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WRI archives
We have recently located copies of two WRI documents from late 1991, in the period between the wars in Slovenia and Croatia and the war in Bosnia. The first of these documents is a "Proposal to stop the war in Yugoslavia", negotiated between leading civil society figures in five of the former-Yugoslav republics. WRI facilitated this declaration (at the time, there were virtually no phone lines between Croatia and Serbia, requiring revisions to be relayed by fax or phone through London) and publicised it afterward.
The second document is a funding appeal from late 1991 -- signed by council member Marko Hren from Slovenia -- which draws attention to WRI's considerable (and not always visible) work during the Balkan crises.
See WRI's permanent Balkans archive for more of the materials we circulated -- usually on behalf of groups like Women in Black and the Safe House Project -- during the war years.
WRI Programmes
Nonviolence
A paper by Stellan Vinthagen on the World Social Forum is available here in English.
The February 2008 issue of The Broken Rifle is on the relationship between mining, transnational mining companies, and war. You can read it here in English (HTML or PDF), German (HTML or PDF), French (HTML or PDF), and Spanish (HTML or PDF). The WRI appeal, which accompanies this issue of the Broken Rifle, is available here in English, French, and Spanish.
The 12th issue of War Profiteers' News, our email newsletter, is now online in English and Spanish. You can subscribe to the newsletter either as email or as an RSS feed or consult past issues through the web archive.
Another of our archival pamphlets on nonviolence -- 1971's Training for Nonviolent Action -- is now available on this website. A double issue of WRI's then-quarterly journal War Resistance, it is a report on the 1970 Preston Patrick seminar on nonviolence training.
The Right to Refuse to Kill
The International Conscientious Objection Day issue of The Broken Rifle, dealing with the issue of professional armies, is now available in English (HTML or PDF) and German (HTML or PDF).
WRI, together with the European Bureau for Conscientious Objectors, the Greek section of Amnesty, and CO groups from Greece, Turkey, and northern Cyprus, have issued a statement on the right to CO in those countries. You can read it here in English or Turkish.
The April issue of CO Update is online in English and Spanish. You can subscribe by email, or subscribe to the CO-Update RSS feed.
WRI events
Photo from the NATO Game Over direct action on Saturday 22 March; click on the photo for a higher resolution (1200x1600) version.
You can read an article about the action and the WRI/Vredesactie seminar "Military globalisation and nonviolent resistance in Europe" here in Spanish.
Info pages on the Game Over campaign have previously appeared in English, Spanish, Dutch, and French; and the February Peace News ran a supplement on the planned action (English only, HTML or PDF).
Website notes
Language monitor: Of the 25 most recent articles posted to this website, 12 are in English, 3 in German, 3 in French, 5 in Spanish, 1 in Turkish, and 1 in Albanian.
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