Creating a Culture of Peace
A culture of peace depends on the dealing with the “climate of thought” that allows politicians and everyone else to prepare for and carry out massive violence.
A culture of peace depends on the dealing with the “climate of thought” that allows politicians and everyone else to prepare for and carry out massive violence.
Modern societies are often guided by a set of beliefs about conflict that are at best unquestioned myths. These need to be widely challenged.
Regardless of one’s faith tradition, rejection of institutional religion, spiritual direction or complete atheism, the work by peaceful religious initiatives is encouraging and should be further encouraged.
Huge public campaigns/movements have a way of bringing people’s attention to questions they have not been focused on.
(This is the conclusion of the World Beyond War white paper A Global Security System: An Alternative to War.) War is always a choice and
If U.S. television and politicians started saying that Saudi Arabia should be bombed because it kills and tortures innocent people, within a week many millions
By John Reuwer, MD, Adjunct Professor, Conflict Resolution, Saint Michael’s College As a student and teacher of nonviolent action, I was disheartened last week to
By David Swanson Foreword to America’s Oldest Professions: Warring and Spying (available in Kindle version free this week.) One of the ways in which we
