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21 September – International Day of Peace
United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
2018 Theme: “The Right to Peace – The Universal Declaration of Human Rights at 70”
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Economy and Living Standards of Gaza ‘Eviscerated’ by Crippling Blockade – UN Trade and Development Report
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
12 Sep 2018 – The Occupied Palestinian Territory now suffers the highest unemployment rate in the world, with incomes and agricultural production going down, the United Nations trade and development agency said today, noting that women and young people were worst affected, as the Israeli occupation continues.
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Blockades ‘Expose’ the Innocent to the ‘Ravages of Economic War’ – UN Sanctions Expert Warns
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Sep 2018
13 Sep 2018 – Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy pointed out today that civilians affected by blockades do not benefit from the protection of the Geneva Convention, which is aimed at safeguarding civilians during wartime. Economic sanctions must not be allowed to degenerate into blockades that “expose people to the ravages of economic war in peacetime.”
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Uprising and the End of Empire
Johan Galtung | Alternate Focus – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
Peace mediator Johan Galtung gives his analysis of the uprisings in the Arab world as an indicator the era of Western domination in the region is coming to an end.
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Nuclear Abolition: The Road from Armageddon to Transformation
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – The sunlight-blocking dust generated by the detonation of, say, 300 thermonuclear weapons in a war between the US and Russia could trigger a new Ice Age, dropping global temperatures to the lowest levels in 18,000 years, and leaving civilization utterly destroyed. Those who would survive the blast, heat, and radiation of nuclear war would live in a nuclear winter of freezing temperatures and perpetual darkness. The survivors would likely envy the dead.
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We Are the Same
Hüsamettin Olgun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
10 Sep 2018
What if each of us listens to a different song
And cherishes a different color;
That wouldn’t be wrong!
As Conflicts Become More Complex, ‘Mediation Is No Longer an Option; It Is a Necessity’, UN Chief Tells Security Council
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
29 Aug 2018 – As war and the mediation of peace have become increasingly complex, innovative thinking is needed to save and improve the lives of millions, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres told the Security Council today.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Sep 2018
“Mob protests in Germany show vigor of far right”, in Chemnitz. Neo-nazis. Nazism was about race–Bolshevism about class. Churchill about both–so it is probably skin color, not religion. As expected. There are difficult, bad times ahead.
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How the Media Keep Americans in the Dark about the Slaughter in Yemen
CJ Werleman – American Herald Tribune,
27 Aug 2018
18 Aug 2018 – The US Department of Defense has tried to downplay the United States role in what must surely constitute a war crime and/or a crime against humanity by either arguing it’s still investigating the matter or by disingenuously minimizing its involvement.
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The Metaphysics to Our Present Global Anguish
Alastair Crooke | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
20 Aug 2018 – The American millenarian ‘myth’, then and now, was (and is), rooted in the fervent belief in the Manifest Destiny of the United States, ‘the New Jerusalem’, to represent humanity’s best hope for a utopian future. This belief in a special destiny has been reflected in a conviction that the United States must lead – or more properly, has the duty to coerce – mankind toward that future. Pre-Socratic values: For the Ancients, the very notion of ‘man’, in that way, did not exist. There were only men: Greeks, Romans, barbarians, Syrians, and so on. This stands in obvious opposition to universal, cosmopolitan ‘man’.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi Is Most Polished Mouthpiece of Myanmar Military
Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
25 Aug 2018 – Free Rohingya Coalition co-founder Maung Zarni, a member of the TRANSCEND Network, says time to reject false messiahs in Myanmar beginning with Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Cox’s Bazar: The World’s Largest Refugee Settlement
Kristine Kolstad | Norwegian Refugee Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
24 Aug 2018 – In August of last year, extreme violence erupted in Myanmar’s Rakhine State, forcing hundreds of thousands of civilians to flee their homes. One year has passed, and around 725,000 refugees from Myanmar have sought safety in neighbouring Bangladesh, according to the UNHCR.
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Myanmar: Tatmadaw Leaders Must Be Investigated for Genocide, Crimes against Humanity, War Crimes – UN Report
UH Human Rights Council – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Aug 2018
27 Aug 2018 – “Military necessity would never justify killing indiscriminately, gang raping women, assaulting children, and burning entire villages. The Tatmadaw’s tactics are consistently and grossly disproportionate to actual security threats. They are shocking for the level of denial, normalcy and impunity. The State Counsellor, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, has not used her de facto position as Head of Government, nor her moral authority, to stem or prevent the unfolding events in Rakhine State,” the report states.
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Rohingyas Declare Their Crime as GENOCIDE: Join Them in Their Radical Act
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
16 Aug 2018 – One fundamentally misguided thinking regarding genocides and atrocity crimes is this: only the UN-supported judicial process and lawyers can determine what is and what is not genocide. I for one reject any neo-colonial thinking that looks to powerful politicians and networks to call atrocity crimes by their names.
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Kofi Annan, Nobel Peace Laureate and Former UN Chief, Dead at 80
Kofi Annan Foundation - TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
Kofi Annan, the only black African to become UN Secretary-General, has died.
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‘Defend the People, Not the States’, Says Outgoing UN Human Rights Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
15 Aug 2018 – For four years, Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has been taking governments across the world to task, publicly naming and shaming States which have fallen short of their human rights obligations.
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Drugged Waters – How Modern Medicine Is Turning into an Environmental Curse
UN Environment – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
The aquatic and human health consequences of pharmaceutical drugs entering the environment through wastewater treatment plants is not yet well understood.
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Remembering Rohingya Survivors of Genocide in August
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
20 Aug 2018
Forgetting is a crime in the face of mass atrocities. So let’s remember the Rohingya victims this 25 August. However empty the words “Never again!” have become for the UN member states, we, the people of this world, must not let our Frankensteinian and immoral states destroy our human spirit and universal compassion.
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Peter Wadhams, Professor Emeritus, Ocean Physics
Robert Hunziker - Counterpunch,
20 Aug 2018
10 Aug 2018 – My mission was to drill down into what’s happening with the climate crisis. I got the answers I was looking for… Methane embedded in frozen deposits in shallow waters north of Siberia is the most underrated and overlooked risk by the scientific community, which prompts many, many hard questions. My follow up question: What will be the impact of a 50Gt pulse? Answer: “It would wipe out civilization within 5 years.”
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Kerala Flood Is Thousands of Times the Magnitude of Thai Cave Rescue!
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
18 Aug 2018 – The international community that stood as one to save the Thai kids should wake up to the disaster in Kerala. Tens of thousands of people are stranded in remote areas, in the upper floors of the houses, on trees and even on roof tops. Dead bodies are floating around in flood waters. And nobody moves. The support of UN disaster management team should be sought.
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America’s Militarized Economy
Eric Zuesse – The Unz Review,
20 Aug 2018
10 Aug 2018 – Donald Trump’s biggest success has been his sale of $400 billion of U.S.-made weapons to the Saudi Arabian Government, which is owned by its royal family. This sale is gigantic, and, by far, unprecedented in world-history. The weapons that the Sauds and their friends, the 7 monarchies that constitute the United Arab Emirates, are using right now, in order to conquer and subdue Yemen, are entirely made in America. That’s terrific business.
→ read full articleThis Is the Real, Americanized, Nazi-Dominated Ukraine
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
7 Aug 2018 – Such important reality as is shown in this picture is virtually unpublishable in mainstream US ‘news’media, because US ‘news’media need to deceive their public about the most important international realities — such as that the US imposed upon Ukraine a nazi regime against Russia, and the US now lies to accuse Russia for doing what Russia must do in order to protect itself from the US nazi regime next-door. This is the nonfictional, historical, version of George Orwell’s fictional novel, 1984. It is happening, right now.
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‘Pioneering’ Former Chilean President Michelle Bachelet Officially Appointed New UN Human Rights Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
After a vote on Friday [10 Aug] by the United Nations General Assembly in New York, former two-time President of Chile, Michelle Bachelet, hailed a “pioneer” by the UN Secretary-General, has officially been appointed as High Commissioner for Human Rights, effective from 1 September.
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Peace Journalism: A Needed, Desirable and Practicable Reform
Vanessa Bassil | University for Peace – Peace and Conflict Monitor,
13 Aug 2018
The idea of peace journalism has attracted its share of critiques and controversies, but as Vanessa Bassil argues, it still offers a much needed and practical, peace-oriented perspective from which media can be analysed and produced.
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Can Afghans Convince Us That the Method of War Isn’t Effective?
Dr Hakim Young – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
2 Aug 2018 – Can Afghans convince us that the method of war doesn’t work? Consider their thirst to end the war
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Take Today’s Enveloping Fascism Seriously
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
6 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – The signs of the contagion of cultivated fascist mindset, its institutionalisation and popular mobilisation by those in power–abstract ideas are nothing without institutional backing or concrete structures–are everywhere, for those with trained eyes to detect fascism. We either wake up and fight back, or find ourselves on the receiving end of the impacts, sooner rather than later. Yes, things are that bad. Look closer. And think harder.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
The state of the world is right now going from bad to worse, with more violence or threats thereof; an epidemic, even pandemic, of violence. And more inequality within and between countries and money buying votes in fake elections and politicians in fake democracies turning plutocracies run by money. And nature insulted; less diversity and less symbiosis with CFCs in the ozone layer.
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(Português) Alterações Climáticas: Ninguém Repara nas Vacas a Pastar
Nuno Alvim – Público [Portugal],
6 Aug 2018
31 de Julho de 2018 – Estima-se que a produção de animais seja responsável pela emissão global de cerca de 14,5% dos gases poluentes de estufa, ao passo que todos os transportes no mundo são responsáveis por 13% dessa emissão global, comparativamente. Em Portugal, a Quercus, reconhecida entidade ambientalista, constatou que a agricultura, inclusive a agropecuária, utiliza 80% dos recursos hídricos. E, no entanto, o nosso foco tem recaído essencialmente sobre os restantes 20%, uma percentagem marginal, em boa parte correspondendo ao uso doméstico.
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In a Counter World – Hug a Fascist
Binu Mathew | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
30 Jul 2018 – Modi by his political ideology and his governance track record is a personification of a true-blue fascist. Rahul Gandhi’s hug has a magnanimous meaning for the world. Hate mongers should be countered by love. Only people who love or hate touch each other. A loving touch or a violent slap! In a Counter World, the violent hate mongers should be physically hugged lovingly by peace mongers.
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India Must Stand by the Rohingya in Their Hour of Need
Tapan Bose | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
1 Aug 2018 – On Tuesday (July 30) Mr. Rijiju, the Minister of State for Home said some of the Rohingya living in India do not have the status of “refugee” but are “illegal migrants” who would be deported once their details have been prepared. Rohingyas are the most persecuted people in the world. Let us not add to their misfortune. It is possible that a few individual Rohingya refugees might have committed some crime. But that should not be the reason to classify the entire community as “criminals”.
→ read full article‘Economy Is Society’s Servant, Not Its Master,’ Say UN Rights Experts, Urging Brazil to Put Human Rights before Austerity
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Aug 2018
3 Aug 2018 – Marginalized groups suffer unduly harsh consequences due to Brazil’s economic policies of austerity, prompting United Nations rights experts to urge the Government to instead prioritize human rights.
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My Unadulterated Thoughts on Ahmed Tamimi: “During My Lifetime I Have Never Seen Peace”
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
30 Jul 2018 – Israel is no exception: the persecuted and the oppressed have more often than not morphed into monstrous executioners and oppressors themselves. The United States, Canada, Australia–all settler colonies (genocidal colonies, that is)–spring to mind. My own birthplace, Burma/Myanmar, is another despicable human community–once colonized, exploited and abused; now it is the colonizer, exploiter, and a bloody mass murderer as a nation.
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(Français) Le traité de paix entre l’Erythrée et l’Ethiopie met fin à des décennies de conflit frontalier
Arun Kumar | The Down News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
17 Juil 2018 – Les habitants ont célébré dans les rues d’Asmara, la capitale de l’Erythrée, la normalisation des relations diplomatiques et le rétablissement des voies de communication.
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We Are the Same
Hüsamettin Olgun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
Turkish Peace Poem Translated by Talat Halman
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European Parliament Calls for a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly and a UN Reform Summit in 2020
UNPA Campaign | DWF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Jul 2018
27 Jul 2018 – In a resolution adopted today, the European Parliament called on the EU’s governments to advocate “the establishment of a United Nations Parliamentary Assembly” and to support a “UN 2020 summit” that will consider “comprehensive reform measures for a renewal and strengthening of the United Nations.”
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Russia and the U.S. Are Not Condemned to Confrontation
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev | Gorbachev Foundation – The Transnational,
30 Jul 2018
4 Jun 2018 – Mikhail Gorbachev’s Address to Participants in the Conference Marking the 30th Anniversary of Ronald Reagan’s Visit and the Moscow Summit – “Russia and the United States are not condemned to confrontation. We must now make up for lost time!”
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Dag Hammarskjöld (29 Jul 1905 – 18 Sep 1961): Second UN Secretary-General
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 10 April 1953 until 18 September 1961 when he died in a plane crash while on a peace mission in the Congo.
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New Import Restrictions Risk Triggering ‘Dramatic Deterioration’ in Gaza, Says UN Humanitarian Coordinator
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Jul 2018
17 Jul 2018 – Following further restrictions on goods and supplies that can be moved across the border of the Gaza Strip, the top United Nations humanitarian official there has called for urgent measures to prevent an already critical humanitarian situation from getting worse.
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Were the Rohingya Massacres Pre-Planned?
Ashley S. Kinseth – Dhaka Tribune,
23 Jul 2018
According the survivors, their village was entirely fenced off with barbed wire for 45 straight days before it was attacked. After running out of food, they said, the villagers resorted to eating leaves to survive—with two neighbors ultimately dying of starvation. The final attack came on August 26. Faking his own death with only his eyes and nose above the water of a fishing pond, the villager recalls vividly witnessing a series of murders, gang-rapes, and neighbour-filled shelters set ablaze with RPGs. The only survivors, they reported, were those who had managed to wait out the atrocities in the water, smoke, or weeds.
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Protests Erupting around US RIMPAC War Games Off of Hawaii
Jon Olsen | Tikkun – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 – Hawaiians Are Protesting the RIMPAC War Games and the Continued US Military Occupation of the Kingdom of Hawaii – The RIMPAC war games are igniting protests in Hawaii and once again reminding people that Hawaii is stolen land, a nation taken over illegally and made part of the United States.
→ read full articleAmerica Bombs, Europe Gets the Refugees
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
9 Jul 2018 – The US Government (with France and a few other US allies) bombs Libya, Syria, etc.; and the US regime refuses to accept any of the resulting refugees — the burdens from which are now breaking the EU, and the EU is sinking in economic competition against America’s international corporations.
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Security Council Hails ‘Historic and Significant’ Joint Peace Declaration by Ethiopia and Eritrea
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
10 Jul 2018 – The United Nations Security Council today described the Joint Declaration, signed by the leaders of Eritrea and Ethiopia, as “a historic and significant” move with “far-reaching consequences” for the whole Horn of Africa region and beyond.
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Trump Beats Up NATO Members in American Protection Racket
Finian Cunningham - RT,
16 Jul 2018
13 Jul 2018 – The capo-in-chief flew into Brussels beating up on other NATO members with a combination of blackmail and extortion. Trump wants the others to cough up more dough for the “protection” provided to them by the US. The American leader is the linchpin of a racket that ultimately screws the ordinary citizens of Europe and the US.
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Rohingya Cannot Become ‘Forgotten Victims,’ Says UN Chief Urging World to Step Up Support
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
Painting a grim picture of villages being burned to the ground and other “bone-chilling” accounts he heard from Rohingya refugees who fled violence in Myanmar, the UN chief has called on the world to answer their calls for help with real action.
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The Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century
Augusto Lopez-Claros, Arthur Lyon Dahl, and Maja P.C.E. Groff | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Jul 2018
May 2018 – This proposal builds upon structures for international cooperation existing at least since the creation of the UN. We propose revisions to the UN Charter that provide the legal basis for a new system of global governance, supplemented by other reforms not requiring Charter amendment.
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Rohingya: The History of a Muslim Identity in Myanmar
Jacques Leider | Oxford University Press – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
[FROM TMS EDITOR]: Oxford University Press did not heed the written and verbal protests by some 2,000 scholars, public intellectuals and citizen-activists to not publish this genocide-denying—actually, ideologically genocide-reinforcing–essay by Jacques Leider. Please read the 3 following articles (below) refuting and debunking Leider’s piece—to educate, clarify and elucidate about the ongoing Rohingya genocide in Burma/Myanmar. Another one–will we ever learn?
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Johan Galtung Wishes America a HAPPY INTERDEPENDENCE DAY 2018
Galtung-Institut for Peace Theory and Peace Practice – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Video contains excerpt from Rabbi Michael “Tikkun Olam ” Lerner’s Muhammed Ali memorial speech.
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Engaging Credible Religious Leaders in the Prevention of Violence and Extremism – Our Methodology
Abbas Aroua | Cordoba Foundation of Geneva – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
Jun 2018 – This program addresses the transnational phenomenon of extremism using a conflict transformation approach. It aims to the reduce violence in the Sahel region, the Lake Chad area and the Arab world, through the promotion of wasatiya (the “middle way”) and the avoidance of extremes (ghulu), both concepts rooted in Islamic thought and practice. The project comprises two tracks:
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Building a Greater America
Unknown Author - TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
A true visionary…
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Is Oxford University Complicit in Aung San Suu Kyi’s Genocide Denial?
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
26 Feb 2018 – Just as Suu Kyi dismisses allegations of Myanmar’s international human rights crimes as designed to tarnish the image of Myanmar, the administration at Oxford University considers this a “public relations” issue.
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(Français) Paul Oquist: «Il y a une tentative de coup d’État au Nicaragua»
Alex Anfruns | Journal Notre Amérique – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Jul 2018
4 Juil 2018 – Afin de comprendre comment on en est arrivé là dans un pays qui paraissait épargné il y a encore peu de temps par la violence structurelle qui isole d’autres pays d’Amérique centrale, nous nous sommes entretenus avec le professeur Paul Oquist. Fort d’une longue expérience faite de missions de développement pour les Nations Unies, Oquist est actuellement ministre-secrétaire privé pour les politiques nationales du Nicaragua. – Le Nicaragua Sous le Feu des Projecteurs
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Donald Trump’s Space Force: The Dangerous Militarisation of Outer Space
Gbenga Oduntan – The Conversation,
2 Jul 2018
25 Jun 2018 – Trump’s new policy could lead to the militarisation of outer space and the beginning of a new space arms race. As ever, the policy announcement was full of glittering ideas but short on detail, largely unspecific and even inaccurate. What we do know is that this would be a new and separate military command, “equal” to the American Airforce. But like much of Trumpian vision, superlative expressions shroud reality and do great injustice to the serious issues at stake.
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Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – Both President Trump and former President Obama are commonly said in America’s ‘news’ media to be or to have been “ceding Syria to Russia” or “ceding Syria to Russia and Iran,” or similar allegations. They imply that ‘we’ own (or have some right to control) Syria. That’s not only a lie; it is a very evil and harmful one.
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What the Battle for Hodeidah Means for Yemen’s Children: 8 Things You Need to Know
UNICEF – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
21 Jun 2018 – Yemen is the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. More than 22 million Yemenis – that’s three-quarters of the population – need humanitarian assistance and protection. More than 11 million of them are children. The conflict has made Yemen a living hell for its children.
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Veteran Socialist Public Official from Portugal Elected to Lead UN Migration Agency
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
29 Jun 2018 – A lawyer and politician from Portugal, with an extensive career in public service, has been elected to head the United Nations migration agency.
→ read full articleMeanwhile, around the World
Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
There are many summit meetings, usually with Trump. “Good chemistry” is not sufficient, nor is it necessary. Peace may come about in spite of, not because of, the summits. Summiteers might come further focusing on “how can we be good to each other” than on “how can we stop being bad”. Positive approach.
→ read full articleA Plea to TMS Readers for Peace Journalism-Peace by Peaceful Means
Dr. Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
In most cases of realities that involve blood, invasion, genocides, war crimes, exploitation, systematic acts of state propaganda, “all sides” and “balance” in journalism, are not simply acts of moral cowardice, but the total absence of intellectual substance. Peace, nonviolence, social justice, are TMS ideologies rooted on basic human rights and needs, non negotiable principles. Think about it and Please Act making your financial contribution TODAY! Thank you.
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[Nobel Peace Laureate] Suu Kyi’s Lies, Distortions Hinder International Accountability
Dr. Maung Zarni | Anadolu Agency – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
24 Jun 2018 – Myanmar’s leader is at it again: using her Office’s Facebook, she is peddling lies that are easily exposed. Her growing list of provable distortions and denials must not go unchallenged.
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Myanmar/UN Memorandum of Understanding on Rohingya Repatriation
The United Nations – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Secret MOU endorsed by UN Secretary General putting Myanmar wolves in charge of Rohingya chickens. This document belongs to 1 million Rohingyas. CIRCULATE it wide and far. Study it closely. Write about it publicly.
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Special Rapporteur Yanghee Lee Brings UN Human Rights Council Up to Date on Human Rights in Myanmar
UN High Commissioner on Human Rights – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
27 Jun 2018 – Mr. President, I note the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) recently signed between the Myanmar Government, UNHCR and UNDP in early June to assist the process of repatriation from Bangladesh. It is disconcerting that the MoU remains not publicly available and there has not been transparency about its terms. I am dismayed about the fact that the parties to the MoU, including the United Nations agencies involved in this process, have apparently failed to recognise Rohingya living in Bangladesh as refugees and as Rohingya. Most frightful still is the fact that the Rohingya refugees have not been included in any of the discussions around this MoU nor consulted in relation to the repatriation process as a whole. I would like to ask your Excellencies, how can the process of repatriation be voluntary with the people who the process is for excluded from it? How can you be sure that any return is based on individual informed consent? Let’s stop for a moment and ask ourselves what “voluntary, dignified, safe, and sustainable” returns really mean, and whether that is achievable in the current framework.
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AI-Supported Global Governance through Bottom-Up Deliberation
Soushiant Zanganehpour | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Jul 2018
Introducing new technologies and institutions in order to decentralize global governance to participatory and deliberative models. Recognizing the limitations of nation-states in creating solutions to adequately govern global commons, which are often perceived as counter-productive to national interests, this proposal suggests combining a blockchain based global identity system with an AI-based collaboration platform to fuel citizen collaboration and ideation around policies and budget suggestions, as the entry point for decentralized citizen participation in governance.
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UN Chief Calls for ‘Solidarity, Compassion and Action’ on World Refugee Day
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
20 Jun 2018 – With more than 68 million people worldwide displaced due to conflict or persecution — roughly equivalent to the population of Thailand— the head of the United Nations has called for unity and solidarity as a first step to support them.
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UN and the Four-Word Mantra for Myanmar Genocide Survivors
Maung Zarni – Prothom Alo [Bangladesh],
25 Jun 2018
19 Jun 2018 – “Political language… is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind,” George Orwell observed, in the middle of the 20th century. Let’s take a look at the four adjectives that have come to be the pillars of UN policy mantra.
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Helen Keller (27 Jun 1880 – 1 Jun 1968)
American Foundation for the Blind – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Jun 2018
American educator Helen Keller overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th century’s leading humanitarians, as well as co-founder of the ACLU.
→ read full articleUN General Assembly Adopts Text Urging Greater Protection for Palestinians and Deploring Israel’s ‘Excessive’ Use of Force
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 Jun 2018 – In an emergency meeting today the UNGA adopted an Arab-sponsored resolution calling for greater protection for Palestinians and deploring any use of “excessive, disproportionate and indiscriminate” force by the Israeli military against Palestinian civilians, particularly in Gaza.
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‘True’ Peace Requires Standing Up for Human Rights, Says UN Chief Guterres
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
13 June 2018 – Achieving peace involves more than “laying down weapons”, United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said today, calling for intensified efforts to address the root causes of conflict.
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New Secretive Deal between UN, Myanmar Smells Foul
Maung Zarni and Natalie Brinham - Andalou Post [Turkey],
20 Jun 2018
Newly-organized UN in Myanmar has shelved organization’s own governing principles of transparency and inclusivity, as evidenced by freshly-inked MOU with Myanmar.
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Nobel Peace Laureate Suu Kyi Actively Attempting to Manipulate UN
Dr. Maung Zarni – Anadolu Post,
20 Jun 2018
16 Jun 2018 – No political regime, civilian or military, that commissions international crimes against its own national minorities should be given the benefit of the doubt when its smooth-talking Oxford-educated politician says it is on the path towards incremental liberalization and constructive resolution of the crisis confronting a people whose existence she herself denies.
→ read full articleSouth Sudan Suffering on ‘Almost Unimaginable Scale’, Warns UN Relief Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
People are suffering “on an almost unimaginable scale” in South Sudan, the United Nations emergency relief chief said on Monday [4 Jun], adding that he welcomed the announcement by the United States that it is to review the amount of assistance it provides to the war-torn country.
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A Rohingya’s Perspective
Tun Khin – The Daily Star [Bangladesh],
11 Jun 2018
7 Jun 2018 – Bangladesh’s ICC Cooperation Is Crucial for Rohingya Justice – Since August last year, the world has witnessed how hundreds of thousands of desperate Rohingyas have fled across the border into Bangladesh, bringing with them tales of unimaginable horror.
→ read full articleA Truly Global Partnership – Helping the UN to Do Itself Out of a Job
Natalie Samarasinghe | Global Challenges Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
The model proposed brings businesses, NGOs and young people into UN governance structures. Concurrently, the UN would transfer its development-related tasks to these stakeholders, who would bid competitively for contracts. As a result, the UN could redirect its limited resources to crucial tasks such as conflict resolution, which cannot be easily performed by others.
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UN Agencies Express Outrage over Killing of Palestinian Volunteer Medic in Gaza
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jun 2018
United Nations officials have expressed their outrage over Friday’s [1 Jun] killing by Israeli security forces of 21-year-old Razan al-Najjar, a Palestinian volunteer medic who was helping the injured along the Gaza border.
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How and Why the US Government Perpetrated the 2014 Coup in Ukraine
Eric Zuesse | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
3 Jun 2018 – This will document that the ‘new Cold War’ between the US and Russia did not start, as the Western myth has it, with Russia’s involvement in the breakaway of Crimea and Donbass from Ukraine, after Ukraine — next door to Russia — had suddenly turned rabidly hostile toward Russia in February 2014.
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Kiev Murder Stunt Was Absurd, but Even More So Was Western Media’s Reaction to It
Editorial | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
1 Jun 2018 – The credibility of the Kiev regime imploded emphatically this week; but so too of Western governments and news media. Western propaganda as peddled by governments, their secret services and dutiful corporate media should be in the spotlight of world scrutiny. Not further perverse allegations against Russia.
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Johan Galtung – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Jun 2018
The world may be losing a peace opportunity in the USA-North Korea conflict. With NK nuclear-tipped missiles capable of reaching mainland USA something close to “balance of power” had been obtained, by many seen as the key to peace via “mutual and balanced” disarmament even to “general and complete disarmament”.
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The Rohingya’s Hope for Justice Lies with the ICC
Tun Khin- Al Jazeera,
28 May 2018
The UN Security Council must refer the Rohingya’s case to the International Criminal Court.
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Operazione Colomba
Nonviolent Peace Corps of the Association Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 May 2018
Descriptive Document on the Phenomenon of “Hakmarrja” and “Gjakmarrja” to Raise Awareness among Albanian and International Institutions
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12 Features Zionist Israel Shares with Nazi Germany
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
The souls of the nearly 6-millions Jewish victims of the Holocaust must not be at rest, I can imagine, as long as the Zionists continue on with its version of Final Solution with respect the Palestinians. They would feel extremely pained that the State built on their ashes, tales of pains and horrors has morphed into, or simply conceived along the lines of the Third Reich of Hitler, Goebbels, Himmler and Eichman.
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Minuteman III Missile Test Launched Prior to USA-North Korea Summit
Nuclear Age Peace Foundation- TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
14 May 2018 – The U.S. tested a Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile carrying a mock nuclear warhead early morning today from Vandenberg Air Force Base. What kind of message is the U.S. sending to North Korea with this latest launch when these are the same class of missiles for which the U.S. has been highly critical of the North Koreans for developing and testing?
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70th Anniversary of Apartheid Israel: History of Violent Invasion. Chronology of Palestinian Genocide
Gideon Polya | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
14 May 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Israeli Declaration of Independence by Zionist terrorist David Ben Gurion, the foundation of an invasion-, violence-, racism- , genocide- and theft-based Apartheid Israel. US Alliance backers of Apartheid Israel will mark the occasion with lying praise for this evil rogue state, but decent Humanity will tell the truth and demand “Free Palestine”, an end to Israeli Apartheid, return of all refugees and a democratic, multi-ethnic Unitary State in Palestine.
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Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
The decision to withdraw from the treaty:
* Makes it more likely Iran will pursue nuclear weapons.
* Makes war between the U.S. and Iran more likely.
* Separates the U.S. from its major allies.
* Shows U.S. commitments are not reliable.
* Further reinforces lack of U.S. leadership in the world.
* Will likely have adverse effects on achieving nuclear deal with N. Korea.
The Purpose of Nonviolent Communication
Sustainable Human | The Center for Nonviolent Communication – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
Nonviolent Communication is based on the principles of nonviolence– the natural state of compassion when no violence is present in the heart. People who practice NVC have found greater authenticity in their communication, increased understanding, deepening connection and conflict resolution.
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Palestine: The Last Chapter?
Jafar M Ramini - Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
15 May 2018 – There have been many setbacks for us Palestinians in the last 100 years. First, the British unjustly and illegally imposed on us the Balfour Declaration in 1917. We stood fast and said ‘no.’ Then the same British tried to impose on us the partition of the Peel Report in 1937. We stood fast and said ‘no’. Then came the unfair UN partition plan of 1947 and we stood fast and said ‘no’. Then they allowed the creation of Israel in 1948. We stood fast and we said ‘no’. Still the Israeli Apartheid fascist regime ethnically cleansed our land and murdered our people. We took the blows, we stood fast and we said ‘no’.
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Jerusalem Can Never Be Taken Off the Table
Wasan Abu-Baker | Countercurrents – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
15 May 2018 – Ben Gurion in 1948 said, “We must do everything to insure the Palestinians never do return. The old will die and the young will forget”. How long will the international community remain silent about the escalating Israeli occupation of Jerusalem, Hebron and the West Bank, and policies of Judaization of Jerusalem, Hebron, and the West Bank? For how long will the confiscation of land, demolition of homes, and the enactment of laws that deprive the Palestinians of their rights and their land continue?
→ read full articleFactsheet on the Rohingya: Group Identity, Citizenship, Persecution
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
17 May 2018 – Rohingyas are a native, pre-colonial ethnic minority group of Rakhine State of Western Myanmar (formerly Burma), which shares 170 miles of long modern-day borders with Bangladesh (formerly East Pakistan). Rohingya people view Myanmar as the country to which they belong.
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Ralph Waldo Emerson (25 May 1803 – 27 Apr 1882)
Ann Woodlief | Virginia Commonwealth University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 May 2018
He had become quite famous, a major figure in the American literary landscape, a celebrity which brought both adulation and satire. He had been a profound inspiration for many writers, especially Henry Thoreau and Walt Whitman.
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Violating the Iran Deal: Playing with Nuclear Fire
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
9 May 2018 – President Trump has demonstrated yet again why he lacks the understanding, intelligence and temperament to be president of the United States. By violating the Iran nuclear deal, he is undermining the security of the U.S., our allies and the world. He has just fired another serious warning shot across the bow of democracy, one that bodes ill for the nuclear non-proliferation regime, for peace and for the future of our democratic institutions.
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(Português) Um Jornalismo de Paz Não É um “Jornalismo Bonzinho”, e É por Ele que Francisco Quer Lutar
Alexandra Antunes | Sapo 24 – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
13 maio 2018 – Dia Mundial das Comunicações Sociais, proposto pelo Papa Francisco e celebrado hoje. É preciso “um jornalismo que não se limite a queimar notícias, mas se comprometa com a procura das causas reais dos conflitos, para favorecer a sua compreensão e a sua superação através de processos virtuosos; um jornalismo empenhado a indicar soluções alternativas ao aumento do clamor e da violência verbal”, disse o Papa Francisco [aludindo ao Prof. Johan Galtung].
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The CIA Black Sites Program and the Gina Haspel Nomination
George Washington University, National Security Archive – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
9 May 2018—Today’s nomination hearing for Gina Haspel to be CIA director provides an opportunity for the agency and Haspel to fill in the blanks on the CIA “black sites” and interrogation program. The National Security Archive has already identified key questions about Haspel’s record [see box below]. Today, the Archive provides the basis for an evidence-based review of the Rendition, Detention and Interrogation program, posting a selection of the most recent versions of declassified documents that reveal the RDI’s background.
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Iran Deal Represents ‘Significant Verification Gain’ – UN Atomic Energy Chief
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
9 May 2018 – Speaking the day after the United States withdrew from an international agreement on Iran’s nuclear programme, the head of the United Nations atomic watchdog agency made it clear that Iran has consistently stuck to its commitments.
→ read full articleFor Rohingya Refugees, Imminent Surge in Births Is Traumatic Legacy of Sexual Violence – Special Report
UN News – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – Late last year, as violent repression in Myanmar sent Rohingyas fleeing to safety in Bangladesh, women from the mainly Muslim minority were subjected to what a United Nations official called “a frenzy of sexual violence”.
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Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution
Countercurrents - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
In a world fraught with violence, misuse of power, corruption and complex conflicts endangering human security and global peace, the book offers an outstanding contribution to rational thinking envisaging intellectual excellence and proactive vision for change and adaptability to the futuristic challenges in global affairs.
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A Bomber Pilot Speaks
David Krieger | Nuclear Age Peace Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
The stain of death spreads below,
but from my cockpit I see none of it.
I only drop bombs as I have been trained
The Skripals Will Most Likely Never Be Allowed to Talk
The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – It has been two months already since the Skripals are held in total secrecy by the UK authorities. What I see is this: on substance, the Skripal false flag has crashed and burned, just like MH17 or the Douma chemical attack, but unlike MH17 or Douma, the Skripals are two witnesses whose testimony has the potential to result in a gigantic scandal, not just for the May government, but for all those spineless Europeans who showed “solidarity” with Britain.
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Achieving Peace
Johan Galtung - TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
Inter-University Center, Dubrovnik – University of Oslo, Norway 1975
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News from Burma/Myanmar’s Rohingya Genocide
Maung Zarni – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
11 May 2018 – Travels and intense activist work, and observing INGOs, old and new, treating the ongoing Rohingya genocide as if it were a business item among rivals, have drained me tremendously… Everyone remotely familiar with international justice–if at all–knows that by the time the lawyers arrive and the Court set up, the targets are all dead, their villages bulldozed in the case of Rohingyas, and they have nowhere to go or no place they can call ‘home’ or their homeland.
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Military, a Most Sordid Profession
Fred Reed | The Unz Review – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 May 2018
A few thoughts on our disastrous trillion-dollar military: It is unnecessary. It does not defend the United States. The US has no military enemies. No nation has anything even close to the forces necessary to invade America, and probably none the desire. “Our boys” are not noble warriors protecting democracy, rescuing maidens, and righting wrongs. They are, like all soldiers, obedient and amoral killers. Pilots bombing Iraq or Syria know they are killing civilians.
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Gaza Now Has a Toxic ‘Biosphere of War’ That No One Can Escape
Mark Zeitoun and Ghassan Abu Sitta – The Conversation,
7 May 2018
27 Apr 2018 – Undrinkable drinking water is just one example of how blockades and war have permeated an entire ecosystem. A combination of repeated Israeli attacks and the sealing of its borders by Israel and Egypt have left the territory unable to process its water or waste.
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Declaration on the Right to Peace (2)
United Nations General Assembly – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Resolution 71/189 adopted by the General Assembly on 19 Dec 2016
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Jake Lynch on Peace Journalism
Leeds Beckett University – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 May 2018
Dr Jake Lynch, former BBC newsreader, Political Correspondent for Sky News and Sydney Correspondent for the Independent. Jake is now the Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney and is one of the most published authors in the field of Peace Journalism.
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