Abolition Is the Way
When you believe in things that you don’t understand
You support war.
Abolition is the way.
When you believe in things that you don’t understand
You support war.
Abolition is the way.
Japan’s Prince Iyesato Tokugawa ought perhaps to be of more interest to us right now than a Japanese princess currently marrying a “commoner,” or Hollywood movies so focused on the violent moments in history that they’ve now got actors shooting cinematographers.
By Marc Eliot Stein, October 15, 2021 On October 6, 2021, World BEYOND War presented the first War Abolisher awards to Peace Boat, Mel Duncan
The Nobel Committee has yet again awarded a peace prize that violates the will of Alfred Nobel and the purpose for which the prize was created, selecting recipients who blatantly are not “the person who has done the most or best to advance fellowship among nations, the abolition or reduction of standing armies, and the establishment and promotion of peace congresses.”
Most accounts of life in, say, Nazi Germany in the late 1930s or Rwanda in the early months of 1994—each a place and time when preparation for war and mass violence had begun to alter the granularity of the everyday—paint an image of large-scale conflict as totalizing.
Prominent London-based international magazine “The Economist” published an article entitled “Call me maybe” (on their website, “The military draft is making a comeback”).
Kabul Killing of Afghan family, including 3 adults and 7 children, by U.S. Drone Last Month will be Memorialized
At this year’s Kateri Peace Conference, held online on September 18, 2021, our speakers and our community gathered to look clearly at the present crisis yet also to the future and to explore realistic and hopeful solutions.
Ernst Friedrich, the founder of the Anti-War Museum in Berlin, was born on February 25th 1894 in Breslau. Already in his early years he was engaged in the proletarian youth movement.
