The EU is Wrong to Arm Ukraine. Here’s Why
Weapons won’t bring stability – they will fuel further destruction and death. The EU must back diplomacy, demilitarisation and peace.
WBW Cameroon Advances Inclusion of Women and Youth in Peace Process
Below is a response from the Cameroon Minister of Women’s Empowerment and the Family, who received our report and congratulates us for the efforts made in the inclusion of women and youth in the peace processes in Cameroon.
How the West Paved the Way for Russia’s Nuclear Threats Over Ukraine
Western commentators who rush to condemn Putin’s nuclear madness would do well to remember Western nuclear madness of the past, argues Milan Rai.
Finland and Sweden Should Remain Outside NATO and Pursue a Policy of Peace
The most important task of foreign and defence policy is to reduce threats to one’s own country in a way that creates security in all countries through diplomacy and cooperation on equal terms.
40 Things We Can Do and Know for People in Ukraine and the World
In light of the recent events in Ukraine, here are important things to know and do about their current situation.
VIDEO: Webinar: In Conversation with Malalai Joya
In this wide-ranging conversation, Malalai Joya takes us through the trauma that has engulfed her country from the Soviet invasion in 1979 to the rise of the first Taliban regime in 1996 through to the 2001 US-led invasion and the Taliban’s subsequent return in 2021.
SOARING: The Harms and Risks of Fighter Jets and Why Canada Must Not Buy a New Fleet
As the Trudeau government plans to buy 88 new fighter jets for a price tag of $19 billion, the second most expensive procurement in Canadian history, WILPF Canada is sounding the alarm.
“Let Them Kill as Many as Possible” – United States Policy Toward Russia and its Neighbors
In April 1941, four years before he was to become President and eight months before the United States entered World War II, Senator Harry Truman of Missouri reacted to the news that Germany had invaded the Soviet Union: “If we see that Germany is winning the war, we ought to help Russia; and if that Russia is winning, we ought to help Germany, and in that way let them kill as many as possible.”
Ukrainians Are Nonviolently Resisting War
In his State of the Union address, U.S. President Joe Biden praised unarmed Ukrainians stopping tanks. He did not praise them enough. Nonviolent resistance to oppression, occupation, and invasion is more likely to succeed than violent; the successes tend to be longer lasting; and — added benefit — the chance of nuclear war is decreased rather than increased.
Yurii Sheliazhenko on Democracy Now from Kyiv
We go to Kyiv to speak with Yurii Sheliazhenko, executive secretary of the Ukrainian Pacifist Movement, who says “support of Ukraine in the West is mainly military support” and reports that his country “focuses on warfare and almost ignores nonviolent resistance to war.”
Talk World Radio: Alfred de Zayas on Ukraine and the Rule of Law
This week on Talk World Radio, we’re talking with Alfred de Zayas, author of Building a Just World Order.
A Working Class Internationalism Is the Only Path to Survival
The damning evidence in the latest #IPCC report highlights so much more than further proof of a planet in collapse. It says definitively in a time of grotesque border & energy imperialism, supremacy & capitalism that a working class internationalism is the only path to survival.
RAND Corporation Urged Creation of the Horrors You’re Seeing in Ukraine
In 2019, the RAND Corporation tentacle of the U.S. Military Industrial Congressional “Intelligence” Media Academic “Think” Tank Complex published a report claiming to have “conducted a qualitative assessment of ‘cost-imposing options’ that could unbalance and overextend Russia.”
Ukraine’s Secret Weapon May Prove to be Civilian Resistance
Unarmed Ukrainians changing road signs, blocking tanks and confronting the Russian military are showing their bravery and strategic brilliance.
How the U.S. Started a Cold War with Russia and Left Ukraine to Fight It
The defenders of Ukraine are bravely resisting Russian aggression, shaming the rest of the world and the UN Security Council for its failure to protect them.
The Dangerous Assumption that Violence Keeps Us Safe
A romanticized belief in violence renders people irrational to the point of hurting ourselves, over and over again.
Ukraine Doesn’t Need to Match Russia’s Military Might to Defend Against Invasion
Throughout history, people facing occupation have tapped into the power of nonviolent struggle to thwart their invaders.
Putin and Zelenskyy, Talk to Each Other!
We live in hard times which demand courage to promote peace.
Solidarity Between U.S. and Russian Peace Activists
We are seeing mutual support across borders and propaganda narratives between U.S. and Russian and Ukrainian advocates for peace.
123 Organizations Write to the Pekka Haavisto, Minister of Foreign Affairs in Finland
Re: TPNW – ban on killer robots/autonomous weapons – ban on the use and sale of weaponized drones.
Ukraine and the Myth of War
Last September 21st, in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the International Day of Peace, as U.S. forces withdrew from Afghanistan, our local peace organization emphasized that we would be relentless in saying no to the calls for war, that those calls for war would come again, and soon.
Open Letter on Ukraine from WBW Ireland
Wars start on the battlefield but end at the diplomacy table, so we call for an immediate return to diplomacy and international law.
U.S. Military Turns Over Land on Former Bases to South Korea
The United States transferred several parcels of land from former U.S. military bases to South Korea. #WorldBEYONDWar
VIDEO: Verses Versus War
A webinar presenting the peace poetry of award-winning poets George Elliott Clarke and Gary Geddes.
VIDEO: Webinar: In Conversation With Lara Marlowe
Lara Marlowe has seen war in all its horrors: things very few of us living in the West have seen. In this conversation she shares with us some of the things she has seen.
Russians Speak Up Against War
“We announce the beginning of the formation of the anti-war movement in Russia.”
A Path Away From War | The Science Of Peace Systems
Many people think, “There always has been war and there always will be war.”
Western Media Fall in Lockstep for Neo-Nazi Publicity Stunt in Ukraine
When the corporate media push for war, one of their main weapons is propaganda by omission.
Podcast: Peace Education and Action for Impact
By Marc Eliot Stein, February 24, 2022 We gathered together on Monday, February 21 – a day that was already tense with news of continued
