Nonviolence

There was a moment at the beginning of the invasion in Ukraine, when the population spontaneously resorted to numerous little-told actions of nonviolent civil resistance – talking to Russian soldiers, changing or removing road signs to confuse the military, demonstrating…

The recent appointment in Ukraine of Oksen Lisovyi as Minister of Education and Science has raised the very harsh reaction of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, which has sent an in-depth report to UNESCO; this report gives a troubling view of…

Ten years have passed since, in an article for April 25, I wrote that today liberation is called disarmament and resistance is called nonviolence – a formula that on April 25 of the following year would become the slogan of…

What’s something that nobody can give you unless you want it? An enemy. This ought to be obviously true in both the personal sense and the international sense. In your personal life, you acquire enemies by seeking them out and…

Thousands of people have held protests across Sweden to voice their anger at the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the country’s NATO membership bid. While holding placards and banners that read, “No to NATO”, and “NATO’s war will get…

By European Bureau for Conscientious Objection www.ebco-beoc.org, April 21, 2023 The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) met with its member organisation in Ukraine, the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement (Український Рух Пацифістів), in Kiev on 15 and 16 April 2023. EBCO also met with conscientious objectors and members…

In Europe, Ukraine, Russia, and all over the world, people want peace while governments demand more and more weapons and human resources for war. People are asking for the right to health, education, work, and a liveable planet, but governments…

Following interviews with Noam Chomsky and Vandana Shiva and Silo‘s speech in Punta de Vacas on May 4, 2004, we continue our series of short inspirational videos with the “message of hope for activists” launched by Desmond Tutu in Cape…

After the interviews with Vandana Shiva we continue our series of short inspirational videos on the theme of “Humanity and Hope” with an excerpt from a speech given by Silo in Punta de Vacas on May 4, 2004. Almost two…

World BEYOND War’s Zaporizhzhya Protection Project will send a team of four volunteers to Ukraine on April 7, invited by people in close proximity to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant on the front lines of the war. These four are…