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Call for protests against the NATO Security Conference in Munich on Feb 18th, 2023
The demonstrations around the Munich Security Conference on Radio Lora Radio Lora conducted an interview with Maria R. Feckl about the various demonstrations registered in Munich for Saturday, Feb. 18th, 2023. To the interview For your information, a brief listing of the demos: AntiSiko Demo: [...]
Equalization of the media?
Eric Vad (Brigadier General (ret.), ex-advisor to Chancellor Merkel, calls for diplomacy instead of tanks in his article in EMMA. And he also speaks of a"Equalization of the media" in Germany. "Erich Vad is an ex-brigadier general. From 2006 to 2013, he was the military [...]
Exhibition DenkMalFrieden – DenkMalKrieg (ThinkONcePeace-ThinkOnceWar)
Exhibition project on war memorials in Germany and Austria. The exhibition "DenkMalFrieden - DenkMalKrieg" will be on display on Friday evening in the Old Town Hall foyer and on Saturday in the University of Philosophy during the morning workshop as well as during the evening [...]
Munich Peace Conference: War Interests and War Narratives: Afghanistan, Ukraine
Saturday, February 18, 2023 from 7 - 9.30 pm in Hochschule für Philosophie Afghanistan Dr. Fahim Amir, philosopher and book author "The withdrawal of NATO troops from Afghanistan marked the end of the largest, most costly and most sacrificial intervention by the alliance, including Germany. [...]
Without weapons – but not defenseless!
Without weapons - but not defenseless! Webinar on the Concept of Social Defense with Dr. Christine Schweitzer on June 8, 19:00 Military "defense" faces an unresolvable contradiction. War costs. In the rarest cases, however, it hits those who are to blame for the war. The [...]
The UN from relapsing into Cold War blockades
Commentary by UN specialist and longtime taz correspondent Andreas Zumach https://www.infosperber.ch/politik/welt/die-uno-vor-dem-rueckfall-in-die-blockaden-des-kalten-krieges/
Congress: 40 years IPPNW: June 17-19, 2022 in Landsberg/Lech
IPPNW - International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War IPPNW is still urgently needed. Those who had hoped at the founding of the IPPNW in 1982 that the danger of nuclear war could be eliminated in their own lifetime or at least within one [...]
On the Psychoanalysis of War by Gerhard Vinnai (2011)
Gerhard Vinnai On the psychoanalysis of war (published in Handbuch Kriegstheorien 2011) " ... In war, the killing taboo is suspended. It even comes to its reversal when the state demands of its soldiers: 'Thou shalt kill other people.' The abrogation of a hasty taboo [...]
Interview of the Russian newspaper Izvestia with Hans Christof von Sponeck
Hans-Christof von Sponeck, born in 1939, is Honorary Curate of the International Munich Peace Conference. From 1982 to 1997, he headed the respective UN missions in Gamborone, Islamabad and New Delhi, and then in Baghdad as Assistant UN Secretary-General for the humanitarian "oil-for-food" program. He [...]
Get out of the spiral of violence. Negotiate now!
May 4, 2022 Pope Francis calls for diplomatic initiatives to end war in Ukraine Negotiate now! pax christi is deeply concerned that in our country the conviction that more military support could contribute to a solution is reasserting itself. We note with horror that war [...]