New to Disarming Our Planet?
We recommend starting off by reading, "Disarming Our Planet - An Introduction to Global Disarmament" by Joanne Dufour, January 30, 2018. That introductory article will give some context as you continue to peruse the Disarming Our Planet section of the UUA International Blog.
Welcome to Disarming Our Planet. This supplement to the UUA International Blog is devoted to building our knowledge of disarmament efforts then and now, with the goal of helping to create a more peaceful world with much fewer weapons.
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by Joanne Dufour |More than any other people on this planet, the Marshall Islanders are survivors of the two greatest threats facing humanity: nuclear weapons and climate change. Their idyllic archipelago, a sapphire entity between Hawaii and Australia, is located 5,000 miles west of Los Angeles and 500 miles north...Filed in: Disarmament -
by Joanne Dufour |Oona Hathaway and Scott Shapiro chose to begin their book, The Internationalists, with the following description of the historic event on August 27, 1928: “On that day, crowds gathered outside the Quai d’Orsay to watch the world leaders arrive at the Clock Room in the immense Foreign...Filed in: Disarmament -
by Joanne Dufour |If conflict is inevitable in human relations, so might be efforts to reconcile and reach a state of peace. ...Filed in: Disarmament -
by Jerald Ross |We know we are facing an existential crisis with the advance of climate change; and what about the other existential threat? Nuclear weapons. Unless we arrest climate change, it will fundamentally change our civilization in a matter of decades, maybe threaten life on this planet. Nuclear weapons...Filed in: Disarmament -
by Joanne Dufour |In the centennial year 2000, while the world was getting used to writing or typing the year beginning with a “2” instead of a “1,” nations were introduced to the United Nations’ Millennium Development Goals encouraging the 189 member states to adopt a set of 8 goals for a timeline of 15...Filed in: Disarmament -
by Joanne Dufour |There are many aspects to helping our planet disarm meaningfully. 108 countries are now part of treaties that have established nuclear free zones around the world. They are making a concerted effort to create a nuclear free planet and that alone needs to be applauded and the trend encouraged.Filed in: Disarmament -
by Sally Connolly |I’m a member of the Preventing Gun Violence Task Force at the Unitarian Society of New Haven (USNH). We recently bought shares in two companies that manufacture firearms. “What?!,” you may be asking. Usually activists shy away from investing in so-called “sin” stocks, looking instead for...Filed in: Disarmament -
by Micaela Lattimer |Young Adult Gun Violence Prevention Activist on Radical Kinship and Universal LoveFiled in: Disarmament -
by Bob Delastrada |Feel like the system is too big to change? Protest!Filed in: Disarmament -
by International Committee of the Red Cross, Joanne Dufour |Much of the following text is taken from a blog post from the International Committee of the Red Cross: Human Cost of Cyber Operations—Key ICRC Takeaways from Discussion with Tech Experts. ICRC has encouraged readers to share this blog, and they invite feedback from readers. The authors are...Filed in: Disarmament