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There is a great opportunity coming up to build the peace movement by supporting or creating anew a powerful local event on the International Day of Peace. We’ve got all the resources you could want — and if something is missing, let us know!
– David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
Upcoming Events
Visit WBW’s Global Events Calendar to find events and add your own events!
International Day of Peace (September 21)
September 21 is the International Day of Peace, first celebrated in 1982 and recognized annually by many nations and organizations, including day-long pauses in wars that reveal how easy it would be to have year-long or forever-long pauses in wars. This is a good day on which to work for permanent peace and to remember the victims of war. We’ve collected events you can join, and resources you can use to support those events or to organize new ones.
#NoWar2025 Exploring Abolition Movements (October 24-26)
How do we move towards a world without wars, weapons, police, prisons, the death penalty, and borders? How can we work towards our collective liberation, recognizing that oppressions are interconnected? Come to #NoWar2025 to explore how we can join in solidarity across movements and borders to abolish these interwoven systems and build a world based on common security — “no one is safe until all are safe.”
More Upcoming Events:
- Book Club: Our Journey from Afghanistan – Weekly in September. Register. (4 spots left)
- Book Club: Nuclear Abolition: A Scenario – Weekly in October. Register. (3 spots left)
Webinar Recordings:
- Recording: Africom and Human Rights in Africa
- Recording: Launch of Our Damning New Report in Canada
- Recording: 2025 War Abolisher Awards went to Nader, Waters, Albanese
Poetry Corner
How to Prevent Nuclear War
Online Actions
Declare Neutrality and Help Prevent a U.S.-China War
News from Around the World
If Humans Were As Evil As We’re Usually Told, We’d Be Extinct
Everything you’ve been told about Hurricane Katrina, the Lord of the Flies, the Stanford prison experiment, the Milgram experiment, Easter Island, the “Tragedy of the Commons,” Kitty Genovese, broken windows, and ancient humans is a lie suggesting that people are evil — the same kind, decent people you know and are.
More Articles from Around the Globe:
WORLD
- US-Russia Talks: the Choice Between Peace and Escalation
- Peace is Possible – “Why Do Some People Look at NATO as a Threat?” with Alice Slater
- OPEN LETTER: Presidents Trump and Putin Must Seize the Moment in Alaska
- ODVV interview: Reclaiming Peace in a World at War: A Conversation with David Swanson
- Solidarity and Joint Actions of Civil Society Movements in the U.S. for a Nuclear Free World
EUROPE
- Ukrainian Friend Tells BBC of Conscientious Objection Difficulties
- Ukraine: WE TOLD YOU SO
- Poll: 69% of Ukrainians Want Negotiated End to War as Soon as Possible
ASIA
- Eleven Opportunities for Australia
- Resisting the Silencing of Voices of Peace in Hiroshima
- Watermelons in the Rain: Australians March for End to Genocide in Palestine
- Open Letter to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese MP from Australian Former Diplomats
AMERICAS
- OPEN LETTER to Journalists on the Vast Undercount of Deaths & Serious Injuries in Gaza
- Talk World Radio: A Victory for Students for Justice in Palestine
- Reap What You Sow, Don’t Lose Heart: A Review
Accepting Written & Visual Submissions
The Sahira Collective is pleased to announce that we’re hosting a collaborative mini-issue with World BEYOND War. This will be an opportunity for writers, artists, and other creatives to present their works — to display the meaning of home, especially when it has been overpowered, or distorted, by war. LEARN MORE.
