Novelist Elif Shafak highlights Virginia Woolf’s 1929 call to peace as deeply relevant to women today, in our own age of wars
Predicting conflict, defusing hate speech, monitoring climate conflict: in the hands of human peacemakers, we can have an “AI For Peace”
A century ago, the women of Wales made an audacious appeal for world peace. This is their story—which should inspire us today
Alternative Editorial: Where Gaza Meets Climate
A/UK EDITORIAL, ARTISTS, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INDIVIDUAL, WAR/PEACE, YOUTHpat kanewar, peace, environment, RegenA, young, gen z, masculinity
Prof. Cornel West engages with Edinburgh - delivering the Gifford Lectures, pitching to be President, standing with peace protestors
We must see our current wars, and our impending climate meltdown, as inextricably linked. Rachel Donald talks to Olivia Lazard
“I don't know any other way to pull myself together”. A photographer commits to show everyday Moscow, under propaganda
Jonathan Rowson on the "dissonance" we feel in the midst of our wars and crises - when bombs and aid fall from the same skies
Alternative Editorial 319: Why The Alternative Is Not Simply Better
A/UK EDITORIAL, ACTION, BEHAVIOUR, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PARTY POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kaneWestminster, Winter, Spring, new politics, Gaza, middle east, westminster
Alternative Editorial: Let's Not Be Patient
Cliodynamics studies crises - even polycrises - of the past. It shows how we can break out of present and future destructive patterns
UN president António Guterres describes an "unhinged" world that cannot "come together to respond". So how do we learn to disagree well?
Alternative Editorial: When Will The World Catch Up?
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Alternative Editorial: Understanding Our Choices
A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, EQUIP FOR THE FUTURE, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kanechoice, conflict, binary, psychology, human givens, war, peace
“Peace isn’t the absence of war, but a dynamic process that can be built, nurtured and sustained”. Designing Peace shows the creative possibilities
Alternative Editorial: Going to peace
Alternative Editorial: We Have To Build The Alternative To War
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, violence, architecture, citizens assembly, democracy, peace, agency, participation
A call for healing, from a world expert in psychological trauma, individual and collective: Gabor Maté on Israel/Palestine
“The Mother’s Call” from Jewish and Palestinian activists introduces a feminist, peace-oriented take on the current conflict
Alternative Editorial: Shifting Power
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, FEMININE, GLOBALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, Israel, Gaza, middle east, conflict transformation, feminine, femmeq, power