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2015
The secrecy surrounding the Nobel Peace Prize has been misused and must cease. This is one of several demands that the newly formed association “Lay Down Your Arms” has sent to the three bodies responsible for awarding the Peace Prize: the Nobel Committee in Oslo, the Parliament that chooses the committee, and the Nobel Foundation in Stockholm, which has the superior responsibility to ensure that all selections conform with Alfred Nobel’s stipulations.
→ read full articleIslam Is Not the Problem – But Keep Your Own House in Order
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
9 Feb 2015
The revolts of the so-called Arab Spring show that most Muslims of the Middle East want democracy even though they also want their country to be Islamist. An overwhelming majority of the worldwide community of close to 2 billion Muslims abhor both authoritarianism and terrorism. (Not to be overlooked is that as recently as 1945 there were only 10 democracies in the Western world.)
→ read full articleFebruary: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
9 Feb 2015
February 17, 1953 – Years after serving as the civilian director of the Manhattan Project to build the first atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer gave one of many speeches opposing the growing nuclear arms race, this one at the Council on Foreign Relations.
→ read full articleOpen Letter to Klaus Schwab of the World Economic Forum
Kamran Mofid - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 Jan 2015
I notice that you hope the 2015 WEF meeting will be a “starting point for a renaissance of global trust”. This is a noble aim, very important and timely. Trust surely comes from the experience of a relationship – an in-depth experience – which by its nature is rooted in values that are not necessarily economic or monetary.
→ read full articleInterview with “Iran Review” – And a Word about Intellectual Freedom
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 Jan 2015
TFF has been engaged with an in Iran the last three years. We believe that the general image in Western media – covering almost only Iran’s nuclear program, human rights violations and Iran as a threat to the world – is neither objective nor fair.
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