By Julie Makinen on Nonviolent Conflict 27 July 2014 In Hong Kong, debate on election rules has spawned the Occupy Central with Peace and Love Movement. People are mad about sky-high housing prices, a growing rich-poor gap, controversial development plans, and an influx of mainland visitors. But lesser issues have [...]

By Rosalind Eyben for openDemocracy 24 June 2014 “Globalisation,” I said, “is generating great wealth. This could be used to massively reduce poverty worldwide and to reduce global inequality. Latest estimates suggest that the world’s richest 225 people have a combined wealth equal to the annual income of the poorest 47 [...]

By Eetta Prince-Gibson for Almonitor 26 July 2014 Julia Chaitin addressed a crowd of thousands on July 26. “I find it hard to decide what to treat first,” she said, “the headache, the nausea, the stomach ache or the tears. I am aware that these are all symptoms of this war. [...]

By Rob Harbison on Nonviolent Conflict July 28, 2014 Since the 1980s, Cambodia has lost 84 percent of its primary forests and the remote Cardamom mountains are the country's last great treasure. Indigenous people and eco-activists are now protesting a grandiose dam project proposed by the government. A protest camp hurriedly [...]

By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan for Democracy Now Thurs August 7 2014 “I hate war,” Koji Hosokawa told me as we stood next to the A-Bomb Dome in Hiroshima, Japan. The skeletal remains of the four-story building stand at the edge of the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. The building [...]

By Pamela Dockins for Voice of America Thurs August 7 2014 WASHINGTON— The United States has announced plans to spend $110 million annually, for three to five years, to help African nations develop rapid reaction peacekeeping forces. President Barack Obama announced the new initiative at the close of a U.S. [...]