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Archives: Peace
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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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2017/01/violence-brought-us-trump-but-no-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/11/sting-gandhian-anti-terrorism-yo-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/10/Screen-Shot-2016-10-31-at-12.15.49-AM-1-187x137.png)
“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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/08/islam-is-peace-1-187x137.jpg)
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.](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/muhammad-ali-understood-the-raci-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/06/gpimap-1-187x137.png)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/03/where-are-the-women-syrian-other-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/02/the-choice-fear-militarization-o-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/george-lakey-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/10/from-canada-as-hawk-to-canada-as-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/10/tel-aviv-israelis-rally-over-net-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/10/ankara-bombs-turkey-is-being-tor-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/new_arabs-2-180x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/09/american-workers-need-a-raise-th-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/08/defending-natalie-portman-on-hol-187x137.jpg)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/08/70-top-nuclear-experts-iran-deal-187x137.jpg)
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…![](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2016/04/Screen-Shot-2015-08-19-at-2.31.11-AM-187x137.png)
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](http://web.archive.org./web/20170701042946im_/https://media.juancole.com/images/2015/08/top-iran-general-endorses-nuclea-187x137.jpg)