Peace and Disarmament

By Andrea Needham for Waging Nonviolence In January 1996, I was one of 10 women who carried out a Ploughshares action in England, disarming a Hawk attack aircraft at a British Aerospace factory in Lancashire. The Hawk was about to…

At some point between the NPT Review Conference in May and the general debate of First Committee, the United States decided to rebrand its preferred “step-by-step approach” to nuclear disarmament as the “full-spectrum approach”. Like before, it contrasts this approach…

The United States Air Force has scheduled a launch of a Minuteman III Intercontinental Ballistic Missile for the early morning hours of October 21. This will be the fifth test of a Minuteman III ICBM in 2015. The target of…

  Nuclear Deterrence An Ethical Perspective A new publication from the Caritas in Veritate Foundation  The Caritas in Veritate Foundation is pleased to present our sixth working paper, wherein we explore the ethics of nuclear weapon possession and examine, in…

President Obama’s decision to prolong the U.S. led war in Afghanistan only ensures U.S. responsibility for more death and destruction. Veterans For Peace condemns the decision and calls on the U.S. public to say no to more war. Today, President…

There’s a view of Syria, common even among peace activists in the United States, that holds that because the United States has been making everything worse in Syria and the entire Middle East for years, Russian bombs will make things…

The general debate of the UN General Assembly’s First Committee began last week and will continue until the end of this week. Many governments have already made strong calls for a treaty banning nuclear weapons. Below are some of the…

When Peace Activists Met With the U.S. Institute of Peace By David Swanson http://worldbeyondwar.org/when-peace-activists-met-with-the-u-s-institute-of-peace/ I was part of a debate on Tuesday that involved a larger disagreement than any exhibited at the Democratic presidential candidates debate that evening. A group…

To mark the occasion of the visit by NATO Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg, to the Balkan country, the Montenegro Peace Movement will hold a protest on Wednesday 14th October at 17:00 hours at the intersection between Belgrade Street and Risto…

The 2015 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the National Dialogue Quartet of Tunisian NGOs who in 2013, when the country was on the brink of civil war, provided for negotiations among socio-political factions leading to more inclusive and…