Geneva, 16-20 November 2015

Key points: 5 days, 41 events, 165 speakers, 50 institutions

Geneva Peace Week 2015 highlights that each and every person, actor and institution has a role to play in building peace. It also highlights the importance of working outside the silos that all too often characterize the international community to enable more creative responses in a variety of contexts.

Events focus on substantive and original contributions about building peace and resolving conflict. Each event is owned by its respective organizers.

Participants to Geneva Peace Week must follow theregistration procedure of each event noted in the detailed event descriptions.

Geneva Peace Week is a collective action initiative
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Robert Dodge, Ira Helfand on August 9, 2014 have written the followig remarkable article:

>> As physicians we spend our professional lives applying scientific facts to the health and well being of our patients. When it comes to public health threats like TB, polio, cholera, AIDS and others where there is no cure, our aim is to prevent what we cannot cure. It is our professional, ethical and moral obligation to educate and speak out on these issues.
That said, the greatest imminent existential threat to human survival is potential of global nuclear war. We have long known that the consequences of large scale nuclear war could effectively end human existence on the planet. Yet there are more than 17,000 nuclear warheads in the world today with over 95% controlled by the U.S. and Russia. The international community is intent on preventing Iran from developing even a single nuclear weapon. And while appropriate to stop the spread of nuclear weapons, there is precious little effort being spent on the much larger and more critical problem of these arsenals.
Despite the Cold War mentality of the U.S. and Russia with their combined arsenals and a reliance on shear luck that a nuclear war is not started by accident, intent or cyber attack, we now know that the planet is threatened by a limited regional nuclear war which is a much more real possibility.

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Veranstaltungstermine September – Dezember 2014

ÖSTERREICH – D – International

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Vienna Hofburg Palace, 8–9/12/2014

A world without nuclear weapons is a goal shared by all humanity. Yet, so far, it has remained elusive. An estimated 16.300 nuclear weapons still exist nearly 25 years after the end of the cold war. Today, nine states are believed to possess nuclear weapons, but as nuclear technology is becoming more available, more states, and even non-state actors, may strive to develop nuclear weapons in the future.

As long as nuclear weapons exist

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Last week 50,000 people joined the Avaaz community from Burma. To find out their opinion on the Rohingya situation they were sent a poll and the results showed the huge amount of fear and misunderstanding:

83% believed the Rohingya should be denied citizenship.

67% believed the Rohingya should be forced to leave Burma.

Even with these discriminatory views, a large majority of the signers did not condone violence. However, the lack of tolerance expressed contributes to a climate that has allowed this violence to continue.

But this also gives us a tremendous opportunity to speak directly to tens of thousands of people in Burma. lesen sie mehr »

Soeben stieß ich bei der Recherche zu „Generation Kill“ auf eine interessante mehrsprachige Seite gegen Krieg mit vielen Links zu den UnterstützerInnen weltweit. Bis Anfang 2012 fast 4000 Unterzeichnende Personen und Organisationen. 

Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender ökologischer Krisen und trotz der Tatsache, dass große Teile der Weltbevölkerung weiterhin extremer Armut, inhumanen Arbeitsbedingungen und wachsenden sozialen Spannungen ausgeliefert sind, werden für das Militär weltweit jährlich mehr als 1000 Milliarden Euro ausgegeben. lesen sie mehr »

NGO COMMITTEE ON PEACE, VIENNA Wednesday, 28 November 2012 lesen sie mehr »

Nobel Women’s Initiative hosts global conference on stopping rape in conflict

„There is no way to peace, peace is the way.“

Ghandi

Wer hat eigentlich Gaddafis Clusterbomben geliefert? Wer wird dafür vor den internationalen Strafgerichtshof gestellt?

www. tagesschau.de meldet: „Experten hätten die von einem „New York Times“-Reporter entdeckte Munition begutachtet und als Geschosse aus spanischer Produktion identifiziert. Demnach tragen die MAT-120-Projektile des Herstellers Instalaza einen Produktionsstempel aus dem Jahr 2007. Das wäre ein Jahr vor dem Beitritt Spaniens zur Streubomben-Konvention.“

George W. Bush, Berlusconi und andere moralische Autoritäten von Weltrang haben 2005 beim UN-World Summit die Paragraphen 138-139 im sogenannten Outcome Document gebilligt: So zum Beispiel den Einsatz von Militär mit Mandat des UN-Sicherheitsrates zur Verhinderung von Massakern an der eigenen Zivilbevölkerung durch Regierungen:

„Heads of state and government agreed to the following text on the Responsibility to Protect in the Outcome Document of the High-level Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly in September 2005

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Gwynne Dyer
Schlachtfeld Erde
Klimakriege im 21. Jahrhundert

Verlag: Klett-Cotta

Aus dem Englischen von Susanne Held (Orig.: Climate Wars)

Auflage: 1. Aufl. 2010
Ausstattung: gebunden mit Schutzumschlag
Seiten: 384
ISBN:
978-3-608-94611-6

Das erste Buch über den drohenden Klimakrieg von einem Militärexperten

• Was erwartet uns, wenn das Weltklima kollabiert?
• Wessen Land vertrocknet ist und wer nichts mehr zu essen hat, greift zu den Waffen.

Dies ist das erste Buch über die Schreckensbilder des drohenden Klimaweltkriegs, lesen sie mehr »