Policy makers throughout the industrialized world generally assume that humankind can solve serious global problems by adopting better technologies and regulations—without questioning the viability of consumer-capitalist societies. This faith is mistaken. The big problems, particularly climate change, are so serious that they cannot be solved without unprecedented and extremely radical [...]

Where there is conflict, there is a relationship and we can keep it bad, make it worse, or fix it enough to win. Read more in this interesting blog posting by Portland State University Professor Tom H. Hastings on Hastings on Nonviolence.

Massive structural violence such as Mexico has expereinced can only be addressed with massive peace policies; and in Mexico, much of them are on their way -both in national and regional levels- but even better, some of them are already here, working, acting and yielding good results. Read the full [...]

On Saturday, October 26, 2013, the Rotarian Action Group for Peace hosted a globally-streamed workshop featuring Dr. Joseph G. Bock, Director of Graduate Studies at the Eck Institute for Global Health at the University of Notre Dame. Video segments from this event can be viewed here. Dr. Bock did not [...]

In this exclusive, unedited interview, "I Am Malala" author Malala Yousafzai remembers the Taliban's rise to power in her Pakistani hometown. Part One Part Two Part Three Read the article on her appearance in the The Huffington Post. Find out more about The Malala Fund and her book "I Am Malala".

The Rotarian Action Group for Peace is following the news and humanitarian response issues related to Super Typhoon Haiyan. Please scroll through this article, as well as the rest of our news section to find out more about various Rotary and non-Rotary responses to the growing crisis in the Philippines. [...]