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.
One way to negotiate peace would be for Ukraine to offer to meet all of Russia’s demands and, ideally, more, while making demands of its own for reparations and disarmament.
The latest from peace activists about the current moment. How are we organizing to end the war between Ukraine and Russia?
Weapons won’t bring stability – they will fuel further destruction and death. The EU must back diplomacy, demilitarisation and peace.
Western commentators who rush to condemn Putin’s nuclear madness would do well to remember Western nuclear madness of the past, argues Milan Rai.
The most important task of foreign and defence policy is to reduce threats to one’s own country in a way that creates security in all countries through diplomacy and cooperation on equal terms.
In this wide-ranging conversation, Malalai Joya takes us through the trauma that has engulfed her country from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the rise of the first Taliban regime in 1996 through to the 2001 US-led invasion and the Taliban’s subsequent return in 2021.
In April 1941, four years before he was to become President and eight months before the United States entered World War II, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri reacted to the news that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union: “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.”
