Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Peace Brigades International, Christian Peacemaker Teams and International Solidarity Movement are organizations which participate in this form of volunteering. International volunteers may prove particularly effective in accompanying endangered groups because foreign citizenship can add a layer of protection from harassment given the added ...
Peacemakers are individuals and organizations involved in peacemaking, often in countries affected by war, violent conflict, and political instability. [1] They engage in processes such as negotiation, mediation, conciliation , and arbitration —drawing on international law and norms.
Helen Thomas (1966–1989) – Welsh peace activist who died after being hit by a police vehicle at the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp; Dorothy Thompson (1923–2011) – English historian and peace activist; Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) – American writer, philosopher, inspiration to movement leaders
Examples of consociational agreements can be seen in Northern Ireland, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Lebanon. In an effort to de-emphasise the importance of ethnicity, critics of consociationalism such as Brian Barry , Donald L. Horowitz , and to a certain extent, Roland Paris, have developed their own brands of constitutional peacebuilding that ...
Community Peacemaker Teams or CPT (previously called Christian Peacemaker Teams) is an international organization set up to support teams of peace workers in conflict areas around the world. The organization uses these teams to achieve its aims of lower levels of violence, nonviolent direct action , human rights documentation and nonviolence ...
Peacemaking is a practical conflict transformation focused upon establishing equitable power relationships robust enough to forestall future conflict, often including the establishment of means of agreeing on ethical decisions within a community, or among parties, that had previously engaged in inappropriate (i.e. violent) responses to conflict.
The Irish actor has clinched his first Oscar for his role in Oppenheimer.
Eva Bacon (1909–1994) – Australian socialist, feminist, pacifist; Doris Blackburn (1889–1970) – Australian social reformer, politician, pacifist; Helen Caldicott (born 1938) – Australian physician, anti-nuclear activist, revived Physicians for Social Responsibility, campaigner against the dangers of radiation