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(Une version française suit en dessous) (Y este mes también una versión en español después) Once again this year, we see around the world on International Women’s Day that women are demanding a culture of peace. In some cases this is quite explicit. In Europe, there was protest against the American/Israeli attack on Iran and … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) (Y este mes también una versión en español después) Twenty years ago I wrote an early history of the culture of peace up until the conclusion of the International Year for the Culture of Peace in the year 2000. At that point it seemed that the culture of peace … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) (Y este mes también una versión en español después) In the final years of the 20th Century I was a witness to the collapse of the Soviet Empire. Having spent up to six months at a time on many occasions from 1973 to 1986 in the Soviet Union, I … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) Only four days have passed since I published the blog about last year’s predictions, and already there are important confirmations of their validity. With regard to wars, Trump has made war on Venezuela. I say “Trump” because he has illegally bypassed the American constitution that gives the power to … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) One year ago I devoted this blog to predictions related to the idea that human history must pass through an apocalypse before it can move forward to peace and human rights. Today, I want to inquire what has happened to these predictions. 1. The rejection of “business-as-usual” capitalist democracy … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) In this blog, I will explain why I think world history is accelerating, where it is going, and why this gives us a window of opportunity to change from the present global culture of war to a new global culture of peace. And I will argue that progress will … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) We have been living in a new era of history since 1945, when Hiroshima and Nagasaki were destroyed by nuclear bombs. In our time, the question of peace has become urgent. Einstein told us this clearly in 1946: “The unleashed power of the atom has transformed everything except our … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) This month’s CPNN bulletin descries the massive street demonstrations in the United States, Europe and Middle East against the wars and war preparations that have peaked in recent months, and it concludes with the phrase, “The stage is set for a global anti-war movement.” The stage is set, but … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) As we re-launch the Manifesto 2025 (see the CPNN bulletin this month, it seems useful to recall the launch of the Manifesto 2000, for which my team at UNESCO was responsible. Although we hoped for global publicity at the launch of the Manifesto 2000 in September 1999, we did … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) In my last blog I asked the question: “we cannot sit still, and we must act, but how?” Now we have an answer, the Peace Manifesto 2025. As we launch the Peace Manifesto today, May 1, 2025, it seems to me like a symphony of music composed and played … Read more