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If we consider the purpose for which the United Nations was formed: “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” it is failing badly. This spring, when we hoped that the United Nations would convene a High-Level Conference on Nuclear Disarmament, the meeting was cancelled due to pressure from the United States and its … Read more
From the beginning, sustainable development has been considered to be an essential component of the culture of peace, one of the eight action areas of the Programme of Action for a Culture of Peace, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1999. In our analysis of the National Culture of Peace Programme in El Salvador, published … Read more
This month’s CPNN bulletin describes the “slow news” of culture of peace as it has been developing for some time now in Africa. The reforestation of the Great Green Wall and the Plant a Million Trees initiative seem to symbolize the slow pace of the process, especially when one recalls that the pre-colonial peace mechanism of Africa was to … Read more
Wherever we turn, people are angry. In France and United States where I live, voters are angry and turn their anger against immigrants and people of color. And they vote for the Front National and for Donald Trump. And the struggle in the US between students protesting against school massacres and linking them to gun … Read more
War and threats of war. Resurgence of fascism. Indicators forewarning a global economic crash. Acceleration of global warming. Wherever you turn, there are signs of dramatic, radical, dangerous change. What is to be done? Where is the lever that can move history forward? We need radical action, but which action should we put frst? Personally, … Read more
The growing mobilizations by teenagers in the US and Palestine, cited in this month’s CPNN bulletin, remind me of the mobilizations by youth against the War in Vietnam in the 1960’s and by youth against Apartheid in the 1970’s. If we learn from those mobilizations, now 50 years ago, there is a possibility that they … Read more
(See French below) Walls and frontiers are in the news these days – constructed by states in order to keep people out. At the same tim, as we see in this month’s CPNN bulletin, it seems that movements of activists opposed to these walls are continuing to grow. In France, activists continue to aid migrants … Read more
Over the past century the control of information, especially through the mass media, has become the most important characteristic of the culture of war. Why? It is because there has been such an advance over the past century in democratic participation that the modern state is forced to justify its culture of war. Since people … Read more
We see articles almost every day criticizing the Nobel Peace laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and blaming her for not stopping the terrible genocide in Myanmar against the Rohingya people. It is true that she is now the President of Myanmar, but the power of the state continues to be held by the military, which … Read more
The advance this year of the struggle to eliminate violence against women is an important step forward for the global movement for a culture of peace. Here’s why. First of all, violence against women has always been an intrinsic component of war. This goes back to prehistory when women were excluded from war due to … Read more