China: Matching Resistance to Repression, Creating Space for Local Campaigns
By Michael Caster, , April 8, 2015, published in OpenDemocracy For Chinese domestic rights defenders, the challenge has become matching their resistance efforts to slower-onset repression. Rather than pursuing tactics involving sudden unrest and demanding high-profile victories, more can often be achieved working from the grassroots, producing limited but sustained [...]
Seeking Systemic Reform, Civil Rights Activists Embark on 250-Mile Justice March
By Deirdre Fulton, April 13, 2015, Published in Common Dreams Proponents of criminal justice reform began a nine-day, 250-mile march from New York City to Washington, D.C. on Monday, seeking to end racial profiling, demilitarize local police departments, and "tear down the societal and institutional pillars of mass incarceration." The 'March 2 Justice,' [...]
European Officials Push for Lasting Peace Deal in Ukraine
By James Marson in Kiev, Ukraine, and Anton Troianovski in Berlin, April 12, 2015, published in The Wall Street Journal The foreign ministers of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France are meeting Monday to try to cement a shaky cease-fire in eastern Ukraine into a more durable peace deal by tackling political disputes. [...]
The Stages of Peaceful Resistance in the Occupied Western Sahara
By Khalil Asmar, April 2, 2015. Published in Jadaliyya. In any history of occupation, the forms of resistance the colonized populations adopted have been shaped by, and shape, the modes of occupations. Peaceful resistance in the Western Sahara has been no different; Saharawi methods of nonviolent protest underwent transformations, first [...]
Nonviolent Movements Are Best Chance for Democracy. And They Must Be Helped.
by Maciej Bartkowski, April 6, 2015. Published by The World Post. As the bombing campaign of Houthi positions in Yemen continued and Saudi Arabia and Egypt threatened ground invasion, the men and women of Taizz, Yemen's third largest city, came out in thousands last week to protest the Houthi's take over of [...]
Rotarian Action Group for Peace Board of Directors Elections
The Rotarian Action Group for Peace is currently electing Directors to fill four vacancies on our Board. The term of office is three years, commencing July 1, 2015 through June 30, 2018. The open positions are: Chair, Rotary Peace Fellow Integration Committee Chair, Communications and Social Media Committee Chair, Partnerships [...]