PEACE JOURNALISM PERSPECTIVE
EDITORIAL
Peace State Iceland. Meaning What?
Nº 426 – Johan Galtung, 2 May 2016 - TRANSCEND Media Service
Why not make a Reykjavik Mediation Center, politically and internationally independent, and on Iceland’s location between West and East, USA and Russia? Look at the map. For Reykjavík to invite USA and Russia, with Kiev and Donetsk. Maybe also Brussels, in the sense of NATO and EU. Issue: the conflict in and around Ukraine–meaning “at the border”, between two nations, Catholic-Ukrainian and Orthodox-Russian; with much hatred and violence.
NOBEL LAUREATES
Dilemma for [Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi in Push for Peace Process in Burma/Myanmar
Nirmal Ghosh – The Straits Times
29 Apr 2016 – Myanmar’s de facto leader Aung San Suu Kyi has called for a major peace conference with ethnic minorities – a chance again for Myanmar to progress towards the federal state the minorities have fought for decades. Tough task ahead despite public support as backing of military is needed, say observers.
Contributing to the Catholic Church’s Understanding of and Commitment to Nonviolence
Mairead Maguire, Nobel Peace Laureate – TRANSCEND Media Service
Presentation to the International Conference on Nonviolence and Just Peace – Rome, April 11-13 2016 – I would like to see Pope Francis and the Catholic Church call for the total abolition of militarism (an aberration/dysfunction in human history.) Also For Pope Francis and the Church to renounce war and develop a ‘Theology of Nonkilling and Nonviolence’ rejecting the ‘Just War’ theology, which continues to lead people to an acceptance of militarism and war as alleged legitimate ways of solving conflict.
OTHER COMMENTARIES
BY TRANSCEND MEMBERS
“Us” and “Them”
Uri Avnery – TRANSCEND Media Service
NO. It’s not “us” and “them”. Not “us” – the good ones, the moral ones, the righteous ones. Or, to put it bluntly, the magnificent ones. The Jews. And not “them” – the bad ones, the evil ones. To put it bluntly again: the despicable ones. Yes, the Arabs. We, who were chosen by God, because we are so special…. “Arab lovers”? Yes. “Jew lovers”? Sure. But above all life-lovers, peace-lovers, lovers of this country.
If Obama Visits Hiroshima
Richard Falk – TRANSCEND Media Service
As the global approach to nuclear weapons, climate change, and neoliberal globalization should make clear, we are not likely to survive as a species very much longer if we continue to base world order on a blend of state-centric national interests and dominant actor geopolitics. Obama has this rare opportunity to choose the road not often traveled upon, and there is no better place to start such a voyage than at Hiroshima.
ACTIVISM
Celebrating Mother Jones and Labor on May Day
Rivera Sun, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
While Mother Jones sometimes used violent rhetoric in her inflammatory speeches, the actions she organized were nonviolent actions – boycotts, strikes, marches, walk-outs, work stoppages, rallies, speeches, and picketing. When she was denounced on the floor of the US Senate as the “grandmother of all agitators,” she replied: “I hope to live long enough to be the great-grandmother of all agitators.”
The Story behind Prince’s Low-Profile Generosity to Green Causes
Katie Herzog, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service
“Prince heard me in the media and sent a $50,000 check to support the work I was doing. But he did all his giving completely anonymously, so I sent the check back. You never know when someone is trying to set you up — it could have been from Chevron or from a drug dealer or whatever. So then he sent the check back and I sent it back again, and then he sent it back and then I sent it back, until finally a representative called and said, ‘Will you please accept this check? I won’t tell you who it is from, but the guy’s favorite color is purple.’
Court Victory Gives Momentum to Long Struggle against London Arms Fair
Javier Gárate – Waging Nonviolence
27 Apr 2016 – After a weeklong trial that ended on April 15, a judge in London found me and seven co-defendants not guilty for our actions last September to shut down the Defence Security and Equipment International arms fair, or DSEI, on the basis that we were preventing a greater crime. This is a huge victory in the long struggle to shut down one of the largest arms fairs in the world, which takes place in east London every other year.
OBITUARIES
Daniel J. Berrigan, Defiant Priest Who Preached Pacifism, Dies at 94
Daniel Lewis – International New York Times
The Rev. Daniel J. Berrigan, a Jesuit priest and poet whose defiant protests helped shape the tactics of opposition to the Vietnam War and landed him in prison, died on Saturday [30 Apr] in New York City. He was 94. The United States was tearing itself apart over civil rights and the war in Southeast Asia when Father Berrigan emerged in the 1960s as an intellectual star of the Roman Catholic “new left,” articulating a view that racism and poverty, militarism and capitalist greed were interconnected pieces of the same big problem: an unjust society.
IN FOCUS
Any Way to Halt Extremism?
Baher Kamal – TRANSCEND Media Service
“While it may be inevitable to draw on examples, such as Da’esh [also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, or ISIL] or Boko Haram, the phenomenon of violent extremism conducive to terrorism is not rooted or confined to any religion, region, nationality or ethnic group. Let us also recognize that today, the vast majority of victims worldwide are Muslims,” — UN chief Ban Ki-moon
Happiness Inequality Is a Better Measure of Well-Being than Income Inequality
Kira M. Newman, The Greater Good Science Center, UC Berkeley– TRANSCEND Media Service
Why Does Happiness Inequality Matter? According to a new report, income inequality isn’t the only thing we should be concerned about. Happiness reveals more about human welfare than standard indicators like wealth, education, health, or good government.
ANALYSIS
Death from the Sky: Searching for Ground Truth in the Kunduz Hospital Bombing
May Jeong – The Intercept
While patients and more than 100 employees and caretakers slept in the Kunduz Trauma Center, an American AC-130 gunship prepared to strike. The 211 shells fired at a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Afghanistan one night last October were felt by the 42 men, women, and children killed, victims of incompetence or prejudice or both. Someone along the US military chain of command gave the order.
US Military Whitewashes Attack on Afghan Hospital
Peter Symonds, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
30 Apr 2016 – The Pentagon’s final report into last October’s deadly US airstrike on a Doctors Without Borders (MSF) hospital in northern Afghanistan is a brazen whitewash. General Joseph Votel, commander of US Central Command, told a press conference yesterday that the attack was not a war crime because it had not been intentional. He claimed that neither the gunship crew members nor the Special Forces on the ground directing the attack “knew they were striking a medical facility.”
SPECIAL FEATURE
Chernobyl’s Ongoing Toll: 40,000 More Cancer Deaths?
Ian Fairlie - CounterPunch
• 40,000 fatal cancers are predicted in Europe over the next 50 years
• 6,000 thyroid cancer cases to date, 16,000 more expected
• 5 million people in Belarus, Ukraine and Russia still live in highly contaminated areas (>40 kBq/sq.m)
• 400 million in less contaminated areas (>4 kBq/sq.m)
• 37% of Chernobyl’s fallout was deposited on western Europe;
• 42% of western Europe’s land area was contaminated
• increased radiogenic thyroid cancers expected in West European countries
• increased radiogenic leukemias, cardiovascular diseases, breast cancers confirmed
• new evidence of radiogenic birth defects, mental health effects and diabetes
• new evidence that children living in contaminated areas suffer radiogenic illnesses
Touring Tragedy: A Day of Disaster Porn in Chernobyl
Hilmar Schmundt and Phil Thoma - Der Spiegel
It is the site of the most devastating nuclear disaster in history, but the Chernobyl exclusion zone has also become a magnet for tourists seeking a thrill. Join us for a tour.
Nuclear Emergencies and the Masters of Improvisation
Sonja Schmid – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
April 26 marks the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, and those old enough to remember the event can recall the explosion, the evacuation, and the dread. But they rarely remember an immense milestone in the response to the disaster: the completion in November 1986 of a concrete encasement of Chernobyl’s reactor number four. Workers drawn from all across the Soviet Union built this “sarcophagus” under extreme radiological conditions, on the ruins of the destroyed reactor.
Learning from Nuclear Accidents, Expanding Nuclear Energy
Augustin Simo – Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 was caused by factors including a flawed reactor design, insufficient training of plant operators, and a lack of nuclear safety culture.
ANGLO AMERICA
Andrew Bacevich and America’s Long Misguided War to Control the Greater Middle East
Charles Glass – The Intercept
23 Apr 2016 – The conviction that invasion, bombing, and special forces benefit large swaths of the globe, while remaining consonant with a Platonic ideal of the national interest, runs deep in the American psyche. Nothing undermines the American belief in military force. No matter how often its galloping about results in resentment, the U.S. gets up again to do good elsewhere. Afghanistan commander Gen. Stanley McChrystal pointed out that drone strikes are great recruiters, not for the U.S. military, but for the Taliban, al Qaeda, and ISIS.
Duty to Warn – Bad Science? Or Willful Ignorance at the CDC?
Gary G. Kohls, MD – TRANSCEND Media Service
And why It Has Lost Its Trustworthiness when It Comes to Vaccine Policy
The Unbearable Lightness of [Canada’s Minister of Foreign Affairs] Stéphane Dion
Matthew Behrens, Rabble – TRANSCEND Media Service
On May 26, a man responsible for complicity in horrific war crimes, Henry Kissinger, will arrive in Toronto, along with another similarly shady character, Shimon Peres, to speak at the incredibly named Spirit of Hope gathering. Meanwhile, CANSEC16, the annual gathering of Canada’s war industry, along with companies that profit from mass surveillance, border control, militarization of police forces, and refugee interdiction, will take place at Ottawa’s EY Centre on May 25 and 26. It expects over 11,000 visitors and 61 international delegations.
The Joke of U.S. Justice and “Accountability” When They Bomb a Hospital
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
One officer was suspended from command and ordered out of Afghanistan. The others were given lesser punishments: Six were sent to counseling, seven were issued letters of reprimand, and two were ordered to retraining courses.
The Unrepentant Torturers
John Kiriakou - Reader Supported News
A policy of torture, a policy of holding people incommunicado in secret prisons, a policy of rendering people to third countries to undergo even more brutal torture, does nothing but serve as a recruiting tool for terrorists. Torture doesn’t prevent terrorism, it causes it.
ASIA & THE PACIFIC
Sanctions and Defiance in North Korea
Mel Gurtov, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
When all is said and done, the most likely scenario is that the new round of sanctions will produce no better results than previous rounds. This is so not only because North Korea has many ways to procure items needed for its military purposes, and plenty of willing private sellers.
The Battle over the Word ‘Rohingya’ [in Burma aka Myanmar]
Adam Taylor – The Washington Post
Hundreds of people gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Rangoon, Burma, on Thursday [28 Apr] with a demand: The United States must stop using the word “Rohingya.” To most of the world, the Rohingya are a Bengali-speaking Muslim minority in Buddhist-majority Burma, also known as Myanmar. More than 1 million Rohingya are thought to live in Burma, the majority of them in Rakhine state. Despite the size and long-standing presence of this community, the government does not consider its members Burmese citizens.
BRICS
Washington Launches Its Attack against BRICS
Paul Craig Roberts – TRANSCEND Media Service
26 Apr 2016 – Having removed the reformist President of Argentina, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Washington is now disposing of the reformist President of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff.
The Constitutional Coup-Color Revolution Two-Step in Brazil
Andrew Korybko – Oriental Review
It was revealed in September 2013 as part of the Snowden Leaks that the NSA had been spying on Petrobras , the company at the heart of the ‘constitutional coup’ scandal, which in turn raises the possibility that the US had obtained ‘compromising’ information on the alleged corruption activities of key ruling party executives and was waiting for the right time to weaponized it. It shouldn’t be seen as coincidental that the “Car Wash” ‘anti-corruption’ investigation began nearly half a year later in March 2014.
EUROPE
Austria Abolishes Right to Asylum
Markus Salzmann, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP)/Social Democrat (SPÖ) far-right coalition rushed a law through parliament on Wednesday [27 Apr] that practically abolishes the right to asylum.
Rebuilding the EU or Breaking Free from It?
C J Polychroniou – Al Jazeera
The powers that be continue to defend ferociously a Frankenstein-like creation, a playground for financial vultures.
Refugee Crisis: When Is a Tragedy a Massacre?
Richard Seymour – Al Jazeera
The EU is simply determined not to be a destination for refugees. With illegal pushbacks, brutal detainment, and harassment at sea, the options for refugees are increasingly severe.
LATIN AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN
The Return of the Coup in Latin America
Manuel E. Yepe - CounterPunch
Venezuela and Brazil are the scenes of a new form of coup d’état that would set the continent’s political calendar back to its worst times. What has been shown so far in Argentina is no less cruel, in terms of contempt for the masses, than the coups carried out by the bloodthirsty dictatorships that sprouted in time of Operation Condor.
MIDDLE EAST & NORTH AFRICA
Can We Feel the Heat?
Cathy Breen, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
27 Apr 2016 – I am travelling as a peace witness in Iraqi Kurdistan. We visited a sheikh whom I had met in Fallujah in 2012. He and his family were forced to flee to Kurdistan about two years ago. Fallujah is being held by ISIS. None of the residents is allowed to leave. People are dying of starvation.
PALESTINE / ISRAEL
On Israel’s Recent Threats of “Civil Assassinations” of BDS Activists
Omar Barghouti, BDS South Africa – TRANSCEND Media Service
18 Apr 2016 – Some, including journalists, have written to me inquiring about or voicing their concern at the recent Israeli government minister’s threat of “civil targeted killing” against BDS “leaders” and activists. Moshe Dayan once said that “Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother.” The current Israeli regime is scrupulously heeding Dayan’s advice. But “mad dogs” can be stopped. Indeed, mad dogs must be stopped, as there is no telling whom they may bite next.
Anthropologists Marshalling History: The American Anthropological Association’s Vote on the Academic Boycott of Israeli Institutions
Roberto J. González and David Price - CounterPunch
The AAA’s full membership now has a historic opportunity to vote on whether or not to approve the boycott of Israeli academic institutions. The rank-and-file membership’s overwhelming support for the Resolution 2 was clear, but so too is the determination, resources, and willingness to use fear tactics of the minority who oppose the pro-boycott measure. Now is the time for concerned anthropologists to take action by voting to support the resolution.
In Israel, an Ugly Tide Sweeps Over Palestinians
Jonathan Cook – TRANSCEND Media Service
The trigger-happy soldier Elor Azaria and the peace camp leader Isaac Herzog have more in common than either might wish to admit. In their different ways, both have helped to turn all Palestinians into outcasts – and crush any hope of concessions from Israel to peace.
SYRIA IN DEPTH
Can Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Preserve Our Cultural Heritage in Syria?
Franklin Lamb – TRANSCEND Media Service
This month’s Trafalgar Square exhibition in London of a digitally modeled replica of Syria’s 2000-year-old Roman Triumphal Arch at Palmyra, which was destroyed by ISIS in Oct 2015, is sparking yet further discussion about the rights and wrongs of restoration at ancient sites. Approximately two thirds the size of the original, the replica arch was created through the efforts of Oxford University’s Institute of Digital Archeology.
Popular Representation and Democracy in Syria – End of `Alawite Dictatorship’?
Kristian Girling – Oriental Review
27 Apr 2016 – Plurality within the parliament is of significance insofar as it is indicative of the involvement of a range of religious communities in Syrian political life and runs directly contrary to the prevailing narrative of Syria as a dictatorship dominated by the Alawite religious community and to the exclusion of the involvement of other religious communities in political activity.
MEDIA
NYT Photographer Mauricio Lima, 2016 Pulitzer Winner, Denounces Globo and the “Coup” in Brazil
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
Brazil’s media has completely lost control of the narrative internationally, but also increasingly within Brazil. Their sleazy plan to install as president the corruption-tainted, deeply unpopular, oligarch-serving Vice President Michel Temer – who just this week, in a indescribably Orwellian manner, called proposals for “new elections” a “coup” – is becoming untenable.
How Can We Keep Press Freedom from Withering Away?
Farhana Haque Rahman – Inter Press Service-IPS
While a free press means that a journalist has rights, it does not mean that she or he is right.
2016 World Press Freedom Index: Leaders Paranoid about Journalists
Reporters Without Borders – TRANSCEND Media Service
20 Apr 2016 – Most of the movement in the World Press Freedom Index unveiled today by Reporters Without Borders is indicative of a climate of fear and tension combined with increasing control over newsrooms by governments and private-sector interests. 180 Countries Ranked According to Freedom Allowed to Journalists
You’re More Likely to See an Oil Industry Ad than a Climate Report on CNN
Xian Chiang-Waren, Grist – TRANSCEND Media Service
Planet Earth is shattering climate records left and right. But don’t expect CNN viewers to know that. Over two recent weeks, the network aired more oil industry advertising than climate change coverage — nearly five times more.
Amid Media Megamergers, a Mosaic of Community Media Thrives
Amy Goodman and Denis Moyhihan – Democracy NOW!
Even in this high-tech digital age, all we get is static: that veil of distortion, lies, misrepresentations and half-truths that obscure reality. We need the media to give us the dictionary definition of static: Criticism. Opposition. Unwanted interference. We need a media that covers power, not covers for power. We need a media that is the Fourth Estate, not for the state. And we need a media that covers the movements that create static and make history. That is the power of independent media.
MILITARISM
US Army’s Depleted Uranium Licencing Saga Highlights Post-Conflict Contradictions
International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons – TRANSCEND Media Service
The saga of the M101 contamination should serve as a reminder of the contradictory and often hypocritical approach taken by the states that employ DU weapons – and of the challenge that the use of DU weapons poses to fundamental international radiation protection norms.
Why NATO Has Become One of the Most Destructive Forces on the Planet
Vijay Prashad - AlterNet
Actions in Afghanistan, Europe, and Libya have created insecurity rather than order.
Obama’s War Summit in Europe
Bill Van Auken, WSWS – TRANSCEND Media Service
President Barack Obama ended his six-day trip through Saudi Arabia, Britain and Germany Monday [25 Apr 2016] with what amounted to a mini-war summit. The American president’s message to his European counterparts was that they must stop being “complacent” and work to build up their own military forces for interventions in the Middle East, North Africa and against Russia to the east. Obama’s host, Chancellor Merkel, proudly declared, “We are ready and willing to be militarily engaged,” citing the German military’s participation in ongoing interventions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Mali.
Escalating U.S. Air Strikes Kill Hundreds of Civilians in Mosul, Iraq
Nicolas J S Davies, PeaceVoice – TRANSCEND Media Service
The war commander, Lt Gen McFarland, now orders air strikes that are expected to kill up to 10 civilians without prior approval from U.S. Central Command, and U.S. officials acknowledge that air strikes are killing more civilians under the new rules. The fundamental contradiction of the militarized “war on terror” is that U.S. aggression and other war crimes only reinforce the narratives of jihadis who see themselves as a bulwark against foreign aggression and neocolonialism in the Muslim world.
WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
It Is Still 3 Minutes to Midnight
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – TRANSCEND Media Service
The Doomsday Clock is an internationally recognized design that conveys how close we are to destroying our civilization with dangerous technologies of our own making. First and foremost among these are nuclear weapons, but the dangers include climate-changing technologies, emerging biotechnologies, and cybertechnology that could inflict irrevocable harm, whether by intention, miscalculation, or by accident, to our way of life and to the planet.
ENVIRONMENT
Solar Impulse Pilot: ‘I Flew Over Plastic Waste As Big As a Continent’
Lorraine Chow, EcoWatch - TRANSCEND Media Service
As the Solar Impulse 2 made its historic 62-hour flight from Hawaii to California without fuel, pilot Bertrand Piccard personally saw the horrific amount of plastic in our oceans.While flying above the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, Piccard sent out a tweet to Boyan Slat, the 21-year-old founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup.
Call of the Forests – Seeking Joy and Peace
Dr Ravi P Bhatia – TRANSCEND Media Service
Forests are symbols of life. If we did not have forests on the planet Earth it would be difficult to visualise what type of life could be present. But life as we know it would not exist. How is this so? The world celebrates Earth Day on 22nd April. It would be wonderful if we also started celebrating World Forest Day.
ENERGY
Debacle at Doha: The Collapse of the Old Oil Order
Michael T. Klare - TomDispatch
For a country that more than any other has rested its claim to wealth and power on the production and sale of petroleum, this is a revolutionary statement. If Saudi Arabia says it is ready to begin a move away from reliance on petroleum, we are indeed entering a new world in which, among other things, the titans of oil production will no longer hold sway over our lives as they have in the past.
COOPERATIVISM
The Evolution of Union Co-ops and the Historical Development of Workplace Democracy
James Anderson, Toward Freedom – TRANSCEND Media Service
“Every worker has an equal, democratic vote at weekly meetings that decide all matters of the organization. And we are all members of the Industrial Workers of the World to protect that process so that it can’t be hijacked.”
CAPITALISM
Nothing Is Real: “It’s All Being Played to Keep People Believing the System Is Working”
Tyler Durden, Zero Hedge – TRANSCEND Media Service
The entire system is built upon a fraud. The losses have been hidden and papered over with trillion dollar cash infusions by governments and central banks around the world. Every single asset now… I don’t care what asset… you want to look at currency, debt, housing, metals, the stock market… pick an asset… there’s no price discovery mechanism behind it whatsoever… it’s all fake… it’s all being distorted. It’s time to prepare for a collapse of a magnitude never before witnessed.
Valeant CEO to Tell Senate He’s Really, Really Sorry for Raising the Price of Life-Saving Heart Drugs 700 Percent
Claire Landsbaum – New York Magazine
As head of Valeant, Pearson made enormous profits through a combination of corporate inversion, swindling investors, and jacking up the prices of decades-old drugs in such a way that forced insurance companies to foot the bill.
RELIGION
From Just War to Just Peace
Bernt Jonsson – TRANSCEND Media Service
As to the issues of war and peace there is a new focus. Now it can be stated and said firmly: The calling and the task of the church is to be a peace church. That is nothing less than a basic paradigm shift in theology and Christian ethic.
ANIMAL RIGHTS / VEGETARIANISM
Kenya Burns Huge Pile of Ivory Tusks to Protest Poaching
Tom Odula, Associated Press – Reader Supported News
Kenya’s president set fire Saturday [30 Apr 2016] to 105 tons of elephant ivory and more than 1 ton of rhino horn in a dramatic statement against the trade in ivory and products from endangered species. Kenya decided to destroy the ivory instead of selling it for an estimated $150 million. Pres. Kenyatta said that Kenya wants to make the point that ivory should not have any commercial value.
HISTORY
This Week in History
Satoshi Ashikaga - TRANSCEND Media Service
May 2–8 ~ QUOTE OF THE WEEK: “All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do.” – Leo Tolstoy
BIOGRAPHIES
Karl Marx (5 May 1818 – 14 Mar 1883)
The European Graduate School – TRANSCEND Media Service
Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Trier, Germany. His father was a lawyer who came from a long line of Rabbis, but had changed his faith to Protestantism in order to keep his job. Karl Marx went to the University of Bonn to study law when he was 17 years old.
Teilhard de Chardin (1 May 1881 – 10 Apr 1955): Evolution toward World Unity
Rene Wadlow – TRANSCEND Media Service
For Teilhard, love was not an emotion or a sentiment but the basic primal and universal psychic energy. This is a concept drawn from Chinese culture. Teilhard lived in China from 1923 to 1946. The Chinese word jen, a term translated as love, benevolence or affection, is not only an emotional-moral term, but it is also a cosmic force − a compassionate quality that is the very structure of the earth.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Living Peace Sign Is Happening in London!
Alberto Portugheis – TRANSCEND Media Service
An exciting and much needed event is happening at Trafalgar Square on Saturday, 14 May 2016. Seeing Trafalgar Square full of people holding candles for peace, means that united we can send a very strong message to the world with our wish for ending all wars and conflicts.
19th World Congress of the International Association of Educators for World Peace
Surya Nath Prasad, Ph. D. - TRANSCEND Media Service
The Conference Organizing Committee invites members from Academia, Administration, Research and Corporate Fraternity to participate in the deliberations by submitting research papers, articles, review studies, case studies on the themes/sub-themes of “Peace Education for Good Governance and Non-Violence” from 24 to 26 October, 2016.
POETRY FORMAT
I Lost My Childhood
José María Lopera – TRANSCEND Media Service
I lost my childhood
at seven years old I was a man
a man of war and of death
a man of a weapon that whistles
and the bomb that explodes in surprise
IN OTHER LANGUAGES
(Português) Mauricio Lima, Fotógrafo do NYT e Ganhador do Pulitzer 2016, Denuncia a Globo e o “Golpe” no Brasil
Glenn Greenwald – The Intercept
“Gostaria de expressar meu apoio a liberdade de imprensa e a Democracia, que é exatamente o que não está acontecendo no Brasil nesse momento. Sou contra o Golpe,” disse o herói brasileiro, também denunciando a Globo.
(Italiano) Far prevalere il Vangelo della nonviolenza nel pensiero e nell’azione della Chiesa
Jean-Marie Muller – TRANSCEND Media Service
Ciò che è notevole, e probabilmente decisivo, è che i partecipanti non si contentano di aggiungere un paragrafo sulla nonviolenza nella dottrina della violenza legittima e della guerra giusta, ma mettono in discussione questa dottrina in nome dell’esigenza di nonviolenza. «Quelli tra noi – afferma il documento – che si pongono nella tradizione cristiana sono chiamati a riconoscere il carattere centrale della nonviolenza attiva nella visione e nel messaggio di Gesù.
(Italiano) La ricerca della Buona Città
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service
Una semplice teoria: se una città ti fa sentire bene, a tuo agio – “E’ così piacevole vivere qui”, dicono in molti – allora qualcosa penetra in te e ti rende nonviolento. Se la città, il luogo in cui vivi, un contesto fondamentale nella tua vita, ti urta in malo modo, allora scende in te un atteggiamento aggressivo, può arrivare alla violenza, e spesso si accompagna a conflitti razziali o etnici.
(Português) Prêmio Nobel da Paz Adolfo Pérez Esquivel traz apoio do Papa a Dilma
Leonardo Boff – TRANSCEND Media Service
29 de Abril de 2016 – O vencedor do prêmio Nobel da Paz em 1980, o argentino Adolfo Pérez Esquivel revelou, em entrevista ao jornalista Darío Pignotti, do jornal Página 12, que levou à presidente Dilma Rousseff o apoio do Papa Francisco. O pontífice é também argentino e mantém estreita ligação com movimentos de defesa dos direitos humanos na América Latina.
(Français) Réhabiliter une lecture Nord-Sud du monde
François Polet – CETRI-Centre Tricontinental
Maintes fois déclarée caduque par les diplomates occidentaux, la grille de lecture Nord-Sud n’a pas perdu sa pertinence dans les milieux politique et universitaire au Sud. La croissance d’une poignée d’émergents et l’existence de risques globaux n’ont pas gommé les asymétries héritées des colonisations. Et les déphasages socio-historiques entre Nord et Sud alimentent des lectures divergentes des causes et réponses aux grands déséquilibres mondiaux.
SHORT VIDEO CLIPS
11-Year-Old Twins Mack and Colby – Amazing Family Brass Band (Music Video of the Week)
Little Big Shots – TRANSCEND Media Service
Mar 20, 2016 – Twins Mack and Colby are only 11, but that doesn’t stop them from going on stage and giving a terrific musical performance, playing one of Louis Armstrong’s greatest jazz hits. Enjoy as the New Orleans-style Dixieland child band Pelican 212 plays Armstrong’s ‘When the Saints Go Marching In’.
Amy Goodman: How the Media Ruins Elections
Al Jazeera - TRANSCEND Media Service
Amy Goodman, of Democracy NOW!, tells us about Trump-land and how the media is ruining this election.
JOKE OF THE WEEK
Morbid Insecurity
M. Wuerker – TRANSCEND Media Service
A Psychiatric Condition
“Capitalism and State sovereignty are goners. Bankism rules the world in all respects now.” “Militaries are the ultimate manifestation of direct, structural and cultural violence—a cancer that must be extirpated from humanity.” — Antonio C. S. Rosa, M.A.
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