WHY THE COMMERCIAL MASS MEDIA REPORTS WAR BUT NOT PEACE

(Une version française suit en dessous) (Y este mes también una versión en español después) As I write in this month’s CPNN bulletin, “the commercial mass media is filled with stories about wars and the threat of wars around the world and they are not reporting news for peace.’” Why is this? When I wrote … Read more

FUTURE LEADERSHIP FOR THE CULTURE OF PEACE

(Une version française suit en dessous) This month’s bulletin of CPNN lists many articles about those who provide leadership for a culture of peace. Which leaders can we expect to be most important in the future? We cannot depend on leaders at the level of the nation-state. The data confirm the major conclusion of my … Read more

MANUAL FOR THE CULTURE OF PEACE BY THE NEW GENERATION

(Une version française suit en dessous) As we relaunch the Peace Manifesto, I have prepared the following manual that can be used by the Activating Teams that are being recruited to post the Manifesto on social media until it becomes viral. This manual is based on my experience during the 1960’s with the movement against … Read more

WOMEN DEMAND A CULTURE OF PEACE

(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

HISTORY OF THE CULTURE OF PEACE: SINCE 2000

 (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

UPDATE TO PREDICTIONS

(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

WHAT HAPPENED TO LAST YEAR’S PREDICTIONS?

(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

A CULTURE OF PEACE IS POSSIBLE: HERE’S HOW

(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

SPEECH TO MONTPELLIER PEACE DAYS

(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