World Beyond War and the Quest for Peace

Tolerance… Except in select circles, it’s a word…

For a time, early on in US President Donald Trump’s administration…

By now, there can be little doubt in any realistic person’s mind…

After reading through the latest UN report…

In its most damning report yet…

The exponential increase…

In War – A Crime Against Humanity …

In 1984, James Cameron …

The crumbling of democracy…

The case of Noura Hussein…

The US president’s unilateral decision…

We are ever more dependent on…

Although many Western observers…

The announcement this past week

It would be fair to say that…

There is a revolution afoot and …

I recently read, with enthusiasm and fascination…

It is called NOW, and that’s no coincidence…

Last month witnessed the final…

Setsuko Nakamura Thurlow was born…

Those of us who grew up in…

This month marked the centennial …

ince its independence in the early 1800s…

In what has swiftly become the world’s…

This month marks the 97th anniversary…

The general idea behind the theory of Universal Basic Income…

Milton Friedman, who died in 2006 …

Back in May, I analyzed the French presidential…

For some time now, the warning signs…

On July 2 of the current year…

The murder on May 15th of …

Vive la démocratie française!..

Armed with the dramatic latest report from…

In 2012, the Nobel Prize Committee awarded the European Union…

On April 16th, Turkish voters will go to the polls…

The issue of gender equality has achieved, on a worldwide scale…

Last year, when few people had ever heard of Steve Bannon …

The sudden rise of the latest expressions of populist nationalism…

This past week, the foreign ministers of African Union …

Imagine for a moment that you have a beef with your neighbors…

If you were to ask Israel’s pugnacious Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu…

By now, it is no secret that Russian strongman Vladimir Putin is…

For months now, Aleppo has been in the grip of hell on earth…

I’ve been mulling over this month’s historic US presidential election…

The election of Donald Trump to the Presidency…

Although an undercurrent of populist nationalism has been surging…

In a recently released documentary video written and directed by…

Despite the general proliferation of far-right nationalist…

Ever since World War II, people in the Western world have been asking…

Turkey’s close call with a military coup…

There can be little doubt that the result of last week’s referendum in Britain…

Walls. The very symbol of curtailment, of intransigence…

In a tweet I posted earlier this year when Washington was still on…

“The Donald” Trump is now, to the chagrin of much of that party, the virtual Republican (GOP) candidate for president …

Those of us who grew up in the 1950s and 1960s remember…

An article by Kevin Sieff earlier this month in The Washington Post…

Yesterday I asked myself a rhetorical question…

Fragile tightrope though it might be, the so-called “cessation of hostilities”…

Any inkling of some semblance of peace in Syria following…

Many attacks involved multiple airstrikes on multiple civilian objects…

“This is where the revolution happens first,” say Leila Al-Shami and Robin Yassin-Kassab…

It was my honor this past week to accept an invitation to visit Harvard University.

Pope Francis has made world peace a priority message of the Roman Catholic Church

In reviewing the year that ended last night, there are two things that stand out …

It’s fairly easy to underestimate the gratingly flamboyant US presidential candidate Donald Trump.

I think I speak for many when I say that…

Syria is the new battlefield for the world’s proxy…

As of this first week of October, Syria (and the world) became a lot scarier place…

21st September. There’s no way to peace. Peace is the way.

Brilliant NY Times article by my friend and former ICC chief prosecutor Luis Moreno Ocampo.

A deadline came and went without incident last Tuesday, in talks being held in Vienna between Iran and the so-called…

Few except the most adamant of “Iranophobes” on the outer reactionary fringe in the United States…

The lightning surge of the Sunni militant ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant, a.k.a. ISIS) that took shape earlier this month appears to

This past week’s decision by the Crimean parliament to secede from Ukraine and join the Russian Federation took the international political crisis

In my recent book, El crimen de la guerra (soon to be published in English as War Is a Crime against Humanity), I propose that war is no longer

On a journey this past week to East Asia, one of my goals as a traveler was to visit that man-made wonder of the world known as the Great Wall of China

I was present yesterday at the Vatican when His Holiness, Pope Francis, closed the Fourth Annual Congress of Scholas Occurrentes

This week, I’ve had the enormous pleasure of being invited to take part in the Fourth Scholas Occurrentes World Congress at the Vatican, a project

The past year has been a difficult one for world peace. This has been true not only because of the severity and escalation of civil and regional wars

Ben Ferencz is the kind of guy you like right off—friendly, smiling, open, and incredibly humble considering his stunning achievements.

Last Monday marked the one-hundredth anniversary of the start of World War I, one of the two bloodiest and most horrendous conflicts

The incident in which Cecily has been tried and convicted took place on March 17, 2012 (Saint Patrick’s Day). It occurred during the eviction of protesters

An incident in high-profile civil disobedience in Egypt, where court actions and death…

The emergence of a seemingly endless parade of radical Islamist groups…

Since the beginning of 2014—the year in which the world was…

Some people divide the world into optimists and pessimists, into positive and negative thinkers, into “glass half-full and glass half-empty” types