War

This fall, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict may spread to another European country – Moldova. By Ion Cebotari People close to Vladimir Zelensky told Ukrainian journalist Diana Panchenko about plans to send Ukrainian troops into Moldova. The initiators of the new conflict…

Europe’s rampant turbo-militarization is fueled in part by an assumption that it is time to question. This assumption is widespread, both in military circles and in popular culture at large, as well as among many activist circles. The assumption is…

It is paradoxical that many advocate for ending wars without acknowledging the root issue of violence. If now is not the time to finally address violence, when will it be? We must name and challenge all its forms—physical, religious, economic,…

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…

The bitter river of hostility between India and Pakistan flows not from the natural springs of people’s hearts, but from the carefully constructed dams of political elites. Like colonial masters of old, today’s rulers in both nations have perfected the…

(by Irshad Ahmad Mughal and Dr. Qurat ul-Ain Rana, a Ph.D in Sociology teaching in various universities as visiting faculty in various universities in Pakistan.) The lands now called Pakistan and India were once woven together by shared history, culture,…

The wisdom of an old Punjabi proverb—”While busily searching elsewhere for the thief, I looked back and found the donkey tied under the banyan tree”—rings painfully true in today’s world. It perfectly captures the absurdity of the recent Iran-Israel conflict,…

The ancient art of storytelling through animal fables once served as humanity’s moral compass, with philosophers and saints using tales of “talking beasts” to counsel rulers against tyranny. Yet in our modern era, where abstract academic theories dominate education, we’ve…

As I scroll through my phone, absorbing the relentless updates about the Iran-Israel conflict, I’m confronted by images that blur the line between reality and simulation. Towering buildings reduced to rubble, missiles streaking across skies like something out of a…

Aesop’s fable The Wolf and the Lamb tells a simple but timeless story: A lamb drinks water from a river when a wolf arrives, accusing it of muddying the stream. The lamb points out that the water flows from the wolf’s side,…