War and Peace
All articles in War and Peace
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Si vis pacem, para bellum (“If you want peace, prepare for war”)
World Federalist Movement · June 2022
Armies and nuclear arsenals have not delivered security. A rules-based order where aggression is a crime, sanctions bite and individuals face the International Criminal Court offers a better route, and civil society built that court once and can mobilise again.
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It’s Time to End the Suffering
June 2022
Ukraine’s war has spread hunger, inflation and nuclear danger across the globe, proof that nations share one fate. The answer is a collective security pact capping national arms, enforced by a standing international force under an elected world legislature.
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War Crimes Are a Feature of the War System
June 2022
Russia is not the only offender: atrocities follow wherever nations must arm to survive in a world without enforceable law. Until a legal system compels countries to settle disputes peacefully, those who commit war crimes will keep escaping justice.
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This tangled web we have woven: why countries go to war
World Federalist Movement · May 2022
Wars are won by the side that can outproduce its enemy, and conquest has mostly been about resources. Ukraine’s grain and critical minerals raise the stakes, while seizures and broken deals will leave Russia a pariah for as long as Putin rules.
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Globalism Without World Federalism Leads to Deadlier Wars
Young World Federalists · April 2022
Wanting to punish aggression in Ukraine pushes well-meaning people toward steps that risk nuclear war, because states live in anarchy. Federal subunits almost never fight each other, and a federal world with binding dispute settlement would remove that bind.
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We are all citizens of Ukraine
World Federalist Movement · March 2022
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is the crime of aggression, banned by customary law even where the ICC cannot reach. The end will most likely come from inside Russia, and a Moscow without Putin could turn west as the old Warsaw Pact states did.
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The Commonwealth as a “Workable World” Model
World Federalist Movement · September 2021
A shared charter of democracy, human rights and the rule of law binds 2.4 billion Commonwealth citizens, and regional blocs from Europe to Africa show how cooperation keeps peace. Judged by one scholar’s ten tests, the Commonwealth passes most and fails a few.
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Afghanistan – the warning from history
World Federalist Movement · September 2021
Afghanistan confirms what history keeps teaching: armed intervention without a realistic objective ends in humiliation, from Russia to Britain to the US. The West should now engage the Taliban, and the country can find stability only through a decentralised federal system based on consent.
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World Federation And The Israel-Palestine Conflict
September 2021
Occupation and nationalism between Israelis and Palestinians grow from a deeper fault: no democratic power exists to protect minorities everywhere. Only an elected world government with real force can end the conflict, and a UN Parliamentary Assembly is the place to start.
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The poet and the soldier
World Federalist Movement · July 2021
Soldiers often become peace activists, and soldier-poets such as Wilfred Owen convey the futility and human cost of war more powerfully than argument. Campaigners can make the case through logic and economics, but sometimes poetry says it better.
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Remarks on Peace-Building in a Post-Covid-19 World
World Federalist Movement · June 2021
Covid left the rich richer and the poor poorer while the largest economies fought trade wars. Its lesson of shared safety should guide a world of enforceable law, summits answerable to citizens, and sovereignty pooled for common gain.
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The Women, Peace and Security agenda — and why it is important
June 2019
Peace deals signed by women last longer and are more fully carried out, yet women remain a sliver of mediators, negotiators and peacekeepers. Bringing more women into peace talks is the core aim of a Security Council effort launched in 2000.
