Autor: pacifista

  • SIPRI researchers inform global military AI summit

    On 4–5 February, SIPRI researchers attended the third REAIM Summit—a multistakeholder gathering dedicated to international dialogue on the responsible development and use of AI in the military domain.

  • SIPRI to co-host 2026 Armament and Disarmament Summer School

    SIPRI and the Alva Myrdal Centre for Nuclear Disarmament at Uppsala University, in cooperation with the Odesa Center for Nonproliferation, are now inviting applications to the 2026 Armament and Disarmament Summer School.

  • For the first time, I was grateful to be human

    One night, I dreamed that I was flying toward a place called the Island of Robots. At first, the dream appeared as spectacle: a high-tech airport, luminous corridors, metallic figures moving with calculated grace. But upon waking reflection, I realized it was not a dream about machines. It was a dream about Being. When I…

  • BNP enforces ‘one family, one candidate’ rule for women’s seats

    by Asif Showkat Kallol (Dhaka Bureau) Bangladesh’s ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has decided to enforce a ‘one family, one candidate’ policy in the allocation of women’s reserved seats in the country’s 13th parliament, a move party leaders say is aimed at widening representation and reducing dynastic dominance. The decision comes weeks after the BNP’s sweeping…

  • Contaminated Water – Causing Deaths: Whose Failure?

    Hardly any quarter of time goes by without news of death caused by contaminated water getting the highlight in the media, but who cares? Even after eight decades of India’s independence, why are our own rulers failing to provide sufficient and potable water? Why is the water quality being compromised? Should this be ignored as…

  • Peacewalkers keep going in the north of Spain

    “Today, we leave Ponferrada behind and begin our ascent into the silence of the mountains. The road to El Acebo is steep, but the air is clear. With every step upward, we rise above the noise of the world. The higher we go, the smaller our problems appear. We climb not to conquer the mountain,…

  • Unlimited Love: Humanist inner development project in kenyan prisons

    As part of the activities carried out by the thematic roundtables on Internal development, Education, and Gender based violence within the framework of the World Humanist Forum, humanist activists launched a program on Valentine’s Day in the Kenyan maximum-security prison of Kisumu Kibos that seeks to promote the internal renewal of inmates. By Dorothy Adenga…

  • Interview with Sharon Dolev on Iran, Israel, and the Rising Risk of War

    Following his first interview with Emad Kiyaei, on the Iran–U.S. negotiations in Geneva, David continues the conversation with Sharon Dolev, co-director of the Middle East Treaty Organization, to examine the situation from inside Israel and assess the growing risk of a wider regional war. In this second interview, Sharon offers a sobering account of daily…

  • The rearmament the world most urgently needs is not military or nuclear, but moral

    On Saturday, February 14, Pedro Sánchez delivered the following speech at the Munich Security Conference: “Thank you very much. Good morning. I’ve come to Munich to meet with friends and allies, to listen to experts, and to show Spain’s commitment to the multilateral order and the security of Eastern European nations. We Spaniards are far…

  • Trump 2.0’s Grand Strategy Against China Is Slowly But Surely Coming Together

    This is the grand strategic context within which Russia’s talks with the US and Ukraine are taking place. Casual observers are convinced that Trump is a madman with no method behind his madness, but the reality is that he and his team – collectively known as Trump 2.0 – are slowly but surely implementing their…