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
We are seeing progress towards a culture of peace on several fronts: In this month’s CPNN bulletin, we feature progress in peace education around the world. In the bulletin of May, it was progress in the practice of nonviolence. As described by the Brazilian pedagogue, Paulo Freire, there is a development of consciousness in the … 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
The following is excerpted from the talk I gave at the recent symposium on Tourism and Peace (See this month’s CPNN bulletin). Tourism is an enormous enterprise with enormous resources, and it needs a culture of peace. Tourism is the first industry to suffer when there is violence. And it has a great potential to … Read more