Please support the "Uniting for Peace" Call to Action, demanding that a multinational diplomatic convoy be sent to Gaza, which is the best hope to end the genocide and for peace and justice for Palestine. lifelineforpalestine.com/take-action www.globalr2p.org/publications...

We have a new url!! Please visit us here! www.iprapeace.com

A very important date to put on your calendars, next year July 4, 2026. ⬇️ spiritofmandela.org/news-events/...

Shout out to @pomelo.travel and their travel research! They provide great deals with a membership and also have a free email list - this week Auckland, NZ is on sale! Check them out ⬇️ pomelotravel.com/memberships-...

Exciting news! Early bird registration for IPRA 2025 in has been extended to July 7! Visit the conference webpage for details, featured speakers, and registration. www.iprapeace.org/ipra2025

Excited to share that our Secretary General, @mattmipra.bsky.social will be speaking at University of Oxford and University of Bradford with the release of his latest book! #AfricanPeace #PeaceResearch books.turnaround-uk.com/beyond-our-c...

Eyewitness Report on 50th Anniversary of Peace & Reunification. Today, 05/15, 7pm ET. From @mattmipra.bsky.social and Vietnam Peace Commemoration Committee delegation. Sponsored by @ipra.socials, War Resisters League, and Syracuse Cultural Workers. Register: vnpeacecomm.blogspot.com/2025/04/webi...

An Eyewitness Report on the 50th Anniversary of Peace and Reunification in Viet Nam has been rescheduled! Thu May 15, 7pm ET. #peace #ReunificationDayVietnam Please register here: vnpeacecomm.blogspot.com/2025/04/webi...

We are excited about the new Pope bettering lives of people around the world. "He resembles Francis in his commitment to the poor and migrants and to meeting people where they are. 'The bishop is not supposed to be a little prince sitting in his kingdom.'” #peace #PopeLeoXVI #VivaLaPapa

Throngs of young people and families gather by the Ho Chi Minh statue, the beloved revolutionary who dared to imagine rebuilding his homeland "ten times more beautiful." We must imagine and fight for our own new world. #peace #activism #ReunificationDayVietnam

"There's no better way to live life than to practice, teach and promote nonviolence" an article from our friends @wagingnv.bsky.social #PeaceNotWar #PeaceNotViolence #peacemaking

From a peace research perspective, seen as we gather for the 50th: a long history of naming some as the "enemy" with no rights: disposable, expendable, worth-less, and deserving of death; and that violence and militarism are fine ways of resolving conflicts #PeaceNotWar #ReunificationDayVietnam

"DOGE locked us out of our offices and then fired nearly all 300 staff." From @mattmipra.bsky.social in Vietnam: "Andrew Wells-Dang, Institute of Peace (USIP), was supposed to be here, and then he lost his job. His Op Ed just published in USA Today." #PeaceNotWar #ReunificationDayVietnamU.S.

Honor to meet the inspiring team of Project RENEW at the Mine Action Visitor Center. Decades of cleaning up land mines and other dangerous ordinances that "our" US government viciously littered their country with. "We must look forward." #peace #reconciliation #reunification #vietnam #PeaceNotWar

We mourn the loss an inclusive leader. "Francis reached out to migrants, the poor, and he sought to improve relations with Chinese government, Muslim clerics, and war-torn parts of Africa, where he excoriated modern-day colonizers and sought peace in South Sudan." #inclusion #peace #decolonization

Our participation in Reunification Day, 30 April 1975, marking the end of the Vietnam War, begins with iconic places, powerful talks, and gifting archives. Students at Ho Chi Minh's Mausoleum, Banner: "President Ho Chi Minh is a great man who lives forever in our cause" with @mattmipra.bsky.social

Please consider supporting one of our partner organizations: Waging Nonviolence, where our research articles are posted. Their work is incredibly important, especially during these times. #peace #nonviolence #justice #misinformationawareness wagingnonviolence.org/about/donate/

Celebrating inspiration and connection in Colombia at the CLAIP conference, with Colombian Vice President Francia Marquez; Arhuaco Indigenous Mamo Camillo Izquierdo, and Colombian Minister of Justice and Law, Angela Maria Buitrago Ruiz. We go forward together, stronger!

Are you excited about the biennial conference in Aotearoa/New Zealand on Māori indigenous lands? We are! Make sure your membership dues are paid to get conference registration information and reduced conference rates. 🤩 #internationalpeace #justice #IndigenousRights

Hope pulsates at Externado University of Colombia for Transformative Peace and Social Justice 01-04 April. CLAIP has produced an independent journal, a post-COVID action campaign, youth camps, & more, playing a vital role in the field of peace studies. 👉 claip.org/ElCongreso20...

Selma to Montgomery Historic Trail. Bloody Sunday anniversary walk 07 March 1965

Join us in this urgent webinar on the situation in the Congo. 3pm ET, Thursday 20 March. Please follow the link and register. #solidarity #peace #internationalpeace

"As the government cracks down on the student movement for Palestine, activists are organizing campaigns to get their charges dropped. Hundreds of protesters called for the release of Mahmoud Khalil at Foley Square in New York City on March 10." #FreePalestine #Nonviolence @wagingnv.bsky.social

Peace Studies Fellowship opportunity. Apply by April 7. @ox.ac.uk #peacestudies

Stronger Together #NoOtherLand #FreePalestine #Oscars2025 #Peace #StrongerTogether

Congratulations to No Other Land, Best Feature Documentary! "We as Israelis and Palestinians made this film together because we are stronger together. Can't you see that we are fully intertwined? We are only free if people are free. There is no other way."

‘The Academy-award nominated documentary “No Other Land” centers Palestinians rising up with visions of a peaceful future.’

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Thousands of paper doves are hanging in an abbey with messages of "love and peace" on them written by the local community. About 9,000 paper birds are hanging from the ceiling at Tewkesbury Abbey, in Gloucestershire, England, accompanied by sound and light show. www.bbc.com/news/videos/...

Today in 2014 began the Russio-Ukraine war, the current conflict started 02/24/22. We continue to support the civil resistance. "When you dialogue, you learn that most want human rights and an end to violence." By Co-Secretary General, @mattmipra.bsky.social and Nobel Peace laureate, Mairead Maguire

Perhaps the last remaining lion of the Pan African struggle, "Sam Nujoma guided Namibia to independence from apartheid South Africa and served as its first president for 15 years, has died at 95." We pledge to continue working against colonialism, neoliberalism, and injustice!

Sunday Bloody Sunday March 7, 1965

Highlight from international Western Sahara Solidarity Summit 5-8 Jan, in Sahrawian refugee camps: Greta Thunberg with IPRA representative, Marcela Agudelo-Ortiz, of Latin American Peace Research Council (CLAIP). Also there were Swedish Solidarity Rising cyclists Sanna Ghotbi and Benjamin Ladraa.

Dos ciclistas suecos llevan la solidaridad internacional a los Campamentos de Refugiados Saharauis | Sahara Press Service (SPS) BOJADOR (Campamentos de la Dignidad)-. Los activistas suecos solidarios con la causa saharaui, Benjamin Ladraa y Sanna Ghotbi se encuentran en Bojador desde el 24 de…

We join the UN Human Rights Council in celebrating clemency granted to American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier (Chippewa and Lakota), after almost 50 years behind bars for a crime he did not commit. #Decolonization #humanrights #indigenousrights

The 2025 Conference International Association for Reconciliation Studies Call for Papers is due 01 February. #peacebuilding #healing #peace #worldpeace #reconciliation #lastingpeace #interfaithdialogue www.iars2025seoul.org

We find environmental justice again in social reform, in themes of empowerment at the communal level: "grass-roots, bottom-up peacebuilding interventions and strategies," from Charles Felix Komba at the Africa Peace Research and Education Association (AFPREA) Conference earlier this year.

We are reminded of season-specific storms such as Cyclone Freddy that devastated southern Africa, and also see climate change. We echo calls for Environmental Justice, giving voice to small economies: "This is an opportunity for young people to lead coastal communities."

Always a pleasure to connect about pressing issues in #PeaceResearch, especially in person. Strong work being done at the African Studies Association annual meeting from Cyril Obi, Jacinta Maweu, and @mattmipra.bsky.social.

Pleased to announce Beyond Our Current Boundaries: Peace Studies in Africa and the Global South (Africa World Press), just out, written by our co-Secretary General, @mattmipra.bsky.social, announced at the African Studies Association annual meeting. Part of the Africa World Peace series.

Today President Biden pardoned a record number in one day. We are still hoping for Leonard Peltier's freedom, an Indigenous elder and activist. @amnesty.org shares our sentiment and wrote a letter in Sept. "Biden will continue to review clemency petitions." #activism #PeaceNotWar

Just published, regarding the recent situation in Syria, from the Women's Protection Units (YPJ), who are currently fighting on many fronts, protecting the people and the achievements of the women's revolution. SOLIDARITY FOREVER!

A good read: good news and good history from South Korea. Thanks to our friends @wagingnv.bsky.social for bringing it to our attention through their weekly newsletter!

Submissions for the IPRA 60th anniversary conference have been numerous and excellent. We will be accepting a second round of submissions through 02/01/2025. 4-8 Nov 2025 in Aotearoa/New Zealand www.iprapeace.org/ipra2025 Image: National Library of New Zealand, natlib.govt.nz/blog/posts/r...

Ready to share your insights on #Peace, #Resistance, #Reconciliation? The first global, professional peace conference entirely on Indigenous lands, hosted by the Maori peoples of Aotearoa, New Zealand. Submit your proposals by Nov 30, 2024. Let’s make a difference together! tinyurl.com/ipra2025

Join us online this Thursday, Nov 28, 10 am EST here: us02web.zoom.us/j/86235255122 We will be celebrating the centenary of the birth of DENNIS BRUTUS, poet extraordinaire, anti-apartheid militant, peace professor, campaigner for all political prisoners, and all-around wonderful human