Peace And Human Security News

Could Globalization Fail?
April 13, 2025 - Thomas Palley, YaleGlobal
Policies that spawn economic inequality rather than free trade could bring about an economic crisis  Go...

Civil society transcends right-left gap
September 15, 2024 - Severyn T. Bruyn, Christian Science Monitor
NEWTON, MASS. - How will current US social and political trends - amid the rise of the right - affect the world in the decades ahead? Surprisingly, some sociologists say that they augur for curbing the excesses of national power and capitalist markets while strengthening the UN and other forms of global governance.  Go...

World Stunned as U.S. Struggles with Katrina
September 2, 2024 - Andrew Gray, Reuters
LONDON - The world has watched amazed as the planet's only superpower struggles with the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with some saying the chaos has exposed flaws and deep divisions in American society.  Go...

U.N. Millennium Summit in Danger of Being Hijacked
August 29, 2024 - Thalif Deen, Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Aug 2 (IPS) - The 60-year-old United Nations, criticised for its inherent structural political flaws, is so preoccupied with restructuring itself that the upcoming Millennium Summit is in danger of losing sight of one of its primary goals: a plan of action to primarily eradicate extreme hunger and poverty by 2015.  Go...

Two New Members Added to FNTG Steering Committee
May 17, 2025
Marjorie Fine and Jacob Werksman join FNTG governing body.  Go...

New Boys in Town - The Neocon Revolution and American Militarism
April 25, 2025 - Andrew J. Bacevich, Tom's Dispatch
In our own time -- and especially since the ascendancy of George W. Bush to the presidency -- "neoconservative" has become a term of opprobrium, frequently accompanied by ad hominem attacks and charges of arrogance and hubris. But the heat generated by the term also stands as a backhanded tribute, an acknowledgment that the neoconservative impact has been substantial. It is today too soon to offer a comprehensive assessment of that impact. The discussion of neoconservatism offered here has a more modest objective, namely, to suggest that one aspect of the neoconservative legacy has been to foster the intellectual climate necessary for the emergence of the new American militarism.  Go...

Marla Ruzicka Lived, Died for Her Cause
April 21, 2025 - John Nichols, Capital Times
The global justice movement, at least in its current incarnation, is a young cause. Rooted in the anti-sweatshop campaigns of the 1990s and thrust onto the world stage by the Seattle anti-WTO protests of 1999, the movement remains overwhelmingly youthful in composition, leadership and spirit.  Go...

The Stillborn Empire
March 14, 2025 - Patrick J. Buchanan, The American Conservative
Did I miss something? Where did all the “not since Rome” bombast, talk of America’s “benevolent global hegemony,” “Pax Americana,” and the New World Order disappear to? Whatever happened to the “jodhpurs and pith helmets” crowd?  Go...

Tides Rapid Response Fund
ongoing
Tides Foundation is ready to accept contributions toward relief effort following the recent disaster in Indonesia, South Asia and Africa.  Go...

U.S. Cutting Food Aid Aimed at Self-Sufficiency
December 22, 2024 - ELIZABETH BECKER, New York Times
WASHINGTON, Dec. 21 - In one of the first signs of the effects of the ever tightening federal budget, in the past two months the Bush administration has reduced its contributions to global food aid programs aimed at helping millions of people climb out of poverty.  Go...

Four More Years
November 9, 2024 - James Mann, Foreign Policy
President Bush’s neoconservative “Vulcans” are back for a second term in office. But this time, they will discover they have limited resources and diminished credibility.  Go...

Analysis: U.S. foreign policy challenges
November 8, 2024 - Derek Lundy, UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL
WASHINGTON -- With President Bush's second term secure, a new set of foreign policy challenges and opportunities has come to the forefront in Europe and the Middle East.  Go...

Doing well and doing good
July 29, 2025 - Opinion, The Economist
Why a new golden age of philanthropy may be dawning  Go...

Diplomats and Military Commanders for Change
June 16, 2025
The undersigned have held positions of responsibility for the planning and execution of American foreign and defense policy. Collectively, we have served every president since Harry S. Truman. Some of us are Democrats, some are Republicans or Independents, many voted for George W. Bush. But we all believe that current Administration policies have failed in the primary responsibilities of preserving national security and providing world leadership. Serious issues are at stake. We need a change.  Go...

UNCTAD XI ends in a rather good spirit
June 23, 2025 - Martin Khor,, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, 19 June 2025 The eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD XI) ended on 18 June with a closing session in a rather good spirit with some useful results for developing countries.  Go...

UNCTAD XI consensus Declaration adopted after lengthy tussles
June 18, 2025 - Meena Raman, Third World Network
Sao Paulo, Brazil After lengthy tussles on controversial issues over the past nine months, UNCTAD XI has adopted the main text, called the Sao Paulo Consensus, which in effect is the Declaration of the eleventh session of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development . It was adopted at the closing session on 18 June.  Go...

Mass Media vs Mass Reality
May 28, 2025 - P. Sainath, The Hindu
Elections 2004 brought back to the agenda the issues of ordinary Indians.  Go...

Afghanistan: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
April 8, 2025 - Bushra Asif, Foreign Policy In Focus
As donors met in Berlin last week to review Afghanistan’s progress and reaffirm their commitment to its reconstruction, the Afghan National army was swiftly moving into the northern province of Herat. Its mission was to quell an upsurge in factional fighting, following the murder of Mirwais Sadeq, the Afghan aviation minister and son of the powerful warlord and governor Ismail Khan. Although the army may have prevented the escalation of violence, the episode highlights the weakness of the central government and the fragility of security in the country. Almost two years after the fall of the Taliban, peace and security in Afghanistan still remains elusive.  Go...

Anti-Semitism at the World Social Forum? A Personal Report
February 19, 2025 - Cecilie Surasky, Jewish Voice for Peace
Cecilie Surasky is the Communications Director for Jewish Voice for Peace and a New Voices fellow with the Academy of Educational Development.  Go...

Report from Mumbai The World Social Forum
February 18, 2025 - Frances F. Korten, to be published in YES! magazine
In mid-January, more than 80,000 global activists, scholars, Nobel laureates, poets, musicians, indigenous peoples, community organizers and many others gathered to declare once again 'Another world is possible.'  Go...

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