This week at the Voices for Creative Nonviolence office in Chicago in the US, my colleague Sabia Rigby prepared a presentation for a local high school. She'll team up with a young friend of ours, himself a refugee from Iraq, to talk about refugee (...)
The fire in the Chaman e Babrak camp began in Nadiai's home shortly after noon. She had rushed her son, who had a severe chest infection, to the hospital. She did not know that a gas bottle, used for warmth, was leaking; when the gas connected with (...)
I've been a guest in Colorado Springs, Colorado, following a week-long retreat with Colorado College students who are part of a course focussed on non-violence. In last weekend's Colorado Springs Gazette, there was an article in the Military Life (...)
A few evenings ago, as the sky began to darken here in Kabul, Afghanistan, a small group of the Afghan Peace Volunteers (APVs) gathered for an informal presentation about WikiLeaks, its Chief Editor Julian Assange, and its most prominent (...)
Since 2009, Voices for Creative Non-Violence has maintained a grim record we call the “Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news (...)
Washington may have overcome the "Vietnam Syndrome" in its war on Iraq, but US peace movements are left to deal with the American public's indifference to human suffering caused by wars, writes Kathy Kelly
In April of 2003, I returned from Iraq (...)
The struggle to free Palestine took on epic dimensions this summer, writes Kathy Kelly from Athens
It looked like a scene from Verdi: the dashing young troubadour declaiming from a balcony of a palace in Athens, defying the angry gods in the (...)
As the siege of Gaza continues, international human rights activists are gathering to offer hope to Gazan residents, writes Kathy Kelly
In late June, I�'m going to be a passenger on The Audacity of Hope, the US boat in this summer�'s international (...)