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Missing: Political Creativity – Vox populi, vox dei
Source: TRANSCEND Media Service (TMS)/Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism By: Johan Galtung A key slogan during the student revolt in Paris May 1968, soon 50 years ago, was Imagination au pouvoir! Bring imagination to power! We […]
Thursday 1 June 2017A Look at Deadly Afghan Insurgent Attacks in Recent Years
Afghan insurgents have stepped up their attacks since the drawdown of NATO troops from Afghanistan in 2014, devastating the capital of Kabul with increasingly deadly and brutal assaults and leaving Afghans feeling embattled and exhausted following 16 years of war.
Thursday 1 June 2017The ICC’s Afghanistan Investigation: The Missing Option – Will Americans be charged?
Source: Law Fare Blog By Luis Moreno Ocampo Monday, April 24, 2017, 8:30 AM In a February Lawfare post, David Bosco analyzed the different possible US responses to the pending decision of the International Criminal […]
Tuesday 30 May 2017Anti-war essays, poems, short stories and literary excerpts
Source: Anti War Literary and Philosophical Selections “To those of us who still retain an irreconcilable animus against war….” Whatever sickening justification may be advanced. David Peterson /Chicago, USA Links to hundreds of writings against […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017International Collaboration to End Violence:’ “People’s Charter to Create a Nonviolent World”
Source: Global Research By Robert J. Burrowes While much of the world is engulfed in violence of one sort or another (whether violence in the home or on the street, exploitation, ecological destruction or war), a […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017THE FLAME TREE PROJECT To Save Life on Earth
By: Robert J. Burrowes & Anita McKone A planetwide 15-year strategy for ordinary people to reduce consumption, increase self-reliance and achieve personal health and ecological security Launched: 1 July 2008. Updated: 1 July 2009, 1 January […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017Rouhani Wins Re-election in Iran by a Wide Margin
Source : New York Times President Hassan Rouhani of Iran on May 13. With most of the votes from Friday’s election counted, the Interior Ministry said Mr. Rouhani had won 22.8 million. Credi tEbrahim Noroozi/Associated […]
Tuesday 23 May 2017Conflict-Related Child Deaths Hit New High in Afghanistan
Source : UN 16 May 2017 – Deeply concerned by the continued increase in conflict-related child deaths in Afghanistan, the UN Assistance Mission in the country (UNAMA) has urged parties to the conflict to take immediate […]
Thursday 18 May 2017Don’t Profit From Abuses by Bahrain
New York Times By NABEEL RAJAB / MAY 17, 2017 Yemen has entered its third year of war, and war crimes are being committed at an escalating rate. For Yemen’s children, facing a man-made famine, this conflict […]
Thursday 18 May 2017Mr Benjamin B. Ferencz visits ICC: “Law, Not War, is Humanity’s Hope“
SOURCE: ICC ICC Registrar Herman von Hebel, ICC President Judge Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, Benjamin B. Ferencz, ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda, and ICC Deputy Prosecutor James Stewart on 15 May 2017 at ICC premises in […]
Thursday 18 May 2017