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The World, Including the Asia Pacific, Continues its Quest for Peace and Non-violence

The Third World March for Peace and Non-violence Who wouldn’t dream and hope for wars to end? For nuclear weapons to be finally abolished and eliminated? For conflicts to be resolved without resorting to wars, killings, acts of terror, and…

The stubbornness of war

One of the decisions one must make when living in Colombia is not to throw oneself into the arms and embers of fear. Fear is a bad emotional business, in which one can easily feel a little dead, walking on…

The last session of the Nonviolent Journalism workshop in Cerrillos, Santiago de Chile

This Saturday we held the no-end session of the Nonviolent Journalism Workshop (PNV) in the Central Bookshop of the Cerrillos district (Santiago de Chile). This workshop was an abbreviated version of the international online workshop that concluded on November 25th.…

Creating Safe Spaces for Tri-peoples’ Dialogue in Mindanao, Philippines

by Ma. Teresa “Marites” Guingona-Africa, Ph.D.   Dec. 3, 2023, Sunday. ISIS forces detonated an explosive device on a large group of Christians attending Sunday Mass service at the gym of the Mindanao State University in Marawi. The explosion ripped…

25N, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

This November 25, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, hundreds of women marched in Quito denouncing violence against women throughout the country, while demanding the implementation of consistent policies.          

Open Letter from a Ukrainian Facing Prison for Speaking for Peace

Greetings from Kyiv. Yesterday my city was disturbed again by air raid sirens, so I ran from Vernadsky scientific library to hide in the closest shelter,  a subway station. Ruthless Russian aggression against Ukraine continues, as well as the Ukrainian…

A joint Jewish-Arab declaration for peace

We – movements, organizations and activists, Jews and Arabs – write these words out of heavy mourning for the thousands of people killed in recent weeks, and out of terrible anxiety for the safety of the abducted and those who…

Latin America in front of the Palestinian Genocide

“It is not acceptable that the millions of people around the world who oppose the genocide and dispossession of the Palestinian people are powerless to stop the genocide. We can demand that the governments of Latin American countries withdraw their…

Ecuador: Nonviolent October 2023 comes to an end.

I want to live without fear, that’s why I build Nonviolence! This was the message that resounded for a month in multiple activities of the Nonviolent October, promoted in its twelfth year by the humanist collective “Espacio No Violento” and…

The Propaganda of Violence in Full Motion

We are living in what feels like a full-action reality show, jumping from conflict to conflict. News coverage is 24/7, with crises from Iraq to Ukraine and now Israel and Palestine. Some media are already working on the next conflict…

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