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Ukraine: planting seeds of peace and social cohesion despite war

An interesting and unedited report on the situation in Ukraine was published on July 10 in the Vatican News press agency, which reveals news not disseminated by the Italian press. We offer you a summary. In Ukraine, after having been…

More than 70 countries pledge to strengthen the right to free education

Statement at the UN supports free education from pre-school to secondary school level This week at the United Nations Human Rights Council, more than 70 countries from all regions of the world expressed their support for “efforts to strengthen the…

Humanists demand an end to repression in Jujuy and the release of Milagro Sala

In a document addressed to the international community, various humanist expressions denounced the repression unleashed by the government of Gerardo Morales in the Argentinean province of Jujuy against the non-violent protest of education workers, indigenous peoples, social and trade union…

Militarism is the elephant in the climate room

A subjective report of the International Peace Conference for Ukraine in Vienna. There was the elephant on the stage when several hundred committed peace fighters and human rights defenders – of which at least half were women [including] a notable…

War Objection Campaign: a step forward

Good news from Lithuania for the Belarusian objector: Vitali is free again as of today, pending appeal. Dvarashyn Vitali, the Belarusian conscientious objector who had been locked up in the Lithuanian refugee camp in Vilnius due to the revocation of…

Simultaneous social and personal transformation, historical view of violence, The Counterculture of violence = The Culture of Nonviolence = The Culture of Consciousness

Intervention by Philippe Moal (Observatory of Nonviolence) Good afternoon, everyone, I would like to thank Multimages, the organisers of the Book Festival for Peace and Nonviolence and its participants, as well as the guests with whom I am sharing this…

Deconstructing the myth of violence. An investigation of the effectiveness of civil resistance

At a time when not only has war returned even to Europe, but bellicism – that is, the ideology of war – has taken on an unprecedented media and political centrality in our country’s [i.e. Italy’s] republican history, the Italian…

The Exercise of the Charism of Infallibility Is Here and Now a Mandatum of Christlike Love: Infallibility and War

No one inside or outside the Catholic Church can reasonably call into question the good intentions of Popes who have denounced war on the world stage and who have proclaimed in encyclicals and pastoral letters the evils and destruction of war, and who…

Let’s Stand with Peace, and Shame on Peace Deniers

Speeches of Dr. Yurii Sheliazhenko at the International Summit for Peace in Ukraine A speech on the plenary “Civil Society Movement and Peace Voices against the War from Russia and Ukraine” Dear friends, greetings from Kyiv. And what a honor…

International Solidarity with the Zapatista Community Moisés Gandhi

National and international statement in response to the aggression against the community of Moses Gandhi To the peoples of Mexico and the world  To the individuals, collectivities and peoples who defend Life  To those who feel the urgency to act…

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