We Need to Talk about How to End War for Good
I recently asked my first-year humanities classes: Will war ever end?
I recently asked my first-year humanities classes: Will war ever end?
How the United States and its NATO allies act now and in the coming months will be crucial in determining whether Ukraine is destroyed by years of war or whether this war ends quickly through a diplomatic process.
Russia’s criminal invasion of Ukraine has brought the dangerous possibility of nuclear war into renewed focus.
In an effort to strengthen the recently announced temporary truce and further incentivize Saudi Arabia to stay at the negotiation table, nearly 70 national organizations wrote and urged Congress “to cosponsor and publicly support Representatives Jayapal and DeFazio’s forthcoming War Powers Resolution to end U.S. military participation in the Saudi-led coalition’s war on Yemen.
The worst problem is a phony one. That is to say, numerous parties are using the cause of prosecuting Vladimir Putin for “war crimes” as yet another excuse to avoid ending the war.
New Zealand is risking its independent, nuclear-free credentials by following Nato into its conflict with Russia.
Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead bodies lying in the street. But the United States and its allies have waged war in country after country for decades, carving swathes of destruction through cities, towns and villages on a far greater scale than has so far disfigured Ukraine.
As the conflict in Ukraine rages on, we, the peace-loving people of the world, must raise our voices to demand a ceasefire and a negotiated settlement.
Interview conducted by International Peace Bureau’s Reiner Braun with Oleg Bodrov and Yurii Sheliazhenko on April 5, 2022.
