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What should unarmed civilians do when militaries attack or occupy their communities? What meaningful alternatives can peacebuilders offer? This six-week online course offers one such alternative: a comprehensive introduction to Unarmed Civilian Defense (UCD) — a people-powered approach to protecting communities and resisting violence without weapons. Begins today. Almost full.

 

War Abolisher Awards: learn about the awards, see the past recipients, nominate the next winners. Nominations accepted only through May 17.

 

From one of the world’s most prominent thinkers comes an urgent warning of the threat that U.S. power poses to humanity’s future as well as a sharp indictment of both American foreign policy and the national myths that support it. In July, 2025, World BEYOND War will be holding a weekly discussion each of four weeks of the book The Myth of American Idealism: How U.S. Foreign Policy Endangers the World By Noam Chomsky and Nathan J. Robinson. Leading the discussions will be Nathan J. Robinson. When you sign up we'll mail you the book.

 

May 19, join a Global Solidarity for Peace in Palestine webinar featuring Palestinian religious voices calling for an end to war. Register here.

 

WBW will open a new chapter in Burkina-Faso on May 20, and hold a Gambia Youth Peace Forum on Killer Robots on May 31.

 

May Day in Bogotá.

Sign and share the Declaration of Peace.

 

Visit the Events Calendar.

Find events and add your own events!

 

Taking Peace to the White House in Washington DC:

 

May 19: Yellow Ribbon Casualty Campaign

May 24: Threads of Peace

 

June in Europe.

 

The Fourth Annual 24-Hour Peace Wave is coming on July 12, 2025. Contact us to participate.

 

Hiroshima and Nagasaki 80th anniversaries.

 

#NoWar2025

Put our annual conference on your calendar:
October 24 (3-7pm ET),

October 25 (1-5:15pm ET),

October 26 (12:15-4 pm ET.

 

November 1-16:

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News from Around the World:

 

Globe:

Artists Tackling the Futility of War: A Presentation by Kathy Kelly

The Secret to Building Organizations People Want to Stay In

Video Updates from WBW Chapter Coordinators & Organizers

How to Avoid Trade Wars – and World War Three

 

Latin America:

Rejection of The Authorization of Foreign Military Bases In Ecuador

No More Military Spending In Latin America

 

Asia:

We Were So Close: Life After Conscience and the Abraham Accords

Steps Needed in India, Pakistan, and World to Avoid Destruction

Flotilla Coalition Ship to Gaza Attacked in International Waters

Speechless About Gaza

 

Oceania:

World Rallies for Israeli and Palestinian Peace Activists

 

Europe:

Belarus Targets Humanitarian Work in Lithuania as “Extremism”

 

North America:

Rahm, Hakeem, and Special Places in Hell

Talk World Radio: No, the U.S. Never Meant Well

Robert Shetterly Adds Portrait of Rivera Sun

Calling Out the Canadian AG's Failure to Act in the Face of Genocide


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