Premature Peace Prize or Call to Action? Or Both? Peace Actionistas Speak Out!

President Obama’s being awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace has elicited all kinds of responses from peace activists, especially in the Peace Action family, which is great! We’ve gotten [...]

Peace Action Members Meet UN Secretary Ban Ki-Moon at Conference in Mexico City

The UN NGO Conference on Disarmament is currently being held in Mexico City. Peace Action is chairing the conference. Staff members Kevin Martin, Paul Kawika Martin and Lisa Putkey have traveled [...]

Fighting Terrorism at Home & Abroad

When we talk about “Real Security through International Cooperation and the Funding of Human Needs” it is sometimes hard to understand what that means in terms of our daily lives.  On my way home [...]

SAY NO TO MILITARY DICTATORSHIPS HERE AND IN PAKISTAN!

I don’t have a lot of time to make a proper analysis of the situation in Pakistan today but I wanted to take some space here to reflect on Democracy.  How is it that our President claims to have [...]