We must see our current wars, and our impending climate meltdown, as inextricably linked. Rachel Donald talks to Olivia Lazard
“I don't know any other way to pull myself together”. A photographer commits to show everyday Moscow, under propaganda
Jonathan Rowson on the "dissonance" we feel in the midst of our wars and crises - when bombs and aid fall from the same skies
Alternative Editorial 319: Why The Alternative Is Not Simply Better
A/UK EDITORIAL, ACTION, BEHAVIOUR, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, PARTY POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kaneWestminster, Winter, Spring, new politics, Gaza, middle east, westminster
Alternative Editorial: Let's Not Be Patient
Cliodynamics studies crises - even polycrises - of the past. It shows how we can break out of present and future destructive patterns
UN president António Guterres describes an "unhinged" world that cannot "come together to respond". So how do we learn to disagree well?
Alternative Editorial: When Will The World Catch Up?
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Alternative Editorial: Understanding Our Choices
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“Peace isn’t the absence of war, but a dynamic process that can be built, nurtured and sustained”. Designing Peace shows the creative possibilities
Alternative Editorial: Going to peace
Alternative Editorial: We Have To Build The Alternative To War
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, violence, architecture, citizens assembly, democracy, peace, agency, participation
A call for healing, from a world expert in psychological trauma, individual and collective: Gabor Maté on Israel/Palestine
“The Mother’s Call” from Jewish and Palestinian activists introduces a feminist, peace-oriented take on the current conflict
Alternative Editorial: Shifting Power
A BETTER MEDIA, A/UK EDITORIAL, BEHAVIOUR, DEMOCRATIC INNOVATION, FEMININE, GLOBALISTS, NEW ENERGY SOURCES, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, Israel, Gaza, middle east, conflict transformation, feminine, femmeq, power
Alternative Editorial: The Alternative To War Is Not Peace
A/UK EDITORIAL, ALTERNATIVE MEDIA SYSTEM, BEHAVIOUR, COMMUNITY, FEMININE, POLITICAL CULTURE, SOCIO-POLITICS, WAR/PEACEpat kanewar, peace, middle east, binary, socio-politics, peace journalism, conflict transformaton
Thermal imagining technology is at the heart of warfare. Here, it's a medium for filming glorious, sensuous dance
The big players in AI want the state to regulate them (like nukes or bio-tech). Yet will open-source LLM's democratic potential also be part of the mix?
From 'The Girl In The Blue Bra' to 'My Stealthy Freedom', women are using symbols on social media to defy the sexism of authoritarian regimes
ACTION, WAR/PEACE, SOCIO-POLITICS, INGENUITY, INDIVIDUAL, FEMININE, GLOBALISTS, PLANETARIAN, PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT, MASCULINEpat kaneauthoritarian, sexism, regime
In Sierra Leone, post-civil war, you might live next to your amputator. Family talk (fambul tok) was a community resource for peace. It’s a lesson to our polarised societies
