Month: January 2004

Canadian Peace Education Conference McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada November 20 – 24, 2003 Report Goals: This conference report focus is on effective curricula that would forward the role of peace education in Canada. The SfP working group looked for existing Canadian Courses and Curricula in Universities, French Schools Secondary & Elementary Schools, Private Schools, … Read more Canadian Peace Education Conference Report

Dear Editor: I used to have a wall plaque that read “Warning: don’t release tongue before brain is engaged”. I was reminded of this by reading your perverse editorial “Canada’s missile role” (Friday, January 9), which urged our involvement in the u.S. missile defence scheme, supposedly on the basis that this would “enhance Canadian sovereignty” … Read more Rebuttal to Globe & Mail "Star Wars" Editorial

The Edmonton Coalition Against War & Racism in association with several other Canadian Peace groups is having a campaign against the Canadian participation in the US NMD program. We are curTently working on 2 projects, one very cheap and one very expensive! 1. BUILD YOUR OWN ANTI BALLISTIC MISSILE – It will work as well … Read more No Weapons in Space Campaign in Edmonton

Who we are January 2003 marked the birth of Students of Science for Peace, the undergraduate student group of Science for Peace at the University of Toronto. Currently, we have roughly 20 active members who meet on a weekly basis. The majority are science students, though we have active members in the social sciences and … Read more Students for Peace

excerpt from talk during Peace Week at the Univerity of Toronto We probably all agree here that waging war is generally pretty bad for the environment. We don’t need to think very deeply about the environmental catastrophe that arises when one drops a nuclear weapon on defenceless citizens. The devastation to the environment that millions … Read more Environment and War

“Toutes les puissances de l’Europe forment entre elles une sorte de systeme qui les unit par une même religion, par une même droit des gens, par les moeurs, par les lettres, par le commerce, et par une sorte d’equilibre…” Jean-Jacques Rousseau ‘Projet de Paix Perpetuelle’ 1760 “Europe is the weak link in the Cold War” … Read more Report from Europe – November 2003

As the final parts of this belated Bulletin are put together, the arrest of Saddam Hussein by the U.S. occupation forces in Iraq has been announced. Great discussion of the process by which the former Iraqi dictator will be tried is circulating among the endless group of (male) experts that the various administrations and media … Read more Aiding & Abetting War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity