Visitors: 522It’s a simple choice: stop all fossil fuel prospecting, or break the Paris agreement on climate change. Do they understand what they have signed? Plainly they do not. Governments like ours, now ratifying the Paris agreement on climate change, haven’t the faintest idea what it means. Either that, or they have no intention of […]
Visitors: 523Karachi (Sep 27, 2016) Patron-in-chief of Pakistan Hindu Council and Member National Assembly Dr. Ramesh Kumar Vankwani has urged the United Nations to play its due role for the peaceful solution of the Kashmir conflict between India and Pakistan, adding that the speech delivered by the Prime Minister Nawaz Shareef at the UN General […]
Visitors: 765 Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ As citizens of the USA with a presidential […]
Visitors: 2,175 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly known as ‘Mahatma’ (meaning ‘Great Soul’) was born in Porbandar, Gujarat, in North West India, on 2nd October 1869, into a Hindu Modh family. His father was the Chief Minister of Porbandar, and his mother’s religious devotion meant that his upbringing was infused with the Jain pacifist teachings […]
Visitors: 922 Robert C Koehler writes for the Huffington Post, Common Dreams, OpEd News and TruthOut. He considers himself a “peace journalist.” He has been an editor at Tribune Media Services and a reporter, columnist and copy desk chief at Lerner Newspapers, Chicago. Koehler launched his column in 1999. Robert Koehler has received numerous writing and […]
Visitors: 379The incidents of violence and shooting, resulting in loss of life and injuries to number of people are now happening too frequently in USA. The latest unrest was in Charlotte in North Carolina, where state of emergency had to be declared after second night of violent protests over the fatal police shooting of a […]
Visitors: 473 Dr Ravi P Bhatia is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment, an educationist and peace researcher. Retired professor, Delhi University. Why do people fast? People fast for religious reasons — to attain spiritual strength and peace or to cleanse their bodies. They also fast as a means of […]
Visitors: 349 Alok Kumar, Vice-President of India’s national liberal party – Swarna Bharat Party – said today that sugarcane farmers are being looted by governments through corrupt ministers and crony capitalists in the false pretext of protecting the farmers. Governments have choked the market and are using these laws to strangle the livelihood of 60 […]
Visitors: 430Peace Channel in collaboration with North East Institute of Social Science and Research commemorated the International Day of Peace on 21st September, 2016 at the NEISSR’s Auditorium. The commemoration programme also coincides with the 10th founding anniversary of Peace Channel. The programme began with a presentation on the history and background of the International […]
Visitors: 596 Prof Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He has published over 400 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service and over 164 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 have been translated into 35 […]
Visitors: 381A few have been highly critical of Modi government and even army for the Uri attack by the terrorists. This is very unfortunate. This is the time not to be critical , as certainly all people involved are doing their level best. They need understanding and support from the country men. Even senior retired […]
Visitors: 468 Mr Sonawani, president of Swarna Bharat Party, India’s only liberal party, said that India’s small business sector is suffering from the ongoing chronic dysfunction of our governance system. India has a complex (and often irrational) regulatory regime, and insufficient or non-existent infrastructure. The inspector raj is still alive and well, 25 years after […]
Visitors: 628 Shree Prasad Devkota is a member of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment. He is a Kathmandu University graduate, has a Master’s in Mathematics Education and M.phl in Development Studies. Currently he is chairperson of SDEF–Sustainable Development and Empowerment Forum, and has worked as a lecturer. He is researcher in the field development […]
Visitors: 587 Councilmember Kshama Sawant (District 3, Central Seattle), issued the following statement in response to the announcement that the North Precinct Police Station project has been blocked: Today in Seattle, anti-racist and social justice activists scored one of the most important victories nationally since the Black Lives Matter movement began in 2014. We have […]
Visitors: 703 Robert J. Burrowes has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence?‘ As I read of the latest coup in […]
Visitors: 464Sanjeev Sabhlok The social atmosphere in Maharashtra is strained. Protests have arisen partly because of the divisive consequences of the Atrocities Act. I will not go into details of all the issues specific to Maharashtra here. Instead, I will look at a key issue that is causing the strain, namely, the nature and design […]
Visitors: 434Large-scale conversion of forests to crop lands has caused Indian summer monsoon rainfall to decline, particularly in north and northeast India, researchers say. Large-scale deforestation in India has resulted in a decline in rainfall, especially in north and northeast India, a new study has found. Deforestation has resulted in a decline in evapotranspiration in […]
Visitors: 397 Guru Arjan Dev Institute of Development Studies popularly known as IDSAsr is a centre for advanced research and training in multi disciplinary areas as diverse as agriculture and rural development; social change and social structure; environment and resource economics; globalization and trade, industry, labour and welfare; macro economics issues and models; population and […]
Visitors: 416 The deprived sections of India’s society have long been misled by the empty slogans of the socialists. Only the policies of liberalism can break their bondage and provide the security and opportunity to lift them socially and economically. The liberal policies of Swarna Bharat Party will most benefit the poorest of the poor […]
Visitors: 489by Gregory Naud
Visitors: 337Historically, I think, Gandhi’s satyagrah had altered the world Politics. In 20th century World Wars, State- Nationalism and the Communist Social Revolution had exploited advanced destructive War–science systems. In that techno-science developments for the first time in history, civil-population – towns and cities – unarmed civilians were destroyed under the air-bombings. In 1945. The […]
Visitors: 348Mr Sanjay Sonawani, President of the Swarna Bharat Party called for an urgent review of the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 under which only atrocities against members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes are punished. Even SC/ST community members cannot use this law to seek redress against atrocities […]
Visitors: 564 Cuttack: Earlier this week, Justice Indrajit Mahanty of Orissa High Court admitted that he “carries a loan burden for his long-time business outfit”, through an opinion piece that was written on his behalf titled “Media sensation at times hits great guys, hurts society” in The Pioneer. (The “loan burden” is a Rs 2.5 […]
Visitors: 614 Prof Johan Galtung, a professor of peace studies, is founder of the TRANSCEND Network for Peace, Development and Environment and rector of the TRANSCEND Peace University-TPU. He has published over 400 Editorials for TRANSCEND Media Service and over 164 books on peace and related issues, of which 41 have been translated into 35 […]
Visitors: 536 Robert J. Burrowes PhD has a lifetime commitment to understanding and ending human violence. He has done extensive research since 1966 in an effort to understand why human beings are violent and has been a nonviolent activist since 1981. He is the author of ‘Why Violence? The fearful individual uses violence to try […]