NO MORE WAR IN EUROPE An Appeal for Civic Action in Europe and Beyond
In response to the growing threat of a new war in Ukraine an international movement for peace and human rights is forming. In collaboration with European Alternatives and the Washington-based Foreign Policy in Focus we are pleased to host this international appeal to recover the spirit of the Helsinki Accords.
What the Cuban Missile Crisis can Teach Us about today’s Ukraine Crisis
Commentators on the current Ukraine crisis have sometimes compared it to the Cuban missile crisis. This is a good comparison―and not only because they both involve a dangerous US-Russian confrontation capable of leading to a nuclear war.
VIDEO: Ukraine: The Next NATO War?
What’s going on in Ukraine? Why are Russian troops at the border? What’s it got to do with NATO? Peace movements across Europe are addressing these questions, engaging with peace activists in Ukraine and beyond to work for a sustainable peace.
Volunteer Spotlight: Sean Reynolds
The February 2022 Volunteer Spotlight features Sean Reynolds, a former co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence who is currently volunteering with the WBW events team.
Wave of Coups Disrupts Africa as U.S.-Trained Soldiers Play Key Role in Overthrowing Governments
The African Union is condemning a wave of coups in Africa, where military forces have seized power over the past 18 months in Mali, Chad, Guinea, Sudan and, most recently, in January, Burkina Faso. Several were led by U.S.-trained officers as part of a growing U.S. military presence in the region under the guise of counterterrorism.
Memo to Congress: Diplomacy for Ukraine Is Spelled M-i-n-s-k
If the U.S. government wants to play a constructive role in Ukraine, it should genuinely support this already existing framework for a solution to the crisis, and end the heavy-handed U.S. intervention that has only undermined and delayed its implementation.
Fly the Earth Flag Above National Flags
This could be done in any locality that is located on the Planet Earth.
VIDEO: Interview: Ukrainian Pacifist Movement Leader
Watch this video with a World BEYOND War Board Member from Ukraine.
What Your Belief in War Against Putin Owes to Male Violence Even If You’re Not Male
Your belief in the need to stand up to Vladimir Putin by threatening war on a distant country full of men, women, and children, owes a great deal to a toxic idea of masculinity that women are largely buying into as the new femininity as well.
WBW News & Action: The Power of Neutrality
Read our Email Newsletter from February 7, 2022.
The Warmongers Miscalculated
What if they only consulted the same geniuses who told them to value the filibuster and bipartisan harmony over the lives of struggling people?
Many Ukrainians Want Peace, Not War, With Russia
As the United States escalates the conflict with Russia over Ukraine and NATO expansion, what do Ukrainians want?
US Makes Putin Offer He Can Hardly Refuse
Washington’s response to Russia’s December security proposals augurs well for an eventual peaceful denouement on Ukraine.
Smedley Butler Wasn’t Kidding
I’ve been looking at Smedley a little differently after reading Jonathan Katz’s new book, Gangsters of Capitalism.
NU Dissenters: Northwestern is Complicit in U.S. Militarism. We Call An End To It.
Militarism has infiltrated the world, but we are the generation who can remedy the harm it has inflicted. We can liberate us all.
Why Ukraine Needs the Kellogg-Briand Pact
In 1929, Russia and China proposed to go to war. Governments around the world pointed out that they’d just signed and ratified the Kellogg-Briand Pact banning all war. Russia withdrew. Peace was made.
VIDEO: Ukraine Crisis Webinar: Peace Activists and Experts Gather
Worth watching this video.
An International Neutrality Project Launches
Peace organisations and individuals in all regions of the world are invited to participate in this campaign either in cooperation with Veterans Global Peace Network or separately and should feel free to adopt or adapt the suggestions in this document.
Talk World Radio: Julian Assange Warned Us What Was Coming
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking about the saga of Julian Assange with Richard Hillgrove who was hired by Assange in 2018 to lobby British MPs for his release, and worked for him until September 2020.
Statement by the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement
The people of our country and the entire planet are in mortal danger due to the nuclear confrontation between the civilizations of East and West.
AUDIO: Peace Witness – Liz Chats With Leah Bolger – President Of World BEYOND War
Liz Chats With Leah Bolger, President Of World BEYOND War.
VIDEO: Webinar: Reinvest in a Just World
This exciting conversation connects the dots between the anti-war and climate justice movements, and shares exciting efforts in the reinvestment space towards creating a just, green, and peaceful future.
100 Organizations Tell Biden: Stop Escalating Ukraine Crisis
100 U.S. Organizations Release Statement Urging Biden “to End the U.S. Role in Escalating” the Ukraine Crisis
Blackwater is in the Donbas with the Azov Battalion
In addition to the US-NATO military investments in Ukraine, there is the $ 10 billion investment foreseen by the plan that is being carried out by Erik Prince.
Activists Run Ad Remembering “The Man Who Saved The World” (From Nuclear War)
On January 30th, a full-page ad was published in the newspaper of record, the Kitsap Sun, speaking to military personnel at Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor as well as the population at large.
What if the Seven Habits of Highly Effective People Were Applied to Nations?
If those habits make for effective people, and effective corporations, can’t they also make for effective societies and even countries? Can these 7 Habits be part of a framework for a peaceful world?
Montréal Peacemakers Rally in Front of U.S. Embassy
Saturday January 22nd was a cold day in Montreal, but the sun was shining and downtown streets were nevertheless bustling with various masked and parka-clad locals out for a stroll.
Are Canada’s Armed Forces Too Small?
The Toronto Star published this debate. World BEYOND War is republishing an excerpt.
United States Is Reaping What It Sowed in Ukraine
So what are Americans to believe about the rising tensions over Ukraine?
Nobel Peace Prize Watch Publishes List of Nominations
NPPW hereby presents its list of nominations for the 2022 Nobel Prize “for the champions of peace”.
