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What if it’s your turn? What if you’ve drawn the short string this year? What if you can either vote Yes or anger your party’s “leader”? #WorldBEYONDWar

What if it’s your turn? What if you’ve drawn the short string this year? What if you can either vote Yes or anger your party’s “leader”? #WorldBEYONDWar

By Marc Eliot Stein, October 28, 2026, World BEYOND War On Episode 89 of the World BEYOND War podcast, we invited Bridget Conley, Research Director

In looking at the full picture of war, we see the transformation of borders into war zones as one part of the war problem. #WorldBEYONDWar

“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

To our great credit, the current war on Iran is less popular faster than wars of the past. #WorldBEYONDWar

War Is Still A Lie is an updated third edition of War Is A Lie and includes a new 90-page investigation of how lies about wars have changed. #WorldBEYONDWar

What participants valued — and what we learned — from World BEYOND War’s 2026 Unarmed Civilian Defense online course. #WorldBEYONDWar

A WBW online course exercise moved unarmed civilian defense from concept to decision-making under pressure. #WorldBEYONDWar

While U.S. leaders are finally realizing that they do not have the power to intimidate and conquer the whole world, the American people are gradually understanding that we have an even greater power. #WorldBEYONDWar