Successful social movements include advocates, helpers, organizers and rebels in equal measure.

We devote countless time to learning about wars and violence, but little to nonviolence. Two new books rectify this.

If you are only attracted to able, 'mentally well', cis, normatively beautiful people, from class privileged backgrounds, then you are upholding violent norms.

Activists need to recognize and utilize their intuition as well as their rational minds.

Greenham was an alternative world, an anti-nuclear protest by hundreds of thousands of women activists. At 'Bringing Greenham Home', we relived the spirit with films and talks from those who were there.

The Salvage research project listens to survivors of activist sexual violence: here's what they've learned.

Nan Levinson's new book dispels the myth that those who fight in wars also support them.

To get the most out of a community, you need a shared strategy, a space to grow, and to practice liberation. 

'Not following the rules is how they have survived': a powerful meditation on life in the Afghan capital.

Love requires us to think of terrorists as people. We need to look beyond terrorist acts to the exploitation of powerless countries by the West.

What does movement building look like in a time of terror?

Structural solutions are vital, but real security starts inside each one of us.

A Kindertransport refugee reflects on genocide, and what it means in a Europe dealing with advancing Islamophobia and a 'refugee crisis'.

Peace activist Arun Gandhi reflects on the enduring wisdom of his grandfather, the Indian spiritual and political leader Mahatma Gandhi.

His fear, to his last days at Guantanamo, was that he would not make it out alive.

Google can find you a glib answer to 'the meaning of life' in 0.44 seconds - but where do you go to find real answers if you aren't religious?

Learning—wide, deep and never-ending—lies at the core of personal and political transformation.

Tens of thousands of gold miners are suffering with diseases like silicosis, tuberculosis and HIV. In the mines, Apartheid lives on.

Last Friday I joined 300 migrants' rights protesters gathered at St Pancras station, spilling fake blood and blocking passengers from travelling overseas. Here’s why.

Oppositional thinking is crucial to social change, but there are no permanent enemies.