Peace and Disarmament

This morning, Tal Mitnick (18), the first enlistment refuser since the beginning of the war in Gaza, was exempted from military service. Beginning in December 2023, Mitnick was imprisoned for a total of 185 days in 6 consecutive sentences and…

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection, War Resisters’ International (WRI), the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), and Connection e.V.  condemn the 12-year prison sentence and a fine of 170,000 Euros imposed on EBCO board member Olga Karach in her recent trial in Belarus.    On July 8,…

The 4th Aswan Forum for Sustainable Peace and Development will open in Cairo on 2 July under “Africa in a Changing World: Reimagining Global Governance for Peace and Development”. This year’s edition takes place during great turbulence, marked by geopolitical…

We interviewed Wilfredo Alfsen of World Without Wars Chile. A key and historic figure in the humanist movement in our country, he is currently part of the organization of the Third World March for Peace and Nonviolence, which will leave…

The basic idea of divestment is simple: Stop investing in corporations or other entities that are doing harm. Almost every day this spring, students used their graduation ceremonies as a platform to demand their universities and colleges divest from genocide…

July 4—We, the undersigned, welcome the renewed peace initiative of the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin, as currently presented in his speech at the Russian Foreign Ministry on June 14, 2024. We urge the commencement of a diplomatic…

For activists Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah, reviving a joint peace effort that learns from past obstacles is ‘the biggest antidote to extremism.’ By Oren Ziv Maoz Inon and Aziz Abu Sarah are an unlikely pair. Inon, 49, is…

We are former U.S. Government Officials who resigned from our respective positions over the last nine months due to our grave concerns with current U.S. policy towards the crisis in Gaza, and U.S. policies and practices towards Palestine and Israel…

After NATO’s catastrophic, illegal invasions of Yugoslavia, Libya and Afghanistan, on July 9th NATO plans to invade Washington DC. The good news is that it only plans to occupy Washington for three days. The British will not burn down the…

Celebration of the 70th anniversary of the “Five Principles of Nonviolent Coexistence Seven decades ago, the “Five Principles of Nonviolent Coexistence” were coined. Zhou Enlai, then Premier of the young People’s Republic of China, first proposed them at the Bangdu…