Debate and articles on nuclear non-proliferation and strategies for peacebuilding. See also our coverage of the Nobel Women's Initiative.

 

Listening to our conscience

Vanessa Alexander 14 May 2010

A new anthology of women conscientious objectors reveals the extent to which rejection to military service is part of a greater movement for social change. Vanessa Alexander went along to the book launch

United States at the NPT: how far will the 'good guy' go?

Rebecca Johnson 11 May 2010

Unless the role and value assigned to nuclear weapons in deterrence is challenged among the nuclear-armed states, the notion of nuclear deterrence will remain seductive – and a proliferation drive. Those wanting to bring about real security in a non-nuclear-armed world need to do far more at this NPT Conference. Rebecca Johnson reports from New York.

Implementing SCR 1325: lessons from Israel

Sarai Aharoni 10 May 2010

The attempt to implement Security Council Resolution 1325 after the failure of the Oslo Peace Process revealed a paralysed women's movement in Israel. Is it time for feminist resistance rather than arguing for women's participation in peace processes?

Searching for gender justice

Joanne Sandler and Laura Turquet 10 May 2010

How and when will the Rome Statute and Security Council Resolution 1325 actually contribute to the delivery of justice to a critical mass of the world’s women?

Nuclear weapons: beyond non-proliferation?

Rebecca Johnson 29 April 2010

The stakes are high and the outcome too close to call as the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty opens for four weeks of intense debate in New York.

Goodbye Fred Halliday

Mike Ward 29 April 2010
How a great scholar had a profound effect on the author’s life

The strongest power of all

Diana Francis 27 April 2010

If violence is out, what power can nonviolence offer? Courage, numbers and solidarity are vital to confront oppressive power, but macho dynamics perpetuate aggression. Human connections are the key to transformation

Getting to peace: what kind of movement?

Cynthia Cockburn 19 April 2010

Today’s antiwar movements could become wider and deeper and more united if they took the critique of gender properly to heart

Impossible bedfellows: civil-military cooperation through NATO's eyes

Gloria Martinez 16 April 2010

In a continued search for relevance in the post-Cold War world, the armed forces of NATO have adopted a burgeoning humanitarian and development agenda. But military and civilian intervention in conflict zones cannot and should not be amalgamated, argues Gloria Martinez.

The forgotten impact of a war that didn't happen

Holger Nehring 30 March 2010
Nuclear weapons were at the heart of the Cold War. Yet the broader impact of the arms race on politics and society has been forgotten. This is unfortunate, argues Holger Nehring, as the impact of the shared fear of total war that the nuclear arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union created lies at the core of the problems in the transatlantic relationship. President Obama’s attempts to create a nuclear weapons free world and his willingness to sign a new agreement on the reduction of intercontinental nuclear weapons with his Russian counterpart President Medvedev only hides this uncomfortable reality.

Hitler and the challenge of non-violence

Jorgen Johansen 26 March 2010
What was done to counter the ’rise and rise’ of Adolf Hitler, fascist German leader, in the 1930’s? What could have been done?

The myths that surround the military's power to do good

Jonathan Cohen and Vanessa Alexander 19 March 2010

"We need to construct ourselves as cooperative entities, so that the way we understand belonging and identity does not have to be predicated on hostility towards others. Diana Francis talks to Vanessa Alexander and Jonathan Cohen about her latest book From Pacification to Peacebuilding.

Eat or be eaten: courting disaster

Diana Francis 18 March 2010

Two very different ways of viewing the world result in radically different ways of approaching conflict. When we come from the viewpoint of ‘eat or be eaten’, the whole of life is a contest for control; when we ground ourselves in the notion of interdependence we work to a very different agenda.

From a culture of war to a culture of peace

Bruce Kent 15 March 2010

The time has run out for traditional military answers. Ours is a culture of war, but cultures can change. We need education in peace and in international understanding, as so much more

A difficult week for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

Heather McRobie 5 March 2010
The ICTY's struggle to prosecute war criminals causes a further decline in credibility in times when progress is vital for Croatia and the relation between Serbia and Bosnia.

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