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Published in: 50.50Analysing Aaronovitch: has the scourge of ‘conspiracists’ become one himself?
David Aaronovitch claims ‘unbelievable’ notions about child abuse that ‘bewitched’ professionals decades ago are...
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Published in: 50.50Jeju island and the war mindset in Asia and the Pacific
Jeju is called the Island of Peace, but in spite of seven years of constant large protests it's where the South...
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Published in: 50.50NPT: cornerstone of nuclear non-proliferation or stumbling block?
After the NPT Review Conference collapsed in disarray last week with disagreement over new proposals for a Middle...
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Published in: 50.50NPT: nuclear colonialism versus democratic disarmament
A host of nuclear free states are claiming back their power to create the conditions for a much-needed legally...
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Published in: 50.50From Northern Ireland to Korea: the power of nonviolence and love in action
As thirty international women peacemakers prepare to cross the DMZ with women from North and South Korea, Nobel...
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Published in: 50.50Where your conscience can take you: North Korea
On 24 May, thirty women peacebuilders crossed the De-Militarized Zone that separates Korean families. Ann Wright...
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Published in: 50.50Libya: "Rejoicing at our bloody democracy"
For sustainable peace, the UN must refuse to sanction militarism as the default response to unwanted migration and...
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Published in: 50.50The masculinisation of complexity
You would think a peace movement would be the least patriarchal of all social movements but you can masculinise...
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Published in: 50.50World disarmament? Start by disarming masculinity
Massive world military spending is driven by the profit motive of the arms industry and politicians’ weaponized...
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Published in: 50.50There are more of us who want peace than want the killing to continue
The ‘utopian’ slur against peacemakers is defeatist propaganda for pro-war, pro-militarisation and securitisation...
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Published in: 50.50A new narrative on human rights, security and prosperity
It’s up to us to ‘reframe the narrative’ of development, to move beyond the historic thrust of capital and war and...
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Published in: 50.50The pacifist dilemma: women peacemakers’ responses to Islamic State
Can non-violent strategies defeat the new fascism of Islamic State and its allies? Women peace makers’ hopes and...
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Published in: 50.50Speaking truth to power at the UN
"This may be the last time our voice is heard here…" excerpt from the Women's International League for Peace and...
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Published in: 50.50Women's power to stop war: rereading Virginia Woolf
Three Guineas was published in 1938 but it remains startlingly relevant. War will not end while women are kept out...
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Published in: 50.50Iraq's female citizens: prisoners of war
Iraqi woman human rights defender Yanar Mohammed spoke to Jennifer Allsopp at the Nobel Women’s Initiative...
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Published in: 50.50Security is not just CCTV: valuing ourselves is security
It feels as if the entire world has been given over to the most perverse notions of 'safety' that are really about...
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Published in: 50.50Women human rights defenders: reigniting the embers
The profile of today’s front line activist is different to that of the freedom fighter of old. We need to see her in...
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Published in: 50.50Mairead Maguire: breaking the silence on Palestine
Palestinian women human rights defenders and peace makers, in resisting the injustices being perpetrated upon their...
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Published in: 50.50Creating peace: a manifesto for the 21st century
How does an international women’s organisation with a hundred year history put Mahatma Gandhi’s famous call to...
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Published in: 50.50Violence is not inevitable: It is a choice
In 1915 a thousand women met in the Hague to demand an end to war. A thousand women are doing so again this week. It...