VIDEO: What Can Canada Learn from Costa Rica’s Path to Demilitarization?
This panel discussion followed a screening of the award-winning documentary “A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path to Demilitarization.”
This panel discussion followed a screening of the award-winning documentary “A Bold Peace: Costa Rica’s Path to Demilitarization.”
On September 4th, 2022, activists from World BEYOND War, No New Fighter Jets Coalition, Independent Jewish Voices, Defund the Police Fund Our Communities, Canadian Defenders for Human Rights, and more gathered in downtown Toronto to protest the Toronto Airshow.
On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, 1 PM ET, World BEYOND War co-hosted and participated in a panel and Q and A on Canada’s proposed armed drone purchase.
Despite promises made during the Clinton administration, the base remains fully operational and continues to threaten the security of local populations.
On August 3, 2022, two Montreal activists, Dimitri Lascaris and Laurel Thompson, disrupted a public-relations presentation by Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly and her German homologue Annalena Baerbock. The disrupters spoke out against Joly and Baerbock’s support for NATO expansionism and increased military spending.
A policy of healing rather than warfighting has never been seriously considered, articulated, or deployed in any manner by this country.
For years I’ve appreciated the Global Peace Index (GPI), and interviewed the people who make it, but quibbled with exactly what it does.
Laurel Thompson recently attended Canada’s largest defense industry trade show CANSEC. What she saw left her with questions for those who work in the industry.
Humanitarian crises and violent conflicts take place in an interlinked, multidimensional context. Killian McCormack and Emily Gilbert challenge the idea that humanitarianism is a neutral endeavor and instead aim to reveal the “violent geographies produced through militarized humanitarianism.”