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Published in: 50.50Daring to speak: militarism and women’s human rights in Burma‘How can we get peace and democracy when we still have domestic wars and when everyday people are dying?’ Jessica...
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Published in: 50.50Leymah Gbowee: five words for the men of Libya
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Leymah Gbowee was recently invited to Tripoli to deliver a speech on the role of women in...
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Published in: 50.50From the war on terror to austerity: a lost decade for women and human rightsPatriarchy, militarism and neoliberalism have created a matrix in which women and women’s rights can never flourish...
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Published in: 50.50Japan's peace pledge: a question of sovereignty?Japan adopted its war-renouncing constitution following World War II, with Article 9 as a promise to itself and a...
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Published in: 50.50Militarism and non-state actors: ‘the other invasion’
'What they call transnational development companies. For us they represent death and destruction’, yet when it comes...
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Published in: 50.50What sex means for world peace
Speaking at the Nobel Women’s Initiative conference, Valerie Hudson argues that best predictor of a state’s...
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Published in: 50.50"We want peace. We’re tired of war"
"If we live violence every day, how can we work for the development of our country so that we can benefit from human...
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Published in: 50.50Challenging militarized masculinities
It is not that ‘masculinity’ generates war, as the question has been put, but rather that the process of...
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Published in: 50.50Patriarchy and militarism in Egypt: from the street to the government
The lack of institutional concern for epidemic levels of sexual harassment and assault in Egypt is part of the...
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Published in: 50.50To a culture of peace from a culture of war
The culture of war is like a mangrove that takes root in our everyday lives and institutions occupying a dominant...
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Published in: 50.50Peacebuilding and the nation-state: towards a nonviolent world
When did a political formation in theory designed to preserve our common good become a machinery of war? Or does the...
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Published in: 50.50Women of Senegal: agents of peaceThe physical and moral suffering undergone by the valiant people of Casamance is incalculable and, as usual, it is...
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Published in: 50.50The framework of democracy is human rights law
Democracy is more of a culture than a way of governing or a political system. It is a historical process that must...
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Published in: 50.50Women in post-earthquake Haiti: moving beyond survival
Haitian women who are living and organising in the displacement camps, together with international partners, have...
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Published in: 50.50From banning nuclear tests to banning nuclear weapons
Sixty years after Britain’s first atomic weapons test, we need to consider the parallels between how the...
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Published in: 50.50Women and the language of peace protest
In January 1968, young feminist antiwar activists in the U.S temporarily broke with a long tradition of protesting...
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Published in: 50.50"I protest": challenging the war policies of the United StatesAfter serving in the US Army, and later as a diplomat, Colonel Ann Wright resigned her position in opposition to the...
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Published in: 50.50How to vote for peace
In order to vote for peace, we must first vote for voting systems which are 'peace-ful'. Peter Emerson argues for...
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Published in: 50.50The foundation of human security in every society
The social fabric of a group is woven, in the first place, by the efforts of women. After war, the surest way to...
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Published in: 50.50Building a culture of love: replacing a culture of violence and death
What unites people's movements from the Arab 'spring' to Occupy, is a new consciousness that a good life, with...
