Blogs
This page features blog posts and updates from Peace SOS.
Topics include peacebuilding efforts, humanitarian concerns, and reflections on current events.
Dear world leaders, we need a huge number of food bombs, not nuclear bombs! By Guinness Madasamy, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee 2023
As we are well aware, Russia has threatened to use nuclear weapons to deter other countries from interfering with the invasion of Ukraine. There were also reports that President Putin had instructed to make preparations for them to be used in the event of an...
Public denunciation of the peace issue – on the social treatment of appeals for peace on the war in Ukraine by Klaus Moegling
Irrespective of the question of whether the Russian Federation bears sole responsibility for the military escalation in Ukraine or whether NATO or influential NATO states, such as the United States or Great Britain, are also partly to blame for the outbreak of war,...
Let China mediate to prevent further escalation of war in Ukraine
China’s foreign minister recently called for peace talks to end the war between Russia and Ukraine. The security interests of all sides should be safeguarded in the process. President Zelensky promised to hold talks with President Xi Jinping. The Netherlands and other...
Action for Women & Children Concern (AWCC): Protracted Armed Conflicts and Climate Change obstacles to realisation of SDGs in Somalia
Somalia has a population of 12,316,895 according to the UNFPA population survey in 2014 and currently 7.5 million people – over ½ of the Somali population – are in dire need of humanitarian assistance. Protracted armed conflicts, insecurities and climate...
A Bio-cultural Heritage for Humanity by Stefan Kistler of Chaikuni’s Permaculture Centre
From October 19 to 23, 2022, Chaikuni’s Permaculture Center was hosting an exceedingly important event with over 40 participants from 22 representative indigenous organizations from Brazil and Peru, their allies, as well as donors from the United States and Norway(1)....
Niger could face its worst food crisis in the next few years
This is what can be deduced by following the second part of the 6th assessment report Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) made public last Monday. Produced by 270 scientists from 67 different countries, the summary of this report has been validated by the...
The need for peace between Pakistan and India
Background In the present world Pakistan and India are two neighbouring countries in South Asia. Both of these countries obtained independence from British colonial rule in 1947. This resulted in the biggest migration of humans in history when 20 million inhabitants...
Education is the key to peace in Myanmar/Burma
INTERVIEW By: May-May Meijer In front of my online zoom screen, I’m looking at a youthful-looking lady from Myanmar – or Burma, as Aye Kari Soe (AS) prefers to call it. She is living in the Netherlands, but many of her family and friends are in Burma. I am very...
Daily suffering and continuous siege in Taiz, Yemen
The civilians in the city of Taiz, under siege from the Houthi group (Ansar Allah) have been suffering on a daily basis for the last six years. This siege is characterized by a complete restriction of movement between the center of the governorate and its countryside...
The missing hope of the Yemeni people and the long-awaited dream
The dream weaving through the hearts of all Yemenis to stop the war and the shooting, was at that time nothing but a dream that might come true. My heartfelt desire is for the Yemenis to achieve their wishes to follow their hearts without the ever-present buzzing of...
Life in Yemen is an unbearable hell
Things got out of control in Yemen, which was burdened with devastating conflicts. The situation became catastrophic, unbearable to wait, and increasing day by day. Citizens are looking for someone to support them. Others suffer pain and share their pain and...
Ukraine and Russia need to develop a peace culture
When the war machine roars about violent defense of absolute sovereignty of nations, we should see the big picture, because this conflict is not just about Ukraine, it is about the emergence of global governance and two approaches to it, governance by gun and military...