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Australasia

Time to Reclaim Remembrance

As the nation pauses to honour our war dead on Anzac Day, it is appropriate to reflect on the tainting of genuine commemoration at the Australian War Memorial (AWM) by vested interests. Added to deep concerns about the bitterly controversial $1/2 billion redevelopment, the Memorial is dividing rather than uniting Australians.

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Culture of Peace

Costa Rica Is Not Real

The possibility that Costa Rica did something significant and hugely beneficial by abolishing its military is generally dealt with by ignoring it, but sometimes by making excuses for it.

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Culture of Peace

Peace School Opens in Victoria B.C.

Members of World Beyond War Victoria (WBWV) have joined with members of local spiritual communities and other peace groups to establish Canada’s first independent, in-person learning peace education centre.

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war in Yemen
Asia

Yemen War Powers Coalition Letter

In an effort to strengthen the recently announced temporary truce and further incentivize Saudi Arabia to stay at the negotiation table, nearly 70 national organizations wrote and urged Congress “to cosponsor and publicly support Representatives Jayapal and DeFazio’s forthcoming War Powers Resolution to end U.S. military participation in the Saudi-led coalition’s war on Yemen.

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Conflict Management

The Problems With Prosecuting Putin

The worst problem is a phony one. That is to say, numerous parties are using the cause of prosecuting Vladimir Putin for “war crimes” as yet another excuse to avoid ending the war.

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Conflict Management

From Mosul to Raqqa to Mariupol, Killing Civilians is a Crime

Americans have been shocked by the death and destruction of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, filling our screens with bombed buildings and dead bodies lying in the street. But the United States and its allies have waged war in country after country for decades, carving swathes of destruction through cities, towns and villages on a far greater scale than has so far disfigured Ukraine. 

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