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Editorial: The orphaned conscience

An interview with Douglas P. Fry

Mark-Alec Mellor: All my questions will come from the perspective of what I call the irenic force—the idea that all human activity…

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An interview with Paine Mako Eulalia

Mark-Alec Mellor: So, this is Nick and I’m Mark-Alec. To start, could you tell us something about what you do? Just to give our…

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A collection of poems

– By Pulkita Anand What’s done, can it be undone? They came, they were civilized…

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An interview with Asta Mikijá Balto

Juno Berthelsen, an Inuit artist from Greenland—known to its native inhabitants as Kallalit Nunaat—says…

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An interview with Manulani Aluli Meyer

Mark-Alec Mellor: Looking at the history of Hawai‘i, I’m struck by this usual, all-too-regular pattern of betrayal…

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We are still here: Indigenous resistance and the values that can heal our relationships with the land

– By Bryan Bixcul I’m Bryan Abimael Bixcul Par, and I belong to the Maya-Tz’utujil People of Ixiim Ulew, the land of corn…

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Sin minas vivimos, sin agua morimos

– Por Yaku Perez Guartambel Un día de sol, mi buen padre, señalando las lagunas de Kimsakocha ubicada al sur del Ecuador…

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Una entrevista con Blanca Mellor-Marsá

Mark-Alec Mellor: ¿Qué es el suicidio? Me parece que pueden ser distintas cosas desde el punto de vista de la persona…

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Historical violence against Indigenous territories in Brazil: A brief overview

– By Tiago Hartung More than 500 years ago, the Indigenous peoples living in what we now call Brazil…

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Peacebuilding, peacemaking and peacekeeping: A precolonial standpoint from Australia

– By Helen Bishop The colonial incursion into Australia sought to suppress and eradicate First Nations…

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An interview with Ippei Okazaki

– Nick Natrella: Your personal background is deeply tied to themes of war, survival, and reconciliation. How has your family’s history…

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A universal concern: What Indigenous Peoples can teach us about peace-building

– By Johanna Fisher We live in a fragile world in which war is often a first choice in conflict resolution…

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For Our People

– By Tanaya Winder Access a recording of the song here…

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Indigenous epistemology: Spirit revealed

– By Manulani Aluli Meyer Knowledge is more than what we think it is. It is much more. Now, how to discuss it…

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African Way: Pathways to peace

– By Konkankoh Joshua & Jean-Philippe Steeger

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Conjuguer réalisme et idéalisme : Le cas de l’élimination des armes nucléaires

– Par Ward Hayes Wilson Robert Kennedy, dans la postface de son ouvrage Vers un monde nouveau (To Seek a Newer World)…

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Conjugar realismo e idealismo: Un estudio de caso a partir de la eliminación de las armas nucleares

– Por Ward Hayes Wilson Robert Kennedy, en el epílogo de su libro To Seek a Newer World [Hacia un mundo nuevo]…

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Contributors

– Winter List of Contributors

Editorial

– By Mark-Alec Mellor

Yoking Realism and Idealism: A case study drawn from eliminating nuclear weapons

– By Ward Wilson Robert Kennedy, in the postscript to his To Seek a Newer World…

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An interview with Ward Wilson

– Mark-Alec Mellor: First, I wanted to talk a little bit about the ‘idealism’ side of your article ‘Yoking Realism and Idealism.’ I understand the ‘realism’…

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The Age of Reconstruction

– By N. S. Thompson Blue sky betrays no telltale plume…

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The legacies of nuclear war: Research and creative practice

– By Elizabeth Ingrams The starting point for my study ‘Hibakusha Narratives in Context: A Dialogical Approach…

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An unstoppable force: What happens when civil society and member states ally?

– By Stephanie Verlaan Over the past three decades, progress on nuclear disarmament has slowed significantly…

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Two poems

– By Jonathan Chibuike Ukah Is it possible for a lady to be born seven times…

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Nuclear security during armed conflict

– By Ali Alkis Nuclear security is ‘the prevention of, detection of, and response to…

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Arts as a catalyst: The role of disarmament education and art combined

– By Gina Langton This paper explores the crucial importance of disarmament education…

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A photo-reportage of Occupy Hong Kong, 2014

– By Andy Thomas The events of Occupy Mong Kok/Occupy Central are treated here…

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Decolonising nuclear disarmament: How the TPNW challenges global power dynamics

– By Leila Hennaoui For over seven decades, the global nuclear order has been shaped…

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Lessons learned from INSEN and beyond

– By Lijun Shang The terms ‘Fourth Industrial Revolution,’ ‘4IR,’ or ‘Industry 4.0’ refer to the rapid technological…

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Philosofish: The first encounter

– By Jack Parvid It’s a fine display. Bottom feeders along the lower edge of the sloping counter…

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Contributors

– Winter List of Contributors

Contributors

– Spring List of Contributors

Contributors

– Summer List of Contributors

Contributors

– Autumn List of Contributors

Editorial

– By Mark-Alec Mellor

There is no peace without justice

– By Shivangi Misra In order to be effective, peacebuilding must recognize women’s interests in not only ending immediate conflict but in resolving the underlying systemic issue…

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A collection of poems

– By Ayak Chol Deng Alak They may want to derail us, To deem our suffering benign fuss…

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Pushback to traditional roles: Rethinking women’s inclusion in formal peace processes

– By Tamar Tkemaladze Three decades into the implementation of the UN Security Council Resolution 1325, the urgency of promoting the Women, Peace, and Security agenda remains as pressing as ever…

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Women as peacemakers: The story of African women standing up, defining, and shaping the peace they want to see in their communities

– By Winnet Shamuyarira Hawa is a fifty-four-year-old woman from the Kono district, the largest diamond producing area of Sierra Leone. For Hawa and many others in her community, the diamonds have brought more pain and…

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An interview with Steven Pinker

Mark-Alec Mellor: I wanted to begin by talking a little bit about human nature. I know that you write a lot about this. I’ve read The Blank Slate, and I agree…

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Una entrevista con Steven Pinker

– Mark-Alec Mellor: Quiero comenzar hablando un poco sobre la naturaleza humana. Sé que has escrito mucho al respecto. He leído La tabla rasa, que me encanta…

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An interview with philosopher Kate Soper

Nick Natrella: In Post-Growth Living, you argue for a shift away from economic growth as the central measure of societal success. Could you explain…

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Three poems

– By Jonathan Chibuike Ukah It must be my sister’s fault, she does not want to see what others see…

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Women in power: An irenic force revealed?

– By Jeffrey Harrod 40. We recognize the role of women as agents of peace. The full, equal, safe, and meaningful participation of women in decision-making at all levels of peace…

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Would the world be more peaceful if women ruled: Ancient and contemporary musings

– By Johanna Fisher The question whether the world would be a more peaceful one if women ruled is a difficult and complex one. Considering the patriarchal…

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The Women in Delft

– By N. S. Thompson We look at them expectantly: a room With balance held or string of pearls, a hand…

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Does protest challenge or affirm social norms?

– By Gary G. Nelson I have witnessed an era of protest from within and without. By “protest” is meant social action by a group outside participation in a State-organised, majoritarian polling…

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A Requited Love

– By Jerl Surratt Our immediate joy on seeing each other again means more to us than the shame of every sin…

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On Sultana’s Dream

– By Margaret D. Stetz “If you cannot save your country for lack of physical strength,” said the Queen, “try to do so by brain power…

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Philosofish

– By Jack Parvid We really ought to say something. This is our first meal out since restaurants reopened—my girlfriend’s inviting me—and the mood is sanguine…

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An interview with Mona Mansour, a trauma therapist

Nick Natrella: There’s a long-held perception that women are inherently more peaceful than men. From your perspective, do you think women are naturally inclined towards peace, or are social and cultural factors more influential in shaping this perception?…

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Editorial

– By Mark-Alec Mellor

Lessons in violence

– By a veteran of the war in Afghanistan (2001-2021) In the winter of 2008, I was on the parade square of Lympstone Commando with the thirty others who had made it through training…

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The ethics of reciprocity and conscription: Can war truly be justified?

– By Danny Singh The purpose of this essay is to delve into an interesting and contemporary topic on conscription. Although it may appear ethical to engage in warfare to protect one’s state…

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An interview with David Swanson

Mark-Alec Mellor: Conscription is sometimes justified as a duty of reciprocity: the state provides for us, confers civic rights upon us…

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Un entretien avec David Swanson

Mark-Alec Mellor : La conscription est parfois justifiée par le fait qu’il s’agit d’un devoir de réciprocité : l’État subvient à nos besoins…

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Una entrevista con el candidato al Premio Nobel de la Paz David Swanson

Mark-Alec Mellor: A veces la conscripción se justifica como un deber de reciprocidad: el Estado nos presta servicios, nos confiere derechos cívicos…

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The Baby Rookie’s Year

– By John Sullivan (Lights up on Mr. URUKUMU & Baby Rookie Downstage Center. Mr. URUKUMU sits, gagged & tied to a chair. Baby Rookie walks around him in a circle…

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Resistance

– By Chris Pigott The judge had a giant black hand. He held the cup as though it was weightless, a national flag fluttering lightly

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Jim, the warrior

‘- By Renata O’Mahoney

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A Prussian officer: Conscription in Germany from Scharnhorst to Mann—and back

– By Brian Melican. “Prussia is not a country with an army, but an army with a country”; “Whereas most states have an army, the Prussian army has a state”; “Prussia was an army in search of a country”…

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A collection of poems

– By Johanna Fisher Conscription. The origin of the word dates to the 14th century and means, “putting in writing.” It is later associated with the “enlistment of soldiers” during the early 16th century…

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Peace Poet: Siegfried Sassoon

– By Duncan Forbes Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) is justly famous for his war poems and the memoirs provoked by his experiences in the First World War…

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Transitional justice initiatives in the Israel-Hamas war

– By Karen Carey As this essay is being written, in the horror of this war, it is next to impossible to imagine any transitional justice initiatives that could do anything to ameliorate the anguish…

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Good-bye bad genies

– By David Barash & Ward Wilson After seeing the movie, “Oppenheimer,” a friend recently commented, “I certainly don’t like them [nuclear weapons], but what can we do? We can’t put that genie back in its bottle”…

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The Persimmon

– By Karen Laws Today, in the library where nobody goes, I saw a persimmon…

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Philosofish 3

– By Jack Parvid The absence of storm threat on the horizon, or difficult terrain, or predators and, above all, human life, except my own…

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The potential of peace systems: Creating safety and security for humanity

– By Douglas P. Fry & Geneviève Souillac Never in the history of the human species have people everywhere on the planet shared a common fate. Never has there been such an urgent need for concerted global action…

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Le potentiel des systèmes de paix : La poursuite de sécurité et de sûreté pour l’humanité

– By Douglas P. Fry & Geneviève Souillac Jamais dans l’histoire de l’espèce humaine les êtres humains aux quatre coins de la planète n’ont partagé un destin commun…

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Hacia una humanidad segura: el potencial de los sistemas de paz

– By Douglas P. Fry & Geneviève Souillac Nunca en la historia de la humanidad compartieron todos los pueblos del planeta un destino común ni se dio la urgente necesidad de una acción global concertada para su superviviencia. En el guión típico de la ciencia ficción, ante la invasión marciana, los habitantes…

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Humanity’s open case: A modest anthropodicy

– By Mark-Alec Mellor What I’ll be exploring here is the possibility of making a case in defence of humankind, and how (in what terms) that case could be presented. I won’t address the question of whether humankind, as a species, does more harm than good…

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Rothko Chapel

– By Rachel Hadas When I came back everything had changed. Or was I what had changed? Surfaces pulsating into depth…

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Philosofish

– By Jack Parvid Not quite menacing, nor remotely reassuring, the arcade has slid straight off a de Chirico canvas. Running north amid angled planes of ferric luminosity…

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Navigating human landscapes: From Rungholt to Miniaturwunderland

– By Brian Melican With that characteristically knowing, almost haughty expression fixed on their faces, two greylag geese come gliding past…

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Sobre el curioso discurso de las armas y las letras que pronunció don Quijote ante unos contentos y distinguidos comensales

– Por Jaime Velásquez Para su segundo número, la joven y loable revista The Irenaut propone la antropodicea como tema central. Entre las posibles y quizá muy pocas justificaciones de la humanidad podrían sin duda esgrimirse el arte y las expresiones culturales, materiales e inmateriales…

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Lessons

– By Al Sweeney My children pursue me across the rocks proffering shells or stones, pressing one into my hand…

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Interview: Charles Webel

– Charles Webel and Mark-Alec Mellor On what can we base a robust defence of humanity?…

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Aesop and the Large Language Model

– By Richard McNeill Douglas & David Fell Aesop, the old rascal, is having an argument with that mangy cur Diogenes. Aesop has recently included him in one of his oh-so-witty fables, something about Diogenes and a bald man and the trading of insults…

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Standing in the Equalocene: The emergence and extension of anthropodicy

– By Gary G. Nelson The question of Anthropodicy is addressed by translating “Good” to behavior that sustains human social form. Treating that as an attribute of the self-organization of any form…

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Becoming most human: Discovering God

– By Richard McNeill Douglas Who—or what—is God? And what does it matter? What has God (or belief in God) done for us lately? Perhaps we shouldn’t be so harsh…

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Gray Matters

– By Jerl Surratt One changes for the sake of change. Take Rimbaud in Paris, for instance, after he’d triumphed at being deranged, the ink still wet in his last sentence…

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People like you

– By Simon Bell Nothing happened for ten years. Furlong opened the door of the caravan as he always did at this time and stepped out. It was still dark, his special hour before the dawn…

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VILAMBIT: RAS MALAI

– By N. S. Thompson A sweet bought in tiny earthenware pots, unglazed, disposable, as for yoghurt, dahi, street corners left with broken shards…

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Neutrality and anthropodicy

– By Mark Price The Irenaut’s idea that peace can be ‘an expression of human agency inherent in work’, which strives to recover ‘the origin of work and its goal of human amelioration’, made me think of the battered ideal of Irish neutrality…

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Philosophy as an Irenic Force

– By Wei-Ching Chang Peace is “a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice,” according to the Dutch philosopher Spinoza…

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