IPPNW peace and health blog

Have human institutions evolved sufficiently to cope with the modern world?  When it comes to national security, the answer appears to be:  No. Ever since the emergence of individual nations,...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/10/14/from-national-security-to-international-security/

by Christopher Serrao I encourage all of you to think about what it was truly like in the Marshall Islands on March 1, 1954. Imagine living in the tropical islands replete with diverse flora and ...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/10/07/the-us-has-abandoned-the-marshallese-people/

by Bonventure Machuka, IPPNW Africa Student Representative, Kenya The Seventy-fourth session of the WHO Regional Committee for Africa happened in Brazzaville, Congo between August 26th and 30th, ...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/10/04/student-reflections-on-the-who-regional-committee-for-africa/

Delivered by Molly McGinty, IPPNW Program Director, at the High-level Meeting on the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons at the United Nations Headquarters in New York ...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/09/27/the-threat-to-end-civilization-has-never-been-and-never-will-be-a-guarantor-of-global-peace-or-national-security/

As the risk of nuclear war grows, an eminent group of Nobel Laureates, medical and scientific leaders, and notable public figures come together with one common voice to call on world leaders to a...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/09/24/an-urgent-call-to-step-back-from-the-brink-of-nuclear-war/

For twenty years, starting in 1983, IPPNW delegations visited the former Soviet Union frequently, sometimes twice a year. The Swedish affiliate arranged most of these, in cooperation with the So...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/09/19/personal-memories-of-a-war-that-did-not-happen/

by Yusuf Dominic On the night of 10  September 2024, Maiduguri, in northeastern Nigeria, experienced its worst flooding in more than 30 years. This disaster has claimed about 30 lives and displa...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/09/18/the-consequences-of-climate-change-are-neither-distant-nor-theoretical/

by Dr. Kelvin Kibet, Deputy Chair and African Regional Vice President of IPPNW, Kenya As the disarmament community braces for the 3rd Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/09/16/a-push-for-africas-leadership-in-the-universalization-of-the-nuclear-ban/

Are the nations of the world doomed to go on fighting the brutal, horrifying wars that have long characterized human history? We might well wonder about that as we watch, aghast, while Israeli a...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/09/12/the-law-of-force-or-the-force-of-law/

by Carlos Umaña When the Cold War ended in 1991 and the Doomsday Clock was at its furthest from midnight, the world sighed in relief. The prevailing thought was that, in a world that was no long...

https://peaceandhealthblog.com/2024/08/26/making-nuclear-weapons-taboo/