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Canada as a Voice for Peace and Development? A Post-Election Conversation with Hon. Lloyd Axworthy
Hon. Lloyd Axworthy—former Minister of Foreign Affairs —on “Canada as a Voice for Peace and Development? A Post-Election Conversation”...
Science for Peace
Nov 7, 20151 min read
Science for Peace Statement supporting Richard Horton, The Lancet Editor-in-Chief, and commending T
Science for Peace is a Canadian-based non-governmental organization founded in 1981. We research, educate, and advocate on issues of war...
Science for Peace
May 22, 20153 min read
Standing Up for Science for Peace
Degenerate Global Trends Not Connected or Causally Decoded No-one can reasonably deny global life system crisis on all planes. But almost...
Science for Peace
May 22, 201532 min read
Munk School of Global Affairs and the Harper Government collaborate on “Direct Diplomacy” in Iran
In early January 2015 the Globe and Mail and the University of Toronto Varsity announced that the federal government gave $9m to the Munk...
Science for Peace
May 22, 20157 min read
Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the Threat of Nuclear War
The Ukraine/Russia conflict is particularly ominous because it could escalate into a nuclear war, and for this reason it is necessary to...
Science for Peace
May 22, 201520 min read
President's Corner: When Saving Others Doesn't Work
Is Louise Arbour giving up? After an illustrious career as prosecutor of a War Crimes Tribunal (precursor to the International Criminal...
Science for Peace
May 22, 201512 min read
Degrowth: A Snail’s Eye View of Social Transformation and Ecological Preservation
In 1973 economist E.F. Schumacher observed that “infinite growth in a finite environment is an obvious impossibility.”1 Degrowth...
Science for Peace
May 22, 201513 min read
Responding to ISIS: The role of Canada and the International Community
Video The Eric Fawcett Forum Friday November 14, 2014. 7:00 PM – 9:30 PM Hart House , Debates Room (2nd flr), University of Toronto...
Science for Peace
Nov 14, 20141 min read
Alternatives to Fossil Fuels: Is the Bio-Economy the Answer We've Been Looking For?
Please join us on Wednesday, October 29th from 4:00 – 6:00 pm in Room 140 of University College, 15 Kings College Circle, University of...
Science for Peace
Oct 29, 20141 min read
Corporate Globalization and Society Destruction: Joining the Dots of War and Peace in Ukraine
From Africa to Europe to the Middle East to Latin America, the unspoken macro trend of U.S. intervention abroad is society destruction....
Science for Peace
Oct 27, 201410 min read
U of T BEES
I started working with the University of Toronto Beekeeping Education Enthusiast Society (U of T B.E.E.S.) student club in 2009 when a...
Science for Peace
Oct 27, 20146 min read
Refusing to be Enemies: Palestinian and Israeli Nonviolent Resistance to the Israeli Occupation. By
Despite the centrality that violence and “terrorism” play in geopolitics, few actually talk and listen at length to the people-on-the...
Science for Peace
Oct 27, 20143 min read
Excerpt from the preface of "Stochastic Processes" by John W. Lamperti (Springer, 1977)
If it is true that the mathematics discussed in this book is applicable, the question naturally must arise: “Applicable for what?” In the...
Science for Peace
Oct 27, 20144 min read
Gaza 2014: Speakable Atrocities, Speaking Up
A recent film, The Lab , puts Israel’s weapons industry under the microscope. It can be said that Gaza, under the microscope, is the lab...
Science for Peace
Oct 27, 201423 min read
A Tribute to Lee Lorch (1915-2014)
Lee Lorch, a Science for Peace Board Member from the 1990s until last year, died on February 28th at the age of 98. A wonderful obituary...
Science for Peace
Jun 6, 20143 min read
Why the UofT Should Divest from Violations of International Law
This article is a result of the collective efforts of Students Against Israeli Apartheid at the University of Toronto and the University...
Science for Peace
Jun 6, 201411 min read
Science for Peace AGM 2014
The Science for Peace Annual General Meeting 2014 will be held on June 14th at 1pm – 3pm in the South Dining Room of Hart House (7 Hart...
Science for Peace
Jun 6, 20141 min read
Book review: The Wealth of Nature: Economics as if survival mattered (By John Michael Greer)
New Society Publishers 2011 252pp. paper Reviewed by Derek Paul Publishing companies are in process of issuing a welcome stream of books...
Science for Peace
Jun 6, 20148 min read
President's Corner: Making Knowledge Scarce
Most members of Science for Peace are workers in the sector now being called the “knowledge industry.” Along with other natural and...
Science for Peace
Dec 2, 20139 min read
A Tribute to Major General (Ret'd) Leonard V Johnson
Major-General (ret’d) Len Johnson was a great inspiration to us in the Pugwash movement, both in Canada and internationally. He had a...
Science for Peace
Dec 2, 20132 min read
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