Peace, Justice and the Ultimate Crime

WORLD BEYOND WAR AND THE QUEST FOR PEACE Directed by author and international peace activist David Swanson, World Beyond War is an organization whose aim is not only to bolster world peace awareness, but also to actively inspire popular support for ending the scourge of war—an aim that I share and that is the thesis for my latest book. War: A Crime Against Humanity . Like me, World Beyond War has begun its research and activism by accepting the fact that war is not merely the occasional use of mass violence as the continuation of political and diplomatic processes, but rather—like torture and racism before it—a nefarious institution that has been incorporated, like an indelible stain, into the fabric of society. Therefore, it’s not enough to seek ways of preventing war—although that would at least be a start, instead of always taking the violent path of least resistance—but rather, it is necessary to embrace the need to abolish this pernicious institution entirely. And, I woul...

Vatican City I was present yesterday at the Vatican when His Holiness, Pope Francis, closed the Fourth Annual Congress of Scholas Occurrentes —a project personally supported by the Pontiff and directed by José María del Corral and Enrique Palmeyro, the underlying mission of which is the achievement of world peace through education—with a worldwide call for “reconstruction of the educational pact.” At the closing ceremony of the Scholas Congress,  I had the privilege of meeting Pope Francis and  presenting him with a copy of my book,  "El Crimen  de la Guerra", soon to be published in English as "War: A Crime Against Humanity". Behind the Pope is Scholas Co-Director José María del Corral.    The Pope posited that, for some time now, the educational pact that should exist between learning centers, students, nations, cultures and society as a whole “is broken...and badly broken, and it can’t be stuck back together.” He issued a challen...