In 2014, to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the start of the First World War, Peace News is launching a major new project: "The World is My Country": A Visual Celebration of the People and Movements that Opposed the First World War. At the centre of this project will be ten new [...]

By Thomas L. Friedman RAMALLAH, West Bank — For a while now I’ve wondered why there’s been no Third Intifada. That is, no third Palestinian uprising in the West Bank, the first of which helped to spur the Oslo peace process and the second of which — with more live ammunition [...]

#RotaryChat hosted a session on Tuesday, February 4, at 8pm ET (US). The theme was understanding Rotary as a force for peace and understanding in our world. The primary questions posed to the participants are the following:  Q1. How has #Rotary helped you to understand the world in which we [...]

Nataliya Gumenyuk, one of the founders of the independent online television station Hromadske in the Ukraine spoke with leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos this week. Read the article and watch the video here.  

No living American musician was as involved in as many waves of protests as Pete Seeger — from the Depression to the McCarthy era to the Vietnam War to Earth Day — and that was just his first 50 years. Mr. Seeger, who died on Monday at the age of [...]

The Faces of Peace highlights the inspiring stories of peacebuilders in our communities and around the world, who are leading the way by showing that peace is possible, practical and already present in all kinds of ways, including simple actions in our everyday lives. A wide variety of effective peacebuilding practices [...]