Rotarians are leaders, and leadership is understanding reality and taking appropriate action. In this case, we need to apply our leadership skills, voices and passion to an issue that poses the number one threat to our planet: nuclear weapons. If we do not, the odds are that a nuclear weapon [...]

by PETER ACKERMAN, MACIEJ BARTKOWSKI, and JACK DUVALL, Published on 3 March 2014 on OpenDemocracy.net On February 25, Reuters News declared that “a 26-year-old who learned combat skills in the army cadets may be recorded as the man who made up Viktor Yanukovich's mind to cut and run.” The young man [...]

Published on Hastings on Nonviolence, Sunday, March 02, 2014 Is violence effective? Well, sure. Any schoolchild can tell you that. I remember my sister teasing me until I punched her in the upper arm. She would stop teasing me and start crying. I would not have to deal with the teasing [...]

Practitioners of nonviolent struggle have an entire arsenal of "nonviolent weapons" at their disposal. Listed on this webpage are 198 of them, classified into three broad categories: nonviolent protest and persuasion noncooperation (social, economic, and political) nonviolent intervention Explore the 198 methods of nonviolent protest and persuasion on the A [...]

by Kennedy Graham, Published March 5, 2014 on the Frogblog, a part of the Green Party of Aotearoa New Zealand website We have an old-fashioned crisis on our hands regarding events in the Ukraine.  It is a test of 21st-century diplomacy whether it can be resolved peacefully and with political foresight. Current international law and [...]

By James G. Neuger , Mar 4, 2014, Bloomberg News War was coming to Europe and the French president, Raymond Poincare, was literally at sea. Poincare’s trip across the Baltic Sea to St. Petersburg to shore up France’s alliance with Russia in July 1914 cut him off from outside contact for [...]