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On October 9, only hours after the announcement of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize to Navi Pillay, a former judge on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Trump administration imposed…

Keynote Address on Peace and Integral Regeneration: Congressman Atty. Mauricio Domogan addresses university officials, World March for Peace delegates, faculty, peace advocates, and students at Baguio Central University during the 4th World…

What started as a small protest in Madrid to defend an 87 year old woman who is violently expelled from her appartment where she lived since she was 17 years old, in…

Open Secrets, Unspoken Arrangements–Who Benefits, Who Pays the Price  “That’s what they all say,”  whispered a young Filipina to her older companion in their native tongue. I heard the remark and understood…

Three ways of understanding violence — and why the distinctions matter for nonviolence. Can violence exist without leaving a bruise? As explored in an earlier Pressenza article, the answer seems obvious when…

Pressenza has chosen to publish this email sent by a Chilean humanist to a French humanist, offering an insightful reflection on the forms and meaning of youth protests in France. » Dear…

The Nobel Peace Prize has just been awarded to Navi Pillay who is not, like last year’s laureate, pleading for the world’s largest military to attack her country. Nor is she, in the…

On October 4, the 41st Anniversary Ceremony of the New England Peace Pagoda was solemnly observed, with some 200 people in attendance. The forecast had called for rain, but the day turned…

On 5 October, the Czech Republic commemorated the 90th anniversary of the birth of Václav Havel, a playwright, essayist, dissident and the first president of the independent Czech Republic. He was born…

Advocates of nuclear disarmament are regularly dismissed by the champions of nuclear deterrence as naïve and unrealistic, utopian or even irresponsible. Yet this ‘doctrine’ of deterrence, regarded by France as the ‘cornerstone’…