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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
It seems that the people of Catalunya will vote in December whether to declare independence from Spain, i.e. to form a separate state. If someone were to ask my advice about this election, I would say that it risks becoming a decision to move Catalunya towards the culture of war. Here’s why I say this. … Read more
At the end of this month’s CPNN bulletin, having remarked that youth and children took the lead in this year’s global celebration of the International Day of Peace, we concluded that “Thanks to the new generation, yes, there is a global movement for a culture of peace.” That leads to a question. Can this global movement … Read more
In 2007, I tried to imagine how the world would make a transition to a culture of peace in the year 2027 and I started to write a novella, I have seen the promised land. In making the scenario, I imagined that the most important point in the transition would occur in Porto Alegre, Brazil, at … Read more
A frequent theme of this blog has been the need for a profound reform of the United Nations so that it is managed more directly by the peoples of the world – through cities or parliaments instead of the present Member States that are inextricably linked to the culture of war. A significant first step towards such … Read more
Imagine what the world would be like if the United Nations was managed by mayors instead of states! And imagine how it would be if the mass media was dedicated to a culture of peace! We have some hint of how this might be in the recent events covered by CPNN. While all of the … Read more