Peace and Disarmament

The theme of this year’s convention is Choose Peace: Stand Up! Speak Out! Registration Keynote Speakers Clare Daly (MEP) Irish politician who has been a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) from Ireland for the Dublin constituency since July 2019. Jeffrey…

August 15 [2023], a judge in Kiev found Yurii Sheliazhenko “guilty” of having fought against the war and sentenced him. Yurii Sheliazhenko is a Gandhian pacifist and university researcher. For a year he had been spied on by the Ukrainian…

A new chapter in the court case involving Yurii Sheliazhenko, the Ukrainian pacifist leader accused of “justifying the Russian war of aggression,” in essence of being a “friend of Putin [is starting].” On Monday, Aug. 14 [,2023], he was due…

Mr. Gabriel Boric Font President of the Republic of Chile Dear Mr. Gabriel Boric Font President of the Republic of Chile Dear Mr. President 78 years ago, on 6 August, in the context of the Second World War, the United…

Throughout three days of virtual panels, training, and discussion sessions, #NoWar2023 will make the case for the efficacy of nonviolent resistance as a tool for conflict resolution, highlighting case studies from around the world of unarmed civilian based defense against…

Hiroshima not only cries out for remembrance, it is an August 6th that seeks a coherent and courageous response from the future, it is a milestone that not only needs to be resolved in human rights theory, not only in…

7 August 2023, El Espectador This is a difficult moment for the government and for Colombia. Difficult for the president’s family and for the human being who wields power. Institutionalism will be key for democracy to endure without dying in…

The wave of international solidarity continues with the Ukrainian pacifist Yurii Sheliazhenko, unjustly accused by his country’s services of activities against the Ukrainian state and from whom work tools and important documents have been confiscated. Solidarity that has seen, from…

27 July 2023. The Korean Peace Appeal Campaign hosted an international symposium in Seoul city at the International Conference Hall of Seoul Global Center on “From Armistice to Peace: 70th Year of the Korean War Armistice”. It was held in…

We speak with Ukrainian peace activist Yurii Sheliazhenko, whom Ukrainian authorities have charged with justifying Russian aggression, days after his Kyiv apartment was raided and searched. Sheliazhenko is executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement and has vocally opposed any…