Introduction The World Congress of Intellectuals in Defence of Peace (Polish: Światowy Kongres Intelektualistów w Obronie Pokoju) was an international conference held on 25 to 28 August 1948 at Wrocław University of Technology. It was organised in the aftermath of the Second World War by the authorities of the Polish People’s Republic and the Soviet… Read More
Introduction The World Peace Council (WPC) is an international organisation with the stated goals of advocating for universal disarmament, sovereignty and independence and peaceful co-existence, and campaigns against imperialism, weapons of mass destruction and all forms of discrimination. Founded from an initiative of the Information Bureau of the Communist and Workers’ Parties, WPC emerged from… Read More
Introduction Conflict resolution is any reduction in the severity of a conflict. It may involve conflict management, in which the parties continue the conflict but adopt less extreme tactics; settlement, in which they reach agreement on enough issues that the conflict stops; or removal of the underlying causes of the conflict. The latter is sometimes… Read More
Introduction The Centre for Global Nonkilling (originally known as the Centre for Global Nonviolence) is an international non-profit organisation focused on the promotion of change toward the measurable goal of a killing-free world. The Centre for Global Nonkilling is a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations (UN’s) Economic and Social… Read More
Introduction The MSC Student Conference on National Affairs (MSC SCONA) is an annual conference at Texas A&M University where civilian students and military cadets from across Texas and the United States gather to exchange ideas and discuss the role of the United States in the global community. The most recent conference, MSC SCONA 67, was… Read More
Introduction The League of Nations (French: Société des Nations) was the first worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace. It was founded on 10 January 1920 by the Paris Peace Conference that ended the First World War. The main organisation ceased operations on 20 April 1946 but many of its components… Read More
Introduction Some anti-war songs lament aspects of wars, while others satirise war. Most promote peace in some form, while others sing out against specific armed conflicts. Still others depict the physical and psychological destruction that warfare causes to soldiers, innocent civilians, and humanity as a whole. Many of these songs are considered protest songs, and… Read More
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