War and Peace
All articles in War and Peace
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Winter is coming in Ukraine: Are there prospects for peace?
March 2023
Peace in Ukraine will come through talks, not Russia’s total defeat, because humiliating a nuclear power is too dangerous. Canada, though no neutral party, could press NATO to downgrade its nuclear weapons and back a civil society peace platform.
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Who Speaks for the World?
March 2023
Great powers have attacked weaker nations for centuries, and the UN still hands five of them a permanent veto. Ending that privilege, adding an elected parliamentary assembly, a currency speculation tax and a standing rapid force would let the UN act for all humanity.
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The General Assembly Jurisdiction to Recommend the Use of Force
World Federalist Movement – Canada · February 2023
A Security Council veto does not exhaust the UN’s options. Under the Charter and World Court opinions, the General Assembly can recommend sanctions or even force, though it cannot compel members, and it has set up forces before, as at Suez.
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War and Peace: whose freedom?
World Federalist Movement · January 2023
Wars now target civilians as much as soldiers, so peace needs a fuller definition. Measured by Roosevelt’s four freedoms, it is a state in which people can enjoy their rights, above all freedom from aggression by another state.
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Nations Of The World Unite!
Citizens for Global Solutions · January 2023
Isolationism does nothing to stop wars elsewhere, and pacifism has too few adherents to prevent them. What curbs violence within nations, laws and courts that bind everyone, could curb it between them: a UN without the veto, with taxing power and an elected world parliament.
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Anxiety Looms As Global Economy Enters Shutdown
World Federalist Movement – Canada · December 2022
Global economic growth faces a dark shadow as pandemic, war, and supply chain disruptions converge. The IMF warns of a looming recession as uncertainty grips key sectors.
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What is Peace?
World Federalist Movement · December 2022
Like love, peace means different things to different people, so its meaning has to rest on agreed law: the crime of aggression in the Rome Statute and human rights now accepted across every faith and culture.
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World Peace in Peril: Challenging False Narratives
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was illegal, but Moscow reads NATO’s eastward growth as encirclement and broken promises. If Ukraine wins, the West must offer a humbled Russia trust and friendship, then pursue disarmament, starting with nuclear arms.
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Remembrance and a demise of the demagogues?
World Federalist Movement · November 2022
Voters in Britain, Brazil and the US have begun turning on charismatic populists, a hopeful sign. Yet a wounded Russia may harden rather than soften, and until war is outlawed, free nations must stand firm for their values.
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There Is An Alternative To War
Citizens for Global Solutions · October 2022
Military buildups provoke rivals and isolationism leaves aggressors unchecked, so neither prevents war. Strengthened global governance, with a UN freed of the veto, given taxing power, a world parliament and enforcement, offers a real alternative.
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Bye-Bye World: While Nuclear Weapons And Wars Exist, Annihilation Beckons
Citizens for Global Solutions · October 2022
In 1946 most Americans polled backed turning the UN into a world government, and public pressure later won real arms treaties. Now those treaties are being scrapped, and only enforced abolition and a stronger UN can keep any war from ending the world.
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On the UN International Day of Peace is war now too expensive?
World Federalist Movement · August 2022
Modern wars of missiles, drones and armour drain fortunes and have humbled great powers from Suez and Vietnam to Afghanistan, as Russia is now learning in Ukraine. Small arms still need tight control, and a Russia after Putin should be offered cooperation.
