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Civilian-Based Defence (CBD) – Who is threatening who?

To what should we give the name “threats”? What criteria should we use to analyse threats? What process leads us to perceive a given event as threatening? How can we decipher language aimed at public opinion concerning real risks? Many…

What is Civilian-Based Defence (CBD)?

Why this special issue? When Ukraine was invaded by Russian armies on February 24, 2022, who could fail to have been worried? A war on the very borders of Europe? Since the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and the…

“The Camp to Stop the War” Resumes Tomorrow (Sunday) in Tel Aviv, One Week After Its Activists Were Attacked

Following protests in Dizengoff Square and near Gaza, the camp will be set up tomorrow in Tel Aviv at the Cinematheque plaza from 2:30 PM to 10:00 PM The “Camp to Stop the War,” organized by the “It’s Time” coalition,…

Yurii Sheliazenko: “The protests are good, but there are still some Ukrainians who believe in the war.”

In Kiev, I met Yurii Sheliazenko, a Quaker conscientious objector and leader of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, whom I had met and interviewed during my trip to Ukraine last August, and his friend Artem Denysov, also a Quaker. They took…

Bodies that do not collaborate: The tenth Insurrection of The Royal Ballet & Opera against the genocide in Gaza

The image is moving and sublime. A ballerina in full grand jeté, suspended in the air with a Chilean flag waving above her head, while behind her a water cannon truck and an ammunition carrier loom: a symbol of criminal…

Statement on the escalating atrocities in Gaza and the West Bank

As a binational movement of Palestinians and Israelis committed to nonviolence and equality, Combatants for Peace issues this urgent statement in light of the deepening humanitarian and political crisis across Gaza and the West Bank: In response to the continued…

We Choose Gaza as Our Legal Domicile

We, the undersigned: Raniero La Valle, Tomaso Montanari, Bishop Giovanni Ricchiuti (President of Pax Christi), Father Franco Mosconi (Archbishop of Manfredonia), Elena Basile, Ginevra Bompiani, and many others… Hereby declare our decision to make the city of Gaza our legal…

Inherited Prayers for Peace: Nipponzan Myohoji’s Communities Rooted in Christendom

A Journey Through Four Peace Pagoda Memorial Ceremonies in Europe by Mitsutake Ikeda On June 21st, the 40th anniversary grand memorial ceremony of the London Peace Pagoda was solemnly conducted, followed by the 45th anniversary ceremony of the Milton Keynes…

The Third Assembly of the World Humanist Forum was held: Imagining and Building the Universal Human Nation.

With the participation of activists and members of organizations from 55 countries, the Third Assembly of the World Humanist Forum was held this Saturday (19) . Following introductions by Rose Neema from Kenya and Remigio Chilaule from Mozambique, Julius Valdimarsson…

Babardee Samura: giving back to the streets

Babardee Fakeh Samura is 35 years old, lives in Freetown, Sierra Leone, West Africa, and is one of those unusual cases. Having spent his childhood and early youth in a very vulnerable situation, he took advantage of the opportunities that…

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