Embracing the complexity of peace
“Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.” Just imagine! The words are those of Robert Weissman, president of the organization ...
“Just imagine for once if we led the world in funding peace and not wars.” Just imagine! The words are those of Robert Weissman, president of the organization ...
In recent weeks, leaders and commentators here and abroad have rightly framed Russia’s brutal aggression against Ukraine as a struggle between autocracy and democracy.
I teach nonviolence. Students ask, so, okay, and just how could Ukraine possibly resist Putin and a brutal invasion using nothing but nonviolence?
‘Whataboutism’ is not a defense by Wim Laven 749 words Published in: Anchorage Press, LA Progressive, Black News, Westside Gazette,...
Today I find myself in an untenable position. I run an online encrypted mental health service to serve the Portland protest movement...
We live in Portland, Oregon. As almost anyone in our town will tell you...
In the days following the first Presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden I observed two important lessons.
“There’s a term that was developed in the academic field of peace research, and it deserves far more currency in...
“Using a war narrative to talk about COVID-19 plays into the hands of white supremacist groups. U.S. officials and the...
“”Social distancing” (or maybe more properly “appropriate physical spacing”) is something people everywhere need to practice in the near term...
“Why, in the era of the Worst President Ever, with racism and violence erupting with special virulence for the past...
“I get accused of “being over-the-top” and using hyperbole by conservative friends and acquaintances with increasing frequency. This is caused,...
“Whatever one might think about Donald Trump’s claim to be a “stable genius,” his rambling and seemingly unfocused rant of...
“It was early 1968. Since the previous spring Martin Luther King, Jr. had been pursuing a course that for many...
“Like our slaveholding first president—not our current one—I cannot tell a lie: we must chop down the poisonous tree of...