(Une version française suit en dessous) Latin America continues to advance towards a culture of peace. Last month we reviewed progressive results of elections in Mexico, Chile, Peru and Colombia and recalled that progressive government has returned to Bolivia following the coup d’etat against Evo Morales, and that Lula da Silva is favored to win … Read more
(Une version française suit en dessous) A few years ago I was encouraged by the movement of the Arab Spring, writing in this blog that “the Arab spring and the ongoing democratic revolutions in the Arab countries are providing an important new momentum towards a culture of peace.” And in the spring of this year … Read more
Over the course of history, Africa and Latin America have been more the victims rather than the perpetrators of the culture of war. Does that mean that they can lead us to the culture of peace? This month’s CPNN bulletin is optimistic with regard to Africa where the African Union increasingly promotes a culture of … Read more
(See below for French) On April 1 (April Fools Day) President Trump announced that the United States wil send a military force to Venezuela, claiming that it was needed to stop drug trafficking by their President Maduro. He was followed by US Defense Secretary Mark Esper, who said the task force included Navy destroyers and … 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
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
Is it by chance that the leadership for the culture of peace is coming from the continents of Latin America and Africa, continents of the Global South? The detailed evidence for this may be found in many CPNN articles, some of which are summarized in the CPNN bulletins for March 1 and April 1 this year, as well as … Read more
Again this month we indicate in the CPNN bulletin that Latin America and the Caribbean continue to be in the vanguard of the Global Movement for a Culture of Peace. This month it is the national governments that have taken the leadership with their declaration in Havana that the region will be a “zone of peace” privileging … Read more
Regions where wars are raging are also regions where there is a strong movement for peace, as described in several cases in this month’s CPNN bulletin. This is not new. During the 19th Century, In his extensive notebooks called the “Grundrisse”, Marx made a note that “War attains complete development before peace.” One may assume that … Read more