World BEYOND War News & Action: Peacemaking in War Times
Posted: 22nd July 2025
This is the week of our annual awards event, and we’re looking forward to presenting the awards to some amazing people. We’re also getting close to starting our new online course - about law. Why learn about laws when nobody is obeying them? For the same reason we learn about peace when everybody’s waging wars: most people are, in fact, not waging wars or violating laws, and we need to bring a small number of powerful people into line with the rest of us.
David Swanson, Executive Director, World BEYOND War
Upcoming Events
Visit WBW’s Global Events Calendar to find events and add your own events!
July 24: War Abolisher Awards
Please join us for the presentation of the 2025 War Abolisher Awards to Ralph Nader, Roger Waters, and Francesca Albanese.
War, Peace, and Law: An Online Course
Law is not fixed. Around the world, people continue to use it—as a tool of resistance, a path to reform, and a foundation for peace. This new online course begins on August 4.
Hiroshima and Nagasaki Anniversaries (August 6, 9)
The anniversaries of the nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, are opportunities to join in or create educational and activist events aimed at preventing any more nuclear bombings.
More Upcoming Events:
- Book Club: Christina and the Whitefish - Weekly in August. Register.
- #NoWar2025: Exploring Abolition Movements - October 24-26. Register.
Webinar Recordings:
- Recording: 24 Hours of Video from the 4th Annual 24-Hour Peace Wave (July 12)
- Recording: From Fireworks to Firepower (July 10)
Volunteer Spotlight
World BEYOND War Romania Chapter Co-Coordinator Hans Hedrich
News from Around the World
NEW REPORT: Foreign Military Bases - and Resistance to Them - Are Spreading
A new report by World BEYOND War finds that military bases used by foreign militaries are growing in number, as are public protests and advocacy against those bases. Of 1,247 foreign military bases in the world, 877 of them, by latest count, are U.S. bases outside of the United States. Eighteen other nations, combined, have 370 bases outside their borders.
More Articles from Around the Globe:
- The Hague Group and How Far We Are from the Rule of Law
- Afghanistan and the Baltics: A Tale of Two Resistances
- A Draft Treaty on the Neutralization of Outer Space
- Seven U.S. Citizens Are Onboard the Gaza Flotilla ship Handal
- Gaza Flotilla Ship “Handala” Sails to Challenge Israeli Genocide of Palestinians
- Stop Israel’s Dystopian “Humanitarian City” Plan—Before It’s Too Late
- Trinity Bomb Test 80th Anniversary, with Hiroshima/Nagasaki Peace Committee
- Nuclear Armageddon and How to Avoid It
- Boycott Whole Foods While Amazon Supports Genocide
EUROPE
- Belgian Court Bans Further Transit of All Military Equipment to Israel
- A World on the Brink of Conflict: Reflections on Militarization and Peace
AFRICA
ASIA
PACIFIC
AMERICAS
- Talk World Radio: Why Is NATO Invading Classrooms?
- When It Divests from Weapons, Philadelphia Should Invest in People
- Peace Through Strength as March Toward War
- AUDIO: John Reuwer on Metamorphosis Dialogues
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