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Published in: 50.50From Fukushima to Hinkley PointNormal 0 The stories of people trying to revive abandoned villages left contaminated by the Fukushima nuclear...
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Published in: 50.50Wheels on the ground: women’s ‘peace train’ to The HagueNormal 0 The women who have come to the WILPF conference in the Hague from Australia and Aotearoa- New Zealand, say...
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Published in: 50.50Violence is not inevitable: It is a choice
In 1915 a thousand women met in the Hague to demand an end to war. A thousand women are doing so again this week. It...
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Published in: 50.50The Austrian pledge to ban nuclear weapons
Driven by “the imperative of human security for all", Austria pledged at the HINW conference to work to "stigmatise,...
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Published in: 50.50Conscientious objection: Virginia Woolf's ideas live onIn her 1938 essay Three Guineas, Virginia Woolf defined patriarchy, militarism and nationalism as sources of war....
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Published in: 50.50Beyond armistice: women searching for an enduring peace
Women peace activists meeting in Zurich in 1919 understood the capitalist system of profit and privilege as a root...
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Published in: 50.50An alternative history of peacemaking: a century of disarmament efforts
Wars may be started for trivial or mistaken reasons, as happened in 1914, but they are fuelled by arms industries....
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Published in: 50.50Executed: what were the principles for which Edith Cavell lived and died?Nurse Edith Cavell was shot by a German firing squad in 1915. The words 'For King and Country' are inscribed on her...
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Published in: 50.50Sarajevo peace event: addressing the root causes of warThe recent international Peace Event in Sarajevo was simultaneously a commemoration of war and a renewed commitment...
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Published in: 50.50The 'White Feather Girls': women's militarism in the UKThe suffrage movement was split by the Great War. Most often remembered are the pacifists. But the militant history...
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Published in: 50.50Stopping sexual violence in conflict: gender politics in foreign policy
Consistent promotion of gender equality has to drive foreign, security and development policy if sexual violence in...
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Published in: 50.50'None of us have the right to be who we were': a tribute to a peacebuilderAmong Northern Ireland’s peacemakers Inez McCormack was unusual: she was an architect of the parallel peace process,...
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Published in: 50.50Is war ever justifiable? A divisive issue for women peacebuilders
There is no greater challenge to principled pacifism than intolerable oppression. The surge of nazism and fascism...
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Published in: 50.50A common vision: The abolition of militarism
"If our common dream is a world without weapons and militarism, why don’t we say so? Why be silent about it? It...
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Published in: 50.50Women in Northern Ireland should be leading peacebuilders againWomen Together played a crucial role in the peace process. As violence and tension mount again, Anne Carr argues...
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Published in: 50.50Women Together in the darkest days of the 'Troubles'Women Together brought Catholic and Protestant women into talks and cooperation in the 1970s, standing in solidarity...
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Published in: 50.50Nuclear non-proliferation in a time warp
The mood was cheerful as the international Non-Proliferation Treaty conference ended in New York last Friday, but...
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Published in: 50.50Peacework: women in action across EuropeThe full engagement of women at all levels of negotiations is essential in order to promote nonviolent solutions...
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Published in: 50.50Dealing with Northern Ireland’s past: a guide to the Haass-O’Sullivan talksIn late 2013, negotiations seeking to address the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland failed to reach agreement....
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Published in: 50.50Insulting the women of Northern IrelandRacist abuse directed at the politician Anna Lo is indicative of the disrespect shown to women in Northern Ireland...
