Category: Culture of Peace

One Down! Abolishing Dueling and Warmaking

According to an 1838 U.S.-published instruction manual for dueling, the practice of dueling was going to last “as long as a manly independence, and a lofty personal pride in all that dignifies and ennobles the human character, shall continue to exist.” #WorldBEYONDWar

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Khawaja Hammad Akbar in Shanghai, China

Podcast: Beyond Borders with Khawaja Hammad Akbar (#NoWar2026 Preview)

“Beyond Borders” is the theme of World BEYOND War’s #NoWar2026 online conference next month. To preview this conference, I spoke with Khawaja Hammad Akbar, a peace builder in Pakistan who will be leading a panel on case studies of militarized borders and demilitarized zones with speakers from Korea, Gaza and the US/Mexico border. #WorldBEYONDWar

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Two creepy looking pantaloon characters from the opera "The Barber of Seville"

Podcast: Militarism and the Art of Slander

Marc Eliot Stein talks about the huge manufactured lies and slanders that progressives and peace activists constantly struggle to expose. The art of manufacturing a vicious lie was satirized by a song in the popular 1815 Italian opera “The Barber of Seville” that provides some historical perspective to the agonies we face today. #WorldBEYONDWar

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