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Published in: 50.50UK election outcome: lessons for peacebuilding
Inclusive democracy is a key constituent of positive peace. Does the surprise coalition government in Britain have...
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Published in: 50.50Is it time for a worldwide strategy for the building of peace?
On average, one dollar spent on programmes to prevent violent conflict achieves as much as sixty dollars spent...
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Published in: 50.50NPT conference: half time glass half full
Frustration at the failure of nuclear weapon states to honour the agreements made at previous NPT Conferences is...
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Published in: 50.50Conscription: our bodies...or our money?
In recognising a right of conscientious objection specifically to military service, the international community of...
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Published in: 50.50Objecting: an act of civil disobedience
Conscientious objection is not "opting out". It is an effort to stimulate a new social imagination and a...
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Published in: 50.50Listening to our conscience
A new anthology of women conscientious objectors reveals the extent to which rejection to military service is part...
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Published in: 50.50United States at the NPT: how far will the 'good guy' go?
Unless the role and value assigned to nuclear weapons in deterrence is challenged among the nuclear-armed states,...
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Published in: 50.50Implementing SCR 1325: lessons from Israel
The attempt to implement Security Council Resolution 1325 after the failure of the Oslo Peace Process revealed a...
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Published in: 50.50Searching for gender justice
How and when will the Rome Statute and Security Council Resolution 1325 actually contribute to the delivery of...
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Published in: 50.50Jody Williams: The true path to nuclear non-proliferation
Statement by Jody Williams, Chair, Nobel Women’s Initiative at the Review Conference of the Nuclear...
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Published in: 50.50Nuclear weapons: beyond non-proliferation?
The stakes are high and the outcome too close to call as the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty opens...
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Published in: 50.50The strongest power of all
If violence is out, what power can nonviolence offer? Courage, numbers and solidarity are vital to confront...
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Published in: 50.50Cry out - eventually the world will cry out with you
"It is not what the mind knows, it is what the heart knows that changes the world". Listen to Joan Chittister give...
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Published in: 50.50Getting to peace: what kind of movement?
Today’s antiwar movements could become wider and deeper and more united if they took the critique of gender properly to heart
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Published in: 50.50Welcome to the International Gender Justice Dialogue
On the first day of the conference Brigid Inder, executive director of Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice...
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Published in: 50.50Gender justice and the ICC: turning a miracle into reality
Ahead of the first global review meeting of the Rome Statue and International Criminal Court, women from around the...
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Published in: 50.50Hitler and the challenge of non-violence
What was done to counter the ’rise and rise’ of Adolf Hitler, fascist German leader, in the 1930’s? What could have...
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Published in: 50.50Eat or be eaten: courting disaster
Two very different ways of viewing the world result in radically different ways of approaching conflict. When we...
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Published in: 50.50From a culture of war to a culture of peace
The time has run out for traditional military answers. Ours is a culture of war, but cultures can change. We need...
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Published in: 50.50This is my witness
The human voice has a way of piercing through you. Emily Stokes listened to the testimony of the women of Burma.