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Issue 2441 | December 2000 - February 2001

Editorial: Dont sit on the fence!

by Ippy D | Comment | December 2000 - February 2001

The Israeli-Palestinian crisis, or rather the war (lets call it what it actually is), has not been taking place between two sides who are equally to blame, as you could be fooled into thin...Read More

Reviews

Lora Lumpe (ed), 'Running Guns'
George Monbiot, 'Captive State'
War Resisters League 2001 Peace Calendar, 'Earthshaking Women: 20th Century Rebels and Peacemakers'
Various artists, 'Tribal Futures: the way ahead'
William Blum, 'Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower'
Constanza Ardila Galvis, 'The Heart of the War in Colombia'
Juan Carlos Rodriguez, 'The Bay of Pigs and the CIA'
Neal Riemer (ed), 'Protection Against Genocide: Mission Impossible?'
Howard Clark, 'Civil Resistance in Kosovo'
Alice Ackerman, 'Making Peace Prevail: Preventing Violent Conflict in Macedonia'
Angela Davis, 'The Prison-Industrial-Complex'
Kathleen O'Shea, 'Women on the row: revelations from both sides of the bars'
Yeshua Moser-Puangsuwan and Thomas Weber (eds), 'Nonviolent Intervention' ' Across Borders. A Recurrent Vision'

Interventions

What happened to the promise?

by Lorna Richardson and Richard Pakleppa | Comment | December 2000 - February 2001

Richard Pakleppa was a conscientious objector to serving in the South African occupation army, and went to Europe, where he worked as a camera assistant....Read More

Legitimising war

by Janet Kilburn | Comment | December 2000 - February 2001

Personally I find the very notion of regulating warfare, of nations and peoples signing up to agree the rules of engagement, truly disturbing....Read More

"You are not forgotten"

by Poyraz | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

When on 14 October 1996, Osman (Ossi) Murat Ülke began to serve his sentence in the military prison of Mamak in Ankara, a flood of protest and solidarity letters soon poured in....Read More

The power of prison support

by Melissa Jameson | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

In August 1998, Sachio Ko-Yin and Dan Sicken entered a nuclear missile silo in Weld County, Colorado, USA, and proceeded symbolically to transform death into life. ...Read More

Welcome to Hell

by PN staff | News | December 2000 - February 2001

The war in Chechnya rumbles on, with reports of increased fighting and both civilian and military/paramilitary deaths in recent months. ...Read More

Taking risks for peace

by Julia Guest | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

She's just coming home from Ramallah, she's been away, you have to let her through explained Anita, with her Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) armband and hat, a signal of her role as interv...Read More

Interfering women: Feminist thoughts on nonviolent interventions

by Kate Witham | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

Send in 1000 grandmothers, sang Holly Near, in response to Natos bombing of Yugoslavia wonderfully inspiring idea and perhaps not as bizarre as it sounds....Read More

Nonviolent revolution in Serbia?

by PN staff | News | December 2000 - February 2001

Almost nonviolent - marred only by the deaths of two people - was it, or is it, a revolution?...Read More

Global Nonviolent peace Force: Under construction

by Donna Howard | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

We agree then, that the war system has to be taken apart. Trident by Trident, military by military, resource by resource....Read More

Struggles in the mirror

by Jamey Bouwmeester | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

Standing on the wharf, an Esgenoôpetitj community member looked out at the water of Miramichi Bay, out at the buoys that mark the community's lobster traps....Read More

Nonviolent intervention at the start of the 21st Century

by Ken Simons | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

Why intervention? Let the Bosnians sort it out for themselves!...Read More

Expanding the role of international civilian observers

by Luis Enrique Eguren | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

Civilian third party interventions are one of the new paths currently being explored for transforming conflicts and keeping and building a sustainable peace, beyond the traditional diploma...Read More

The limits of nonviolent intervention?

by Maggie Helwig | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

On 5 May 1999, the United Nations and the governments of Indonesia and Portugal signed an agreement to hold a consultation as to public opinion, in East Timor, about Indonesia's offer of s...Read More

Interventions 1950s style

by PN staff | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

MP urges UN peace force for Arab-Israeli border

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Building for peace in the aftermath of war

by Robert Sautter | Feature | December 2000 - February 2001

I can speak both Serbian and Albanian, but which one I use sets me on one side against the other. There is no place for me here, I do not belong....Read More

War in the Middle East

by PN staff | News | December 2000 - February 2001

By the beginning of November the escalating war in the Middle East had claimed more than 160 lives (predominantly Palestinian), 2000-6000 had been wounded and more than 700 arrested....Read More

Castor - a real opportunity?

by Andreas Speck | News | December 2000 - February 2001

In October anti-nuclear activists in Germany recommenced their resistance to nuclear waste transports (Castor) - one of which is due to leave the nuclear power station at Philippsburg in t...Read More