david This month’s bulletin gives us an idea of where progress is being made (or not being made) towards a culture of peace if we compare it to the CPNN bulletins of 2015. On the good side Progress is being made at a grass-roots level by social movements for sustainable development and food sovereignty, often led or inspired … Read more
Kumi Naidoo of Greenpeace and the indigenous elders who came to Paris for the Climate Negotiations are correct in their assessment. As the elders say, “We have misplaced our trust in governmental leaders and the leaders of industry. They failed us by trying to maintain their profits, economies and their power over the people . . . … Read more
As we have emphasized previously, education for peace, to be effective, must be informed by an incisive understanding of the culture of war. And who knows better the culture of war than refugees? In the rich countries we consider war as a distant event that we see only on the television screens. Even our warriors … Read more
Several years ago (September 2013 to be exact), I posed the question in this blog, “What Kind of Peace Education?” and responded that an effective program of peace education must begin by analyzing the culture of war. But this approach is strongly opposed by those who hold state power because, in fact, their power is … Read more
As described in this month’s CPNN bulletin, Colombia is preparing for peace as the peace talks advance between the Government and FARC. Local and regional peace initiatives, as well as a national move for peace education, are taking place in this context. It seems that Colombia will achieve peace accords that allow the election of … Read more
This is the question posed by this month’s CPNN bulletin with regard to the global meeting on climate change to take place at the end of the year in Paris. It is generally agreed, at least by the citizens of the world, that we need to reverse the global warming that comes from the exhausts of power … Read more
In this month’s CPNN bulletin, we read how the “unjustifiable” war in Iraq has been a major cause of the rise of the barbaric ‘Islamic State’ in the region. This observation comes from two important figures in our time, Ismail Serageldin, head of the Bibliotheca Alexandrina, and Mary Robinson, formerly President of Ireland, then High Commissioner … Read more
The American Empire and its mirror image in the Middle East, are destined to collapse. The most important question is what will come next. Will new empires arise quickly to take their place? Will they be fascist regimes (extreme cultures of war), which is what happened after the economic collapse that began in 1929? Or … Read more
In CPNN this month, we ask the question “What is the relation between peasant movements for food sovereignty and the global movement for a culture of peace?” Here is my own response to the question. It is based on the many articles in CPNN this month about the global movement of peasants for food sovereignty. Yes, they … Read more
This month’s CPNN bulletin refers to CPNN articles on the anti-austerity movements in Greece, Spain, Germany, Ireland, France and Canada, with reference to the fact that for many years already South American governments have rejected the austerity imposed by international financial institutions. We have posed the following question with regard to these articles: “Movements against government … Read more