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Archives: Peace

What can today’s Activists learn from the Summer of Love and the New Left?

Ira Chernus | ( Tomdispatch.com ) | - - It’s the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love. What better place to celebrate than that fabled era’s epicenter, San Francisco’s Golden Gate…

6 Lessons From Nonviolent Organizing for Resisting Trumpism

The Beautiful Trouble Team | ( Waging Nonviolence ) | - - Trouble vs. Trump Drawing from the Beautiful Trouble and Beautiful Rising toolboxes, here are six key concepts that may prove…

Violence brought us Trump, but Nonviolent Protest will Stop Him

Kazu Haga | ( Waging Nonviolence ) What’s next? That is the big question facing this country after the election. And many people have been sharing their thoughts on that over social…

Sting & Gandhian anti-Terrorism: Your Paris vacation can help cripple ISIL

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Sting, 65, played a concert at the Bataclan Theater where ISIL terrorists killed 90 innocent people a year ago, in one of the…

“The Meaning of Peace in the Quran” – Juan Cole @ PBS

Juan Cole | PBS | Religion and Ethics Newsweekly (Video Interview) | - - Via Religion and Ethics Newsweekly, PBS "Juan Cole is the Richard P. Mitchell Collegiate Professor of History at…

Juan Cole, “The Idea of Peace in the Qur’an” (Kluge Center Blog)

Juan Cole | Library of Congress | John W. Kluge Center | - - The past summer I had an appointment at the John W. Kluge Center that allowed for research in…

Muhammad Ali Understood the Racist Roots of War and Militarism: And he called them out fearlessly.

By Phyllis Bennis | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | - - With all the discussion and debate these days about intersectionality and the need for progressives to link our movements against racism…

World More violent in past Year, but Middle East drives Deterioration

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The 2016 Global Peace Index has been released, with the bad news that the world is slightly more violent this year than last.…

Where are the Women? Syrian, other Peace Talks need female Representation

By Tharanga Yakupitiyage | (Inter Press Service) | - - UNITED NATIONS, Mar 17 2016 (IPS) - “When it comes to peace talks, women have a special stake,” said Gloria Steinem while…

The Choice: Fear & Militarization or Curing the Disease of Violence

By Mairead Maguire | (Inter Press Service) | - - BELFAST (IPS) - The World Health Organization has said that ‘Violence is a preventable disease’ and people are not born violent, rather…

8 Ways Nonviolence can Combat Terrorism

By George Lakey | ( Waging Non-Violence) | - - One of my most popular courses at Swarthmore College focused on the challenge of how to defend against terrorism, nonviolently. Events now…

From Canada as Hawk to Canada as Peacemaker in Mideast

By Richard Foltz | (Informed Comment) | - _ As midnight approached on October 19th Canadians staying up to watch the results of the federal election let out a huge collective sigh…

Tel Aviv: Israelis Rally Over Netanyahu’s Policies

Tel Aviv: Israelis Rally against Netanyahu’s Policies toward Palestinians

By IMEMC | - - Thousands of Israeli protesters have taken to the streets in Tel Aviv to denounce Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s policies, which they blame for the recent wave of…

Ankara bombs: Turkey is being torn apart by bad leaders and bad neighbors

By Alpaslan Ozerdem | (The Conversation) | - - It had already been a deadly summer of political instability in Turkey. And now this. Another bloody massacre – this time at the…

Tunisian Nobel Recognizes role of Labor Unions, the Left in Democratic Transition

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - How many American news reports about the Nobel Peace Prize given to the Tunisian Quartet that pushed the country toward democracy and compromise…

American Workers need a Raise, & the Iran Deal, and Peace

By Michael Eisenscher | (Foreign Policy in Focus) | We’ll never rebuild this country if we keep wasting money on war. This Labor Day, like others before it, finds American workers squeezed…

Defending Natalie Portman on Holocaust: Sometimes it can be subverted to fear-mongering

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Actress Natalie Portman has kicked off a controversy with remarks about how to remember the Nazi Holocaust against the Jews, in which the…

70 Top nuclear Experts: Iran Deal a ‘Net-Plus’ for Non-Proliferation Worldwide

By S. Chandra | (Inter Press Service) - - WASHINGTON (IPS) - As the U.S. Congress prepares to vote next month on the landmark Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which was…

Defying Saudis, Iran: Muslim thinkers call for Action on Climate Change at Istanbul Conference

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Attendees at the International Islamic Climate Change Symposium in Istanbul from 20 countries produced, and 60 of them signed, a declaration this week…

Top Iran General Endorses Nuclear Deal with US, UNSC

By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iranian Chief of Staff Major-Gen. Hassan Firouzabadi said Saturday that despite some reservations, he saw 16 major advantages to the Iran deal. He…