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About Edith Ballantyne

Edith Ballantyne was Secretary General of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) from 1969 - 1992, and its International President from 1992 until 1998.

Articles by Edith Ballantyne

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Michael Edwards is editor of Transformation.

European integration

Six countries. Six different paths to EU integration.

Technical, geopolitical, or transformative: what future for the Eastern Partnership?
Laure Delcour
'Practical wisdom' and EU integration
Can Büyükbay
Serbia’s choice: EU membership or eastern promises?
Srdja Pavlovic

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

TTIP: we were right all along
Thomas Fazi
TTIP and the right to protect personal data
Keno Franke
What we talk about when we talk about TTIP
Sam Lowe
The great rebranding: how the EU tried to fool us into thinking it has removed ISDS from TTIP
Virginia López Calvo

Beyond armistice: women searching for an enduring peace

Felicity Ruby and Edith Ballantyne 1 September 2014

Women peace activists meeting in Zurich in 1919 understood the capitalist system of profit and privilege as a root cause of war. Women said it then, and say it now, as they tackle the perennial question facing all peace-seekers: what policies can assure a peace that will endure?