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Peace Journalism Perspective

EDITORIAL

Peace, Peace Education and the UN

How about peace education in all of that?  Training in handling complexity is basic, and the first tool to go is the world map using four colors to highlight the dying state system.  An illusion, the real world is much more complex.

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One on One – Johan Galtung

Johan Galtung, considered the father of peace studies, discusses why he dedicated his life to waging peace in the world.

FEATURED RESEARCH PAPER

Urgent Emphasis on Nonviolent Approach in News Reporting

21 Apr 2025 - The international workshop ‘Reporting on Non-Violence Approach’, organized by Pressenza and Dhaka Reporters Unity, was held on April 18. It was conducted virtually from Chile, Argentina, Italy, and the United Kingdom. 90 members of Dhaka Reporters Unity participated.

NOBEL LAUREATES

Trump’s Cultural Revolution

21 Apr 2025 - The First Thing We Do Is We Kill Intellectual Inquiry

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JOHAN GALTUNG MEMORIAL

New Peace Ideas and the Johan Galtung International Peace Prize

31 Dec 2024 - Excepting the Nobel Peace Prize, most of the international peace prizes are little known; some are not even regularly awarded; and a number of these, including the Nobel Peace Prize, shows little appreciation for the role of peace educators and researchers in promoting peace and building peace.

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Israel Stalls and the International Court of Justice Complies

23 Apr 2025 - One year ago, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel had fifteen months to prepare their defense ("counter memorial") against the charges of genocide filed by South Africa. They were told to present their arguments by 28 July 2025.

Memorable Configurations of Numbers of Cognitive and Strategic Relevance

Implications of Clarification Elicited through Exchange with AI - Corresponding to the long-recognized crisis of illiteracy and current aversion to reading, there is an increasing degree of recognition of innumeracy and the aversion to "mathematics"

The Good and the Bad Genocides: Palestine and Myanmar

25 Apr 2025 - This week, the think tank Pakistan Institute of International Affairs is hosting a conference “Seventy Years after Bandung: The Struggle Continues”. I will be among the anti-colonialist scholars, state officials and activists who will honour and keep alive the struggle against all forms of imperialist domination, control, exploitation and repression.

NATO Was Founded to Crush Communist, Socialist, and Anti-colonial Movements Worldwide

16 Apr 2025 - NATO was never a good idea gone wrong. It was founded to crush communist, socialist, and anti-colonial movements in Europe and around the world.

A New Pope, A New Policy?

21 Apr 2025 - Pope Francis was the first Pope from Latin America after a long line of Popes from Western Europe, mostly Italy, with one Pope from Poland, Jean-Paul II, who played an important role in the transition away from Communism in Poland.

Message of Condolences on Passing on of His Holiness Pope Francis I

21 Apr 2025 - On this solemn Easter Monday, we join you in mourning the passing of His Holiness Pope Francis—a shepherd of the marginalized, a bridge-builder between faiths, and a prophetic voice for our times.

The Odyssey of Moses from Antiquity to Peace of Pesach

Presently, the three branches of the Abrahamic faiths [1]observe extremely auspicious periods of spiritual upliftment Christianity observes, the 40 days of Lent leading up to the Holy Week and Easter Friday, when Jesus Christ[2], the persecuted Messiah was crucified.

IN FOCUS

Wiz Acquisition Puts Israeli Intelligence In Charge of Your Google Data

24 Apr 2025 - Google recently announced it would acquire Israeli-American cloud security firm Wiz for $32 billion. The price tag — 65 times Wiz’s annual revenue — has raised eyebrows and further solidified the close relationship between Google and the Israeli military.

Global Humanity Warns the Pharaohs of War for Consequences

16 Apr 2025 - Abnormal Politicians Become Leaders

Israel Inherits the US Hegemony in the Middle East

20 April 2025 - Israel is indirectly controlling a strip of the land along the Syrian border with Jordan, and is promoting a plan to create a "David Corridor" that connects Israel to the Kurdish region in northern Iraq. This is a plan for Israel to inherit Middle East hegemony from the United States...

The Western Narrative of Decline: A Misreading of Power and Purpose

25 Apr 2025 - For over two decades, a persistent narrative has circulated in Western media and political circles: the United States has been in a state of inexorable decline since the turn of the millennium.

AFRICA

Sudan’s Paramilitary Attacks Largest IDP Camps amid World’s Biggest Displacement Crisis, Killing Over 100

15 Apr 2025 - Burning down hundreds makeshift shelters used by the IDPs, Sudan’s paramilitary also torched the famine-struck camp’s central market and its community kitchen, burning the women inside alive, before attacking the last of the camp’s medical posts and killing all its staff.

Flooding Displaces Thousands amid Ongoing Unrest in Eastern DR Congo

15 Apr 2025 - Recent severe flooding caused by torrential rains has displaced nearly 10,000 people in Tanganyika province, DRC, the UN refugee agency, said today. 

ANGLO AMERICA

Preparing to ‘move on’, US says Ukraine is ‘not our war’

21 Apr 2025 - After weeks of fruitless talks, the Trump administration is increasingly suggesting that it will abandon its efforts to broker an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.

Close Military Bases, Not Embassies

21 Apr 2025 - The Trump clowns are planning to close U.S. embassies in Africa. Good riddance, right? Wrong.

EUROPE

Norway’s Prime Minister Accused of Complicity in Genocide

19 Apr 2025 - It is time to end impunity. We - Grandmothers against Genocide - have now filed a criminal complaint against top Norwegian politicians for complicity in genocide and war crimes.

LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN

Record Hunger in Haiti, with Millions at Risk

17 Apr 2025 - Escalating armed violence, displacement, economic turmoil and disruptions to local food production are fueling hunger in Haiti and leaving millions at risk, the UN World Food Programme said on today. 

Haiti ‘Awash’ with Guns Leaving Population ‘Absolutely Terrified’

17 Apr 2025 - Hundreds of thousands of guns are being used by gangs to exert control and spread terror in Haiti, according to the UN’s designated expert on the human rights situation in the Caribbean country.

MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA

The Deafening Silence: Arab Complicity and the Normalization of Evil in Gaza

16 April 2025 - The world is witnessing an unconscionable silence as Israel, an occupying power, imposes a total food blockade on Gaza--an illegal act of collective punishment against a captive civilian population--as famine tightens its grip.

UNITED NATIONS

Israel’s Gaza Massacre: Are We Witnessing the DEMONIC?

25 Apr 2025 - The wars in Palestine/Israel and Ukraine/Russia could not be prevented (or stopped) by the United Nations because the UN Charter is wrong. The UN is frustrated and unable to carry out its most important tasks of ending wars and eliminating nuclear weapons.

WHISTLEBLOWING - SURVEILLANCE

I’ve Worked at Google for Decades and I’m Sickened by What It’s Doing

16 Apr 2025 - For the first time, I feel driven to speak publicly, because our company is now powering state violence across the globe.

EDUCATION

Financing Higher Education to Build Non-exploitative Society for Peace

This text is based on a paper published in the Special Issue of University News – A Weekly Journal of Higher Education of Association of Indian Universities, Vol. 42, No. 52, Dec. 27, 2004

POETRY FORMAT

E `Ōlelo Kakou, Sisters E Pule Kakou, Sisters

(Let us speak together, Sisters) (Let us pray together, Sisters) Sisters and Brothers Hear our prayer to you, In the spirit of Aloha which our gods bequeathed to us and to you,

RELIGION

Greeting for Pesach

As you gather around the Seder table to celebrate Pesach, may this sacred time fill your hearts with peace, gratitude, and divine connection.

Holly Week and Easter Greetings

As we reflect upon the sacred journey of Jesus, from the solemnity of the Cross to the glory of the Resurrection, may we be reminded that even in moments of suffering, there is a divine promise of renewal and hope.

Greetings for the Holy Week and Easter

Easter Greetings

JOKE OF THE WEEK

Reason against Belief

Signs of the Times

ORIGINAL LANGUAGES

(Italiano) Francesco I: Umano E Rivoluzionario

24 Aprile 2025 - Perché rivoluzionario?

(French) Les Liens Troubles entre le Vatican et l’Azerbaïdjan : l’Arménie, Dindon de la Farce

24 Apr 2025 - Le Pape François vient de mourir en laissant de la poussière sous le tapis.

IN-DEPTH VIDEOS

The Secret Military History of the Internet

2 Apr 2025 - The internet, from its inception, was created as a tool of mass surveillance. Yasha Levine traces the origins of the web in his book, "Surveillance Valley," and how its roots in counter insurgency shape its function today.