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Creating a World Beyond War

Beyond War is a community of people from around the world who are committed to ending the use of warfare in this century. We explore, model and promote the means for humanity to live without war. Beyond War understands that conflict is inevitable, but war is not.

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David Galiel on Tour

UPDATED: Beyond War's new Executive Director, David Galiel, has completed tours of the East and West Coasts of the United States!

David's 10 day trip across the East Coast of the United States, visiting Beyond War members and supporters in Boston and Worcester, Massachussetts; in Hendersonville, North Carolina; and in Sarasota and Orlando, Florida; was followed by an 11 day trip through California, with meetings in San Diego and Ventura, along with multiple stops in the Bay Area, including San Mateo, Palo Alto, San Francisco, Mill Valley, Oakland and Berkeley. David has also visited chapters in Eugene and Ashland/Rogue Valley, Oregon.

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What is Intelligence? An Essay by Winslow Myers

“Where there is no vision, the people perish.”

—Proverbs 29:18

Attending the local premier showing of the important, chilling new documentary about the danger of nuclear weapons, “Countdown to Zero,” I found myself, a peace activist for decades, overcome with frustration, when I should have been celebrating an effective restatement of the issues. Most of the audience in the half-filled theater were retirees like me, people in their sixties or seventies. Where were the young whose futures are far more at stake than mine?

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Taking a Global View

The two most threatening global issues, climate change and nuclear proliferation, are simultaneously the most powerfully motivating forces for a global paradigm shift in human consciousness. This carrot and stick reality fuels the intensity of actions at every level - personal, local and global.

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Living Beyond War: A Citizen's Guide

In the words of Chip Hauss, Alliance for Peacebuilding, George Mason University:

“At a time when we often feel overwhelmed by so many specific challenges, this book reminds us of two important overarching problems that transcend the specifics: First, war, in all its forms, is the problem. Second, the roots of war lie in the values and assumptions most people everywhere bring to conflict. They must be changed; they can be.”

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Climate Change and Beyond War

Lessons from Copenhagen

As our comprehension of the complexity of global climate change increases, and the reality of the hair raising resulting effects on all aspects of life starts to register, the role of BW becomes inescapable. We must become proactive in defusing hot spots, addressing conflicts before they escalate, and in building alternatives to the easy momentum of business as usual and our reliance on war.

Elaine and Bill Hallmark held official observer status at the UN Conference on Climate Change in Copenhagen in December 2009 as part of the NGO delegation with Mediators Beyond Borders. Together they have developed a presentation based on their experiences and the insights they have gleaned from the efforts to craft an appropriate international strategy to address the critical issues related to climate change.

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UPDATED: Beyond War's new Executive Director, David Galiel, has completed tours of the East and West Coasts of the United States!