Ukraine: An Opportunity For Peace
The war in Ukraine is both a wake up call about the folly of war and rare opportunity to move toward a more peaceful world.
The war in Ukraine is both a wake up call about the folly of war and rare opportunity to move toward a more peaceful world.
Ever since the Russian government started its attack on Ukraine on the 24th of February, large numbers of people have gathered on streets in Russia, Europe, the U.S., Japan, and other regions of the world to show their solidarity with the people of Ukraine and demand that Russia withdraw its forces.
Watch World BEYOND War’s David Swanson speak on ‘How to Think About Ukraine’ in an event in Washington, D.C.
The Centre for Humanist Studies “Exemplary Actions” is disseminating a non-violent proposal for the restoration of peace in Ukraine, inviting citizens and non-governmental organisations who identify with it to sign it and send it to the Russian, Ukrainian and American embassies alongside other organizations in order to produce a popular outcry capable of influencing the course of events.
Speaking in Kyiv under Russian bombardment, Yurii Sheliazhenko explains how a perspective of nonviolent global governance in a future world without armies and borders will help to deescalate Russia-Ukraine and East-West conflict threatening nuclear apocalypse.
Weapons won’t bring stability – they will fuel further destruction and death. The EU must back diplomacy, demilitarisation and peace.
In light of the recent events in Ukraine, here are important things to know and do about their current situation.
In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Joe Biden praised unarmed Ukrainians stopping tanks. He did not praise them enough. Nonviolent resistance to oppression, occupation, and invasion is more likely to succeed than violent; the successes tend to be longer lasting; and — added benefit — the chance of nuclear war is decreased rather than increased.
The damning evidence in the latest #IPCC report highlights so much more than further proof of a planet in collapse. It says definitively in a time of grotesque border & energy imperialism, supremacy & capitalism that a working class internationalism is the only path to survival.