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The twentieth century has been marked by several genocidal enterprises. In 1899-1902, the United States was closely associated with the genocide of 3 million people in the Philippines[1]. In 1907, King Leopold of Belgium led an army that killed over…

The Jewish Voice for Peace Facebook page describes the invasion of the Statue of Liberty in New York by hundreds of activists to demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza: 500 Jews and allies took over the Statue of Liberty, disrupting…

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 following excerpt is from an article in Haaretz, one of Israel’s most widely-read mainstream newspapers. It was written by Dmitry Shumsky and published on Oct 11, 2023. The piece has been followed almost daily by a series of articles…

Everything comes and goes Everything is transitory and provisional In this temporal time and space, we all live in.   But there are some things that come That transcends this time and space That come from the sacred, from that…

The Colombian Campaign Against Mines (CCCM), carries out Humanitarian Demining through activities that lead to the elimination of threats by Explosive Artifacts (EA) in the municipalities of Mutatá, Dabeiba, Murindó and Turbo, located in the west of the country, in…

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…

These are moments of deep reflection, in the face of what’s happening in Israel and in the world. I feel a profound sadness for what I perceive as a clearly misguided direction in how events are unfolding and how difficulties…

On the night of the October 7, 2023 attack in Southern Israel, I was staying overnight at my nephew’s place in Saint Petersburg, in the apartment I had grown up in, prior to emigrating from the Soviet Union over fifty…

On Thursday 26 October 2023, Juan Eduardo Pérez died. Every departure, even if it is inevitable and known, reminds us that we are not enchained to this time and space. Every definitive departure leads us to question ourselves about this…