WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #259, December 10, 2025.

 

WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #259, December 10, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.

 

 

NONVIOLENCE AND HUMAN RIGHTS, REASON, NEGOTIATION:  GLUES FOR CIVILIZATON.

DECEMBER 10 IS UN INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS DAY.
1948: UN General Assembly led by Eleanor Roosevelt passes the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR).

“On this international human rights day, join us in working to eliminate nuclear weapons.”

Alicia Sanders-Zakre, ICAN <admin@icanw.org> 12-10-25 .  2017 Nobel Peace Prize. 

 

 

 

 

 

ICAN is the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons.     Place de Cornavin 2, Geneve 1201, Switzerland.

 

PBS Documentary of Christian Nonviolent Peacemaker Dorothy Day.  Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story.  DD and history of The Catholic Worker organization, now grown to 250 houses.   She is in the first stage of the process of receiving sainthood by the Catholic Church: “The Children of God.”   --D

1941: Jeanette Rankin, first woman elected to US Congress, lone opponent to US declaration of war.

TODA PEACE INSTITUTE  https://toda.org/

We are fortunate to have an active member of this significant peace organization living in Rogers: Sandra Lee Shirley.  Today she forwarded this article from the TODA Institute on responding to violence:  https://toda.org/assets/files/resources/policy-briefs/t-pb-246_from-words-to-violence_ryan.pdf?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20250926

 

PThe Toda Peace Institute is an independent, nonpartisan institute committed to advancing a more just and peaceful world through policy-oriented peace research and practice. The institute commissions evidence-based research, convenes multi-track and multi-disciplinary problem-solving workshops and seminars, and promotes dialogue across ethnic, cultural, religious and political divides. It catalyses practical, policy-oriented conversations between theoretical experts, practitioners, policymakers and civil society leaders in order to discern innovative and creative solutions to the major problems confronting the world in the twenty-first century.

Toda Peace Institute was established on 11 February, 1996 by Daisaku Ikeda, a Buddhist philosopher, educator, prolific writer and poet, and founding president of Soka Gakkai International (SGI). The institute was founded in honour of Ikeda’s mentor, Josei Toda, and his vision for sustainable peace, a world without nuclear weapons, and respect for the inherent dignity of life.

 

END WAR WATCH WEDNESDAYS #259, December 10, 2025.   Compiled by Dick Bennett.