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“We Are All Charlie” – But Is That Story so Simple?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
19 Jan 2015
U.S., NATO and EU’s agenda at the moment is – “we kill people who kill people because it is wrong to kill people” and thus we bomb IS, fight terrorist groups we have nurtured to quite an extent ourselves and move from one crisis (mis)management to the next.
→ read full articleJanuary: This Month in Nuclear Threat History
Jeffrey W. Mason – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
12 Jan 2015
January 2015 – Nuclear Threat in History
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Johan Galtung on Denmark, Mohammed Cartoons, and Peacework
EnvisionPeaceMuseum – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Jan 2015
Johan Galtung is widely considered the “Father of Peace and Conflict Studies.” A Norwegian sociologist and mathematician, Galtung has taught around the world, helped found many institutions dedicated to building peace, and been honored with the Right Livelihood Award.
→ read full articleThe Limitations of Strategic Nonviolence
Timothy Braatz, Peace Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jan 2015
If the goal is to reduce violence of all types, to create a society where tomorrow is less violent than today, strategic nonviolence is insufficient and, thus, not pragmatic. For such a transformation, the principled approach—identifying and rejecting any and all forms of violence—is also the pragmatic one.
→ read full articleSolve the Ukraine Crisis Now
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
5 Jan 2015
Moscow no longer trusts verbal understandings that can be broken, as when the Reagan Administration gave President Mikhail Gorbachev the distinct impression that the US would not take advantage of the Soviet Union now that the Cold War was over. But it did. President Bill Clinton provocatively began the expansion of NATO which has now reached right up to Russia’s borders.
→ read full articleMisleading the World on Iran’s “Bomb”
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
23 Dec 2014
Over many years the US with European connivance most – not always – of the time manufactured and manipulated the whole crisis. To overcome the suspicions aroused by that, now past, tactic is not easy. That is not just my opinion after following this subject for 30 years.
→ read full articlePresentation to Nobel Summit – Rome, Italy
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Dec 2014
Appeal to His Holiness Pope Francis to Replace Just War Theory with Theology of Peace, Nonkilling, and Nonviolence
→ read full articleOn Modernizing the U.S. Nuclear Arsenal
David Krieger - Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
8 Dec 2014
Modernization of the US nuclear arsenal is not the only choice we have. A far better and saner choice is to end the nuclear weapons era, and that can only be done by diplomacy and negotiations for a nuclear weapons-free world.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons and the International Security Context
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Dec 2014
This statement, signed by over 100 civil society organizations, was delivered at the United Nations General Assembly’s First Committee on October 28, 2014.
→ read full articleInternational Arms Transfers in 2013
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Dec 2014
The volume of international transfers of major weapons grew by 14 per cent between 2004–2008 and 2009–13. The five largest suppliers in 2009–13—the United States, Russia, Germany, China and France—accounted for 74 per cent of the volume of exports.
→ read full articlePeace Is Possible in a World without Violence, Militarism and War
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Nov 2014
Fondazione Patrizio Paoletti and Commune of Assisi, Italy
→ read full articleBrisbane – A Show of Western Weakness
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
24 Nov 2014
No matter what you may think of Putin and Russia this is simply not the way international politics should be conducted, particularly not at the personal level. If it wasn’t an offence to children, one would aptly characterise it as childish behaviour.
→ read full articleCyberPeace Demands from Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility
Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility-FifF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Nov 2014
Political Measures Demanded by FIfF:
1) Renouncement of first strikes and offensive acts in cyberspace: States should publicly abandon the preventive use of cyber weapons to attack.
Why Russia Is Growing Tough • Berlin Wall Down 25 Years
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
10 Nov 2014
Is it his early economic success? Or is it because of a new stability? Or the nation’s growing self-respect after the ignominious years that followed the demise of the Soviet Union? Or is it a sense of besieged defensiveness because of the advantage the West undoubtedly took of Russia after that demise. The answer is a bit of all these. Now Russia, not just Putin, is in a very assertive mood.
→ read full articlePeace Leadership
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
10 Nov 2014
We live in a time of war and in a world that sacrifices its children at the altar of violence. There are children growing up today who have never known peace. Can you imagine what this must be like?
→ read full articleWhat Submarine in Sweden?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
27 Oct 2014
You have heard that Sweden is hunting a”submarine” and that it is”presumed to be Russian”. Not the slightest evidence.
→ read full articleNobel’s Peace Prize Is Not a Human Rights Prize
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Oct 2014
The Nobel Committee Again Ignores Nobel’s Will – This prize is not a human rights or do-good prize. Change from an amateur to a professional committee.
→ read full articleHow LEGO Got Awesome to #Savethearctic
Ian Duff - Greenpeace,
13 Oct 2014
9 Oct 2014 – Today we got the awesome news: after a three-month campaign supported by more than a million people worldwide, LEGO has announced it will not renew its contract with Arctic destroyer Shell. This is fantastic news for LEGO fans and Arctic defenders everywhere.
→ read full articleInstead of bombing IS: Concrete Proposals (Part B)
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
13 Oct 2014
Stop the financing of ISIS – sadly it is non-democratic allies of the West – Saudi-Arabia, Qatar, UAE etc – that seem to pay its bills. Joe Biden apologised – for being truthful.
→ read full articleCall on Pope Francis to Reopen Vatican for Changes in the Church
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Oct 2014
On October 4th we celebrated the Feast Day of St. Francis of Assisi. When HH the Pope took the name of St. Francis he spoke with passion, calling for justice for the poor, for peace, and an end to violence and war. I hope he will open the windows of the Vatican, let in some fresh air, and let the spirit of love and truth touch the hearts of all people, so that meaningful dialogue and true change can come about.
→ read full articleU.S. Nuclear Policy: Taking the Wrong Road
David Krieger – Nuclear Age Peace Foundation,
6 Oct 2014
On September 21, 2014, the International Day of Peace, The New York Times published an article, “U.S. Ramping Up Major Renewal in Nuclear Arms.” Federal study put the price tag for modernizing the U.S. nuclear arsenal at “up to a trillion dollars” over the next three decades.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Day 21/9/2014 – Peace through Disarmament
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Sep 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism, which is an aberration and a system of dysfunction which must urgently be abolished and replaced by Law.
→ read full articleObama Inches US Closer to Accepting Land Mine Ban
Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Laureate – Al Jazeera America,
29 Sep 2014
Land mines are illegal, indiscriminate weapons that can kill long after the end of armed conflicts, which means that those affected by this lethal detritus of war are civilians.
→ read full articleDanish F16s to Fight ISIS: Government More Loyal to the U.S. Than to Its Own Citizens
Jan Oberg –Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
29 Sep 2014
During the last good 15 years Denmark has participated in wars in Yugoslavia and Afghanistan, was an occupying force in Iraq for four years and a main bomber of Libya. Denmark is a rogue state. Rogue states, big and small, are a problem to the whole world. And the sooner they change the better for all.
→ read full articleBeating Climate Change, either Lead or Get Out of the Way
Arin de Hoog - Greenpeace,
22 Sep 2014
Yesterday [21 Sep 2014], over half a million people in 160 countries across the world marched against climate change. What clearer signal can there be to policy leaders that they need to either lead or get out of the way?
→ read full articleUS-Russia Talks in Moscow: Hot
Jonathan Power - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
22 Sep 2014
There seems to have been a total breakdown in communication compared with the Cold War when high-level discussions were held at regular intervals.
→ read full articleUSA/UK Committed Genocide against Iraq People
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Sep 2014
USA/UK committed genocide against Iraq people between 1990/2012 killing 3.3 million including 750,000 children through sanctions and war.
→ read full articleNo to US/NATO and Yes to Peace
Mairead Corrigan Maguire , Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Sep 2014
While US/UK/NATO are pushing for war with Russia, it behoves people and their governments around the world to take a clear stand for peace and against violence and war, no matter where it comes from.
→ read full articleSeptember 11: The War on Terror Is a – Predictable – Fiasco
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
15 Sep 2014
Sep 11, 2014 – President Obama’s speech last night was a record low in terms of moral and intellectual analysis: What it boils down to is war – i.e. killing every single ISIS person anywhere, people who he compares to cancer cells.
→ read full articleAgent Orange Lives On in Vietnam, Poisoning Children and Ruining Lives
The Advocacy Project – Peace & Collaborative Development Network,
8 Sep 2014
While Le Ba Thuan was recruiting soldiers for the Viet Cong during the Vietnam War, he would watch American planes spraying herbicide and try to avoid the contaminated areas. He never quite succeeded and for the past fifty years he has suffered from heart disease, high blood pressure, constant headaches, and skin rashes.
→ read full articleAfter All This, What? A Couple of Messages to NATO’s Summit
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
8 Sep 2014
The malaise of the world is not conflicts but violence – and that people and media mix the two. Conflicts – that we want different things and see the world in different ways – are good, the stuff life and democracy is made of. Violence is what must be abhorred, condemned and treated normatively as we do slavery, cannibalism, pedophilia.
→ read full articleNuclear Weapons Do Not Make Us Safer
David Krieger, Nuclear Age Peace Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Sep 2014
Rather than continuing to posture with its nuclear weapons in Europe, the United States should be leading the way in convening negotiations to eliminate all nuclear weapons for its own security and that of all the world’s inhabitants.
→ read full articleCeasefire in Eastern Ukraine: Now Withdrawal by Russia, the UN In, and NATO Out
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research-TFF,
8 Sep 2014
Firstly, an agreement over a phone is only a beginning; the devil is in the details. Secondly, there is no mention – yet – of the East Ukrainian fighters are onboard. Thirdly, a credible ceasefire should be monitored by neutral observers and competent people. The only ones who can do that are the UN peacekeepers.
→ read full articleThe Historical Perspective of the 2014 Gaza Massacre
Ilan Pappé – The Plymouth Institute for Peace Research,
25 Aug 2014
The Israeli strategy of branding its brutal policies as an ad hoc response to this or that Palestinian action is as old as the Zionist presence in Palestine itself. It was used repeatedly as a justification for implementing the Zionist vision of a future Palestine that has in it very few, if any, native Palestinians.
→ read full articleSupport Richard Branson’s Ukraine Dialogue Initiative
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
25 Aug 2014
We are drifting towards a new Cold War. The reason is the woefully incompetent way in which politicians and media focus on violence and ignore underlying conflicts and civilian means – of course there are exceptions but… Escalation doesn’t create peace.
→ read full articleMy Plea to the People of Israel: Liberate Yourselves by Liberating Palestine
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate - Haaretz,
25 Aug 2014
Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu calls for a global boycott of Israel and urges Israelis and Palestinians to look beyond their leaders for a sustainable solution to the crisis in the Holy Land.
→ read full articleJapan’s “Peace Constitution” Is in Jeopardy
Akira Tashiro, Chugoku Shimbun – Hiroshima Peace Media Center,
18 Aug 2014
The concepts of “negative peace” and “positive peace” that Dr. Galtung devised have taken root . The former defines a state without war. The latter indicates a situation where not only war but also structural violence such as poverty, oppression, and discrimination do not exist. I expect that Dr. Galtung would no doubt criticize the term “positive pacifism,” a pet phrase of Mr. Abe which makes the military a higher priority, as a “distortion.”
→ read full articleThe Peace Movement’s Vision – A Universal Call for Peace through the Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Aug 2014
We the Peace Movement are the alternative to militarism and war, and as we want a different world, we must be part of building it. We must not be satisfied with improvements and reform to militarism but rather offer an alternative. Militarism should be outdated and go like hanging and flogging!
→ read full articleUse Malaysia’s MH17 To Make Peace Instead
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
28 Jul 2014
The government of Ukraine as well as the separatists, NATO/U.S. and very many leading Western mainstream media seem all to know who has caused the tragedy.
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Israel and Palestine – A Very Short Introduction
Jewish Voice for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Jul 2014
Easy to understand, historically accurate. Why Israelis and Palestinians are fighting, why the US-backed peace process has been an impediment to peace, and what you can do to make a difference. This conflict is essentially about land and human rights, not religion and culture.
→ read full articleAn appeal to BBC and Mainstream Western Media to End Bias against Palestinians: Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Jul 2014
Collective punishment, the breaking of the Geneva Convention, and the bombing of Palestinian women and children do not deter US President Obama and UN Ambassador Samantha Fox from assuring Israel that it will always be their good friend and support it to the tune of billions for its military and illegal occupation of Palestinian land.
→ read full articleViolence against Children Has Become an Epidemic
Jonathan Power – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
14 Jul 2014
Three Israeli teenagers murdered. One Palestinian boy burnt to death whilst alive. Violence against children is seen as an easy way of cowing a population and as a cheap means of recruiting disposable soldiers. The UN membership must refer errant countries or the movements within them to the International Criminal Court for prosecution.
→ read full articleIf Militarism Continues, Humankind Is Doomed
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
30 Jun 2014
Weapons don’t belong to a market, there is no competition – the state is the only buyer – and thus taxpayers must cover the systematic cost overruns.
→ read full articlePeace Movements’ Common Vision: The Abolition of Militarism
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jun 2014
If our common dream is a world without weapons and militarism, why don’t we say so? Why be silent about it? It would make a world of difference if we refused to be ambivalent about the violence of militarism. We should no longer be scattered attempts to modify the military, each one of us would do our thing as part of a global effort. Across all divisions of national borders, religions, races. We must be an alternative, insisting on an end to militarism and violence.
→ read full articleWhy Obama’s Speech Should Make You Think
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
2 Jun 2014
Obama’s speech can be analysed as both offending to the rest of us and – exceptionally – weak. It caused no enthusiasm among the future army officers he spoke to and no enthusiasm among leading Western media. I will argue that…
→ read full articlePsycho Politics in the Age of Imperial Decline
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
26 May 2014
”Realpolitik” has become a mixture of marketing soundbites, propaganda and leaders making statement that borders on the Theatre of the Absurd. Thinner and thinner links to Real-ity. This is what happens when decline in being denied.
→ read full articleArmaments, Disarmament and International Security – Arms Transfers to Syria
Pieter D. Wezeman - Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI,
12 May 2014
Rebel forces repeatedly called in 2012 for governments supporting their cause to supply them with weapons and other military equipment. As of January 2013 the actual volume of foreign military aid to the rebels is hard to measure.
→ read full articleRecent Trends in Arms Transfers
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 May 2014
SIPRI – 17 March 2014. South Asia and the Gulf lead rising trend in arms imports. Russian exports grow.
→ read full articleUkraine: Stop Escalation and Think Peace
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
12 May 2014
Vladimir Putin’s statements that separatists should not hold referendums on May 11 [2014], that he welcomes the elections in Ukraine on May 25 and that Russia is withdrawing troops from the border with Ukraine should be welcomed. If he has been ”aggressive” and this is a ”turnabout” as many in the West believe, this turnabout is even more welcome.
→ read full articleVeterans Oppose US Troop Deployments near Ukraine
Veterans for Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 May 2014
The veterans are reacting to a decision by the Obama administration to send US troops to Poland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania as the crisis in Ukraine heats up and Russia conducts military exercises on its border with Ukraine.
→ read full articleThe West’s Hypocrisy in Ukraine
Jonathan Power – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
5 May 2014
When it comes to Ukraine the US and the EU are adopting a holier than thou attitude which, unfortunately, leads them not to worship at the altar of truth. Take the issue of the fuss made over alleged soldiers wearing Russian uniforms.
→ read full articleInternational Peace Pilgrimage to Syria via Iran
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Apr 2014
Ann Patterson and I were honoured to participate in the International Peace Pilgrimage to Syria via Iran, 5-14 April, 2014. During an international delegation to Syria last year, we had both promised to return to Syria, and we also fulfilled a long-held intention to visit Iran.
→ read full articleUS Efforts to Curb Freedom of Speech on Israel and Palestine are of Grave Concern
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
I am writing today to express grave concern about a wave of legislative measures in the United States aimed at punishing and intimidating those who speak their conscience and challenge the human rights violations endured by the Palestinian people. Whether used in South Africa, the US South, or India, boycotts have resulted in a transformative change that not only brought freedom and justice to the victims but also peace and reconciliation for the oppressors.
→ read full articlePeace Pilgrimage to Syria and Iran
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Apr 2014
Peace People, N. Ireland delegation Ms. Ann Patterson and Nobel Peace Laureate, Mairead Maguire will join an International delegation visiting Iran and Syria from 4th – 16th April, 2014.
→ read full articleHere Is How We Are Fooled About the Threat of Nuclear Iran
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
31 Mar 2014
What about a solid research report by a world expert documenting that all you’ve heard about Iran going nuclear is based on fake documents? What about evidence that it is Israeli disinformation of world media and political establishments?
→ read full articleKosovo 15 Years Later: A Personal Memory and a Word about Free Research
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
24 Mar 2014
Media with a pro-Western bias usually remind us of Sep/11 based on a victim narrative. We just passed Mar/20 – the 11th anniversary of the war on Iraq. Every year they forget Oct/7 (Afghanistan) and Mar/24, the destruction of Serbia-Kosovo in 1999.
→ read full articleFlight into Egypt
Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Mar 2014
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire and Ann Patterson, from Peace People, agreed to join the International Women’s Delegation to Gaza via Egypt. However, we were not allowed to enter Cairo and held for 8 hours in detention at the airport. We were given no reason for being deported except being told that we were ‘blacklisted’ though no reasons given. Medea Benjamin, founder of Code Pink and leader of the delegation, was also refused entry and after being held for many hours had her arm dislocated by Egyptian police and deported.
→ read full articleCrimea: The Referendum, the Mote and the Beam
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
17 Mar 2014
Generally, citizens-decided conflict-resolution is likely to last longer and help healing wounds of the past than any type of solution imposed by outside actors. In Switzerland citizens go and vote on all kinds of issues on many a Sunday throughout the year.
→ read full articleRevisiting Nuclear Industry Failures on Third Anniversary of Fukushima Disaster
Dr. Rianne Teule, Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Mar 2014
The nuclear industry is trying its hardest to make us forget by downplaying the impacts of the accident, ignoring the fact that the Fukushima reactors are still not under control and claiming that lessons have been learned. Nothing is further from the truth. So business continues as usual and in many countries the same mistakes are being made that played a role in Fukushima.
→ read full articleThe Economic Cost of Violence Containment
Institute for Economics and Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
One of the major challenges in developing policies aimed at increasing peace is the difficulty of being able to accurately gauge the benefits that result from peace. Recognising this, the Institute for Economics and Peace has developed a new and ground breaking methodology to estimate the cost of violence to the global economy, including calculations for 152 countries that detail the costs of thirteen different types of violence.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire Deported from Egypt En Route to Gaza
Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Mar 2014
On 5th March, 2014 Mairead Maguire and Ann Patterson, members of the Peace People, N. Ireland were deported from Egypt as they attempted to enter the country in order to join an international delegation of 100 women wishing to visit Gaza via the Egyptian Rafah Border.
→ read full article“We Don’t See Things As They Are but As We Are”
Jan Oberg – Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
10 Mar 2014
Stop It! Dangerous Reductionism about Ukraine – How can we begin to understand the events in Ukraine? Who are the conflict parties and elements? Here is a quick checklist of 13, just a selection.
→ read full articleUkraine – What Would YOU Like to Know about It?
Jan Oberg - Transnational Foundation for Peace & Future Research,
3 Mar 2014
Like millions of other citizens, I rely on media reports to understand at least some of the very serious developments. Why do I feel so frustrated at what I get? Why do I have so many questions still after weeks of coverage? And how much will fellow-citizens who have just a few minutes per day to acquaint themselves with issues such as this understand (except that Putin is a bad guy)?
→ read full articleSupport Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions-BDS Until Palestinian Right to Self-Determination Is Recognized by Israel
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Mar 2014
We all know the Jewish Narrative, particularly the story of the holocaust, but our sadness for this one of humanity’s greatest acts of inhumanity, should not stop us from speaking out on Israel’s current policy of a ‘silent genocide’ of the Palestinian people, and currently today of the people in Gaza.
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Protect Paradise: An Animation about Palm Oil
Greenpeace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Feb 2014
Palm oil has a dirty secret: forest destruction. Every year, thousands of hectares of Indonesian rainforest and peatlands – some of the most biodiverse regions on the planet – are being destroyed to make way for new palm oil plantations. We don’t have to clear forests for palm oil – solutions exist and some companies are on track to supply clean, responsible palm oil.
→ read full articleDavos: The Shifting Nature of Power and the Shifting Power of Nature
Kumi Naidoo - Greenpeace,
27 Jan 2014
One of the most challenging weeks of my working life starts today [22 Jan 2014]: the week of the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos. Over 2,500 presidents, prime minsters, CEOs, celebrities and academics with a smattering of civil society, will be holed up in a small and posh mountain resort in Switzerland.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Prize Nomination 2014: Mother Agnes Mariam and Mussalaha
The Peace People– TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2014
Press Release 4 Jan. 2014 – Mother Agnes Mariam of the Cross (civil name Fadia Laham) and the Mussalaha Reconciliation Initiative in Syria have been nominated by Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, for the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize.
→ read full articleNobel Peace Laureates’ Statement: Nuclear Abolition Is a Humanitarian Imperative
World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
The 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, meeting in Poland from 21-23 October 2013, adopted a powerful declaration on nuclear abolition as a humanitarian imperative.
→ read full articleMandela and Vanunu – Men of Courage
Mairead Corrigan Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2013
In 1986 Vanunu, the Israeli Nuclear whistle-blower, told the world about Israel’s secret nuclear weapons. For this he served 18 years in an Israeli prison, 12 in solitary confinement, and since his release in 2004 he has been forbidden to leave Israel, speak to foreigners, and is constantly under surveillance.
→ read full articleDealing with the Past in Northern Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Dec 2013
I personally hope we do not choose to have a truth commission, and hope that we can move on as a people and society to a better future. Perhaps in its place we could deploy the resources into training and job creation to give people opportunities for work.
→ read full articleA Visit with Julian Assange—And Some Proposals
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2013
The British and Swedish governments should move to unblock the present impasse on humanitarian grounds so that Julian can be questioned in reference to the Swedish case. And both governments should, regarding the US administration, protect Julian by blocking any retaliation against him thus guaranteeing his human rights.
→ read full articleI Believe There Will Not Be a United Ireland
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Nov 2013
Our peace process will be only as strong and safe as long as we all, particularly our political leaders, refuse to play politics with our volatile emotions, and use rhetoric that can move others to kill, and as long as we together continue to build a nonviolent truly democratic Northern Irish society for every one of us and our children.
→ read full articleWhere Is the Ethical Leadership over Syria?
Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate – Al Jazeera,
4 Nov 2013
It was tragic to see Western politicians who spoke out against military intervention get slammed for somehow being cowardly. Although their effort would not stop the killing outright, to hold back the war designs of their own leaders was a brave act.
→ read full articleSyria: Open Letter to the American People
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Nov 2013
I visited Syria in May 2013. Despite the ongoing violence, I found it to be a land of hope. I met tribal and religious leaders, political dissidents and grieving parents and widows. In Syria there are millions of ordinary folk risking their lives for a peaceful, reconciled and united Syria they can all love.
→ read full articlePeace in Syria
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
XIII World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates, Warsaw, Poland Oct 21-23, 2013 – We pay tribute to the great work of so many of the religious leaders, both Muslim and Christian, and to many in the Syrian civil society who in spite of so much suffering have continued to bravely work for an end to violence and engage in dialogue with everyone.
→ read full articleReplacing Violence, Armed Rebellions, Militarism, and War with Nonviolence and International Law
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Address to the 13th World Summit of Nobel Peace Laureates in Warsaw, Poland, October 21-23, 2013 – Stand in Solidarity for Peace: Time to Act
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Oprah Winfrey Talks with Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace IsTheWay – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2013
Oprah Winfrey talks to Vietnamese Zen Buddhist Monk Thich Nhat Hanh about being nominated to the Nobel Peace Prize by Martin Luther King Jr, the powers of mindfulness, insight, concentration and compassion.
→ read full articleMother Agnes Mariam Attacked…By Human Rights Watch!
Daniel McAdams - Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity,
7 Oct 2013
Peter Bouckaert, “emergencies director” of Human Rights Watch, who is not on the ground in Syria, brushes off Mother Agnes Mariam’s work, stating flatly that “there’s just no basis for the claims, she is not a professional video forensic analyst.” Of course she never claimed to be. What she claimed is to have working eyes, which noticed that several of the purported victims of the attack were seen at different locations at the same time. It does not take a “professional video forensic analyst” to recognize that is impossible.
→ read full articleCitizens Act and Call to Stop Madness of War
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2013
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate, Calls for Americans and world citizens to respond to Pope Francis’ call to fast and pray to stop United States war against Syria.
→ read full articleAny Attack on Syria Will Be Counterproductive and Illegal – A Result of Failed Conflict Management
The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Sep 2013
Any U.S. attack on Syria will be an indisputable violation of international law, an attack on a sovereign state that has not invaded any other state. An aggression on Syria can only take place in complete defiance of Article 1 of the UN Charter which spells out that peace shall be established by peaceful means and only when every civilian means has been tried and found in vain can an international military action be considered – but then only under command of the UN itself.
→ read full articleSyria: No Armaments to Rebels
The Peace People – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Aug 2013
Nobel Peace Laureate Mairead Maguire: “Contrary to some foreign governments’ current policies of arming the rebels and pushing for military intervention, the people of Syria are calling out for peace and reconciliation and a political solution to the crisis, which continues to be inflamed by outside forces with thousands of foreign fighters funded and supported by outside countries for their own political ends.”
→ read full articleObama’s Diplomatic Blunder, the Cowardice of Western Democracies and What Sweden Should Do
Board Members, The Transnational Foundation for Peace and Future Research-TFF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Aug 2013
President Obama’s decision to cancel the meeting with Putin is yet another indicator of Washington’s intellectual weakness and the U.S. empire’s future dissolution. People like Assange, Manning and Snowden should be seen as heroes and treated with respect. Before the Swedish prime minister meets Obama he should announce that Sweden is willing to host Snowden.
→ read full articleUnderstanding Conflict with Prof. Johan Galtung
Asian Study Center for Peace & Conflict Transformation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Nepal is composed of 80% Hindus, whose characteristic is hierarchical caste system, 9% Buddhists who are less caste-oriented and people of more than 100 ethnic groups. They have different living conditions in terms of social organization, access to resources and satisfaction of basic needs. From peace studies point of view, inequalities are the target more than the framework of democracy theory, which otherwise remains empty of content.
→ read full articleSean MacBride Peace Prize 2013 Awarded to US Whistleblower BRADLEY MANNING
International Peace Bureau, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
The International Peace Bureau is delighted to announce that this year’s Sean MacBride Peace Prize is to be awarded to Bradley Manning, the US whistleblower whose case has attracted worldwide attention, for his courageous actions in revealing information about US war crimes.
→ read full articleIndian People’s Charter on Nuclear Energy
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jul 2013
Nuclear energy is today widely seen as posing a threat to the life, livelihoods and the environment, not least because it can have irreversible catastrophic consequences and radiation effects spanning across generations. Chernobyl, followed by the Fukushima nuclear accident in Japan has led to global rethinking on the pursuit of nuclear energy.
→ read full articleCall On President Putin and Russians to Grant Asylum to Edward Snowden
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
Edward Snowden, by revealing the existence and extent of the surveillance by the US government and exposing their spying programme that violates national and international laws, has done a great service to humanity. We can all be grateful to this courageous man of conscience for his personal sacrifice in revealing the secret NSA spying programmes. 55 percent of US citizens support his action.
→ read full articleCNDP Statement on Koodankulam Reaching Criticality
Coalition for Nuclear Disarmament and Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2013
The Koodankulam reactor was made critical despite the massive and sustained peaceful popular protests against the plant, and despite numerous warnings by nuclear experts, including former AERB chairman A Gopalakrishnan, about the plant’s vulnerability to hazards and the use of substandard equipment supplied by Russian company Zio-Podolsk. This is profoundly anti-democratic and totally unacceptable.
→ read full articleActing, Gaming, Simulating for Peace
Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Jul 2013
Who says that violence is cooler and more fun than peace? Sure, with all the violence glorified in movies, TV shows, and video games, by toy guns and action hero dolls it’s easy to see how violence has been made more attractive and why it’s the “easy” alternative to use in case of conflict. But there is actually a growing body of games and activities for peace, whether they are a fun alternative to violent games or teach concrete peacebuilding skills.
→ read full articleWorldwide Honey Bee Collapse: A Lesson in Ecology
Rex Weyler, EcoWatch - Greenpeace,
17 Jun 2013
Scientists know that bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and so forth. The causes of collapse merge and synergize, but we know that humanity is the perpetrator, and that the two most prominent causes appear to be pesticides and habitat loss.
→ read full articleGreek Solidarity with Struggling Turks
Vasilis Migkos, Peace Is Sexy – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2013
An update on the Greek reaction to the Turkish upheaval, describing how these traditional rivals are now supporting each other.
→ read full articleWorld Nuclear Forces—Reductions and Modernization Continue
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Jun 2013
3 June 2013 – At the start of 2013 eight states—the United States, Russia, the United Kingdom, France, China, India, Pakistan and Israel—possessed approximately 4400 operational nuclear weapons. Nearly 2000 of these are kept in a state of high operational alert. If all nuclear warheads are counted, these states together possess a total of approximately 17 265 nuclear weapons.
→ read full articleListen to All Syrian Voices
Susan Dirgham, Peace x Peace – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2013
One Catholic priest was quoted as saying “The Syrian war is not a crisis between Muslims and Christians or Muslims and other Muslims and it’s not a Syrian civil war from and for Syrians.. This is a war imported from outside and we have traitors who have sold themselves to outsiders for a bit of money.”
→ read full articleDinner in the Land of Black and White
Bridget Conley – World Peace Foundation,
29 Apr 2013
22 Apr 2013 – The coincidence of two news items about Burma/Myanmar today demand brief commentary: 1) International Crisis Group is honoring President U Thein Sein at its annual dinner, and 2) Human Rights Watch released a damning report about assaults against Burma’s Rohingya minority.
→ read full article40 Years
GreenpeaceVideo – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Apr 2013
Some friends made this video for us for our 40th anniversary… [in 2011]. Funny and to the point.
→ read full articleWhere’s the Money? World Military Expenditure in 2012
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Stockholm, 15 April 2013 – World military expenditure totalled $1.75 trillion in 2012, according to figures released today by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute-SIPRI.
→ read full articleMap of the 15 Countries with the Highest Military Expenditure in 2012
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Apr 2013
Recent Trends in Military Expenditure – Click on the map to view information on the top 15 military expenditure spenders for 2012.
→ read full articleBurma/Myanmar: Its Conflicts, Western Advocacy, and Country Impact
Maung Zarni – World Peace Foundation,
8 Apr 2013
Burma’s conflicts are neither new nor are they singular. Conflicts along multiple-lines – class and ideology, civil society and the military, and ethnic groups– have been going on for nearly 65 years, that is, since Burma’s independence from Britain in 1947/1948.
→ read full articleSyria: The Failure of Our So-Called International Community
Desmond Tutu, 1984 Nobel Peace Laureate – The Guardian,
1 Apr 2013
How can the country be abandoned in its hour of need? Power plays have taken priority over the terrible suffering of Syrians. The massacre in Syria rages on and yet we stand idle. We must realise that, to millions of Syrians trapped in the country, the virtual absence of humanitarian relief is nearly as arbitrary and cruel as the war itself.
→ read full articleTranscend Peace University Online Courses
Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Peace University,
4 Mar 2013
All-online courses on peace, conflict transformation, mediation, peace education, nonviolence and more. TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the academic year 2013: Certificate Online Courses – First Term of 2013: March 12th – May 30th
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Erika Degortes – TRANSCEND Peace University,
25 Feb 2013
All-online courses on peace, conflict transformation, mediation, peace education, nonviolence and more. TRANSCEND Peace University (TPU) is pleased to announce its call for applications for the academic year 2013: Certificate Online Courses – First Term of 2013: March 12th – May 30th
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