As the world scrambles to catch up with building digital capacity in our new virtual reality, World BEYOND War is and has always been ready to leverage the digital world to effectively create sustainable and just change.

As part of our work to abolish war, our educational programs have long included online materials, courses, free webinars, and podcasts featuring anti-war activists from around the world. We've expanded that work, speaking to more high school and college classrooms via Zoom, and even moving this year's upcoming annual conference online.

At a rapid rate World BEYOND War is realizing its vision of becoming a global movement made up of dedicated, active members from many of the 175 countries in which people have signed our Declaration of Peace.

People often imagine that World BEYOND War has large offices full of staff people. In reality, we have five very part-time people working from home and thousands of hard-working volunteers. If you're not one of our volunteers and have some free time at the moment, please reply to this email and we'll get you engaged.

Giving Tuesday is coming up on May 5! We need to hire more organizers and translators. We need to cover our current expenses. We need your financial support.

A $15 USD donation covers our service provider costs to host a free educational webinar.

A $25 donation covers a month’s cost of hosting our website. Our website is in itself an educational and organizing tool with extensive multimedia resources for building a movement to abolish war.

A $50 donation covers the costs of a WBW chapter promo pack. Currently, World BEYOND War coordinates 16 chapters in 7 countries with several more in the launch phase. We also maintain partnerships with 82 affiliates around the world. Our chapters work aggressively within their respective legislative structures to redirect resources toward programs that promote social and economic justice.

A $75 donation can put 10 copies of our book A Global Security System: An Alternative to War (AGSS) into classrooms. AGSS is a blueprint for abolishing war and replacing it with a sustainable security system. It has already proven to be a useful tool in classrooms across the world.

“What a treasure. It is so well written and conceptualized. The beautiful text and design immediately captured the attention and imagination of my 90 graduate and undergraduate students. Visually and substantively, the clarity of the book appeals to young people in a way textbooks have not.” —Barbara Wien, American University

A $100 donation can translate and publish the summary version of AGSS in another language. It's already in eight!

Here's what a teacher just said after inviting a World BEYOND War speaker to teach her class for a day via Zoom call:

“I moved from feeling hesitant to invite a World BEYOND War speaker into my classroom into an enthusiastic supporter of inviting World BEYOND War every year into my class. As is the case for most of us teachers, my students are incredibly patriotic and have a narrow view of history that teaches that war is necessary and good. I was not sure if my students would turn their ears off if someone suggested that all of America’s wars were not glorious, but the opposite happened. Mr. Swanson’s rational and well supported approach opened minds. Students asked great questions and a lively discussion ensued. In the end, students could see why war was irrational and even more importantly, their minds were opened to imagine different solutions to real problems. ” —Katherine Murphy, Teacher of Ethics and Social Justice, Gonzaga High School, Washington, D.C.

We do so much with so little because we rely heavily on dedicated and talented volunteers for almost everything we do. This model means that your contribution goes very far!

A larger donation is much appreciated, but especially appreciated is becoming a recurring donor. For $15 USD a month—less than 50 cents a day—you can contribute to building an on-going sustained movement to abolish war. Remember to choose a book or shirt as a premium when you become a recurring donor!

Thanks for all you do!

--The World BEYOND War Team

World BEYOND War is a global network of volunteers, activists, and allied organizations advocating for the abolition of the very institution of war. Our success is driven by a people-powered movement – support our work for a culture of peace.

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