WRI Office Report https://wri-irg.org/es?language=en es War Resisters' International Office and Executive Report May 2020 – June 2021 https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2021/war-resisters-international-office-and-executive-report-may-2020-june-2021?language=en <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--42413.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="42413" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 21 Jun 2021</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>This report outlines the work of WRI's staff, executive committee and various regional groups in the period May 2020 to June 2021, and will be presented at our Council in June 2021.</p> <p><a href="https://wri-irg.org/sites/default/files/public_files/2021-06/wri_staff_and_executive_report_may_2020-_june_2021.pdf">The PDF of the report can be found here.</a></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--upload--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--upload--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--upload.html.twig * field--default--upload--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--upload.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--upload--story.html.twig * field--node--upload.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--upload.html.twig * field--file.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-upload field--type-file field--label-above"> <div class="field--label">Attached file</div> <div class="field--items"> <div class="field--item"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'file_link' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/file/file-link.html.twig' --> <span class="file 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field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/programmes/wri-office-report?language=en" hreflang="en">WRI Office Report</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Añadir nuevo comentario</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=42413&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="oFA7SQhIV0RSyC6CJ0pXEm7kFsAWYJUTbiPBRitSm7Y"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Mon, 21 Jun 2021 11:11:40 +0000 cmoy 42413 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2021/war-resisters-international-office-and-executive-report-may-2020-june-2021?language=en#comments Our work this year https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2016/our-work-year?language=en <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--26828.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="26828" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-image--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-image.html.twig * field--expert--field-image--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-image.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-image--story.html.twig * field--node--field-image.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-image.html.twig * field--image.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <picture> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_desktop/public/2017-06/6.jpg?itok=BP9qLBHa 1x" media="screen and (min-width: 992px)" type="image/jpeg"/> <source srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2017-06/6.jpg?itok=0Ec1P9aJ 1x" type="image/jpeg"/> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/single_page_mobiles_and_tablets/public/2017-06/6.jpg?itok=0Ec1P9aJ" alt="RAMALC meeting in Mexico" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> </picture> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <div class="caption"></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 25 Oct 2016</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Read about what War Resisters' International have been up to in our annual report. News of our programmes, our campaigning work in Turkey, our publications and meetings, and a look towards the year ahead.</p> <p>Follow these links to find the report in</p> <ul><li><a href="/2016-annual-report" target="_blank">English</a></li> <li><a class="x_translation-link" href="/fr/node/26818" target="_blank" title="L'Internationale des Résistant(e)s à la&lt;br /&gt;&#10; Guerre Bureau et rapport exécutif Novembre&lt;br /&gt;&#10; 2015 – Août 2016">Français</a></li> <li><a href="/de/node/26822" target="_blank">Deutsch</a></li> <li><a class="x_translation-link" href="/es/node/26819" target="_blank" title="Informe de la Oficina y del Ejecutivo&lt;br /&gt;&#10; Noviembre 2015 – Agosto 2016 ">Español</a> <!--break--></li> </ul></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/programmes/wri-office-report?language=en" hreflang="en">WRI Office Report</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/programmes/office?language=en" hreflang="en">From the office</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Añadir nuevo comentario</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=26828&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="M0RJ7BaQcJRtIlle8KTRmZWxeg7QFsKc2FI8htW59aI"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Tue, 25 Oct 2016 14:23:33 +0000 cmoy 26828 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2016/our-work-year?language=en#comments War Resisters' International Office and Executive Report August 2014 – September 2015 https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2015/war-resisters-international-office-and-executive-report-august-2014-september-2015?language=en <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--24984.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="24984" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 30 Sep 2015</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>Since the historical conference in Cape Town in the summer of 2014, the WRI office and network have continued to do important work around the world, supporting Conscientious Objectors, taking action against military bases and arms production, countering military recruitment, resisting police militarisation, spreading the word about nonviolent resistance and creating networks to support each other and be stronger together. </p> <p>Read our annual report for August 2014 – September 2015 <a href="/annual-report-September-2015">here</a>.</p> <!--break--> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/programmes/wri-office-report?language=en" hreflang="en">WRI Office Report</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-other-publications--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-other-publications--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-other-publications.html.twig * field--expert--field-other-publications--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-other-publications.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-other-publications--story.html.twig * field--node--field-other-publications.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-other-publications.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Other publications</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/76?language=en" hreflang="en">Reports</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Añadir nuevo comentario</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=24984&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="dq1_kb8uuy9lt6DdeGnswKiujBd28LJk-iRk9FOS9QA"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Wed, 30 Sep 2015 15:41:27 +0000 HBrock 24984 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2015/war-resisters-international-office-and-executive-report-august-2014-september-2015?language=en#comments Report of the Office and Executive Committee to the International Assembly (Conference) on Activities in the years 2010–2014 https://wri-irg.org/en/20102014Report?language=en <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--23237.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="23237" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 01 Jul 2014</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><h2><span><span><span>1. </span></span></span><span><span>Introduction</span></span></h2> <p><span>In this report, we present the work that War Resisters' International has been involved </span><span>in</span><span> since the international conference in January 2010 in India, and the challenges WRI faces. It describes the staffed programme</span><span>s</span><span>, the work in the regions and the work of the WRI bodies – executive and council. Last </span><span>but </span><span>not least, it deals with WRI’s finances – an issue of continued concern and worry.</span></p> <p><span>In the middle of the preparations for this year’s international conference in Cape Town, WRI chair Howard Clark unexpectedly passed away in November 2013. It was a shock and cause for distress for all his colleagues and friends, and the preparations for the conference have been overshadowed by his death. We are missing him, and will pay tribute to him and his service to WRI in Cape Town.</span></p> <p><span><span>The last four years have seen new challenges to peace and few developments that are cause for hope. As usual, the list of the first is longer than the second. The popular uprisings in North Africa while being an amazing expression of people power led to a few regime changes but also to new violence and new oppression – Libya, Egypt and the full-out war in Syria need to be mentioned here. The big international wars – camouflaged as “military interventions” – have changed at least in a superficial way their character. While there were two new such “interventions”, by France, on the African continent in Mali and Central African Republic, the larger number of international troops are being withdrawn this year from Afghanistan, and generally it seems that the big powers are reconsidering their strategy and prefer now to arm and train local forces rather than sending troops of their own. The “war on terror” with its use of drones for targeted killing of civilians continues, the use of torture is (</span></span><span><span><span><span><span>according to a recent report by Amnesty International</span></span></span></span></span><span><span>) on the rise on a world-wide scale, and climate change, economic crises and scarcity of resources add to a rather bleak outlook for the next decades. The recent crisis in Ukraine has had an impact which is still difficult to estimate on the relations between the US, Europa and Russia – many people fear a resumption of the East-West conflict, with a new arms race and a new Cold war in this part of the world. And also in Korea it seemed for a while that conflict in this remnant of the period of the bloc confrontation was renewed.</span></span></p> <p><span>In many parts of the world, the struggle for the right of conscientious objection has continued unabated – Latin America and South Korea are regions/countries where WRI affiliated groups have continued their work in this field, but unfortunately without major breakthroughs. A related, new, emerging topic for WRI has been Countering the Militarisation of Youth (with the unwieldy acronym CMOY). An international conference held in Germany in 2011 brought together (mostly European) groups to compare how governments are seeking to attract youth to join their professional armies, often starting with propaganda targeted </span><span>at</span><span> young children. </span></p> <p><span>The work of the WRI office on the Nonviolence Programme has progressed well over the past four years with several trainings for trainers taking place in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe. The 'Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns' has been translated by affiliates to a number of languages, and a second, revised edition is being released this July. </span></p> <p> </p> <p><span>Affiliates of WRI are continuing to work in their various contexts and issues. The struggle against violence and war today takes many forms – from fighting extractive industries in India or Columbia over protesting new military bases as in South Korea or India or Germany, struggling against oppressive regimes like in West Papua or Egypt, work for CO like in Israel or Eritrea, protesting NATO and the war on terror like in Belgium or the USA, to work on nonviolence, dealing with the past and peacebuilding like in South Sudan, Macedonia or South Africa. There has been no common or joint campaign uniting many WRI affiliates in the last years, but there is certainly a growing awareness of the interdependency and the linkages between the different struggles world-wide. WRI is proud to serve as one vehicle to fill such linkages and connections between people and movements with life.</span></p> <h2><span>2. Nonviolence Programme</span></h2> <p><span><strong>Staff: Javier Gárate</strong></span></p> <p><span>The last four years have been a time of development and consolidation </span><span>for </span><span>the Nonviolence Programme. The two main areas – nonviolence resources and war profiteering – have continued to </span><span>be shaped by </span><span>needs expressed by the WRI network. Financially, the programme has not been able to transform its programmatic success in financial sustainability. This remains the biggest challenge for the continuation of the programme. </span></p> <h2><span><span>2. 1 </span></span><span><span>Nonviolence resources</span></span></h2> <p><span>The work on nonviolence resources continues to centre on providing nonviolence training and sharing of resources on nonviolence, mostly through the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns. </span></p> <p><span>Since the last quadrennial report, the main development regarding the programme work on training has been a clearer focus on the role and contribution that WRI can provide when it comes to training. This is to create the space and condition for trainers to meet and exchange their practices, learn from and support each other, and come up with new tools for training that work in different contexts.</span></p> <h2><span>2.2 Regional training exchanges</span></h2> <p><span>The main form such trainings have taken are through regional trainers gatherings. Since 2010 there have been regional trainers meetings organised by WRI in Africa, Europe and Latin America. In August 2012 - and as part of the build up to the 'Small Actions Big Movements: The Continuum of Nonviolence' international conference - WRI helped to organise an African nonviolence trainers exchange, which was hosted by The Ceasefire Campaign in Johannesburg, South Africa. The exchange brought together trainers in nonviolence and peacebuilding from more than twenty countries in the region. A direct outcome of the meeting was the founding of the African Nonviolence &amp; Peacebuilding Network. </span></p> <p><span>For many years WRI and Belgian affiliate Vredesactie had talked of having a European trainers gathering that could connect and support the work of the European Antimilitarist Network - but which could also help us to link up with other organisations in Europe working on grassroots training. The goal was to bring together trainers interested in exploring tools and techniques to help groups and campaigns be more strategic. Finally in 2012, WRI and Vredesactie decided to organise a trainers exchange in Belgium. For this we invited several organisations to also be part of organising the event, including European Youth for Action (EYFA), Turning the Tide (UK), SwedFor &amp; Ofog (Sweden), AA-MOC (Spain) and <span><span>Bewegungsakademie (Germany). Before the training there was a preparatory meeting hosted by Turning the Tide in London, which helped define the goals and process for the Belgium exchange. </span></span><span><span>The training </span></span><span><span>took place in Belgium in November 2012, with 40 trainers from across Europe coming together for a week long exchange. There have been several follow ups, including several meetings in the UK and Belgium of a small group working - particularly on the issue of personal skills for strategies. Another group that came out of the Belgium exchange - working on issues of anti</span></span><span><span>-</span></span><span><span>oppression and privilege - met in Berlin. There was no formal network formed at the 2012 exchange, but several sub groups continue to work together, also by using online tools </span></span><span><span>to share</span></span><span><span> training resources. There are plans to have a larger meeting in the near future, to bring together the different groups working on training. </span></span></span></p> <p><span>In 2014, WRI together with the Latin American Antimilitarist Network organised a Latin American training for trainers in Quito, Ecuador, which was hosted by Serpaj and Acción Ecológica. First it was conceived as a trainers exchange, but after discussions within the Latin America network, it was decided that a training for trainers made more sense, to share and empower members of the Latin America network to be able to give trainings in the groups they work. In Quito there were more than 30 participants from the region. The training strengthened the commitment of the network to using nonviolence as means for social change. During the training for trainers there was a public event on the topic of extractive industries and militarism. A direct follow up of the training for trainers was a joint action and statement for the Global Day of Action on Military Spending.</span></p> <h2><span>2.3 Other trainings</span></h2> <p><span>The Nonviolence Programme has helped with trainings on nonviolent direct action at several European Antimilitarist Network actions, including the War Start Here action against NEAT in Sweden 2011, NATO Game Over in Belgium 2012, and actions against UK nuclear weapons in Aldermaston in 2010 and Burghfield in 2013.</span></p> <p><span>The programme also led trainings in nonviolent campaigns in the 2011; in Northern Ireland, hosted by WRI's affiliate INNATE, and in 2012 in Venezuela, hosted by Human Rights organisation PROVEA and the anarchist collective El Libertario. </span></p> <p><span>In 2012 the Nonviolence Programme in collaboration with Turning the Tide led a training for trainers in South Korea, which was hosted by WRI affiliate World Without War. The training was for activists campaigning against the construction of the naval base on Jeju Island and militarism in South Korea. Prior to the training, the group of participants met monthly to study WRI's Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns and after the training they have continue to meet as a trainers group, supporting each other to provide training to South Korean activists. </span></p> <p><span>Focusing on regional trainers exchanges and on training for trainers has given a clearer focus for the programme and helped prioritise where the programme can have more impact.</span></p> <h2><span>2.4 Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</span></h2> <p><span>Since its publication in 2009, WRI's handbook has been the main resource provided by the Nonviolence Programme. Since the last </span><span>quadrennial</span><span> report, we have printed 1,500 more copies of the handbook, and we received several more translations of it – the handbook has now been translated into ten languages. Since its publication there have been several efforts for reviewing the content of the handbook, the last one being at the 2013 WRI e-Council. The reviewing process </span><span>has </span><span>always </span><span>been with a view to </span><span>producing a second edition which would incorporate the comments of people who have used and translated the Handbook. Since September 2013, WRI has hosted a Q</span><span>uaker </span><span>P</span><span>eace and </span><span>S</span><span>ocial </span><span>W</span><span>itness</span><span> Peaceworker – Andrew Dey – who has coordinated the production of the second edition of the handbook. At the time of writing this report the final manuscript was being proof</span><span>-</span><span>read, and we are scheduled to go to press in early June.</span></p> <h2><span>2.4 Global initiative against war profiteering</span></h2> <p><span>In the past four years, WRI's work against war profiteering has gone through a process of evaluation and review of its priorities. The 2010 India conference had a strong war profiteering focus, as it looked at ways local communities resist the presence of corporations and the military impacting their livelihoods. This provided a basis for re-defining the emphasis with a stronger focus on resisting extractive industries and how they are fuelling local conflicts and the militarisation of local communities. </span></p> <p><span>In the past four years the main work of the initiative against war profiteering continues to be the publication of the by-monthly newsletter War Profiteers' News. The newsletter continues to report on actions against the arms trade and other forms of war profiteering. In the past years, several issues have also covered the Global Day of Action on Military Spending. </span></p> <h3><span>2.4a International seminar: war profiteering and peace movement responses</span></h3> <p><span>In 2011 - and as a direct follow up to the 2010 India conference - WRI partnered with the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) to organise an international seminar that brought together activists and campaigners against war profiteering. The seminar was hosted by Centre Delas and took place in Barcelona between 29 September - 2 October. Each day there was </span><span>a</span><span> more internal seminar, where the central aspect of the programme were three theme groups: new developments in war profiteering, exposing the bad guys and war, and the exploitation of natural resources. In the evenings there was a public event – Trobada - organised by Centre Delas, with up to 200 people attending, where participants of the seminar spoke about campaigning against war profiteering. </span></p> <p><span>The seminar brought together people from all continents and helped to strengthen the cooperation with ENAAT. The problem was that there was no clear goal for a follow up after the seminar. This has meant that there has been no direct follow up, as at the time it was unclear what direction WRI's work on war profiteering should take. </span></p> <p><span>The decision has now been taken to focus on extractive industries as a form of war profiteering: having a clearer goal should help future war profiteering work.</span></p> <h3><span>2.4b Global Day of Action on Military Spending</span></h3> <p><span>Already in its fourth year, the Global Day of Action on Military Spending (GDAMS), initiated by the International Peace Bureau (IPB) and the Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) and now coordinated mostly by IPB, has been an important initiative that brings together groups and organisations working against military spending. Javier Gárate has been a member of the international steering committee since the first year of the day of action. WRI has promoted GDAMS within its network. For the past two years, a special effort was made for a joint Latin American action. In both years there has been a joint statement from the Latin American Antimilitarist Network, and in 2014 there was also a common action concept. Despite its small capacity, WRI has been able to support GDAMS and contribute to its success.</span></p> <p><span>In the last four years a lot has been achieved when it comes to campaigning against war profiteering: the international seminar being the major event and the newsletter the main resource provided by WRI. At times the work has lacked a clear direction. A clearer goal definition remains a challenge.</span></p> <h2><span>2.5 Finances</span></h2> <p><span>The Nonviolence Programme continues to be financially unsustainable. In the past four years the programme has organised many events and provided important resources. For all these project, fundraising was a major part of the project. They were all financed without using WRI reserves. However, the projects have not managed to raise funds for staff and office expenses, which are the main expense of the programme. This remains the biggest challenges of the programme, and as the general reserves of WRI have almost gone, it means that if we can not raise fund to cover staff costs in the next year, the programme will not be able to continue having a full time staff person.</span></p> <p><span>3. Right to Refuse to Kill programme (RRTK)</span></p> <p><span><strong>Staff: Andreas Speck, replaced by Hannah Brock from September 2012</strong></span></p> <p><span>The Right to Refuse to Kill programme continues in its work to provide solidarity to conscientious objector movements worldwide. Whilst this does includes using 'conventional' and legal tools to further recognition of conscientious objection, more important is the support for antimilitarist conscientious objector movements, whose work also challenges conscription. This includes counter-recruitment work, which in the last four years has developed into a more significant part of the RRTK work, and broaded its focus</span></p> <p><span>This section of the report is divided into projects and work with particular geographical-movements. </span></p> <h2><span>3.1 A Conscientious Objector’s Guide to International Human Rights System</span></h2> <p><span>A major project over recent years was A Conscientious Objector’s Guide to International Human Rights System.</span></p> <p><span>This guide to the international human rights system for COs was compiled by Andreas Speck, and completed in December 2012. The Centre for Civil and Political Rights, Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and Conscience and Peace Tax International partnered with WRI to bring this project to fruition.</span></p> <p><span><span>Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the guide was launched in May 2013 as a side-event to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. The guide is available in Spanish and English; you can find the English version at </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://co-guide.info/">http://co-guide.info/</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>, and the Spanish version at </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://co-guide.org/es/">http://co-guide.org/es/</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>. We are grateful to Carlos Barranco for his prompt and high-quality translation work, to Geneva Quakers for their funding of this translation, and to </span></span><span><span><span><span>Netuxo</span></span></span></span><span><span> for developing such an accessible website. We hope that it will have a lasting impact on CO movements, and their ability to utilise international mechanisms.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>The guide is designed to be used as a website: it's search function makes finding the mechanisms that are available for your country easy to find. However, you can also download it as a book (</span></span><span><span><span><span>pdf</span></span></span></span><span><span>) and for a donation the office can post out a printed copy, if access to the internet is a problem. Since the guide is updated regularly with new data, it is best to use the </span></span><span><span><span><span>website</span></span></span></span><span><span> if possible.</span></span></p> <h2><span><span>3.2 </span></span><span><span>Supporting CO movements</span></span></h2> <h3><span><strong><span><span>3.2</span></span><span><span>a </span></span>Colombia</strong></span></h3> <p><span><span>Andreas and Hannah travelled to Colombia in November 2012 to refresh connections with many groups in involved in ANOOC La Asamblea Nacional de Objetores y Objetoras de Conciencia (ANOOC), and plan future work (find a </span><span><span><span>trip report</span></span></span><span> here). </span></span></p> <p>WRI also made <span><span><span><span>a submission</span></span></span></span><span><span> to the Colombian government on the new law proposal in March 2013.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>O</span></span><span><span>ut of the 2012 visit came the relaunch of the carnet </span></span><span><span><em>objetor/a</em></span></span><span><span>. Local groups are now able to print their ow versions for each new CO (see </span></span><span><span><em>batidas</em></span></span><span><span> section </span></span><span><span><span><span>here</span></span></span></span><span><span>). Also out of this visit came a proposal for a workshop for COs and lawyers in Colombia on using international, regional and national law and human rights mechanisms to protect themselves. This came to fruition in November 2013, where Hannah and Igor Seke from the RRTK committee also travelled to meet different CO groups across Colombia. See the trip report </span></span><span><span><span><span>here</span></span></span></span><span><span>.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Future work planned out of this visit include WRI challenging </span></span><em><span><span>Defensorias</span></span></em><span><span> and </span></span><em><span><span>Personarias</span></span></em><span><span> in the Medellin region, asking firstly: What is done to stop impunity of those who undertake </span></span><em><span><span>batidas</span></span></em><span><span>? Because </span></span><em><span><span>batidas</span></span></em><span><span> are unconstitutional, WRI will ask where their activities can be reported. This will be an open (public) letter, and responses (including no response) can form part of a WRI's submission to UN HR Committee. Using one CO as a campaign focus, WRI also intends to launch an international campaign on discrimination against COs – working to allow those without the </span></span><span><span><em>libreta militar</em></span></span><span><span> to graduate. There should be time for this work after the South Africa International Conference.</span></span></p> <h3><span><strong><span><span>3.2</span></span><span><span>b </span></span>Eastern Mediterranean network of CO and war refuser groups</strong></span></h3> <p><span><span>In February 2012</span></span><span><span>a small meeting in Istanbul </span></span><span><span>was initiated, and</span></span><span><span> attended</span></span><span><span><span> by several Turkish CO activists </span></span></span><span><span><span>along with </span></span></span><span><span><span>Rudi Friedrich </span></span></span><span><span>from Connection e.V., </span></span><span><span><span>Rachel Brett</span></span></span><span><span> from QUNO, </span></span><span><span><span>Milena Bulum</span></span></span><span><span> from Amnesty International, </span></span><span><span><span>Andreas Speck </span></span></span><span><span>from WRI. Its objective was to improve coordination and to strengthen work for the right to conscientious objection in Turkey, following the European Court Bayatyan judgment mentioned above, and the subsequent judgments </span></span><span><span><span><span>Erçep v. Turkey</span></span></span></span><span><span>, 22 November 2011, and </span></span><span><span><span><span>Demirtaş v. Turkey</span></span></span></span><span><span>, 17 January 2012.</span></span></p> <p><span>One of the ideas that came out of the meeting was a networking event for conscientious objector groups in the Eastern Mediterranean region. After a planned meeting in Turkey in July 2013 was postponed, this conference finally took plane in Nicosia, Cyprus, at the end of January 2014.</span></p> <p><span><span>WRI were one of the organisers along with German-based </span></span><span><span><span><span>Connection e.V</span></span></span></span><span><span>, and activists from the region. The meeting was funded by the A J Muste Memorial Institute, American Friends Service Committee and Bewegungsstiftung.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>It was attended by activists from Orfud (Palestinian Druze in Israel), the </span></span><span><span><span><span>Initiative for Conscientious Objection in Cyprus</span></span></span></span><span><span>, the </span></span><span><span><span><span>Association of Greek COs</span></span></span></span><span><span>, the Jenin Creative and Cultural Centre (Palestine), </span></span><span><span><span><span>New Profile</span></span></span></span><span><span> (Israel), Amnesty International In Greece, </span></span><span><span><span><span>No to Compulsory Military Service</span></span></span></span><span><span> (Egypt) and others observers and representatives, mostly from northern Europe. </span></span><span><span>Travel restrictions against total objectors in Greece meant that two participants were held at the Greek boarder and could not join us – similarly, some Egyptian COs were unable to attend.</span></span></p> <p><span><span><span>The meeting was an opportunity to hear about militarisation in each context, and what CO and war refuser movements are doing to challenge this. The group agreed to work together in future, holding a week of action and planning a joint blog. Read a report by Rudi Friedrich from Connection e.V. </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>here</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span>, and a report from Ercan Jan Aktaş </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>here in Turkish</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span> (English translation </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>here</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span>). More follow up needs to happen on this.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>3.2</span></span><span><span>c </span></span>Egypt</strong></span></p> <p><span><em>CO-alerts</em></span><span> focused a lot on the case of </span><span><em>Maikel Nabil Sanad</em></span><span> from Egypt, who was imprisoned in February 2011 (charged with 'insulting the military') and went on hunger strike. Andreas made three visits to Egypt (one accompanied by</span><span><span> Igor Seke </span></span><span>of the RRTK committee) to provide support not only to Maikel (who he was not able to visit) but also to the local support group. The political situation in Egypt – which worsened after summer 2011 – did not help. WRI staff strongly questioned Maikel's course of action, but this was hard to discuss as his imprisonment prevented effective communication. Therefore, the support work for Maikel was politically and emotionally challenging. In January 2012, as a gesture on the anniversary of the occupation of Tahrir Square, Maikel was finally amnestied, along with many others.</span></p> <p><span><span><span>The Egyptian group that Maikel founded, </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>No to Compulsory Military Service</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span>, affiliated to WRI at the 2013 Council, and attended the Eastern Mediterranean network meeting in Cyprus in 2014.</span></span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>3.2</span></span><span><span>d </span></span>Greece</strong></span></p> <p><span><span>Persecution of COs in Greece has sharply increased since the start of 2013. We have been keeping in close contact with COs in Greece, particularly through the </span></span><span><span><span><span>Association for Greek Conscientious Objectors</span></span></span></span><span><span>, and raising awareness of their situation, </span></span><span><span>numerous CO alerts,</span></span><span><span> an article in </span></span><span><span><span><span>The Broken Rifle</span></span></span></span><span><span>, and </span></span><span><span><span><span>a statement</span></span></span></span><span><span> alongside the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection and Amnesty International in Greece. Their ‘Open letter’ (a call for international support) was distributed by the office </span></span><span><span>in </span></span><span><span>July 2013.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>In May 2014, Rafael Sainz de Rozas Bedialauneta travelled from the Basque Country to represent WRI as a witness at the trial of </span></span><span><span><span><span>Dimitris Sotiropulos</span></span></span></span><span><span>, along with other witneses from the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection and Initiative for Conscientious Objection in Cyprus. Dimitris was given a suspended sentence.</span></span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>3.2</span></span><span><span>e </span></span>South Korea</strong></span></p> <p><span>In March 2012, Andreas travelled to South Korea to assist the Korean CO movement in developing strategy following the South Korean constitutional court's rejection of the right to CO, leading Movement Action Plan (MAP) training.</span></p> <p><span><strong><span><span>3.2</span></span><span><span>f </span></span>Eritrea</strong></span></p> <p>Following on from work with Eritrean Diaspora groups in the previous four year, WRI were invited to attend a meeting convened by the UN Special Rapporteur on Eritrea in South Africa in November 2013. His contribution focused on the experience of COs and desters, and the more general experience of military service in Eritrea – and her subsequent report to the UN focused on militarisation in Eritrea, citing indefinite conscription as the main thing driving Eritreans to leave Eritrea. Opportunities to work with Eritrean Diaspora groups – including the recent Stop National Service Slavery in Eritrea Campaign s<span>hould be taken up in the next four years.</span></p> <h2><span>3.3 Countering the Militarisation of Youth</span></h2> <p><span>The Countering the Militarisation of Youth (CMOY) project has been a big new focus over the last years.</span></p> <p><span><span>The work on counter-recruitment has been expanded under the title Countering the Militarisation of Youth, and from 8-10 June 2012 the first major international conference took place in Darmstadt, Germany, with 65 participants from 14 countries. In preparation, a </span></span><a href="/militarisationofyouth/DarmstadtReader">reader</a><span><span> was </span></span><span><span>compiled, </span></span><span><span>plus </span></span><a href="/epublish/21/485">an edition</a><span><span> of The Broken Rifle. This conference was a major step forward in the development of WRI's work on countering the militarisation of youth, and in building new networks.</span></span></p> <p><span>Between September 2012 and August 2013, the CMOY work was the focus of the one-year Quaker Peace and Social Witness Peaceworker Owen Everett, working 2.5 days/week. </span></p> <p><span><span>In November 2012 it was decided that the documentation of the June conference in Darmstadt should be a book of articles by various people in the WRI network, based on the themes of the conference but of interest to those who didn't attend. The book was published in English in June 2013, called </span></span><span><span><span><span>Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It</span></span></span></span><span><span>. The German and Spanish versions of this book should be published late 2014, or early 2015. The book includes extracts from transcripts of interviews filmed at Darmstadt, and findings from a survey begun at Darmstadt. </span></span></p> <p><span><span>A film of selected sections of the video interviews is being made by Oskar Castro, and the full survey data, along with extensive analysis of it, has been uploaded onto the WRI website: </span><span><span><span>wri-irg.org/surveydata</span></span></span><span>.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>A smaller piece of work was coordinating of an International Day of Action for Military-Free Education and Research, which took place on 14 June. This was inspired by a week of action on this theme in Germany in September 2012. Groups, organisations, and individuals from seven different countries took part. Find a report of the day </span></span><span><span><span><span>here</span></span></span></span><span><span>.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>The next main development of the CMOY project has been through an internship, funded as part of the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust's grant, undertaken by Gary Ghirardi, an acitivist with the </span></span><span><span><span><span>National Network Opposing the Miltiarisation of Youth</span></span></span></span><span><span> in the USA, living in Venezuela. Gary worked on the development of a web resource specifically on militarisation of youth internationally, and profiling organisations and campaigns that are working to resist this. The idea of the site is to help the nascent network active on these issues to share ideas and tactics, as well as to communicate with the general public. The site will be launched in Ju</span></span><span><span>ly</span></span><span><span> 2014, and is being developed by </span></span><span><span><span><span>Netuxo</span></span></span></span><span><span>. The site was made possible by WRI's first use of crowdfunding. We used the indiegogo platform to </span></span><span><span><span><span>raise over £1200</span></span></span></span><span><span> needed to pay for the site's development.</span></span></p> <p><span>Finally, we are glad to say that we have raised funds to employ a part-time worker for one year, specifically on the CMOY work, starting from January 2015, as part of our grant from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. Recruitment for this post will start at the end of 2014.</span></p> <h2><span>3.4 International and human rights institutions </span></h2> <p><span><span>On 7 July 2011, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights gave its judgement in the case of </span></span><span><span><span><span>Bayatyan v Armenia</span></span></span></span><span><span>. The court finally recognised the right to conscientious objection (see </span></span><a href="/node/13271"><span><span><span><span>http://wri-irg.org/node/13271</span></span></span></span></a><span><span>). As expected, several chambers of the court then followed up to with five more judgements (two on Armenia, three on Turkey), recognising the right to conscientious objection.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>WRI responded to a request for information from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on conscientious objection to military service, towards a quadrennial analytical report on conscientious objection to military service that will presented to the Human Rights Council. You can read our submission </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="/en/story/2013/wri-makes-submission-ohchr-conscientious-objection-military-service">here</a>.</span></span></span></span></p> <h2><span>3.5 Publications and media</span></h2> <p><span>We received some press attention, primarily in Britain, around Prisoners for Peace Day and International Conscientious Objection Day. Other opportunities have been taken for media interviews when travelling, for example in Colombia and Greece.</span></p> <p><span>Requests for comment on conscientious objection in the run up to the 1914-1918 anniversary are already coming in, and are usually passed to groups that are working on this in-country.</span></p> <p><span>Due to increasing workload, the CO-Update newsletter has been published less frequently, now generally every 2 or 3 months. It remains an important resource on conscientious objection to military service and military recruitment.</span></p> <p><span><span>The </span></span><span><span><span><span>CO-Alert </span></span></span></span><span><span>system is active, and is used on average twice a month.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>Subscribers for both CO-Alert and </span></span><span><span><span><span>Update</span></span></span></span><span><span> are not rising very fast!</span></span></p> <h2><span>3.6 Events</span></h2> <p><span>In recent years we have not used a focus country on International Conscientious Objection Day.</span></p> <p><span><span>Instead, activities of groups around the world for International COs Day have been shared (see </span></span><span><span><span><span>2013</span></span></span></span><span><span>, for example), and staff alongside the Right to Refuse to Kill committee have not prioritised initiating actions on 15th May.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>We made use of social media to promote </span></span><span><span><span><span>Prisoners for Peace Day</span></span></span></span><span><span> on 1st December, and International Conscientious Objectors Day on 15th May. </span></span></p> <h2><span><span>3.7 </span></span><span><span>Staff changes</span></span></h2> <p><span>In July 2011, Andreas Speck, RRTK worker since the programme's inception in May 2001, announced that he would leave the WRI office at the end of 2012. The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust kindly agreed to augment the programme funding to provide for a staff overlap from September to December 2012, and in June 2012 Hannah Brock was chosen as the new RRTK programme worker. She began work in September 2012 in time for the Bilbao Council. Andreas left the WRI office at the end of December 2012.</span></p> <h2><span><span>3.8 </span></span><span><span>RRTK programme committee</span></span></h2> <p><span>The Right to Refuse to Kill programme committee continues to be in regular contact. Their work was particularly critical over the staff changeover period, providing Hannah with much-needed expertise and support (both moral and professional).</span></p> <p><span>We last met in person Bedia in September 2012 after the Bilbao Council Meeting. Since than we have held monthly conference calls, and are in regular email contact. In 2013, our longer annual meeting was held over two days on Skype. Our next meeting in person will be at the Cape Town International Conference.</span></p> <p><span>Because of the new developments with CMOY work, when a new CMOY work is appointed, the RRTK Committee will in affect 'split', with some members with a CO focus remaining on the CO work, and others moving over to start the CMOY committee and oversee that work.</span></p> <p><span>The RRTK committee currently consists of Rachel Brett (Quaker United Nations Office, Geneva), Boro Kitanoski (Peace Action, Macedonia), Oskar Castro (War Resisters' League, USA), Igor Seke (from Serbia, now living in Mexico), with Sergeiy Sandler (New Profile, Israel) convening the committee, and Hannah from staff.</span></p> <h2><span>3.9 Evaluation</span></h2> <h3><span><span><strong>Achievements</strong></span></span></h3> <ul><li> <p><span><span>The launch of the CO Guide, which required quite intensive work and will now prove an invaluable resource for COs across the world. It can also be used to promote understanding of CO issues (and punishment) to states and human rights organisations</span> </span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span>Continuing focus on countering the militarisation of youth, maintaining momentum started from the Darmstadt conference in June 2012, including the publication of </span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span>Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span>, and now fundraising </span></span></span><span><span><span>successfully</span></span></span><span><span><span> for a dedicated CMOY worker </span></span></span><span><span><span>and website</span></span></span><span><span><span>. This could play a huge part in the work of WRI in future years.</span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>The Bayatyan judgement is a major juridical achievement, to which WRI contributed via a joint third party intervention.</span></p> </li> </ul><h3><span><span><strong>Challenges</strong></span></span></h3> <ul><li> <p><span>The staff changeover inevitably reduced the capacity of the programme for some months, as the handover was a focus from September – December 2012, followed by a period of learning and adjustment.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>In 2011/2012 The support for Maikel Nabil Sanad during his hunger strike posed several political challenges that warrant WRI-wide discussion. </span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>Sticking to RRTK work plans can be disrupted by emergency events, e.g. support for Maikel Nabil Sanad, and also by more planned events, such as international conferences.</span></p> </li> </ul><h2><span>4. Queer working group 2011-2013</span></h2> <ul><li> <h3><span>2011</span></h3> </li> </ul><p><span>The WRI queer working group was created during the WRI Council in Luleå, Sweden in July 2011 out of a need, and with aims, to queer the antimilitarist struggle, to create space for LGBT* people in WRI, to use queer theory and practice to understand and to struggle against militarism, and also with the aim to demilitarise the LGBT* movements and work against pinkwashing.</span></p> <p><span>More specifically, this first meeting of the working group identified some specific aims of the group and things to work with: to develop nonviolence training with queer perspective (for example work with gender out of other than traditional binary gender models); to make an edition of The Broken Rifle on queer issue raising awareness of how queer and antimilitarism are connected; to share experiences; to get inspiration and to learn from each other how to connect queer and antimilitarist struggle in the different contexts where we live and work. </span></p> <p><span>Through the email list that was created we started sharing some articles and experiences.</span></p> <ul><li> <h3><span>2012</span></h3> </li> </ul><p><span>In the summer of 2012, a Broken Rifle queer issue was made including stories of everything from situation of LGBT* people in the antimilitarists movements around the world to critiques of LGBT* movement efforts to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, of how queer and antimilitarist struggles are connected and why antimilitarism needs queer perspectives and practices. </span></p> <p><span>During a “training for trainers” in Belgium organised by Vredesactie in November 2012, participants discussed how to create queer nonviolence trainings and how to work with anti-oppression in nonviolence trainings, and this will hopefully be the focus for one of the following trainings.</span></p> <ul><li> <h3><span>2013</span></h3> </li> </ul><p><span>The queer working group had a Skype meeting during the WRI online council in September, starting with a presentation of the militarisation of LGBT* movements in Europe (like police and military ‘protecting’ pride parades, police and military using LGBT* inclusion to pinkwash their activities, and glorification and romanticisation of violent struggle in radical queer groups), and then discussing these topics and sharing experiences from different contexts around the world, such as how queer and antimilitarist movements face different challenges depending on state policies towards LGBT* people and movements, and the different forms of militarism and militarisation present in the society. </span></p> <p><span><span>The presentation is online here: </span></span><a href="/en/QueeringAntimilitarismWG"><span><span><span><span><span>www.wri-irg.org/QueeringAntimilitarismWG</span></span></span></span></span></a></p> <p><span><em><span>*/the asterisk</span></em></span></p> <p><span><em>T* or Trans* is an umbrella term that refers to all of the identities within the gender identity constellation. The asterisk makes special note in an effort to include all non-cisgender gender identities, including but not limited to transgender, transsexual, transvestite, genderqueer, genderfluid, non-binary, genderfuck, genderless, agender, non-gendered, third gender, two-spirit, bigender, and trans man and trans woman.<br /> (partly taken from: itspronouncedmetrosexual.com/2012/05/what-does-the-asterisk-in-trans-stand-for/#sthash.ywmqvcQA.dpuf)</em></span></p> <p> </p> <p><span>5. WRI in the Regions</span></p> <p><span>This chapter is on WRI’s affiliates in the various regions, and networking WRI is undertaking.</span></p> <h2><span>5.1 Africa</span></h2> <p><span>Since the International Conference in India in January 2010, WRI’s work on the African continent which has been mainly led by the African Working Group co-convened since 2010 by Elavie Ndura and Matt Meyer, has intensified, with three elements:</span></p> <p><span>a) the preparation of the international conference 2014 in close cooperation with Ceasefire and other organisations in South Africa. In the course of that preparation there have been several visits and conferences attended by WRI representatives. For example, in 2012 Africa Working Group co-conveners <span>Elavie Ndura </span>and <span>Matt Meyer</span>participated in a three-day conference organised by the Gandhi Development Trust in Durban, “<em>From the Roots to the Fruits: Nonviolence in Action.</em></span></p> <p><span>b) Nonviolence trainers exchange, with the highlight being the 26-29 July 2012 <em>Africa Nonviolence Trainers Exchange </em>which had participants from South Sudan, Rwanda, Egypt, Mozambique, the Democractic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea as well as South Africa itself. For a report on Waging Nonviolence follow this link (<a href="http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/new-pan-african-nonviolence-network-formed/">http://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/new-pan-african-nonviolence-network-formed/</a>).</span></p> <p><span>c) As an outcome of that training: the building of the African Nonviolence and Peacebuilding Network (<a href="http://anvtn.blogspot.co.uk/">http://anvtn.blogspot.co.uk/</a>). The Network will meet during the 2014 conference.</span></p> <p><span>d) In the run up to the 2014 international conference, the network organised a series of webinars on topics such as: peacebuilding, history of nonviolence in Africa, the patriarchal war against women and others, international solidarity and nonviolent resistance and militarisation of youth and child soldiers. You can see the webinars on WRI's vimeo account (<a href="http://vimeo.com/user4456636">http://vimeo.com/user4456636</a>).</span></p> <p><span>One other activity carried forward by members of the African Working Group has been to take part in the re-building of the Africa Peace Research Association (AFPREA)</span></p> <p><span>Since 2011, WRI and many of its affiliates have closely followed and supported through activities at home the developments around the so-called Arab Spring. Particular eminence took the support of the war resister and blogger Maikel Nabil in Egypt, who was arrested and consequently went on hunger strike in the autumn of 2011. His group, No to Compulsory Military Service, has since become a member of WRI</span></p> <p><span>As part of the whole Cape Town 2014 process, WRI has featured several articles on African struggles in the different WRI newsletters, sharing with the WRI network some of the themes that will be central to the conference. Several Africa Working Group members have been involved in publishing articles and preparing books on aspects of nonviolence in Africa, including analysis of the so-called Arab Spring.</span></p> <h2><span>5.2 Eastern Mediterranean</span></h2> <p><span>WRI affiliate New Profile (Israel) and No to Compulsory Military Service (Egypt) – who made their affiliation application to WRI at 2013's eCouncil - put out a joint statement: 'Freedom to Conscientious Objectors in the Middle East'. The statement confirms their 'support of peace and of conscientious objectors in both countries, reaffirming the human right to freedom of conscience, faith, and self-determination.' It condemns 'the way both...governments treat conscientious objectors: </span><span><span>Natan Blanc, Emad El Dafrawi and Mohammed Fathy.</span></span><span>'</span></p> <p><span>The Eastern Mediterranean network of COs eventually met in early March 2014 in Cyprus after having postponed its meeting </span><span>once</span><span>. See </span><span>section</span><span> </span><span><span><span>3.2</span></span></span><span><span><span>b </span></span></span><span><span><span>for</span></span></span><span> more info.</span></p> <h2><span>5.3 Europe</span></h2> <p><span>There has been a European network of WRI groups who have held several meetings in 2010 and 2011, focussing on antimilitarist work against NATO (NATO summit in November 2010 in Lisbon, Portugal) military bases and nuclear weapons. Many activities were funded by a grant by the European Union's Grundtvig Lifelong Learning Programme in 2010 and 2011. The network developed the slogan “War Starts Here”, a website was created and actions held in Lulea 2011. The main groups in the network have been ofog - direkt aktion för Fred!, (Sweden), Vredesactie/ Bombspotting, (Belgium), Alternativa antimilitaristamoc (Spain), Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft- Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen, (Germany), Gewaltfreie Aktion Atomwaffen abschaffen (Germany), Aseistakieltäytyjäliitto, AKL (Finland), Trident Ploughshares (Britain), Gruppe für eine Schweiz ohne Armee, GSoA (Switzerland), and Bundeswehr Wegtreten (Germany). The last "official" meeting of the European Antimilitarist Network took place as part of the NATO Game Over action in Brussels in 2012. </span></p> <p><span>First used in Lulea in 2012, the slogan “War Starts Here” has since been used by a German network mobilising camps and direct actions against a military training site every year since 2012 in Eastern Germany. Some WRI affiliates from Germany continue to be involved in the War Starts Here camps. Read more at: <a href="http://www.warstartsherecamp.org/en/">http://www.warstartsherecamp.org/en/</a></span></p> <p><span>For some years, WRI was member of the international </span><span><em>International Co-ordinating Committee No to War – No to NATO (ICC),</em></span><span> and represented there by Andreas Speck, but eventually the WRI Executive decided to leave the Committee in April 2012 and </span><span><span>"continue its anti-NATO work outside the ICC. We will always be open for cooperation and communication with the ICC, should the need and opportunity arise.</span></span></p> <p>Nonviolence training has also been a mayor element of the regional work in Europe, with a regional trainers gathering taking place in 2012 in Belgium and several follow up meetings also taking place.</p> <h3><span><span><strong>5.3a Main activities and highlights:</strong></span></span></h3> <p><span>Nonviolent actions and blockades in Aldermaston and Burghfield (British nuclear weapons‘ factory) in 2009 and 2013 saw strong participation by WRI members and were supported by the WRI office. The 2013 camp was part of the Action AWE campaign that is acting to halt nuclear weapons production at the Atomic Weapons Establishment factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield, Berkshire, Britain.</span></p> <p><span>Actions against the NATO summit in Lisbon, 2010. The subsequent NATO summit in Chicago, USA, saw little involvement from Europe - in the end two members of <em>ofog </em>represented WRI in Chicago, joining with members of <em>War Resisters League.</em></span></p> <ul><li> <p><span>War Starts Here action camp in Lulea, in July 211</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>NATO-Game over action in Brussels, Belgium, in April 2012</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>Nonviolence training of trainers in Brussels (see 2.2).</span></p> </li> </ul><h2><span>5.4 Latin America</span></h2> <p><span>For a number of years a number of groups in Latin America with links to WRI have been working on how to support each other more, and how to create the space for thinking and acting beyond local realities. The irg-al network has continued to exchange a lot of information through its email list (<span><a href="mailto:irg-al@lists.wri">irg-al@lists.wri</a></span><span>-</span><span>irg.org</span>), which helps groups to know what others are doing.</span></p> <p><span>The list has been most useful in times of crisis, like during the so-called frustrated coup d'etat in Ecuador on 30 September 2010, and during the events in Venezuela in 2013/2014. Council member <span>Pelao Carvallo,</span> residing in Paraguay, has kept the network informed of what is happening in the country - from the Curuguaty massacre where 16 peasants were killed by police forces to the subsequent parliamentary coup d'etat. Thanks to Pelao, <span>MOC-Paraguay and Serpaj-Paraguay t</span>he irg-al list has been kept well informed about the ongoing resistance to the coup. The resistance by indigenous people of Cauca in Colombia to military presence in their communities was also discussed via the list serve, with groups in Colombia sharing first-hand experiences.</span></p> <p><span>Members of the network have met using various opportunities like the Triennial in India 2010, but live meetings remain a challenge.</span></p> <p><span>As a joint project, the network put together the December 2010 issue of WRI's newsletter The Broken Rifle (<span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br87-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br87-en.htm</a></span>), which focused on militarism in the region. The network also helped getting the WRI Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns out in Spanish, with Pelao Carvallo writing a special introduction to the Spanish version and El Libertario Collective doing the layout. The handbook was printed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it has already been distributed to several countries in Latin America, with groups even organising book presentations in their countries. </span></p> <p><span>Unfortunately, the plan of WRI to hold a Council in Colombia in 2012 had to be given up for lack of available funding for such an event.</span></p> <p><span>WRI's Executive Committee sent out a statement in support of Venezuelan human rights organisation, PROVEA, which was attacked by the government after the election of Nicolás Maduro. In 2011, PROVEA hosted a WRI delegation to Venezuela. As part of the activities of the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, in 2013 and 2014 the Latin American network came out with a statement (<a href="/node/21528">http://wri-irg.org/node/21528</a>) signed and shared widely.</span></p> <p><span>A regional training for trainers in nonviolent action took place in March 2014 in Quito, Ecuador, hosted by Serpaj and Acción Ecológica. The training had people attending from Colombia, Paraguay, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia and Mexico. The occasion was used for a new regional network meeting, at this meeting it was agreed a series of activities for the 2014 Global Day of Action on Military Spending, which included a statement (</span><a href="/Nomásarmas">http://wri-irg.org/Nom%C3%A1sarmas</a><span>), and a</span><span>n</span><span> action concept that groups took on. </span></p> <h2><span>5.5 North America</span></h2> <p><span>For the activities in North America, see the reports of our affiliate War Resisters’ League.</span></p> <h2><span>5.6 Asia</span></h2> <p><span>WRI doesn't have an Asia regional network, but this doesn't mean that there isn't work and cooperation with Asian groups. Some affiliates of WRI have made contact with the Iraqi umbrella “La Onf” (Nonviolence) and attended annual conferences held by that organisation.</span></p> <p><span>In the last year there was a lot of collaboration with World Without War (WWW) in South Korea. In 2012, WRI led a nonviolence training for trainers in South Korea hosted by WWW. As part of WWW's work on nonviolence they are coordinating a group of trainers, which meets regularly, and have published WRI's Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns in Korean.</span></p> <p><span>WWW have been very active in the resistance to the construction of the Naval Military Base on Jeju Island. In this they have taken on targeting Samsung who are the main contractors of the base. WWW had done nonviolent direct actions against Samsung. Many have been reported in War Profiteers' News. </span></p> <p><span>Subhash Kattel from Nepal, who became an individual member of WRI in 2014, took on translating and publishing WRI's handbook into Nepali and also participated in the New Tactics online conversation <span>on countering the militarisation of youth.</span></span></p> <p><span>Communication continues with our friends at Mozda who hosted the 2010 India conference, who continue to share information of their several nonviolent struggles including the resistance to a nuclear power station.</span></p> <p><span>Even though there is not a regional network, all these different cooperation show that there is the potential of working toward more regional cooperation on nonviolent and antimilitarist work. </span></p> <h2><span>5.7 Australia and Oceania</span></h2> <p><span>In 2013 we welcomed Rosa Moiwend from West Papua as a WRI individual member. For a period of time she was living in London doing West Papua solidarity work and she regularly visited the office. She even joined us in our protest against HMRC against paying tax for wars. Rosa has represented WRI at several events related with the West Papua struggle. </span></p> <p><span>WRI has an affiliate in Australia and contacts to some other activists through conferences. But there has been no continuous work or efforts been made on this region.</span></p> <p><span>6. Publications</span></p> <p><span><span>All our email-based publications can be viewed on </span></span><span><span><span><span><span>our website</span></span></span></span></span><span><span>. You can subscribe to receive them to your inbox </span></span><span><span><span><span><span>here</span></span></span></span></span><span><span>.</span></span></p> <h2><span>6.1 Series Publications</span></h2> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>The Broken Rifle</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span>The Broken Rifle continues to be WRI's newsletter, with most issues published in English, Spanish and German, and some in French. It is published online, usually with a downloadable pdf version available, and sent out as an email newsletter. Staff often use The Broken Rifle when travelling and attending events.</span></p> <p><span>It was generally published quarterly until end of 2013, and every four months from start of 2014.</span></p> <p><span>Since January 2010, the following issues have been published:</span></p> <ul><li> <p><span><span>Themes for Small Actions, Big Movements: The Continuum of Nonviolence (May 2014, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/epublish/21/574">http://wri-irg.org/epublish/21/574</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>African antimilitarism, nonviolence and peacebuilding (December, 2013, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/epublish/21/555">http://wri-irg.org/epublish/21/555</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Resisting War and Preparation for War: Taking Back Militarised Spaces (September 2013, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/epublish/21/543">http://wri-irg.org/epublish/21/543</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Conscientious objection: today and tomorrow (May 2013, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://www.wri-irg.org/epublish/21/527">http://www.wri-irg.org/epublish/21/527</a></span></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Nonviolent strategies for social change (March 2013, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://www.wri-irg.org/epublish/21/515">http://www.wri-irg.org/epublish/21/515</a></span></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Standing up to repression (December 2012, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/br94-en.htm">http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/br94-en.htm</a></span></span></span></span></span><span><span>),</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Queer and antimilitarism (August 2012, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/br93-en.htm">http://www.wri-irg.org/pubs/br93-en.htm</a></span></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Countering the Militarisation of Youth (May 2012, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/epublish/21/485">http://wri-irg.org/epublish/21/485</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Land-grabbing and Militarism (April 2012, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br91-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br91-en.htm</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Nonviolence for Change (December 2011, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br90-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br90-en.htm</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Military out of schools (March 2011, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br88-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br88-en.htm</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>). </span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Latin American Antimilitarist Network (December 2010, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br87-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br87-en.htm</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>European Network Against Militarism - Against NATO and War (September 2010, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br86-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br86-en.htm</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>)</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>Gender and militarism (April 2010, see </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br85-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br85-en.htm</a></span></span></span></span><span><span>), </span></span></p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>wri-info</span></span></span></span></span></h3> </li> </ul><p><span><span>The email-newsletter wri-info is published as needed – usually for WRI statements and announcements. From February 2013, it has also been used to distribute </span></span><span><span><span><span>War Resisters' Stories</span></span></span></span><span><span>.</span></span></p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>War Resisters' Stories</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span>This new monthly eNewsletter was launched in February 2013. Each month it contains five stories, both from the office and from the WRI network. It is designed to give people highlights from recent events, as well as direct them towards upcoming events, in a brief and engaging way.</span></p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>CO-Update</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span>The CO-Update, produced in English, is the eNewsletter of the Right to Refuse to Kill programme. Since summer 2012 it has been produced bimonthly. It contains updates on conscientious objection and conscription around the world, as well as news on Right to Refuse to Kill activity.</span></p> <h3><span><span><span><span>CO-Alert</span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span>WRI launched its email based co-alert system in July 2001. Although there had been a system for urgent actions before, this was the first time the email list CO-Alert has been used. Since then, hundreds of CO-Alerts have been distributed. The CO-Alert system has been integrated into WRI's conscientious objection database, and is now managed entirely through the WRI website. CO-alert is an English only email list, although some alerts are also available in other languages on the WRI website. Please encourage as many people to join this list as possible: </span></span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://lists.wri-irg.org/sympa/info/co-alert">http://lists.wri-irg.org/sympa/info/co-alert</a></span></span></span></span><span><span> </span></span></p> <h3><span><span><span><span><span>warprofiteers-news</span></span></span></span></span></h3> <p><span><span>The email newsletter </span></span><span><span><span><span>War Profiteers News</span></span></span></span><span><span> is published in English and Spanish, usually bimonthly. It has been an important tool to provide information on matters related to war profiteering to a wide range of groups and activists, and facilitates networking of groups working on war profiteers.</span></span></p> <h2><span>6.2 Social media</span></h2> <p><span>In the last few years, we have started to make use of social media. Since 2012 in particular, we have made a greater effort to engage with people on social media, and use it more consistently. This has meant an increase in our social media following. We have also expanded into open source social media. This helps us reach more people, but is also a political choice for us to support non-corporately owned forms of social communication on the internet. We post regularly in English and Spanish, and in other languages whenever possible.</span></p> <h3><span>Facebook</span></h3> <p><span><span>Find us here: </span></span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-Resisters-International/116749965016853">http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-Resisters-International/1167499650168…</a></span></span></span></span></span><span><span>. We now have over 2500 followers.</span></span></p> <h3><span>Causes</span></h3> <p><span><span>Find us on Causes here: </span></span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="http://www.causes.com/warresisters">http://www.causes.com/warresisters</a></span></span></span></span></span><span><span>. We have over 4300 followers, and often uses Causes to promote our newsletters and encourage people to take action through CO-Alerts.</span></span></p> <h3><span>Twitter</span></h3> <p><span><span>You can find WRI at </span></span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="https://twitter.com/warresistersint">https://twitter.com/warresistersint</a></span></span></span></span></span><span><span>. We have over 1200 followers.</span></span></p> <h3><span>Diaspora</span></h3> <p><span><span>A distributed social networking service. Find us at </span></span><span><span><span><span><span><a href="https://joindiaspora.com/u/warresistersinternational">https://joindiaspora.com/u/warresistersinternational</a></span></span></span></span></span><span><span> </span></span></p> <h2><span>6.3 Books</span></h2> <p><span>Since January 2010, we have published the following printed books:</span></p> <ul><li> <p><span><span>In June 2013 '</span></span><span><span><span><span>Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It'</span></span></span></span><span><span> was </span></span><span><span><span><span>launched</span></span></span></span><span><span> at Housmans bookshop, London. The book was compiled by Quaker Peace and Social Witness Peaceworker Owen Everett, and contains surveys on the militarisation of youth across the world, excerpts from interviews and articles on particular aspects on militarisation of youth. It is available at our webshop here: </span></span><span><span><span><span>wri-irg.org/SowingSeeds</span></span></span></span><span><span> and to read online </span></span><span><span><span><span>here</span></span></span></span><span><span>.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>In April 2010, the book “</span></span><span><span><span><span>Women Conscientious Objectors – An Anthology</span></span></span></span><span><span>” was published. </span></span><span><span><em>Objetoras de Conciencia – Antología –</em></span></span><span><span> a Spanish-language version, was published in January 2013. It was translated by</span></span><span><span>Michelle Renyé, is available electronically </span></span><span><span><span><span>online</span></span></span></span><span><span> and </span></span><span><span><span><span><span>for sale</span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span><span><span>in print.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span>WRI's </span></span><span><span><span><span>Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</span></span></span></span><span><span>, published in English with an initial print-run of 1,200 copies, was first published </span></span><span><span><span><span>in Spanish</span></span></span></span><span><span> in May 2010. A reprint of 1,500 copies the English edition was necessary in January 2011. An Indonesian edition of the Handbook was been published by Walisongo Mediation Centre in 2009, and was made available </span></span><span><span><span><span>online</span></span></span></span><span><span> during 2010. The Russian edition of the Handbook is now available </span></span><span><span><span><span>online</span></span></span></span><span><span>, along with the </span></span><span><span><span><span>Arabic</span></span></span></span><span><span> edition, and versions in </span></span><span><span><span><span>Spanish</span></span></span></span><span><span>, </span></span><span><span><span><span>Tigrinya</span></span></span></span><span><span>, </span></span><span><span><span><span>Turkish</span></span></span></span><span><span> and </span></span><span><span><span><span>Korean</span></span></span></span><span><span>. A translation into Nepalese is available as a print version.</span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>In 2010, WRI supported the Eritrean Antimilitary Initiate (EAI) in publishing and distributing a Tirgrinya version of Gene Sharps “From dictatorship to democracy”. </span></p> </li> </ul><p><span><span>Cynthia Cockburn's book </span></span><span><span><span><span>Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements</span></span></span></span><span><span> has also been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Cynthia attended the WRI Council in Bilbao in 2008 doing interviews for this book, which includes discussion of WRI itself as well as of affiliates in several countries. Andreas spoke at the book launch in Housmans bookshop, London. </span></span></p> <h2><span>6.4 Evaluation</span></h2> <h3><span>Achievements:</span></h3> <ul><li> <p><span>Regular high-quality content through The Broken Rifle, War Profiteers News and the CO-Update – often in three languages.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>Substantial increase in our social media following.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>The publication of the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns has clearly answered an existing need, demonstrated by the high number of translations that have already been published. Because of this, we are now in the process of publishing the second edition of the Handbook, which will be published in July 2014, and launched at the International Conference in Cape Town.</span></p> </li> </ul><h3><span>Challenges:</span></h3> <ul><li> <p><span>Although most of our newsletters and publications are published in Spanish and often German as well, there is often a delay between publication in English and publication in German and Spanish. Much content on our website is only in English.</span></p> </li> <li> <p><span>There are many opportunities to reach people online now. Our website and social media usage could be improved, being more visually appealing. Although our website has the capability for crowd-sourced content (giving the network the opportunity to publish their news through the website, and to publish translations in their own languages of existing content), this rarely happens.</span></p> </li> </ul><h2><span>7. Statements, Press Releases</span></h2> <p><span><span>War Resisters' International has released eight statements, mostly in support of antimilitarist activists around the world.</span></span></p> <p><span><span>They are all available online, and many have also been distributed as press releases to media outlets where relevant. From the most recent, they are:</span></span></p> <ul><li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>War Resisters' International joins the world in mourning the passing of Nelson Mandela</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> (9 December 2013)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Egypt: There is No Military Solution!</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span> 13 September 2013</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>WRI supports Venezuelan Human Rights organisation PROVEA: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>13 September 2013</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span><span><span><span>23 April 2013</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Stop making a killing from war: #demilitarize now</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span>: </span></span></span><strong><span><span><span>WRI statement on the Global Day of Action on Military Spending</span></span></span></strong><br /><span><span><span>15 April 2013</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>No más armas para Latinoamérica</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span> 09 Apr 2013</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>WRI condemns 'shameful' attacks on Nazlie Bala in Kosovo</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span>05 April 2013</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Joint Public Statement - Greece: When will conscientious objectors stop being persecuted? </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span><span><span><span>07 March 2013</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>War Resisters' International condemns Pinar Selek's life sentence</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span>1</span></span></span></span><span><span><span>4 February 2013</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>War taxes paid under protest</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span>16 January 2013</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>Resistance and Nonviolence to the coup d'etat in Paraguay</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span>, 25 September 2012</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span><span>War Resisters' International Executive statement on the harassment of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span><span><span> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span>28 August 2012</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>EGYPT: War Resisters' International welcomes the overdue release in Cairo of pacifist blogger Maikel Nabil</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span> 26 January 2012</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>Sick and tired of the warmakers! - A statement by War Resisters' International on the intervention in Libya</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span> 5 April 2011</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>War Resisters' International condemns persecution of Turkish feminist antimilitarist Pinar Selek</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span> 25 February 2011</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>War Resisters’ International Statement on the Murder of Nigeria’s Chidi Nwosu</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span> 25 January 2011</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span><span>War Resisters' International statement in support of Moon Myungjin, conscientious objector from the Republic of Korea</span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><span> 6 January 2011</span></span></span></span></p> </li> <li> <p><span><span><span><span><span>'Israel's Ruthless Criminality' - WRI statement on attack on Freedom Flotilla</span></span></span></span><cite><span><span><span> 31 May 2010</span></span></span></cite></span></p> </li> </ul><p><span>8. An outlook on the future development of WRI’s work</span></p> <p><span>Making predictions—the saying goes—is difficult, especially about the future. This is definitely also true about WRI’s future, but some recent efforts and events we have been engaged in also imply possible future developments. Of these, we would like to highlight three things; regional networking, countering the militarisation of youth as a new direction in WRI programme work and, alas, the continuing financial crisis WRI is facing.</span></p> <h2><span>8.1 Regional networking</span></h2> <p><span>For a long time now, regional networking has been an important part of WRI’s work. Regional gatherings and projects have been instrumental to the consolidation and extension of the WRI network. For many years, our regional networking efforts focused on Latin America and Europe. As you will read in other sections of this report, these efforts continue, as our networks in these regions (or rather continents) move through their natural cycles of ebb and flow. A new region where our networking efforts are just beginning is the East Mediterranean, where groups from Turkey, Greece, Cyprus, Palestine/Israel and Egypt working on conscientious objection and resistance to militarism have gathered for the first time earlier this year.</span></p> <p><span>But the most massive, and potentially the most consequential, regional networking effort WRI is engaged in today is the one you can see in action here in Cape Town. Our meeting here is part of a broad ongoing effort to establish and further develop an African Nonviolence and Peacebuilding Network.</span></p> <p><span>Each regional network within WRI has its own scope and focus. What gives the African network added importance for the future development of the WRI network as a whole is that our traditional topics—conscientious objection, nonviolence, antimilitarism—are transformed when placed in the context of the activist traditions the members of our fledgling African network come from. Traditional forms of conscientious objection are rare in Africa (just as traditional forms of conscription are), as are the forms of nonviolent direct action typical of the Global North. Instead, nonviolent resistance to militarism in many African countries takes the form of work against daily, non-centralised forms of violence, the form of active positive peacebuilding and active encouragement of alternatives to violence.</span></p> <p><span>All this is reflected in the focus and title of our conference, “The </span><span><em>continuum</em></span><span> of nonviolence”. Like the African groups and activists making up this regional network, the conference examines domestic violence and street violence as lying on the same continuum with military violence and outright war. Theoretically, this realisation has also been part of our social and political analysis (and especially </span><span><span>gender</span></span><span> analysis) for decades, but the African network opens up the possibility of connecting this to actual campaigning, and this is one important possible direction for the development of WRI’s work in the future—in Africa, but also worldwide.</span></p> <h2><span>8.2 Countering the militarisation of youth</span></h2> <p><span>Another prospect for the future development of WRI’s work is in the field of countering the militarisation of youth. As you will read in the report, this has been the focus of several WRI activities and publications over the last two years or so, and we are in the process of developing Countering the Militarisation of Youth into a full-fledged programme, supported by WRI office staff.</span></p> <p><span>Originally, we perceived work on countering the militarisation of youth as an alternative to the older and narrower focus on conscientious objection in (mostly European) countries that abolished conscription. Indeed, many countries in Europe are now experiencing a surge in militarisation of schools, public events, games and entertainment, as national armies are vying for young recruits. However, we soon realised that the militarisation of youth is an equally disturbing trend all over the world, regardless of whether the legal mechanism of conscription is used in a country or not. The same basic mechanisms are being employed by armies around the world, both to obtain highly motivated recruits and to dispose the public at large to support war. The great potential that campaigning to counter the militarisation of youth has for the future development of WRI’s work as a whole is evidenced by the enthusiasm this work has been generating within and around the WRI network over these last two years.</span></p> <h2><span>8.3 Financial crisis</span></h2> <p><span>For these new trends in WRI’s work to materialise, however, WRI first needs to survive financially. This is becoming increasingly difficult. By now, almost all of WRI’s old reserves have been used, and we are still running a regular and significant yearly deficit. If this trend continues—that is, unless we manage to secure regular funding for a second office programme, in addition to the fully-funded Right to Refuse to Kill—we might face the possibility of closing the WRI office within a few years at most.</span></p> <p><span><span>The way out of the crisis goes through fundraising, and through a greater involvement of the WRI network as a whole in our fundraising efforts. Some progress is already being made along these lines, with WRI’s recently-created fundraising committee, but more is needed. We crucially need the network’s help in establishing new contacts with potential funders from different countries and in aspects of the practical fundraising work itself.</span></span></p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-programmes-projects--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects--story.html.twig * field--node--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-programmes-projects.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Programmes &amp; Projects</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/programmes/wri-office-report?language=en" hreflang="en">WRI Office Report</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/465?language=en" hreflang="en">Front Page</a></span> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/programmes/office?language=en" hreflang="en">From the office</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--field-other-publications--rss.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-other-publications--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--field-other-publications.html.twig * field--expert--field-other-publications--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--field-other-publications.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--field-other-publications--story.html.twig * field--node--field-other-publications.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--field-other-publications.html.twig * field--entity-reference.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <div class="field--label tags--label field-label-above">Other publications</div> <div class="wri-main--tags"> <span class="rel-tag" > <a href="/en/taxonomy/term/76?language=en" hreflang="en">Reports</a></span> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'links__node' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * links--node.html.twig x links.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/links.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--comment--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--comment.html.twig * field--default--comment--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--comment.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig x field--node--comment--story.html.twig * field--node--comment.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--comment.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> <section class="comments"> <h2>Añadir nuevo comentario</h2> <drupal-render-placeholder callback="comment.lazy_builders:renderForm" arguments="0=node&amp;1=23237&amp;2=comment&amp;3=comment" token="bLkG1CvizRHNBylIF-DNqQX6MlA7wmxeyH1uygpIsGY"></drupal-render-placeholder> </section> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Tue, 01 Jul 2014 16:38:58 +0000 Andrew 23237 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/20102014Report?language=en#comments Office and Executive Report: September 2012 - August 2013 https://wri-irg.org/en/AnnualReport2012-2013?language=en <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--22312.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="22312" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 09 Sep 2013</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>This report has been prepared by the staff and Executive Committee</p> <h2>1. Introduction</h2> <p>The year since the Council meeting in Bilbao in September 2012 has been a period of a successful transition in the office from Andreas Speck to Hannah Brock, and the continuation of WRI’s various <a href="/node/20620"></a></p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_1_3&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="b34f21de-a65c-4ce4-becb-2ff19cda1a9b" title="We are all Natan Blanc poster at vigil for Chelsea Manning, London, February 2013" class="align-right embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_325x325/public/We%20are%20all%20Natan%20Blanc.thumbnail.jpg?itok=WQbknABO 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/medium/public/We%20are%20all%20Natan%20Blanc.thumbnail.jpg?itok=eW6nc9W9" alt="" title="We are all Natan Blanc poster at vigil for Chelsea Manning, London, February 2013" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> programmatic activities. The progressing preparation of the upcoming International Conference in South Africa 2014 and the preparation of the Council 2013 have been two further important elements of our work. In the international network, the Global Action Day Against Military Spending on April 15, the Conscientious Objectors Day exactly one month later and the days of action against the militarization of youth in June 2013 marked dates when many of our affiliates took common action.  The international political situation has remained full of challenges and issues – from Venezuela and Paraguay where our affiliates struggle for human rights and against the all-powerful influence of the military establishment through the Middle East with its various theatres of conflict and war to East Asia where our members from South Korea fight against a military basis on an island under the shadow of a major conflict between North and South Korea. This report describes the programmatic activities in the two WRI programmes (Nonviolence and the Right to Refuse to Kill), the work of WRI in the regions, the WRI-internal business and of course WRI’s financial situation.</p> <h2></h2> <h2>2. Staffed Programmes</h2> <p>For some years now, WRI has two staffed programmes: Nonviolence and the Right to Refuse to Kill – programme. In both programmes, there are various ongoing activities and projects.</p> <h3>2.1 Nonviolence Programme</h3> <p>Staff: Javier Gárate The <a href="”/programmes/nvp" target="”_blank”">Nonviolence Programme</a> has two main areas of focus:</p> <ul><li>providing resources and training in nonviolence</li> <li>the initiative against war profiteering</li> </ul><p><strong>2.1.1 Resources and training for nonviolent action</strong> Empowering grassroots activists to take nonviolent action continues to be one of the main goals of the NV Programme. In the past year, the programme’s emphasis has been to coordinate regional nonviolence training exchanges and lead training for trainers. We see that WRI's main contribution is to bring trainers together to exchange their experiences and to empower grassroots activists to form their own trainings. In the past year, a European Training Exchange took place in Ieper, Belgium, hosted by WRI's Belgian affiliate – <em>Vredesactie</em>. WRI and<em> Vredesactie</em> came up with the idea for this exchange and invited several other groups to join the organising committee, including: <em>European Youth for Action</em> (EYFA), <em>Turning the Tide</em> (UK), <em>Seeds for Change</em> (UK), <em>Trypod</em> (UK), <em>Ofog</em> (Sweden) and <em>SwedFOR</em> (Sweden). The training exchange brought together 40 trainers for several European countries for a week-long training exchange on strategies for social movements. One concrete outcome from the exchange was to form a loose network of trainers. Participants at the exchange have continued to exchange information and there has already been some follow ups from this exchange, with a meeting in January in London hosted by Turning the Tide on how to develop personal skills for strategies, and there are plans for more trainers meetings during this year. As reported in the last annual report, in August of last year, WRI organised an <a href="”/AfricanNonviolenceTrainersExchange" target="”_blank”">African Nonviolence Training Exchange</a>, held in Johannesburg. At the exchange an African Nonviolence and Peacebuilding Network was formed. This network has continued to communicate via email and is planning a meeting at the forthcoming WRI International Conference '<a href="”/southafrica2014" target="”_blank”">SMALL Actions BIG Movements</a>' in 2014 in Cape Town. For 2013 there are plans to hold a Latin American training for trainers, which will to take place in Ecuador in November. The goal is to bring together activists using or interested in nonviolent action to share skills on how training can support grassroots nonviolent actions in Latin America. In October of 2012, the Nonviolence Programme led a training for trainers in South Korea, hosted by World Without War. The trainers were Denise Drake of <em>Turning the Tide</em> and Javier Gárate. The training was well timed as the struggle against the naval military base on Jeju Island tries to keep up the momentum of its resistance. Most participants at the training for trainers were actively involved in resisting the naval military base and were looking for how they can empower more people in their groups to take nonviolent action. The training for trainers was part of a longer process started by World Without War to have a trainers group. The group met several times before the training for trainers and have continued to meet afterwards to work increasing their training skills. World Without War have taken direct action against the naval base and see nonviolence training as a key aspect in having more impact with their actions. <em>2.1.1.1 Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</em> The WRI <a href="”/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook" target="”_blank”">Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</a> continues to be the main resource of the NV Programme. We continue to get offers to translate the handbook and we have completed the translations of more languages. In the past year the Nepali version was published thanks to the work of Subhash Khattel. The Russian version has also been finalised. Out of the blue we received a message from the internet Ukrainian community <a href="http://texty.org.us">http://texty.org.us</a> that they had translated the handbook into Ukrainian and posted it in their website. The German one is in the process of being translated with high hopes to have it ready during 2013. Big thanks to Jorgen Johansen who continues to help to get translations of the handbook. At the moment there are people translating it into Italian, Greek and Bulgarian. With all these translations the handbook will be available in more than 10 languages. <a href=""></a></p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_1_3&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="18bf543f-5c90-4a23-b953-f07e38d7b096" title="Activists being removed at No to Jeju Naval Base Demonstration, October 2012" class="align-right embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_325x325/public/IMAG0605_1.home.jpg?itok=GJMJdq4y 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/medium/public/IMAG0605_1.home.jpg?itok=WmIDzQJQ" alt="" title="Activists being removed at No to Jeju Naval Base Demonstration, October 2012" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> As the handbook gets used and translated, we continue to receive comments about it. This made us think that it is the right time to work on a second edition of the handbook, which can incorporate some of the suggestions for changes and additions. The plan is to work on the second edition in the second half of 2013, so if you have comments, please get in touch. We will also be inviting feedback during the eCouncil. As part of working on a second edition we also want to plan our strategy for online resources apart from the handbook, making the WRI website a resource for activists who want to share and learn about nonviolent action. <strong>2.1.2 Initiative against War Profiteers</strong> <em>2.1.2.1 War Profiteers News</em> The Nonviolence Programme continues to work supporting campaigns against all forms of war profiteering. By war profiteering we mean that our emphasis is not only on the arms trade but also on other related issues such us the privatisation of the military, the technologisation of war and resource wars. The work against war profiteering is primarily done through the publication of the newsletter <a href="”/publications/war_profiteers" target="”_blank”">War Profiteers' News</a>. A special effort is made with this newsletter to invite activists and researches in the area of war profiteering to write and share their work. This has provided a place for networking as they contribute to this newsletter. <em>2.1.2.2 Global Day of Action on Military Spending</em> WRI has been an active supporter of the <a href="”/node/21187" target="”_blank”">Global Day of Action on Military Spending</a> (GDAMS) initiative coordinated by the International Peace Bureau (IPB), which this year took place on 15 April. WRI helped to coordinate a Latin American <a href="”/node/21528" target="”_blank”">regional statement </a> and actions for GDAMS and drafted a statement in support of GDAMS on 15 April. As part of this work, we made the case of the importance of being against all military spending, not making distinction between “good” or “necessary” military spending and evil imperialist military spending. WRI promoted nonviolent actions as part of GDAMS, encouraging people to make the links between militarism and the economy and to say no to corporate militarism. As part of the coordination work for GDAMS, Javier Gárate, for a second year, was part of the International Steering Committee of GDAMS 2013. WRI will continue to support this important initiative that brings people together from around the world to say no to military spending. <strong>2.1.3. Fundraising</strong> The Nonviolence Programme has managed to raise funds for all the above projects of the programme, but not funding to contribute to general staff expenses, which continues to be the big challenge of the programme. With the new Fundraising Committee we have worked making grant applications for the NV Programme. As we write this report we have received the news that Lush Charity Pot has granted £5,000 towards general costs of the programme, which encourages us to believe that we can get more general funding for the programme. As ever, we invite the WRI network to think of ways to raise funds to make this a sustainable programme. <strong>Achievements</strong></p> <ul><li>The work at a regional level on nonviolence training has been a big success. This should set the foundation for future regional cooperation on nonviolence training.</li> </ul><p><strong>Challenges</strong></p> <ul><li>Securing regular funding for the programme continues to be the main challenge of the programme.</li> </ul><h3>2.2 Right to Refuse to Kill programme</h3> <p>Staff: Andreas Speck, replaced by Hannah Brock</p> <h2>2.2.1 General Work</h2> <p><em>2.2.1.1 Colombia</em> <a href="/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook"></a></p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="20a3b85d-c8b4-41e2-a12f-8d56e35010f3" title="Exploring the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns: meeting at Universidad Surcolombiana, Neiva, Colombia" class="align-right embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Manual%20para%20campanas%20noviolentas.home.jpg?itok=y9Zb6aCU 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Manual%20para%20campanas%20noviolentas.home.jpg?itok=y9Zb6aCU" alt="" title="Exploring the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns: meeting at Universidad Surcolombiana, Neiva, Colombia" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> Andreas and Hannah travelled to Colombia in November 2012, to refresh connections with many groups in involved in ANOOC <em>La Asamblea Nacional de Objetores y Objetoras de Conciencia</em> (ANOOC), and plan future work (find a trip report here: <a href="http://www.wri-irg.org/ColombiaTripReport2012">http://www.wri-irg.org/ColombiaTripReport2012</a>). Out of this visit came the relaunch of the carnet objetor/a. Local groups are now able to print their own versions for each new CO (see <em>batidas</em> section here). We are working with <em>Acción colectiva de objetores y objetoras de conciencia</em> (ACOOC) to hold a workshop in October 2013 in Bogotá that will train lawyers – and activists with an interest in law - on both national laws related to conscientious objection (both on <em>tutelas</em>, and a new law proposal, should it have been passed), and on international standards related to conscientious objection. It will also provide lawyers with an understanding of why people become conscientious and total objectors. WRI made a submission to the Colombian government on the new law proposal in March 2013. <em>2.2.1.2 Eastern Mediterranean network of COs</em> In July, a meeting was planned for activists from the Middle East, joining other campaigners from the Eastern Mediterranean region in Turkey. The event was to found a network of movements for conscientious objection in the region. Although this event had to be postponed, other options for holding the event late 2013 or early 2014 are already underway, probably in a different location. Activists from the CO Platform for Peace and other groups in Turkey are working on this, along with the <em>Initiative for Conscientious Objection in Cyprus</em>, the <em>Association of Greek COs</em>, the <em>Jenin Creative and Cultural Centre</em> (Palestine), <em>New Profile</em> (Israel), <em>No to Compulsory Military Service</em> (Egypt) and others. <em>2.2.1.3 Greece</em> Persecution of COs in Greece has sharply increased in 2013. We have been keeping in close contact with COs in Greece, particularly through the <em>Association for Greek Conscientious Objectors</em>, and raising awareness of their situation, including an article in The Broken Rifle, and a statement alongside the <em>European Bureau for Conscientious Objection</em> and <em>Amnesty International</em> in Greece. Their ‘Open letter’ (a call for international support) was distributed by the office on 11th July. <em>2.2.1.4 Events</em> We made use of social media to promote Prisoners for Peace Day on 1st December, and International Conscientious Objectors Day on 15th May. For some years, a focus country was highlighted on 15th May. However in recent years, activities of groups around the world for International COs Day have been shared, and staff alongside the Right to Refuse to Kill committee have not prioritised initiating actions on 15th May. <em>2.2.1.5 International institutions</em> WRI responded to a request for information from the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on conscientious objection to military service, towards a quadrennial analytical report on conscientious objection to military service that will presented to the Human Rights Council. You can read our submission <a href="”/node/21272" target="”_blank”">here</a>. 2.2.1.6 Publications and media See 4.6.1.4 and 4.6.1.5 for further information on CO-Updates and CO-Alerts produced by the RRTKCOM. We received some press attention, primarily in Britain, around Prisoners for Peace Day and International Conscientious Objectors Day. Hannah also gave an interview to Radio Libertaire on conscientious objection in Turkmenistan, dubbed into Turkmen. Requests for comment on conscientious objection in the run up to the 1914-1918 anniversary are already coming in. <strong>2.2.2 A Conscientious Objector’s Guide to International Human Rights System</strong> This guide to the international human rights system for COs was compiled by Andreas Speck, who completed it in December 2012. The Centre for Civil and Political Rights, Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and Conscience and Peace Tax International partnered with us to bring this project to fruition. Funded by the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, the guide had been delayed from its original launch deadline, but was finally launched in May 2013 as a side-event to the Human Rights Council in Geneva. You can find it at <a href="http://co-guide.info/">http://co-guide.info/</a>. The guide is available in Spanish and English. We are grateful to Carlos Barranco for his prompt and high-quality translation work, and Geneva Quakers for their funding of this translation, and to Netuxo for developing such an accessible website. We hope that it will have a lasting impact on CO movements, and their ability to utilise international mechanisms. <strong>2.2.3. Countering the Militarisation of Youth</strong> The Countering the Militarisation of Youth project has been the focus of the one-year Quaker Peace and Social Witness (QPSW) Peaceworker Owen Everett, working 2.5 days/week. Around November 2012 it was decided that the documentation of the June conference in Darmstadt should be a book of articles by various people in the WRI network, based on the themes of the conference but of interest to those who didn't attend. The book will be published in English in June, and German and Spanish editions will follow in September. It will include extracts from transcripts of interviews filmed at Darmstadt, and findings from a survey begun at Darmstadt. A film of selected sections of the video interviews is being made by Oskar Castro, and the full survey data, along with extensive analysis of it, has been uploaded onto the WRI website: wri-irg.org/surveydata. A smaller piece of work has been the coordinating of an International Day of Action for Military-Free Education and Research, which took place on 14 June. This was inspired by a week of action on this theme in Germany in September 2012, and is a warm-up for a week of international action in 2014. Groups, organisations, and individuals from at least seven different countries will be taking part, and their actions will be documented on the WRI website and the website of the German network. <a href=""></a></p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_1_3&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="1c687a3e-9890-4782-b9a4-4d44958dd338" title="Owen with Sowing Seeds" class="align-right embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_325x325/public/SowingSeedsAndOwen.home.jpg?itok=mDW--oHR 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/medium/public/SowingSeedsAndOwen.home.jpg?itok=USwoE_qN" alt="" title="Owen with Sowing Seeds" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> After the English version of the book, called <a href="”/SowingSeeds" target="”_blank”">Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It</a>, has been published, for his remaining three months of his placement, Owen will focus on setting up a website which will act as a way of documenting the militarisation of young people around the world in its different forms. It will also contain a bank of visual, audio, and literary resources that highlight and challenge this. People will be able to submit content to the website via the moderator. This website will enable the WRI network to drive the project by indicating what the priorities should be. <strong>2.2.4 RRTK programme committee</strong> The Right to Refuse to Kill programme committee continues to be in regular contact. Their work has been particularly critical over the staff changeover period, providing Hannah and Owen with much-needed expertise and support (both moral and professional). We met in person Bedia after the Bilbao Council meeting in September. Since than we have held monthly conference calls, and are in regular email contact. Milena Romera, of Acción colectiva de objetores y objetoras de conciencia (ACOOC) in Bogota, was invited to join the committee, and did so in April 2013. The committee therefore now consists of Rachel Brett (<em>Quaker United Nations Office</em>, Geneva), Adriana Patricia Castano Roman (<em>Red Juvenil de Medellin</em>, now living in Venezuela), Boro Kitanoski (Peace Action, Macedonia), Oskar Castro (<em>War Resisters' League</em>, USA), Milena Romera (ACOOC, Colombia), Igor Seke (from Serbia, now living in Mexico), with Sergeiy Sandler (<em>New Profile</em>, Israel) convening the committee, and Hannah and Owen from staff. Our next partly physical meeting is planned for Colombia in October 2013, when at least four of us will be together in Bogota, and others joining online. We are glad to connect our meeting to another event, thus reducing both the expense and environmental impact. <strong>2.2.5 Evaluation</strong> <strong>Achievements</strong></p> <ul><li>The launch of the CO Guide, which required quite intensive work and will now prove an invaluable resource for COs across the world. It can also be used to promote understanding of CO issues (and punishment) to states and human rights organisations.</li> <li></li> <li>Continuing focus on countering the militarisation of youth, maintaining momentum started from the Darmstadt conference in June 2012, including the publication of <a href="”/SowingSeeds" target="”_blank”">Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It</a>.</li> </ul><p><strong>Challenges</strong></p> <ul><li>The staff changeover inevitably reduced the capacity of the programme for some months, as the handover was a focus from September – December 2012, followed by a period of learning and adjustment.</li> </ul><h2>3. WRI in the Regions</h2> <p>This chapter is on WRI’s affiliates in the various regions, and networking WRI is undertaking.</p> <h3>3.1 Africa</h3> <p>Nonviolence resistance is as alive as ever in Africa, and WRI members in Africa as well as the Diaspora are part of this liveliness, as was reflected in the successes in 2012 of the African Nonviolence Training Exchange held in 2012 in Johannesburg, and the formation of an African Nonviolence and Peacebuilding Network - as reported in the last annual report. This past year the main work has been on the upcoming WRI International Conference, “Small Actions Big Movements: The Continuum of Nonviolence”, to take place in Cape Town, South Africa in July 2014. In South Africa there is an organising committee formed by Laura Pollecut, Sipho Theys, Terry Crawford Browne, Nozizwe Madlala and Jeremy Routledge. This committee has already done a lot of work preparing the conference and will be WRI main host for the Cape Town conference. The committee has met several times and will be instrumental in the success of the Cape Town Conference. The African Network has functioned mostly through its email list, where members post about their activities as well as sharing ideas for the Cape Town conference. Plans are for an African Nonviolence and Peacebuilding Network meeting to take place during the 2014 conference, where decisions will be made about future projects for the network. There are also network activities being planned in the build-up to the conference. WRI Africa Working Group and Africa Network members Elavie Ndura and Matt Meyer took part in the re-building of the Africa Peace Research Association (AFPREA), both at meetings in Japan and at subsequent on-line forums, with new bases of that network in Nigeria (and co-coordination of the International Peace Research Association in Sierra Leone). Conversations with the leadership of both those bodies have led to preliminary agreement that ARPREA will participate in and help publicize our July 2014, and be involved in on-going collaboration with the Africa Network. As part of the whole Cape Town 2014 process, WRI has featured several articles on African struggles in the different WRI newsletters, sharing with the WRI network some of the themes that will be central to the conference. This will continue and intensify in the coming year. In addition, WRI has been in contact with several key web magazines about covering and providing information about the conference and related themes and initiatives. Several Africa Working Group members have been involved in publishing articles and preparing books on aspects of nonviolence in Africa, including analysis of the so-called Arab Spring.</p> <h3>3.2 Europe</h3> <p>The last "official" meeting of the European Antimilitarist Network took place more than a year ago as part of the NATO Game Over action in Brussels in 2012. However, the European Training Exchange held in Ieper, Belgium was an initiative of WRI and WRI's Belgian member, Vredesactie and in cooperation with other groups who are members of the European Antimilitarist Network. Throughout the work of the European Antimilitarist Network, which has carried out nonviolent direct actions against NATO, military intervention and infrastructure, nonviolence trainings has always been part of the action planning. Having a meeting focusing on training was a next step on the work of this network, which continues to plan future joint action and other forms of cooperation. </p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="eeb3583d-9cde-40fa-b184-e2296194f087" title="Castellano-speaking affinity group blockade as part of the Burghfield Disarmament camp, 2nd September 2013" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Burghfield.home.jpg?itok=ymm_qalg 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Burghfield.home.jpg?itok=ymm_qalg" alt="" title="Castellano-speaking affinity group blockade as part of the Burghfield Disarmament camp, 2nd September 2013" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> The next network international action will be in August and September, when members of the network will meet in Burghfield, Britain, to take part in a Trident Ploughshares international disarmament camp. The camp will take place over a fortnight, and September 2nd is the international day of action. We will be using the 'War Starts Here' slogan, and the pink theme. The day after the action will see an informal meeting of the European network. The camp is part of the Action AWE campaign that is acting to halt nuclear weapons production at the Atomic Weapons Establishment factories at Aldermaston and Burghfield, Berkshire, Britain. Under the name “War starts here” there was an action camp from the 12th to 19th of September 2012 in Germany, protesting against a military training site. In 2013, there has been a second camp in July 2013. Read more under: <a href="http://www.warstartsherecamp.org/en/">http://www.warstartsherecamp.org/en/</a></p> <h3>3. 3 Latin America</h3> <p>The Latin America network continues to primarily be a space for sharing information between antimilitarist groups in the region. Conscientious objection to military service, which historically was the struggle that brought the network together, is now is less of a focus for antimilitarists, as they look at other forms that militarism is present in the region, for example the relation between corporations exploiting natural resources and the militarization of local communities. The situation in Paraguay, post parliamentary coup and the massacre of Curuguaty, continued to be one of the main topics shared within the network. Pelao Carvallo, who is a member of Articulación Curuguaty has kept the network informed on the events in Paraguay. A statement in support of nonviolence resistance in Paraguay was drafted at the last WRI Council meeting in Bilbao, which had the presence of Pelao Carvallo, Rafael Uzcátegui, Lexys Rendón and Igor Seke – all members of the network. The events in Venezuela: the re-election of Hugo Chavez, his death, and subsequent election of Nicolás Maduro, were of permanent discussion within the network, where different positions about the situation in Venezuela were expressed. WRI's Executive Committee sent out a statement in support of Venezuelan human rights organisation, PROVEA, which was attacked by the government after the election of Nicolás Maduro. In 2011, PROVEA hosted a WRI delegation to Venezuela. As part of the activities of the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, the Latin American network came out with a statement signed and shared widely. ACOOC in Bogotá, Colombia, prepared a street action concept for the Global Day of Action, about choosing were to spend public funding instead of the military. ACOOC were also the host organisation of the international conference: War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns. There are plans to hold a training for trainers in nonviolent action in November (2013) in Quito, Ecuador, where we will also have a regional network meeting.</p> <h3>3. 4 Middle East</h3> <p>WRI affiliate New Profile (Israel) and No to Compulsory Military Service (Egypt) – who will make their affiliation application to WRI at 2013's eCouncil - put out a joint statement: 'Freedom to Conscientious Objectors in the Middle East'. The statement confirms their 'support of peace and of conscientious objectors in both countries, re-affirming the human right to freedom of conscience, faith and self-determination.' It condemns 'the way both...governments treat conscientious objectors: Natan Blanc, Emad El Dafrawi and Mohammed Fathy.' See also 2.2.1.2 Eastern Mediterranean network of COs, for information on a postponed event for conscientious objectors in the Eastern Mediterranean region.</p> <h3>3.5 Asia</h3> <p>WRI doesn't have an Asian regional network, but this doesn't mean that there isn't work and cooperation with Asian groups. In the last year there was a lot of collaboration with World Without War (WWW) in South Korea. As mentioned in the NV Programme section, WRI led a nonviolence training for trainers in South Korea hosted by WWW. As part of WWW work on nonviolence they are coordinating a groups of trainers, which meet regularly and they are in the process of publishing WRI's Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns. WWW have been very active in the resistance to the construction of the Naval Military Base on Jeju Island. In this they have taken on targeting Samsung who are the main contractors of the base. WWW had done nonviolent direct actions against Samsung. Many have been reported in War Profiteers' News. This year we also welcomed Rosa Moiwend from West Papua as a WRI individual member. For a period of time she was living in London doing West Papua solidarity work and she regularly visited the office. She even joined us in our protest against HMRC against paying tax for wars. Rosa has represented WRI at several events related with the West Papua struggle. Subhash Khattel from Nepal, who we met at the 2010 India conference, took on translating and publishing WRI's handbook into Nepali and also participated in the New Tactics online conversation. Communication continues with our friends at Mozda who hosted the 2010 India conference, who continue to share information of their several nonviolent struggles including the resistance to a nuclear power station. Even though there is not a regional network, all these different cooperation show that there is the potential of working toward more regional cooperation on nonviolent and antimilitarist work.</p> <h3>3.6 Australia and Oceania</h3> <p>WRI has an affiliate in Australia and in Papua New Guinea and contacts to some other activists through conferences.</p> <h2>4. WRI Internal</h2> <p>This section describes the various activities of the WRI as a network or organisation – the work of the International Council, of the Executive, Working Groups, and reports on the office, publications and statements.</p> <h3>4.1 Council 2012</h3> <p>WRI's International Council meeting for 2012 was held on 15-17 September 2012 in Bilbao. It was a relatively small meeting (with about 25 participants, mostly from Europe and the Americas), which was organized in the last moment by WRI Treasurer, Dominique Saillard, with help from our local affiliate, KEM-MOC, instead of the meeting we planned originally in Medellín, Colombia for the same dates. The cancellation of the Medellín meeting was discussed in our previous report, and, of course, at the Bilbao Council meeting itself. Because of the limited time and especially the limited money we could spend on preparing the event, this was our first physical Council meeting in many years that did not have some sort of seminar attached to it. The Council meeting welcomed two new affiliates into the International--Centre Delàs, based in Barcelona, joined as a section and the Turkish feminist collective Amargi joined as an associate organisation. The Council also elected Christine Schweitzer to replace Hilal Demir, who stepped down from WRI's Executive Committee. In a less formal capacity, the committee working on organizing the next WRI International Conference in Cape Town, South Africa, had some new members join it at the Council meeting, and an entirely new committee--the fundraising committee--was established (and has been working regularly since). A special discussion we held on the situation in Paraguay around and following the recent massacre and coup there led to a statement that the Council drafted and WRI issued at the end of the meeting. Apart from this, and the customary review of WRI office programme work and regional networking, the centrepiece of the Council meeting was an extended vision exercise--WRI in 2022--which we conducted. It was the first time in a relatively long while that the WRI Council took some time to examine and discuss our plans and vision for the medium and long term. After taking time to imagine the conditions--external and organisational--in which we may find ourselves working in ten years' time, we split into small groups (using a "World Café" format) to discuss and raise practical suggestions on WRI's office and network structure, WRI visibility, WRI's fundraising and activism more generally. A detailed summary of these discussions can be found in the minutes of the Council meeting.</p> <h3>4.2 Council 2013</h3> <p>The Council 2012 agreed that--with the International Conference in Cape Town on the horizon--the 2013 Council meeting should tax as little resources (staff time and money) as possible. A proposal from WRI's affiliates in Finland was provisionally accepted, pending final approval by the Executive Committee. Eventually, funding we had hoped to get for the event could not be secured on time. After a lot of work by our Finnish affiliate, the <em>Union of Conscientious Objectors</em>, the Union and the WRI Executive made jointly the sad decision that we were in no position to have a Council in Finland., and the Exec opted for the fall-back option--an electronic Council meeting. WRI will – for the third time in the last ten years – hold an electronic Council. This Council is scheduled for the 20th to 30th of September, 2013. This time , we are experimenting with more interactive virtual tools, using videos, webinars, and conference call, in order to make this eCouncil as interesting and participatory as possible.</p> <h3>4.3 Preparation for International Conference in Capetown 2014</h3> <p>The WRI International Conference (and related meetings) will take place in Cape Town, 2-11 July 2014, co-hosted by our South African affiliate Ceasefire. The thematic conference - 'Small actions, Big movements: the continuum of nonviolence' - will be 4-8 July, beginning with a public plenary session opened by Desmond Tutu, with Jenni Williams of WOZA and Sahar Vardi of New Profile. The thematic conference will be preceded by a meeting of the outgoing WRI Council (on 2 July) and also of the WRI Assembly on 3 July, both coinciding with a global consultation on gender and militarism initiated by the Women's Peacemakers Program. A second day of the Assembly will follow the thematic conference on 10 July, and the incoming Council will have its first meeting on 11 July. Politically, this conference will be judged according to its contribution towards making WRI a more global network, especially improving our links in Africa. Therefore we are asking affiliates to contact any partners they have in Africa, encouraging them to attend. Financially, the conference cannot depend only on central fund-raising from the office and the fund-raising group. The Cape Town City Council has granted us use of the City Hall with no charge, and with considerable local help we are </p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="150ea644-b887-4f36-bf2e-cc774106b1b5" title="African Nonviolence Training Exchange, Johannesburg, July 2012" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/AfricanPic.home.jpg?itok=56lYlGnY 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/AfricanPic.home.jpg?itok=56lYlGnY" alt="" title="African Nonviolence Training Exchange, Johannesburg, July 2012" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> doing what we can to minimise other costs. However, we need to achieve the same proportion of paying participants as we managed in Ahmedabad 2010. So we urge affiliates to note the doubts, to support the participation of their own members, and to consider solidarity funding for activists they support in other countries. To follow progress in preparing the conference, go to: <a href="https://www.wri-irg.org/southafrica2014">https://www.wri-irg.org/southafrica2014</a> <strong>Challenges:</strong></p> <ul><li>SA2014 aims to be part of a process of strengthening antimilitarism and nonviolence in Africa, and linking this with WRI. So far, however, our efforts have been mainly geared towards the conference.</li> <li></li> <li>In ways rather new to the WRI network, we want to share what happens at the conference with people not able to be physically present - for instance, through social media and video clips. Fund-raising: at the time of writing we have a year to go but no significant funding in place.</li> </ul><p><strong>4.4 Executive</strong> Following Hilal Demir's resignation from the Executive during 2012, the Council meeting in Bilbao agreed to co-opt Christine Schweitzer who represents the Institut für Friedensarbeit und Gewaltfreie Konfliktaustragung (Institute for Peace Work and Nonviolent Conflict Transformation - IFGK) in the Council. Subsequently, the Executive has met twice in London (in December and March) and in July 13 in Spain, and has had several conference calls. The Exec sub-committee on Personnel matters consisted until July 2013 of Dominique and Sergeiy; currently a new member from outside the Exec and replacing Dominique is being sought. The Exec has produced statements in support of Nazlie Bala, a Kosovar human rights worker threatened and then physically beaten for advocating the inclusion of those raped in the law honouring those who suffered in the Kosova war, and in support of the Venezuelan human rights group PROVEA after they were insulted by a government minister following the election. A major theme of Executive meetings, following up the Council vision exercise, has been raising WRI's visibility. <strong>Challenges:</strong></p> <ul><li>Hilal's resignation highlighted the issue that the constitutional change removing Council's power to co-opt could cause problems when the Executive loses a member mid-term.</li> <li>Airfares have been too expensive to permit full participation in every meeting. While Exec meetings have now begun to include phone participation on specific items, we hope (and need) to make further progress on this.</li> </ul><h3>4.5 Working Groups</h3> <p><strong>4.5.1 Women Working Group</strong> Although several women met at the Lulea Council meeting in 2011, no advance has been made since then to revive the Women´s Working Group. This is not to say that gender issues have been kept off the WRI agenda. One proof of it is the strong commitment of several ‘historic’ members of the Women´s Working Group in order to produce the Women COs Anthology in English and Spanish (see 4.6.3. below). The preparation of the upcoming International Conference in South Africa certainly would be a very good opportunity to re-organise the WWG and organise it´s input into the programme and celebration of the event <strong>4.5.2 Queer Working Group</strong> The WRI queer working group was created during the WRI Council in Luleå, Sweden in July 2011 out of a need, and with aims, to queer the antimilitarist struggle, to create space for queer people in WRI, to use queer theory and practice to understand and to struggle against militarism, and also with the aim to demilitarize the LGBTQ movement and work against pinkwashing. More specifically, this first meeting of the working group identified some specific aims of the group and things to work with: to develop nonviolence training with queer perspective (for example work with gender out of other than traditional binary gender models); to make an edition of The Broken Rifle on queer issue raising awareness of how queer and antimilitarism are connected; to share experiences; to get inspiration and to learn from each other how to connect queer and antimilitarist struggle in the different contexts where we live and work. Through the email list that was created we started sharing some articles and experiences. In the summer of 2012 The Broken Rifle queer issue was made including stories of everything from situation of LGBTQ people in the antimilitarists movements around the world to critiques of LGBTQ movement efforts to repeal Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, to how queer and antimilitarist struggles are connected and why antimilitarism needs queer. During a training for trainers in Belgium organized by Vredesactie in November 2012 participants discussed how to create queer nonviolence trainings and how to work with anti-oppression in nonviolence trainings and this will hopefully be the focus for one of the following trainings.</p> <h3>4.6 Publications</h3> <p>All our email-based publications can be viewed on our website. You can subscribe to receive them to your inbox <a href="//lists.wri-irg.org/sympa/?action=set_lang&amp;lang=en" target="”_blank”">here</a>. <strong>4.6.1 Paper and Email Series Publications</strong> </p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_1_3&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="5e6780ff-ec3c-4a8b-ac95-379a0fa5bb6b" title="Standing Up To Repression, TBR 94" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_325x325/public/FrontOfTBR.home.gif?itok=O_JUs5r- 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/medium/public/FrontOfTBR.home.gif?itok=3qhT55hG" alt="" title="Standing Up To Repression, TBR 94" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> <em>4.6.1.1 The Broken Rifle</em> The Broken Rifle continues to be WRI's quarterly newsletter, with most issues published in English Spanish, German and French. Since August 2012, the following issues have been published:</p> <ul><ul><li><a href="”/epublish/21/527" target="”_blank”">Conscientious objection: today and tomorrow</a>, May 2013</li> <li><a href="”/epublish/21/515" target="”_blank”">Nonviolent strategies for social change</a>, March 2013, see )</li> <li><a href="”/pubs/br94-en.htm" target="”_blank”">Standing up to repression</a>, December 2012</li> <li><a href="”/pubs/br93-en.htm" target="”_blank”">Queer and antimilitarism</a>, August 2012, see )</li> </ul></ul><p><em>4.6.1.2 wri-info</em></p> <ul><ul>The email-newsletter wri-info is published as needed – usually for WRI statements and announcements. It is also used to distribute War Resisters' Stories.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.1.3 War Resisters' Stories</em></p> <ul><ul>This new monthly eNewsletter was launched in February 2013. Each month it contains five stories, both from the office and from affiliates. It is designed to give people highlights from recent events, as well as direct them towards upcoming events, in a brief and engaging way.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.1.4 CO-Update</em></p> <ul><ul>The CO-Update, produced in English, is the eNewsletter of the Right to Refuse to Kill programme. Since summer 2012 it has been produced bimonthly. It contains updates on conscientious objection and conscription around the world, as well as news of RRTK activity.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.1.5 CO-Alert</em></p> <ul><ul>WRI launched its email based co-alert system in July 2001. Although there had been a system for urgent actions before, this was the first time the email list co-alert has been used. Since then, hundreds of CO-Alerts have been distributed. The CO-Alert system has been integrated into WRI's conscientious objection database, and is now managed entirely through the WRI website. CO-alert is an English only email list, although some alerts are also available in other languages on the WRI website.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.1.6 warprofiteers-news</em></p> <ul><ul>The email newsletter War Profiteers News is published bimonthly in English and Spanish. It has been an important tool to provide information on matters related to war profiteering to a wide range of groups and activists, and facilitates networking of groups working on war profiteers.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.2 Social media</em></p> <ul><ul>This year, we have made a greater effort to engage with people on social media, and use it more consistently. This has meant an increase in our social media following. We have also expanded into open source social media. This helps us reach more people, but is also a political choice for us to support non-corporately owned forms of social communication on the internet. We post regularly in English and Spanish, and in other languages whenever possible.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.2.1 Facebook</em></p> <ul><ul>Find us here: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-Resisters-International/116749965016853">http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-Resisters-International/1167499650168…</a>. We now have over 1700 followers.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.2.2 Causes</em></p> <ul><ul>Find us on Causes here: <a href="http://www.causes.com/warresisters">http://www.causes.com/warresisters</a>. We have over 4300 followers, and often uses Causes to promote our newsletters and encourage people to take action through CO-Alerts.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.2.3 Twitter</em></p> <ul><ul>You can find WRI at <a href="https://twitter.com/warresistersint">https://twitter.com/warresistersint</a>. Our following has grown ten fold in the last year.</ul></ul><p><em>4.6.2.4 Identi.ca</em></p> <ul><ul>Identi.ca is an open source microblogging service. Find us at <a href="http://identi.ca/wri">http://identi.ca/wri</a></ul></ul><p><em>4.6.2.5 Diaspora</em></p> <ul><ul>A distributed social networking service. Find us at <a href="https://joindiaspora.com/u/warresistersinternational">https://joindiaspora.com/u/warresistersinternational</a></ul></ul><p><strong>4.6.3 Books</strong></p> <ul><ul>WRI has published two books this year.</ul></ul><p><a href="”/pubs/objetoras-antologia" target="”_blank”"><em>Objetoras de Conciencia – Antología</em></a></p> <ul><ul>– a Spanish-language version of</ul></ul><p><a href="”/pubs/WomenCOs" target="”_blank”">Women Conscientious Objectors - An Anthology</a></p> <ul><ul>, was published in January 2013. It was translated by Michelle Renyé, and is also available online (<a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/objetoras-antologia">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/objetoras-antologia</a>) and is for sale. In June 2013</ul></ul><p><a href="”/SowingSeeds" target="”_blank”">Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It</a></p> <ul><ul>was launched at Housmans bookshop, London. The book was compiled by Quaker Peace and Social Witness Peaceworker Owen Everett, and contains surveys on militarisation of youth across the world, excerpts from interviews and articles on particular aspects on militarisation of youth. It is available at our webshop here: wri-irg.org/SowingSeeds. Sale of books: in spring 2013 WRI held a booksale, focusing on</ul></ul><p><a href="”/node/8413" target="”_blank”">War is a Crime against Humanity: The Story of The War Resisters' International</a></p> <ul><ul>by Devi Prasad,</ul></ul><p><a href="”/node/8422" target="”_blank”">Nonviolent Struggle and Social Defence</a></p> <ul><ul>by Brian Martin and</ul></ul><p><a href="”/node/8423" target="”_blank”">Opening doors to peace. A memorial to Myrtle Solomon</a></p> <ul><ul>edited by Mitzi Bales. This has some moderate success, but we still have many copies available.</ul></ul><p><strong>Achievements:</strong></p> <ul><ul><ul><li>Regular high-quality content through The Broken Rifle, War Profiteers News and the CO-Update – often in three languages.</li> <li>Substantial increase in our social media following.</li> <li>Utilising open source social media.</li> </ul></ul></ul><p><strong>Challenges:</strong></p> <ul><ul><ul><li>As ever, we struggle to find translators to assist with our newsletters and online content. We are extremely grateful for all the work of our volunteer translators, and are aware how much work they do for us.</li> <li>Although most of our newsletters and publications are published in Spanish and often German as well, there is often a delay between publication in English and publication in German and Spanish.</li> <li>We have greatly increased our social media following, and we now need to convert these outreach opportunities to action i.e. response to CO-Alerts, sharing our online content, or donating to WRI's work.</li> </ul></ul></ul><h3>4.7 Statements, Press Releases</h3> <ul><ul>Since August 2012, War Resisters' International has released eight statements, mostly in support of antimilitarist activists around the world. They are all available online, and many have also been distributed as press releases to relevant media outlets. From the most recent, they are: <ul><li><a href="”/node/21660" target="”_blank”">WRI supports Venezuelan Human Rights organisation PROVEA</a> 23 April 2013</li> <li><a href="”/node/21564" target="”_blank”">Stop making a killing from war: #demilitarize now: WRI statement on the Global Day of Action on Military Spending</a> 15 April 2013</li> <li><a href="”/NazlieBala" target="”_blank”">WRI condemns 'shameful' attacks on Nazlie Bala in Kosovo</a> 05 April 2013</li> <li><a href="”/NikosKaranikas" target="”_blank”">Joint Public Statement - Greece: When will conscientious objectors stop being persecuted?</a> 07 March 2013</li> <li><a href="”/PinarSelek" target="”_blank”">War Resisters' International condemns Pinar Selek's life sentence</a> 14 February 2013</li> <li><a href="”/node/21053" target="”_blank”">War taxes paid under protest</a> 16 January 2013</li> <li><a href="”/ParaguayStatement" target="”_blank”">Resistance and Nonviolence to the coup d'etat in Paraguay</a> 25 September 2012</li> <li><a href="”/node/20291" target="”_blank”">War Resisters' International Executive statement on the harassment of Gays and Lesbians of Zimbabwe (GALZ)</a> 28 August 2012</li> </ul></ul></ul><h3>4.8 Office</h3> <ul><ul>The office in London is the node in the network where all the different activities come together, are communicated, coordinated, planned and fundraised for.</ul></ul><p><strong>4.8.1 Staff</strong></p> <ul><ul>As we already noted in last year's report, this year was a year of significant change in the WRI office, as Andreas Speck, who has been WRI's Right to Refuse to Kill programme worker for over a decade, and who has in many ways shaped the programme and the WRI office in general over that time, decided to move on, and left the WRI office at the end of 2012. After reviewing more than 80 applications —many from truly excellent candidates — the selection committee chose Hannah Brock to be the new RRtK programme worker. Hannah joined the office in early September 2012, just in time for our Council meeting in Bilbao, which she attended, and worked alongside Andreas for a handover period until the end of the year (this is also a good opportunity to thank the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust, which funds our RRtK programme, for agreeing to fund the extra salary costs for the extended handover period). Since January 2013, Hannah is in charge of the RRtK programme on her own and — as you no doubt noticed — is doing a great job. The Nonviolence programme, for all this time, has continued to be staffed by Javier Gárate, who is also doing a great job. Both staff members, together with our peaceworker and interns we have at the office from time to time, hold regular staff meetings, the minutes of which are sent to the Executive Committee.</ul></ul><p><strong>4.8.2 Interns and Volunteers</strong></p> <ul><ul>WRI wouldn't be WRI without our volunteers and interns that work so hard for the organisation. For the past year, we have been extremely lucky to have Owen Everett as a QPSW Peaceworker. Owen primarily work has been on Countering the Militarisation of Youth. His main project has been editing the book</ul></ul><p><a href="”/SowingSeeds" target="”_blank”">Sowing Seeds: The Militarisation of Youth and How to Counter It</a></p> <ul><ul>. He also worked on a survey following the 2012, Darmstadt conference on Countering the Militarisation of Youth and coordinated the International Day of Action on Countering the Militarisation of Youth on 14 June, as well as many other office related tasks. The big news, is that after more than 25 years, Martyn Lowe will no longer be a regular volunteer at WRI. This is because he is moving to live in Liverpool. However he said that he will come down to London to help with WRI appeal mail outs, which are twice a year. We wish him the best of luck in his new adventure and big thank you for all his years as volunteer at WRI. We would like to give a big thank you to all volunteer translators/interpreters that do a huge job helping us to have our materials in several languages, they are: Nayua Abdelkefi, Carlos Barranco, Pedro Ballesteros, Igor, Seke, Oscar Huenchunao, Matias Mulet, Laura Perez Poza, Demet Caltekin, Paul Rankin, Rebecca House, Ian MacDonald, Inge Dreger, Gerd Buentzly, Achim Schmitz, Christine Schweitzer, Richard Meakin, Rene Burget, Tikiri, Marion List, Serge Vanden Berghe, Bastien Zara and Ed Neidhardt. For our May Appeal mail out we had the help of: Jess Metheringham, Jess Murray, Jenny McCarthy, Rob Johnson, Kim Edwards and Henry McLaughlin a big thank you to them too.</ul></ul><h2>5. Finances and Fundraising</h2> <ul><ul>Financially, 2012 was not a good year—once again, we might say. We were not able to mitigate our chronic deficit through any additional grant. And the results can clearly be seen on our 10-year evolution graph. However, we shall not treat this situation as a fatality. As you know, we have had to take difficult decisions, such as cancelling our 2013 presential Council meeting. And we of course keep an eagle eye on our day-to-day office and programme expenses. Of course, this type of cost-watching measures does have an important impact on all our political decisions, and unless we cut down on staff (which we consider would be an absolutely last-resort measure) there is no substantial savings we can make any more. On the more positive side, we can point out a few things: <ul><li>Since Andreas left the office, we have put our accounting work in the hands of Andy Hancock, a member of a cooperative which is also handling the bookkeeping of other peace organisations, like Peace News. Getting his advice and expertise has given us some peace of mind and is allowing us to make some adjustments to our daily financial routines.</li> <li>The financial support of the WRI network remains very insufficient, but we are pleased to see that we have been able to maintain a similar level to 2011, as the generalised cutting of public and/or private funding to NGOs has also affected some of our members in Europe.</li> <li>The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust has given us yet another tangible proof of its long-standing support to our Right to refuse to kill programme: this British Quaker Fund has topped its usual 4-year grant with a substantial increase in order to finance a 4-month overlap betteen the outgoing and incoming programme worker. This has allowed Hannah to benefit from an in-depth hand-over training from Andreas between September and December last year.</li> <li>Most importantly, we have been able to create a small fundraising working Group, which has started to bring fresh energy to Exec and staff. Let us thank here Frank Feiner, from PAIS and Henry McLaughlin, from the British Campain Against the Arms Trade, who are regular members of this Group, as well as Jan Ruyssenaars, who also advises us on specific issues.</li> </ul><p>Getting down now to strategy and the numerous issues we are trying to tackle to give WRI the medium to long-term stability it has to reach in order to maintain its political commitment: increasing funding through the WRI network is perhaps the hardest goals we have to reach, yet it would also be the most efficient one, providing us with a much higher financial autonomy and more political freedom. Another big issue is stopping and reverting the decline in individual donations, as well as encouraging our long-time supporters to think of WRI in their will, as you will have seen in our April appeal this year. On the fundraising side, one of our main priorities is the Nonviolence Programme and we are sending out a number of applications, with one first encouraging result: a GDP £5,000 grant from the British Lush Foundation. We still have a long ways to go to cover the programme’s cost, but this is a good sign for the future.</p></ul></ul><p><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --></p><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="29dde971-7500-44b7-8eee-0d526a591feb" title="" class="align-right embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Final%20results%20graph.home.jpg?itok=iSWeGE9w 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/Final%20results%20graph.home.jpg?itok=iSWeGE9w" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> <ul><ul>Our second big priority is the 2014 South Africa international conference. Although we have not yet secured any grant, we have received a very meaningful in-kind support from the Cape Town City Hall and are getting much encouragement from the strong organisational involvement of our South African Partners. Finally, let us mention that on the strategic side, our greatest challenge will be to evolve from a mostly event-based fundraising (from Council meetings to International conferences or seminars) to a much more integrated and process-oriented fundraising. All this will not be an easy task, and the WRI Executive and the Fundraising Working Group will regularly get in touch with the WRI network to put its financial planning into practice. We need our affiliates and individual donors to provide a significant boost to our efforts.</ul></ul><h2>6. Outlook to the coming year</h2> <ul>Organisationally, the coming year will undoubtedly be marked by the upcoming International Conference in Capetown, South Africa. It will be the first time for WRI to meet not only in South Africa, but on the African continent at all. Intensive networking is preceding the conference, and we hope to be able to use the occasion to build new links to groups in Africa as well as revive and strengthen the links to those groups that are already our affiliates. 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https://wri-irg.org/en/AnnualReport2012-2013?language=en#comments Office and Executive Report - July 2011 - August 2012 https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2012/office-and-executive-report-july-2011-august-2012?language=en <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--20346.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="20346" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * 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field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p>This report has been prepared by the staff and Executive Committee</p> <h2> 1. Introduction</h2> <p>Since July 2011 WRI has had a very impressive calendar of events - perhaps the highlights were the <a href="/node/13732">War Profiteering seminar</a> in Barcelona in October, the <a href="/programmes/militarisationofyouth">Countering the Militarisation of Youth</a> seminar in Germany in June, the <a href="/node/20175">African Nonviolence Training Exchange</a> in Johannesburg in July, as well as the vital work of mobilising support for <a href="/node/11403">Maikel Nabil Sanad</a>, an anti-militarist imprisoned by the post-'revolutionary' regime in Egypt.</p> <p>This calendar, however, has depended on a phenomenal effort from our talented and committed staff - Javier Gárate and Andreas Speck. Each of the events mentioned has attracted significant support from the WRI network and beyond, and they all really raise hopes for the future. </p> <p>And yet ... as always there is much more to do. In this report, we find next to nothing about Syria, and even where we have an active member of Council and the Executive - referring to Pelao Carvallo in Paraguay - we could not respond adequately to his pleas for support. </p> <p>In this report, we look at what WRI is doing well, and for the future we know we have to strengthen the base for this, and as well as offering more support to staff, we need to find effective ways to share responsibility more widely. </p> <p>We hope this report provides a good information base about WRI's current situation to help prepare the work at Council on what WRI can become in the future. </p> <h2>2. Staffed Programme</h2> <h3>2.1 Nonviolence Programme</h3> <p>Staff: Javier Gárate</p> <p>The NV Programme has two main areas of focus:</p> <ul><li>providing resources and training on nonviolence</li> <li>the initiative against war profiteers.</li> </ul><h3>2.1.1 Resources and training for nonviolent action</h3> <h3>2.1.1.1 Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</h3> <p>The <a href="/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook">Handbook</a> has now been reprinted in English, but even more importantly it continues to be translated into more languages. In the last year translations into Arabic, Korean, Tigrynia and Turkish have been completed, and are on the web. The Nepali, Russian, French, and German versions are nearing completion and should soon be online. </p> <h3>2.1.1.2 Nonviolence Training</h3> <p>The other area of the work is the promotion and coordination of nonviolence training. We feel that the best contribution WRI can make here is to organise nonviolence trainers exchanges, where trainers can meet and share experiences. Then trainers are poised to take back new information and resources to their local communities. In 2008, WRI organised an international nonviolence trainers exchange in Bilbao, with trainers from different regions. This recommended developing regional exchanges, where activists could focus on the specific contexts of each region. </p> <p>Following this recommendation, WRI in 2012 is organising a series of nonviolence trainers exchanges. The first took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 – 29 July, bringing together African trainers and peacemakers. For this exchange we have teamed up with the Ceasefire Campaign in South Africa, the African Women's Active Nonviolence Initiative for Social Change (AWANICh), Women Peacemaker Program of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR) and the Organization for Nonviolence and Development of South Sudan (ONAD). This event will also help us prepare for WRI's 2014 International Conference – formerly known as Triennial – to be held in South Africa. (see more under Regionalisation: Africa - 3.1)</p> <p>In Europe, we are cooperating with a number of groups committed to strengthening capacities in nonviolence training and in particular how to improve trainings directed at campaign strategies and movement-building. Therefore a European Training Exchange on Social Movement Building and Effective Strategies will take place in Belgium on 29 October-4 November 2012, co-organised by WRI, Vredesactie (Belgium), Turning the Tide (UK), Ofog (Sweden), European Youth in Action / EYFA (Germany) and AA-MOC Valencia (Spain).</p> <p>The plan is to also have a Latin American nonviolence training exchange in Caracas, Venezuela, in the near future. This would aim to form a regional network and to identify opportunities and needs in LA. </p> <p>The groundwork has been done to develop regional meetings for trainers to meet and share their experiences. Now we hope for fruitful results to help WRI in our work promoting nonviolent action. </p> <p>In the last year, we also helped with some specific trainings: the nonviolence training in preparation for the War Starts Here! Action in Lulea, Sweden and the NATO Game Over action in Brussels, Belgium. </p> <p>The Nonviolence Programme also received a request for a training for trainers from South Korean activists due to take place in October 2012. This should help Korean activists develop their own skills in nonviolence training, becoming less reliant on external trainers. </p> <p>A very useful event in April 2012 - an international symposium at Coventry University, England, on 'Nonviolent Movements and the Barrier of Fear' - was a symposium initiated by WRI chair Howard Clark and attended by Javier Gárate, plus Council members Stellan Vinthagen and Abraham Mehretab as well several other people with close WRI connections. This was organised by the newly formed Nonviolence Research Group of the Centre for Peace and Reconciliation Studies, Coventry University, with support from the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (Washington DC). This Research group is especially interested in the 'academic-activist interface' and is open to further cooperation with WRI. </p> <h3>2.1.2 Initiative Against War Profiteers</h3> <h3>2.1.2.1 War Profiteers and Peace Movement Responses</h3> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_full&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="9193cae2-ae64-48bd-8bd2-a860173830f1" title="" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/war%20profiteer.home.jpg?itok=4lwroSpm 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/war%20profiteer.home.jpg?itok=4lwroSpm" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> In 2011, the main project of the Initiative Against War Profiteers was the <a href="/node/13862">International Seminar: War Profiteers and Peace Movement Responses</a>, held in Barcelona and hosted by Centre Delas of Justicia i Pau. The co-organisers were WRI with ENAAT (European Network Against Arms Trade). In January 2010 at the WRI Conference 'Nonviolent Livelihood Struggle and Global Militarism: Links &amp; Strategies' in India, we connected the issue of war profiteering with nonviolent resistance but noted that something extra was needed to link groups working against war profiteering.<br /> With the enthusiasm generated by the Global Day of Action on Military Spending, and with fresh impetus from increased public consciousness of sleazy arms deals with autocrats facing the 'Arab Spring', and the severe cuts in social spending provoked by a financial crisis that has not brought 'deep cuts' in military spending, the time seemed ripe for a face-to-face meeting. Electronic communication can be very effective in building up dossiers, but functions better if people have met each other in person. Centre Delas from Barcelona, a member of ENAAT, agreed to host the event, especially if it could coincide with their traditional series of public meetings called Trobada. All these factors helped structure the seminar: during the day we had more “internal" work groups - with 50 participants from 17 countries - and the evening Trobada was open to the general public with up to 200 participants. </p> <p>A big challenge in organising international events is 'so what next?' Perhaps coordinated follow-up has been disappointing, but there are positives. The seminar brought people together from different networks, organisations, and parts of the world - a breakthrough for ENAAT. It both broadened and deepened perspectives, and brought out many ideas. In fostering a sense of community and collective action - that we are all part of a wider network of organisations working on the economic dimension of war and conflicts - it helped overcome feelings of isolation. Many ideas generated at the seminar will have to be pursued by individuals. WRI is committed to this work and will make sure that the seminar helps us move forward - that should be easier now that we know each other.<br /> Pictures of the seminar: /node/13815</p> <h3>2.1.2.2 War Profiteers' News</h3> <p>The Nonviolence Programme continues to produce the bi-monthly electronic newsletter War Profiteers' News. In the last year, the economic crisis and the role of banks have featured strongly, as well as scandalous deals with dictatorial regimes. WPN seeks to make connections between war profiteers and other movements, in particular the Occupy movement, where the connection to the global financial meltdown is so clear.<br /> WPN is at: /publications/war_profiteers</p> <h3>2.1.2.3 Global Day of Action on Military Spending</h3> <p>The Nonviolence Programme has strongly supported the <a href="http://demilitarize.org/">Global Day of Action on Military Spending</a>, a joint initiative of the International Peace Bureau (IPB) and International Policy Studies (IPS). Several articles were featured in WPN and a call-out to groups to encourage them to join the International Day of Action. Javier Gárate is a member of the international steering committee of the Global Day. The Day succeeded in bringing together many groups to fight against military spending. WRI will continue to support this initiative. </p> <h3>2.1.3 Fundraising</h3> <p>The Nonviolence Programmes has raised funds for these projects, but not for covering the staff costs on which they depend. It is urgent to find a funding source to support the staff costs of the programme. </p> <h3>Achievements</h3> <ul><li>The multiple translations of the Handbook</li> <li>The progress on nv training exchanges</li> <li>The seminar on war profiteering</li> </ul><h3>Challenges</h3> <ul><li>Securing funding for the staff costs</li> <li>Stronger focus for war profiteers seminar follow-up</li> </ul><h3>2.2 Right to Refuse to Kill programme</h3> <p>Staff: Andreas Speck</p> <h3>2.2.1 Right to Refuse to Kill</h3> <h3>2.2.1.1 Staff changes</h3> <p>In July 2011, Andreas Speck, RRTK worker since the programme's inception in May 2001, announced that he would leave the WRI office at the end of 2012. The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust kindly agreed to augment the programme funding to provide for a staff overlap from September through December 2012, and in June 2012 Hannah Brock was chosen as the new RRTK programme worker. She will begin on 10 September and will participate in the WRI Council in Bilbao and the subsequent RRTK Committee meeting.</p> <h3>2.2.1.2 Work</h3> <p>Due to increasing workload, the <a href="/pubs/co-update.htm">CO-Update newsletter</a> has been published less frequently, with 7 issues from June 2011 though May 2012. It remains an important resource on conscientious objection to military service and military recruitment.</p> <p><a href="/programmes/co_alerts">CO-alerts</a> focused a lot on the case of <a href="/node/11403">Maikel Nabil Sanad</a> from Egypt, who was imprisoned in February 2011 (charged with 'insulting the military') and went on hunger strike. Andreas made three visits to Egypt (one accompanied by Igor Seke of the RRTK committee) to provide support not only to Maikel (who he was not able to visit) but also to the local support group. The political situation in Egypt – which worsened after summer 2011 – did not help, and neither did the structural weaknesses of Maikel's support group. The WRI staff strongly questioned Maikel's course of action, but this was hard to discuss as his imprisonment prevented effective communication. Therefore, the support work for Maikel was politically and emotionally challenging. In January 2012, as a gesture on the anniversary of the occupation of Tahrir Square, Maikel was finally amnestied, along with many others. </p> <p>On 7 July 2011, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights gave its judgment in the case of Bayatyan v Armenia. The court finally recognised the right to conscientious objection (see /node/13271). As expected, several chambers of the court then followed up to with five more judgments (two on Armenia, three on Turkey), recognising the right to conscientious objection.</p> <p>In February 2012, Connection e.V. initiated a small meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, attended by Rudi Friedrich from Connection e.V., Rachel Brett from QUNO, Milena Bulum from Amnesty International, Andreas Speck from WRI, and several Turkish CO activists. Its objective was to improve coordination and to strengthen work for the right to conscientious objection in Turkey following the European Court Bayatyan judgment mentioned above, and the subsequent judgments Erçep v. Turkey, 22 November 2011, and Demirtaş v. Turkey, 17 January 2012. Follow-up work from this meeting is underway.</p> <p>In March 2012, Andreas travelled to South Korea to assist the Korean CO movement in developing strategy following the South Korean constitutional court's rejection of the right to CO.</p> <h3>2.2.2. A CO's Guide to the International Human Rights System</h3> <p>There have been delays in the plan to update the guide, originally written by Emily Miles. First because it required more research than expected. Second because of other demands on the RRTK programme. The publication is now scheduled for December 2012 (a nine-month delay). </p> <h3>2.2.3. Countering the Militarisation of Youth</h3> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_full&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="a3e495ab-7f17-4846-863e-e45ab23f5579" title="" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/militarisation%20of%20youth.home.jpg?itok=xbg7QBO9 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/militarisation%20of%20youth.home.jpg?itok=xbg7QBO9" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> The work on counter-recruitment has been expanded under the title “Countering the Militarisation of Youth”, and from 8-10 June 2012 the first major international conference took place in Darmstadt, Germany, with 65 participants from 14 countries. In preparation, a reader was put together (/militarisationofyouth/DarmstadtReader) plus an edition of The Broken Rifle (see /epublish/21/485).<br /> This conference was a major step forward in the development of WRI's work on countering the militarisation of youth, and in building new networks.<br /> One anticipated outcome is to produce a detailed document of the conference by the end of 2012.</p> <h3>2.2.4. RRTK programme committee</h3> <p>The first meeting of the RRTK programme committee (RRTKCOM) took place in July 2011 in Stockholm, prior to the Council 2011. The Committee consists of: Rachel Brett (QUNO), Adriana Patricia Castano Roman (Red Juvenil de Medellin), Boro Kitanoski (Peace Action, Macedonia), Oskar Castro (MFSO, WRL, USA), and Sergeiy Sandler as convener. The meeting was an important step in the formation of a functioning committee, although major challenges remain, among them language.<br /> Since then, the RRTKCOM has experimented with conference calls, with varying degrees of success, and had a small meeting in Frankfurt, following the Darmstadt conference. The meeting focused on the role and importance of the Committee during the staff transition period in autumn 2012.<br /> Igor Seke from Serbia, now living in Mexico, has now been invited to join the RRTKCOM. A physical meeting is planned for 18 September, after the Bilbao Council.</p> <h3>Achievements</h3> <ul><li>The Bayatyan judgment is a major juridical achievement, to which WRI contributed via a joint third party intervention.</li> <li>The conference in Darmstadt was a milestone for WRI's work on the militarisation of youth.</li> </ul><h3>Challenges</h3> <ul><li>The support for Maikel Nabil Sanad during his hunger strike posed several political challenges that warrant WRI-wide discussion.</li> <li>Balancing workload has been a major challenge in the last 12 months, as emergency responses and alerts pushed aside other long-term work. Staff workplans need to be sufficiently flexible to accommodate emergency response.</li> </ul><h2>3. Regionalisation</h2> <h3>3.1 Africa</h3> <p>The highlight has been the 26-29 July 2012 <a href="/node/20175">Africa Nonviolence Trainers Exchange</a> (see 2.1.2) which had participants from South Sudan, Rwanda, Egypt, Mozambique, the Democractic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Eritrea as well as South Africa itself. One immediate outcome is elist and blog on African Nonviolence and Peacebuilding.<br /> The exchange was followed by a preparatory meeting for the 2014 WRI conference, plus meetings with WRI contacts in Durban and Cape Town.<br /> In addition, Javier and Africa Working Group co-conveners Elavie Ndura and Matt Meyer participated in a three-day conference organised by the Gandhi Development Trust in Durban, “From the Roots to the Fruits: Nonviolence in Action.”<br /> Matt wrote a brief history of WRI and African nonviolence movements that was used as a funding appeal in May. (That appeal also unfurled Matt's new WRI volunteer position - WRI Africa Support Network Coordinator, emphasising our commitment to have the Working Group function primarily as a networking space for Africans, with non-Africans playing a support and solidarity role.)<br /> Elavie Ndura and Matt Meyer gave presentations at the [US] African Studies Association 2011 annual conference (along with International Center on Nonviolent Conflict colleague Stephen Zunes). </p> <h3>3.2 Europe</h3> <p>From summer 2009 to July 2011, a series of European Anti-Militarist network meetings received funding from the European Union's Grundtvig programme. This funding came to an end with the '<a href="http://warstartshere.com/en">War Starts Here</a>' camp in Luleå, Sweden in July 2011. As the Luleå meeting of the European Antimilitarist Network decided not to make a new funding application for this year, the Network entered a less active phase.</p> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_full&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="5d6df698-86f7-4e39-ac20-f5f96cab4e8a" title="" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- THEME DEBUG --><!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --><!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><p><img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/lulea2.home.jpg?itok=mvROcxLs 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/max_1300x1300/public/lulea2.home.jpg?itok=mvROcxLs" alt="" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /></p> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --><p> Despite the widespread support voiced for more 'War Starts Here' actions, the implementation has been slow. Apart from a small administrative meeting in Berlin in August 2011 (finalising the report on the Grundtvig funding), the European Antimilitarist Network did not meet between in Luleå in July 2011 and the <a href="http://www.vredesactie.be/item.php?id=313">NATO-Game over action</a> in Brussels, Belgium, in April 2012. This meeting in Belgium adjusted the network goals, agreed a platform (online at /network/euroantimilinet), and approved a call-out for 'War Starts Here' actions (/campaigns/warstartshere). Rather than create a new website for the network, it was agreed to use the existing websites of the groups in the network - War Resisters' Interna­tional, ofog - direkt aktion för Fred!, Sweden, Vredesactie/ Bombspotting, Belgium, Alternativa antimilitarista-moc, Spain, Deutsche Friedensgesellschaft-Vereinigte KriegsdienstgegnerInnen, Ger­many, Gewaltfreie Aktion Atom­waffen abschaffen, Germany, Aseistakieltäytyjäliitto, AKL – Finland, Trident Ploughshares, Britain, Gruppe für eine Schweiz ohne Armee, GSoA – Switzerland, and Bundeswehr Wegtreten, Germany. </p> <h3>Achievements</h3> <ul><li>Various joint activities since 2008 have brought groups together and built trust.</li> <li>From summer 2009 to summer 2011, European Union funding provided the network with resources, which allowed more participation in joint actions and meetings.</li> <li>A common slogan (War starts here) has been developed, which can be used for actions all over Europe (and beyond).</li> </ul><h3>Challenges</h3> <ul><li>It has not been possible to develop a common campaign, based on a common strategy. The network instead focuses on individual organizational events and at best joins each other's actions.</li> <li>Coordination of the network has depended a lot on Vredesactie and WRI (especially while a funded project had to be administered), whose capacities are limited.</li> <li>After initial enthusiasm, the network is now in need of re-energising or rethinking.</li> </ul><h3>3.2.1 No to NATO</h3> <p>Since 2008, WRI has been a member of the International Coordination Committee No to War – No to NATO (ICC). However, after the actions against the NATO summit in Strasbourg and Baden Baden in April 2009, the ICC became less relevant politically, and lacked transparency in decision-making. </p> <p>WRI was heavily involved in the actions against the NATO summit in Lisbon, Portugal, in November 2010, mostly in organising and supporting nonviolent direct action. </p> <p>Andreas Speck, representing WRI on the ICC, took part in an ICC organised anti-NATO meeting in Dublin in April 2011, together with An Maeyens from Vredesactie. The event was dominated by traditional leftists, illustrating the lack of appeal of the ICC both to a broader movement and to radical pacifists. </p> <p>For the 2012 NATO summit in Chicago, USA, the ICC tried to involve itself in preparing counter-activities but with little success. Two US networks against NATO organized the counter-summit events, without ICC involvement. WRI too had problems mobilising activists from Europe - in the end two members of ofog represented WRI in Chicago, joining with members of War Resisters League. </p> <p>In April 2012, the Executive decided that WRI should leave the ICC and "continue its anti-NATO work outside the ICC. We will always be open for co-operation and communication with the ICC, should the need and opportunity arise.”</p> <h3>3.3 Latin America</h3> <p>Since the last Annual Report, the work of the Latin America network has been carried out mostly through email communication on the irg-al list serve. Through this list, information about the work of the different organisations and affiliates is shared. One dominant issue recently has been the parliamentary coup d'etat in Paraguay. Executive and Council member, Pelao Carvallo, residing in Paraguay, has kept the network informed of what is happening in the country - from the Curuguaty massacre where 16 peasants were killed by police forces to the subsequent parliamentary coup d'etat. Thanks to Pelao, MOC-Paraguay and Serpaj-Paraguay the irg-al list has been kept well informed about the ongoing resistance to the coup. </p> <p>The resistance by indigenous people of Cauca in Colombia to military presence in their communities was also discussed via the list serve, with groups in Colombia sharing firsthand experiences. </p> <p>The network has also been sharing information - and contributing to War Profiteers News - about how multinational corporations profiteer from resource extraction, their local impact and links to militarism.</p> <p>Conscientious objection and military recruitment remains an important area of work, especially for groups in Colombia, where illegal recruitment continues. A law change in Paraguay has put CO back on the agenda: recognition of CO now depends on the decision of a committee. There are also plans to pass a law on professional soldiers. </p> <p>The Latin America network has been represented at several WRI events: Council members Adriana Castaño, Pelao Carvallo and Rafael Uzcategui, plus Sandra Isaza of Red Juvenil Medellin attended Council 2011 and gave presentations in the attached seminar. Lexys Rendón, of El Libertario in Venezuela, gave two presentations at the Barcelona seminar on war profiteering - one on Latin American military spending and the other about different projects extracting resources and their impact on local communities in the region. After the seminar, Lexys toured other parts of Spain, giving talks in several cities on these topics.</p> <p>The Militarisation of Youth conference in June 2012: Dan Contreras (Chile), Jorge Vélez (Colombia) and Rafael Uzcategui (Venezuela): they gave a joint presentation on the situation in Latin America. </p> <p>Initial plans have been made for a regional meeting focusing on nonviolence training. This will probably take place early in 2013 in Venezuela.</p> <h2>4. WRI – organisation</h2> <h3>4.1.1 Council 2012</h3> <p>The 2011 Council meeting in Luleå seemed enthusiastic about having Council 2012 in Medellín, Colombia, in September 2012. Unfortunately, this was not to be. After a difficult process of negotiation about the contents and budget for the seminar, the WRI Executive sent a clear message that WRI could not take financial responsibility for a Council meeting in 2012 that would cost more than WRI has raised for any event. We would support, attend and raise what funds we could, and we would meet some agreed expenses (such as fares of elected council members, etc), but we could not, for instance, pay the wages of Red Juvenil staff in Medellin. For Red Juvenil, this was inadequate. They stated that they had engaged in planning this event less to suit their own programme, and more to meet the needs of the international network. They therefore decided to call off the whole process of preparation and cancelled the seminar and council meeting planned for Medellin in September 2012.</p> <p>There were several offers to find alternative low-cost venues - France, Finland, Jenin (Palestine), Macedonia, and Bilbao for Council 2012. Not having time to prepare a proper event in Palestine, the Executive decided that Bilbao would be the most cost-effective and energy-efficient. There will not be an attached seminar, but we hope to shape the event more strategically, renewing our vision of what the WRI can become.</p> <h3>4.1.2 The Executive</h3> <p>The WRI Executive needs strengthening, especially after the resignation of Hilal Demir in June. Hilal felt that her personal circumstances were preventing her from making the contribution required. </p> <p>During much of the year most Executive members have been under pressure in their own contexts, with resulting feelings of guilt about not meeting WRI expectations and also poor functioning of the Executive. The delay in completing and distributing minutes is symptomatic. </p> <p>The most demanding single task for the Executive was organising the recruiting and selection process for the new RRTK worker. This largely fell on Dominique, Sergeiy and Javier from the office, and turned out to be a huge job - dealing with more than 80 applications. </p> <p>Dominique and Howard attended the Barcelona War Profiteers seminar and Sergeiy the Darmstadt conference on Countering the Militarisation of Youth.</p> <p>Howard represented WRI in Zagreb in March 2012 at the celebration of the foundation of ARK - the Anti-War Campaign of Croatia. (Other speakers connected with WRI were Boro Kitanoski, Christine Schweitzer, Staša Zajoviç and former Council members Marko Hren and Vesna Teršelič.)</p> <h3>Achievements</h3> <ul><li>The RRTK selection process</li> <li>Maintaining an overview</li> </ul><h3>Challenges</h3> <ul><li>Ensuring continuity after Andreas leaves, and strengthening staff support</li> <li>Making the most of the opportunities offered with South Africa 2014</li> </ul><h3>4.2 WRI Publications</h3> <p>WRI continues to publish a range of mostly electronic publications.</p> <h3><a href="">wri-irg.org</a></h3> <p>This year we moved the website to a bigger server as the old one couldn't deal with the number of requests it was receiving. The new server's capacity can be increased as needed. Various problems with the website have been noted, and suggestions for further improvement are welcome. </p> <h3>E-mail and Web-Based Publications</h3> <p>Note: All our e-mail-based publications can be viewed and subscribed to on our website.</p> <h3><a href="/br-home.htm">The Broken Rifle</a></h3> <p>The Broken Rifle continues to be WRI's quarterly newsletter, with most issues published in English Spanish and German. In the last year we have struggled to translate The Broken Rifle into French. Since July 2011, the following issues have been published: Nonviolence for Change (December 2011, see /pubs/br90-en.htm), Land-grabbing and Militarism (April 2011, see /pubs/br91-en.htm), Countering the Militarisation of Youth (May 2011, see /epublish/21/485). </p> <h3><a href="/news/info/index.html">wri-info</a></h3> <p>The email-newsletter wri-info is published as needed. There is no clear policy on what qualifies as wri-info. It is mostly used to send information from the WRI office. </p> <h3><a href="/pubs/co-update.htm">CO-Update</a></h3> <p>CO-Update, produced in English, is the monthly e-newsletter of the Right to Refuse to Kill programme. </p> <h3><a href="/programmes/co_alerts">CO-alert</a></h3> <p>WRI launched its email based co-alert system in July 2001. Although there had been a system for urgent actions before, this was the first time the email list co-alert has been used. Since then, hundreds of co-alerts have been emailed out. With the launch of the new website, the co-alert system has been integrated into WRI's conscientious objection database, and is now managed entirely through the WRI website. CO-alert is an English only email list, although some alerts are also available in other languages on the WRI website.</p> <h3><a href="/publications/war_profiteers">warprofiteers-news</a></h3> <p>The email newsletter War Profiteers News is published bimonthly in English and Spanish. It has been an important tool to provide information on matters related to war profiteering to a wide range of groups and activists, and facilitates networking of groups working on war profiteers.</p> <h3>Facebook</h3> <p>WRI's Facebook cause now has more than 4,200 members and is mainly used to post announcements. Attempts to raise funds using Facebook have so far seen only moderate success.<br /> There is also a Facebook page for WRI at <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-Resisters-International/116749965016853">http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-Resisters-International/1167499650168…</a>.</p> <h3>Twitter</h3> <p>You can find WRI at <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/warresistersint">http://twitter.com/#!/warresistersint</a>.</p> <h3>Books and other print publications</h3> <p>WRI has not published any books in the last year. Most work has been on translation of the Handbook and the completion of the translation into Spanish by Michelle Renyé of Women Conscientious Objectors - An Anthology, which is available online (/pubs/objetoras-antologia). </p> <p>Cynthia Cockburn's book Antimilitarism: Political and Gender Dynamics of Peace Movements has been published by Palgrave Macmillan. Cynthia attended the WRI Council in Bilbao in 2008 doing interviews for this book, which includes discussion of WRI itself as well as of affiliates in several countries. Andreas spoke at the book launch in Housmans bookshop, London. </p> <p>There has been no further discussion about producing a WRI Yearbook.</p> <h3>Achievements</h3> <ul><li>The regular email-newsletters of the two main WRI programmes have increased WRI's credibility in these areas.</li> </ul><h3>Challenges</h3> <ul><li>After four years since the web redesign, there is the need for further change - for example, integrating it more with social media.</li> <li>Translation of the e-newsletters and of the Broken Rifle has become increasingly difficult, especially into German and French, but WRI is also short of translators into Spanish, and from any of these languages into English.</li> <li>A distribution network and strategy for publishing more books is so far missing.</li> </ul><h3>4.3 WRI-Office</h3> <h3>4.2.1 Staff</h3> <p>Since 2005, the WRI office has been staffed by Andreas Speck (RRTK) and Javier Gárate (Nonviolence Programme). However, at the end of 2012, after 11 years in the WRI office, Andreas has decided to move on at the end of 2012. Having previously been treasurer of WRI and a section representative, he has also played a vital role in re-shaping WRI over the last 15 years. </p> <p>We received well over 80 applications for the RRTK job - an unprecedented number - several from excellent candidates. The candidate chosen is a Hannah Brock, a 26-year-old Briton who has been a Quaker Peaceworker with the Oxford Research Group and an Ecumenical Accompanier in Palestine. She begins work in the WRI office in September 2012. </p> <h3>4.2.2 Interns and Volunteers</h3> <p>The WRI office has benefited from the work of several interns and volunteers. We were lucky to have Jungmin Choi, a long-time activist from South Korea, who has attended many WRI events since 2005. From October 2011 to February 2012, she made a great contribution to the work of both WRI office programmes, including co-editing an issue of our web bulletin, <a href="/epublish/19/458">War Profiteers' News</a> and updating our CO database and other materials. Jungmin also finished the translation of the <a href="/node/6684">Korean version of the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</a>.</p> <p>Paula Andrea Garcia Morales, from Red Juvenil de Medellin, Colombia, joined the WRI office as an intern in February 2012. Her main role was to help organize the WRI Council meeting, planned for Medellin in September 2012. However, when this was cancelled, Red Juvenial also terminated the internship. Maxwell Zachs, a Quaker Peace and Social Witness Peaceworker, joined the WRI office in October 2011, after leaving a previous placement. His placement in WRI also proved problematic and was terminated in April 2012. A new QPSW Peaceworker, Owen Everett, will be joining the WRI office as part of a joint placement with Forces Watch in September 2012 for a year. (Forces Watch is a recently-launched British anti-recruitment organisation based in the same building as WRI.)</p> <p>We would like to give a big thank you to all the volunteer translators/interpreters that do a huge job helping us to have our materials in several languages, they are: Nayua Adbelkefi, Francesca Denley, Carlos Barranco, Oscar Huenchunao, Igor Seke, Benjamin Molineaux, Ian Macdonald, Matias Mulet, Gerd Büntzly, Inge Dreger, Rene Burget, Tikiri, Natalia Pita, Adria Collado, Rebecca Steffen, Marcelo del Alamo, Dominique Saillard and Howard Clark. </p> <p>Finally, as for the past 25 years, the WRI office has benefited from the dedicated work of our regular volunteer, Martyn Lowe. 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Items for discussion at the Council meeting will be especially highlighted.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h3 class="western"><b>1. Introduction</b></h3><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Two<br /> deaths mark the introduction to this report. The first - the<br /> brutal assassination of Chidi Nwosu, president of the Human Rights,<br /> Justice and Peace Foundation WRI's Nigerian affiliate - as a<br /> message calculated to intimidate all those who struggle against<br /> corruption. At times like this, international solidarity can be<br /> vital - as a source of support for those who carry on, and as a<br /> pressure on those responsible for investigating such crimes.<br /> Unfortunately, we have had no further news of the Human Rights,<br /> Justice and Peace Foundation since this crime.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> second death was expected. Devi Prasad, whose health prevented him<br /> attending last year's WRI conference in Ahmedabad, died on 1 June<br /> 2011, aged 89. Devi's historic contribution - to deepening WRI's<br /> discussions on nonviolence, to widening the organisation's<br /> geographical horizons - began in the Triennial conference in<br /> Gandhi, continued through his ten years as Joint Secretary/General<br /> Secretary, and carried on subsequently, especially in promoting the<br /> 1985-86 Triennial in Vedchhi and in his history of WRI from 1921 to<br /> 1974 - <i>War is a crime against humanity: the story of the War<br /> Resisters' International</i><br /> (published in 2005). If in some ways it seems a weakness that one<br /> person can have been so central and had such an influence on the<br /> organisation, in other ways it is a strength that WRI was, is and<br /> remains open to the participation of people with very different<br /> talents who have a commitment to nonviolence and anti-militarism.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal">This<br /> year has seen predominantly nonviolent challenges to longstanding<br /> regimes and a further expansion of military intervention. It has<br /> seen youth-led movements arising to challenge governments who say<br /> the "<i>global economic crisis</i>" forces them to cut<br /> spending on human needs, while continuing to give priority to<br /> military spending. WRI and its network has much to offer in these<br /> circumstance, not least a perspective that goes beyond short-term<br /> and superficial transitions to promote deeper social protests based<br /> on participation and on deeply held nonviolent values.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal">This<br /> report concentrates largely on solid work that WRI has done.<br /> Beneath the surface, however, remains the vision - that WRI is a<br /> network of mutual support, for those who resist war and promote<br /> nonviolent action, for those who recognise that the structures and<br /> attitudes of political, social and economic power do not need just<br /> reform but a fundamental nonviolent transformation.</p><br /><h3 class="western">2. Staffed programme </h3><br /><h4 class="western">2.1 Right to Refuse to Kill (RRTK) programme</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Staff: <i>Andreas<br /> Speck</i></p><br /><h5 class="western">2.1.1. RRTK core work </h5><br /><h6 class="western">2.1.1.1 Funding</h6><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">This<br /> programme receives core funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable<br /> Trust (JRCT), which has now been extended until 30 April 2014. This<br /> covers:<br /></p><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">the<br /> RRtK staff salary</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">£4,000<br /> annually for travel in relation to the RRtK programme</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">£3,000<br /> annually for an RRtK internship of three months</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">some<br /> overhead for the central office plus, with this grant, money for<br /> the RRtK programme committee to meet</p><br /></li></ul><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Seed<br /> money for work on counter-recruitment</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">£5,000<br /> for the web publication of an updated report on how COs can use the<br /> international human rights system (see 2. below)</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h6 class="western">2.1.1.2 Work</h6><br /><h7 class="western">2.1.1.2.1 CO-Update</h7><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> e-newsletter CO-Update continues to be published as needed - 12<br /> issues since January 2010 - and to be translated into Spanish. It<br /> is a valuable point of reference as it includes regular updates on<br /> changes in CO or recruitment laws.<br /></p><br /><h7 class="western">2.1.1.2.2 CO-alerts and individual CO cases</h7><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI's<br /> co-alert system (<a href="http://wri-irg.org/programmes/co_alerts">http://wri-irg.org/programmes/co_alerts</a>)<br /> continues to support conscientious objectors at risk of arrest, or<br /> already arrested. In addition, the WRI office contacts the<br /> authorities of the country concerned and relevant UN bodies. In June<br /> 2010, Andreas went to Colombia to participate in two conferences on<br /> the right to conscientious objection in Bogota and Barrancabermeja<br /> (see his presentation at <a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/10569">http://wri-irg.org/node/10569</a>).<br /> The conference followed up on a decision of the Constitutional Court<br /> of Colombia from October 2009, recognising the right to<br /> conscientious objection.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> the important case of <i>Bayatyan<br /> v Armenia</i><br /> before the European Court of Human Rights, WRI, together with Rachel<br /> and Derek Brett, submitted a joint third party intervention in July<br /> 2010 (see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/10689">http://wri-irg.org/node/10689</a>).<br /> The Court held a public hearing in the case on 24 November 2010. We<br /> expect the judgement of the Grand Chamber some time in summer 2011.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">This<br /> judgement will have huge implications - at best, in effect<br /> recognising the right to conscientious objection under the European<br /> Convention on Human Rights (and by extension pressuring the<br /> Inter-American human rights system would to reconsider its latest<br /> ruling (the bad decision in the case of <i>Cristián<br /> Daniel Sahli Vera et al. Chile</i><br /> - see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/10698">http://wri-irg.org/node/10698</a>).<br /> At worst, however, the UN Human Rights Committee would become<br /> isolated among international human rights tribunals dealing with CO.<br /> WRI has had initial discussions with the Quaker United Nations<br /> Office Geneva, Conscience and Peace Tax International, Amnesty<br /> International, the International Commission of Jurists and the<br /> European Bureau on Conscientious Objection (EBCO)to prepare a quick<br /> and coordinated response if there is a negative ruling. There is no<br /> indication which way the judgement may go.</p><br /><h6 class="western">2.1.1.2.3 International Day on Conscientious Objection (15 May)</h6><br /><p class="western">In<br /> May 2010, International CO Day was organised jointly with the <i>Comuna<br /> de Chana, Emma, y todas las demas</i> in<br /> Asunción, Paraguay. The main theme chosen for of the meeting was<br /> gender and militarism, and a seminar linked to this took place at<br /> the beginning of the events. This was followed by a training in<br /> nonviolent direct action, which included gender issues, but was not<br /> entirely focused on these.</p><br /><p class="western">WRI<br /> published a special issue of <i>The<br /> Broken Rifle</i><br /> on gender and militarism prior to the events (see<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br85-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br85-en.htm</a>).</p><br /><h6 class="western">2.1.1.2.4 Prisoners for Peace</h6><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Some<br /> time has been taken up with updating the permanent <i>Prisoners<br /> for Peace list</i> in November, in time for<br /><b>Prisoners for Peace Day</b><br /> on 1 December. A printed version of the list was sent out with the<br /> November appeal letter.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">As<br /> Prisoners for Peace Day is no longer a major event in the WRI<br /> calendar (last year, not even the appeal letter focused on Prisoners<br /> for Peace), the list was mainly an update from publicly available<br /> sources, such as NukeResister in the USA, the Jehovah's Witnesses<br /> website (Armenian COs), and some activist email lists. Rather than<br /> being a listing, this was more a reminder that people still go to<br /> prison for peace action and conscientious objection, and it is clear<br /> that it is far from being a complete list.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">One<br /> problem is that the list is heavily dominated by Jehovah's Witnesses<br /> (conscientious objectors in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Eritrea,<br /> Turkmenistan), and this is without even trying to include the<br /> hundreds of South Korean JWs who are COs. This helps to reinforce<br /> the wrong perception that CO is basically a religious issue.<br /></p><br /><h7 class="western">2.1.1.2.4 Representation and other issues</h7><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> October 2010, Andreas Speck participated in the<br /><i>Paxx-Aktionsakademie</i>,<br /> organised by WRI's German section DFG-VK together with the <i>Werkstatt<br /> fuer Gewaltfreie Aktion Baden</i> (Workshop for<br /> Nonviolent Action Baden - WfGA). Part of this action academy was a<br /> workshop on the (German) military in schools, which allowed Andreas<br /> to link with some German counter-recruitment activists and<br /> activities, and get a better idea what is happening on this issue in<br /> Germany.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Also,<br /> the E-Council discussion in relation to the Right to Refuse to Kill<br /> programme focused on counter-recruitment. This involved <i>Michael<br /> Schulze von Glasser</i>,<br /> a German counter-recruitment activist who recently published a book<br /> called <i>An<br /> der Heimatfront. Oeffentlichkeitsarbeit und Nachwuchswerbung der<br /> Bundeswehr</i><br /> (At the home front: Public relations and recruitment of the Germany<br /> military -<br /><a href="http://www.papyrossa.de/sites_buchtitel/schulze_heimatfront.htm">http://www.papyrossa.de/sites_buchtitel/schulze_heimatfront.htm</a>).<br /> He subsequently also contributed an article to <i>The<br /> Broken Rifle</i>.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Andreas<br /> continues cooperating with the <i>European<br /> Bureau for Conscientious Objection</i> (EBCO)<br /> and attended their October 2010 meeting in Brussels.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">On<br /> 9 February 2011, Cynthia Cockburn represented WRI at the trial<br /> against Turkish feminist antimilitarist Pinar Selek, who has been on<br /> trial for more than 10 years on fabricated charges (see<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/12193">http://wri-irg.org/node/12193</a>).</p> <p> </p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">On<br /> 25 May 2011, Andreas participated in a hearing on Conscientious<br /> Objection in Europe in the European Parliament, organised by Greek<br /> MEP Michalis Tremopoulos, himself a CO activist in the 1980s now in<br /> the Greens/European Free Alliance (see<br /><a href="http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?language=EN&amp;id=96909">http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/public/geoSearch/view.do?language=EN&amp;id=96909</a>).</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h6 class="western">2.1.1.2.5 Internships</h6><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> RRTK programme had three internships in the 2009-2011 period:<br /></p><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i>Myungjin<br /> Moon</i><br /> from South Korea (January-March 2009). Myungjin has been sentenced<br /> to 18 months' imprisonment in April 2011, and started his prison<br /> sentence on 11 April 2011 (see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/11891">http://wri-irg.org/node/11891</a>)</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i>Tznil<br /></i>from Israel (February-May 2010).</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><i>Jota<br /> Ramos</i> from Colombia (June-October 2010).</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> contribution of these interns has varied, but having interns can<br /> help improve networking and also spread understanding of how WRI<br /> operates.<br /></p><br /><h5 class="western">2.1.2 A Conscientious Objector's Guide to the<br /> International Human Rights System (Emily Miles update)</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> 2009 the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust made an additional £10,000<br /> grant for WRI to update and extend Emily Miles's report "A<br /> Conscientious Objectors' Guide to the UN Human Rights System" (see<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/books/co-guide-un.htm">http://wri-irg.org/books/co-guide-un.htm</a>).<br /> The project also involves the Quaker UN Office in Geneva (<i>Rachel<br /> Brett</i>), Conscience and Peace Tax International (<i>Derek Brett</i>),<br /> and the CCPR Centre (<i>Peggy Brett</i> and <i>Patrick Mutzenberg</i>).<br /> However, this initial funding was not sufficient for the web<br /> publication of the updated guide, but additional funding is now<br /> included in the 2011-2014 grant from JRCT.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> updated web publication should be completed late in 2011 and<br /> launched publicly in Geneva in March 2012.<br /></p><br /><h5 class="western">2.1.3 RRtK 2011-2014</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> general application to Rowntree's emphasised our need for<br /> flexibility in responding to developments (such as the appearance of<br /> a CO in Egypt). However, certain concrete items need discussion at<br /> Council:<br /></p><br /><h6 class="western">2.1.3.1 Counter-recruitment work</h6><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> Rowntree application emphasised what Europe could learn from US<br /> experience on counter-recruitment, pointed to some activities and<br /> Europe, and suggested some steps to develop the work:</p><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">a<br /> European conference/seminar on military recruitment and<br /> counter-recruitment, to be held in 2012</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">a<br /> European speaking tour of US counter-recruitment organisers</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">a<br /> publication on military recruitment and counter-recruitment in<br /> Europe</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> questions we might want to discuss are:</p><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">strategy<br /> and focus of WRI work on counter-recruitment. While it might be<br /> European focus for the time being, how do we avoid too much<br /> Eurocentricity in the work?</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Preferences<br /> for conference: Germany or UK / additional fundraising</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Publication:<br /> what kind of publication? Before or after the conference/seminar?<br /> How should it be linked to the conference/seminar?</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Andreas<br /> will prepare a presentation for the session at Council.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h6 class="western">2.1.3.2 Emergency response Egypt</h6><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> autumn 2010 WRI was contacted by <i>Maikel Nabil Sanad</i> from<br /> Egypt who was about to refuse military service. WRI acted quickly<br /> when he was arrested briefly in November 2010 and again when he was<br /> arrested briefly in February 2011 during the revolution.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">When<br /> Maikel Nabil Sanad was again arrested on 28 March, WRI was among the<br /> first organisations to react, and Andreas went to Cairo to meet with<br /> his supporters, trying (unsuccessfully) to attend the court<br /> hearings. WRI also edited and translated quite a bit of the<br /> material by and about Maikel (see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/11403">http://wri-irg.org/node/11403</a>),<br /> and is launching a campaign for his release. We also submitted his<br /> case to the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> May 2011, <i>Andreas Speck</i> and <i>Igor Seke</i> travelled to<br /> Egypt for a workshop on conscientious objection and nonviolence.<br /> This workshop was originally planned with Maikel, but during<br /> Andreas' visit in April it was decided to go ahead with it<br /> nevertheless.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h4 class="western">Achievements</h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western">Funding<br /> has again been secured for a further three years - until April<br /> 2014.<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western">The<br /> book <i>Women Conscientious Objectors - an Anthology</i> has<br /> finally been published in English, and is forthcoming in Spanish.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western">WRI<br /> has been able to reach out to some groups/organisations working on<br /> counter-recruitment, and has secured funding to strengthen this<br /> work.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h4 class="western">Challenges</h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /><i>Right to Refuse to Kill programme Committee</i> (RRtKCom) that<br /> has been formed in Ahmedabad is not yet functioning. Initial<br /> attempts using online chat have not been satisfactory, and a<br /> face-to-face meeting of the committee will take place in Stockholm<br /> just before the Council meeting. The members of this committee are:<br /><i>Adriana Castano</i> (Red Juvenil, Colombia), <i>Rachel Brett<br /></i>(Quaker United Nations Office Geneva), <i>Sergeiy Sandler</i><br /> (WRI Exec/New Profile, Israel), <i>Boro Kitanoski</i> (WRI<br /> Council/Peace Action, Macedonia), <i>Oskar Castro</i> (WRL, USA)</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> development of counter-recruitment work is still a huge challenge.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h4 class="western">2.2 Nonviolence Programme</h4><br /><p class="western">Staff: <i>Javier Gárate</i></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> Nonviolence Programme has two main areas: Providing nonviolence<br /> resources for nonviolent action and the initiative against war<br /> profiteers. The third area of the programme - Nonviolence for Change<br /> - now falls within various areas of the general work of WRI.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> Nonviolence Programme was heavily involved in organising the India<br /> International Conference in January 2010, as most of the themes fell<br /> within the programme scope. The Conference re-established<br /> connections as well as bringing in new contacts for the programme.<br /></p><br /><h5 class="western">2.2.1. Resources for nonviolent action</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI's<i><br /> Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns </i>came<br /> out in English in February 2009, and now a further 1,500 copies have<br /> printed.<br /> The handbook has been translated into many languages, mostly the<br /> initiative not coming from the office, which show the positive<br /> reaction to the book. At the time of writing this report, the<br /> handbook has been published in English, Indonesian and Spanish.<br /> There are translations finished or about to be in Arabic, Nepali,<br /> Tigrinya, Turkish, French, Korean, Russian and Serbian. Some of the<br /> translations are already available on the web:<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/NonviolenceHandbook</a>.</p> <p> </p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI<br /> has teamed up with Vredesactie (Belgium), Kristna<br /> Fredsrorelsen/SweFOR (Sweden) and Bewegungsakademie (Germany) to<br /> make a grant application to the Grundtvig Programme of the EU. The<br /> grant is for a 3 years project under the title: "Active<br /> Strengthening of Civil Society through Education and<br /> Democratization" (ASCEND). The project will work analysing<br /> existing and coming up with new resources on nonviolence training in<br /> development of campaign strategies and group dynamics. This will be<br /> done by forming training circles in each country and a series of<br /> international meetings of trainers. The follow up of the project<br /> will be a series of training for trainers. We expect an answer from<br /> Grundtvig by the month of June, but there are already plans to start<br /> looking for alternative funding in case the application is not<br /> successful. If the project goes ahead, this will be the main<br /> priority of this area of work of the Nonviolence Programme.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> the last year there have been several training workshops in<br /> nonviolent action given at events of the European Antimilitarist<br /> Network. As we write this report a WRI delegation is about to travel<br /> to Venezuela for two weeks of activities, the main one being a<br /> training workshop with Venezuelan social movements. The programme in<br /> Venezuela is hosted by PROVEA and El Libertario.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> the past year staff person Javier Garate, attended the Fletcher<br /> Summer Institute for the Advanced Study of Nonviolent Conflict,<br /> invited by the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict (ICNC)<br /> organised by the Fletcher School and the ICNC, which took place in<br /> Boston, USA. Several other members of WRI have active collaboration<br /> with ICNC. Javier also attended a weekend retreat on Direct<br /> Education hosted by Turning the Tide in St Albans, UK.</p> <p> </p><h4 class="western">2.2.2 Initiative Against War Profiteers</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> The main work<br /> of the initiative against war profiteers, is producing the<br /> bi-monthly newsletter War Profiteers' News<br /> (http://wri-irg.org/publications/war_profiteers), which is now in<br /> its 28<sup>th</sup> issue. The newsletter highlights the work done<br /> by groups against war profiteering, many times commissioning<br /> articles from a range of groups in terms of their focus and also<br /> their origin. One highlight has been the activities by the Weapon<br /> Zero Team in South Korea, which was inspired by participation in a<br /> WRI event. The newsletter is produced in English and Spanish.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Javier<br /> attended in 2010 the Annual Meeting of the European Network Against<br /> Arms Trade (ENAAT), hosted by the Dutch Campaign Against Arms Trade<br /> in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. There is a good collaboration between<br /> WRI and ENAAT, with a number of members of ENAAT contributing to War<br /> Profiteers' News and Wendela de Vries of the Dutch Campaign Against<br /> Arms Trade represented ENAAT at WRI's International Conference in<br /> India. From this collaboration came the plan to organise an<br /> International Seminar under the title: <b>War Profiteering and Peace<br /> Movement Responses</b> to be held in Barcelona, 29 Sep - 2 Oct 2011.<br /> The seminar aims at bringing together campaigners against war<br /> profiteering from all over the world to learn from each others<br /> experiences and explore the potential for forming an international<br /> network against war profiteering.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> seminar War Starts Here to take place in Lulea in<br /> July 2011 will have the issue of war profiteering as one of the main<br /> themes of the seminar.<br /></p><br /><h5 class="western">2.2.3 Fundraising</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Successful<br /> fundraising for the India Conference was a big success helped to<br /> finance the Nonviolence Programme. The existing Grundtvig Project - Europe for Peace - also helps support the work of the programme,<br /> and the pending ASCEND Grundtvig grant application would cover most<br /> of the costs of the Nonviolence Programme. If we are not successful,<br /> we urgently need to come up with alternative funding sources.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> In the last<br /> year not much work has been done in getting individual donations, as<br /> they are very time consuming without much reward. Also due to a knee<br /> injury of the Nonviolence Programme staff person, there are no more<br /> Triathletes for Peace - but we will be back!</p><br /><h4 class="western">Achievements</h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> The Ahmedabad<br /> conference.<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Response to<br /> the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns has exceeded expectations,<br /> mostly manifested in the number of translations.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> War<br /> Profiteers' News has become a reference point for information on<br /> campaigns against war profiteering.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h4 class="western">Challenges</h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Need to give<br /> more training workshops .<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Forming a<br /> Global Network Against War Profiteers is a huge goal and maybe<br /> unrealistic<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Need to<br /> follow up projects better, eg training with a particular group.<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Unless the<br /> ASCEND application succeeds, fundraising will be a huge challenge.<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> The<br /> Nonviolence Programme lacks a functioning committee.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> The present<br /> cuts in social spending by many governments offer an opportunity to<br /> challenge the priority accorded to military spending.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h3 class="western">3. Regionalisation: </h3><br /><h4 class="western">3.1 Europe</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> European network of WRI groups does not represent the full range of<br /> activities of WRI's European affiliaties but focuses on nonviolent<br /> direct action against war and military intervention, It is also open<br /> for groups not affiliated to WRI.<br /></p><br /><h5 class="western">3.1.1 Meetings and seminars </h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> 2009, a funding application to the European Union's Grundtvig<br /> Lifelong Learning Programme succeeded in gaining a total of £105,000<br /> over two years. The money is mainly for meetings/seminars, and also<br /> contributes to the seminar in Lulea.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">A<br /> first major activity was the participation of about 80 activists<br /> from abroad in the blockade of the British nuclear weapon factory<br /> AWE Aldermaston on 15 February 2011. In the days prior to the<br /> blockade, activists from the network met for a seminar and training<br /> in Milton Keynes (see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/9683">http://wri-irg.org/node/9683</a>).<br /> This was followed by a days of action against nuclear weapons on 2-4<br /> April (see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/9863">http://wri-irg.org/node/9863</a><br /> for an overview).</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> July, the network again met in Jarandilla in Spain, for an<br /> evaluation and future planning, especially in relation to the NATO<br /> summit in November 2010 in Lisboa, Portugal. The meeting also<br /> started a process to define what the network is, but so far there is<br /> no statement of principles.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">In<br /> November 2010, a seminar was held in Brussels, which continued the<br /> process which began in Jarandilla, and also looked into future<br /> activities. It came up with the slogan "War starts here", to<br /> highlight that wars are not just fought far away, in Afghanistan,<br /> Iraq, or now Libya, but depend on the military infrastructure in our<br /> own countries. It was decided to set up a website<br /> (<a href="http://warstartshere.org/">http://warstartshere.org</a><br /><a href="http://warstartshere.eu/">http://warstartshere.eu</a>),<br /> which is presently under development.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Many<br /> groups of the network then participated in the anti-NATO actions in<br /> Lisbon (see below).</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> latest meeting of the network took place in Ghent in Belgium in<br /> January 2011. This meeting again looked at the future of the<br /> network, and a new funding application. However, in the end no<br /> funding application was submitted, which will leave the network<br /> without funding of its own after July 2011.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> meeting in Ghent could not decide about a clear focus for the<br /> European networking in the upcoming years.<br /></p><br /><h5 class="western">3.1.2 Work against NATO</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> work against NATO has mostly been part of the European network in<br /> the past few years, but goes beyond Europe. Andreas Speck represents<br /> WRI on the <i>International Co-ordinating Committee No to War - No<br /> to NATO</i> (ICC), a broad international umbrella network against<br /> NATO. In this capacity, he was involved in the preparation of the<br /> anti-NATO protests in Lisbon in November 2010 (and in Strasbourg in<br /> April 2009).</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Within<br /> the broader anti-NATO work, WRI's focus is on nonviolent direct<br /> action against NATO, which links it closely to the European network,<br /> mostly because up until now anti-NATO actions have mainly been<br /> organised in Europe. In November 2010, WRI passed a pledge/call for<br /> nonviolent action against NATO (see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/11629">http://wri-irg.org/node/11629</a>),<br /> but unfortunately this came too late to have an impact on the<br /> mobilisation for the NATO summit in Lisbon, and later the momentum<br /> was lost.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> activities in Lisbon showed the symbolic power of nonviolent action,<br /> and a good co-operation among the network (see<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/11830">http://wri-irg.org/node/11830</a>).</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">NATO<br /> decided at its Lisbon summit that the next summit will be held in<br /> the US in 2012, and indications are that it will be in April 2012 in<br /> Washington DC. WRI is part of a contact group between the broader<br /> ICC and the US organisers (which include WRI's section War Resisters<br /> League), and is in discussion with WRL about a nonviolent action in<br /> the US in 2012. This would broaden WRI's anti-NATO work to also<br /> include the USA. However, it poses a significant challenge to the<br /> European side of the network.</p><br /><h4 class="western">Achievements</h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">close<br /> cooperation between European WRI affiliates (and some<br /> non-affiliated organisations) in nonviolent direct action,<br /> contributing to an exchange of experience and building trust among<br /> organisations and individuals.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Funding<br /> could be obtained for 2 years</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Successful<br /> actions in several countries.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI<br /> is a visible force within the anti-NATO movement</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h4 class="western">Challenges</h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Get<br /> renewed funding for the network</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">improving<br /> communication and decision making within the network, and sharing<br /> of responsibilities.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> The NATO<br /> summit in the USA in 2012</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Despite the<br /> serious problems facing operations of military intervention<br /> involving NATO countries, and there is no still substantial<br /> movement against such interventonism, let alone against the<br /> structures underpinning it.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h4 class="western">3.2 Latin America</h4><br /><p class="western">Latin America is a conflictive and vibrant region, where militarism manifests itself in full strength: military service is still compulsory in several countries, military expenditure has increased more than in any other region, national polices are heavily militarised, military bases or barracks are found almost in every town, patriarchy is taken as normal, caudillos or populist leaders with a strong militarist discourse rule many of the countries and faced internal problems repeatedly invoke nationalist hostility to neighbours to unite the population. In short militarism is part of the daily life of Latin Americans. This is why groups in Latin America sometimes are criticised of being too self-centred, unaware of what happens outside their local realities, in some way this is because the local realities are full of conflicts which means they take most of your time and energy.</p><br /><p>As a response to this for the last years a number of groups in Latin America with links to WRI have been working on how to support each other more, and create the space for thinking and acting beyond each local realities. Since the last report, the irg-al network, has continued to exchange a lot of information through its email list (<a href="mailto:irg-al@lists.wri-irg.org">irg-al@lists.wri-irg.org</a>), which helps for groups to know what others are doing. The list has been most useful in times of crisis, like during the so-called frustrated coup d'etat in Ecuador on 30 September 2010<br /> (<a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/11779">http://wri-irg.org/node/11779</a>). This way the network could know immediately what was happening directly from the people in Ecuador. The list is very useful for this kind of situations and also for sharing information, but at the same time needs better moderation and to become a place of dialogue and ont only information sharing.</p> <p></p><p>Since the last report, the network had a few opportunities for getting together. It is important to acknowledge the high number of people from Latin America who attended the Triennial in India 2010, helping to bridge the gap between groups in Latin America and WRI groups elsewhere. In May 2010 and using the opportunity that the activities around 15 May, International CO Day were held in Asuncion, Paraguay, a special effort was made to bring together representatives from groups from most of the countries active in the network. This meetings was very important to get to know us better and many plans came out of this meeting, including a revival of the plan for a regional map linking corporate presence and militarisation. The big problem so far has been that after each meeting there has been little follow up, and none of the ideas that came out in Paraguay have actually materialised, though the Venezuelan group managed to put together their own map (http://bit.ly/iiEYGn) and we are still hopeful that other groups will do the same.</p> <p></p><p>As a joint project, the network put together the December 2010 issue of WRI's newsletter The Broken Rifle (<a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br87-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br87-en.htm</a>), which focused on militarism in the region. The network also helped getting the WRI Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns out in Spanish, with Pelao Carvallo writing a special introduction to the Spanish version and El Libertario Collective doing the layout. The handbook was printed in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and it has already been distributed to several countries in Latin America, with groups even organising book presentations in their countries.</p> <p></p><p>Within the network there are many ideas of what to do in the region but not much follow up of them. Clearly there is the potential to make much more things happen. As with every loose network things take time, but there is a base to work from, so yes, there is hope.</p> <p></p><h3 class="western">4. WRI Publications</h3><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI<br /> continues to publish a range of electronic and print publications.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h4 class="western">wri-irg.org</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> WRI website is WRI's main publication, and has grown in content<br /> since the India conference. Visits seem to have stabilised at about<br /> 2,600-2,700 unique visits daily, or 75,000-85,000 visits monthly.<br /> The website needs further improvement, but this would require<br /> raising further funds.<br /></p><br /><h4 class="western">E-mail and Web-Based Publications</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Note:<br /> All our e-mail-based publications can be viewed and subscribed to on<br /> our website.</p><br /><h5 class="western"><i>The Broken Rifle</i></h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> Broken Rifle continues to be WRI's quarterly newsletter, with most<br /> issues published in all four official WRI languages. Since January<br /> 2010, the following issues have been published: Gender and<br /> militarism (April 2010, see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br85-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br85-en.htm</a>),<br /> European Network Against Militarism - Against NATO and War<br /> (September 2010, see <a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br86-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br86-en.htm</a>),<br /> Latin American Antimilitarist Network (December 2010, see<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br87-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br87-en.htm</a>),<br /> Military out of schools (March 2011, see<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br88-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/br88-en.htm</a>).<br /> In the last year, it has been increasingly difficult to get the<br /> issues of <i>The Broken Rifle</i> translated into German and French,<br /> and some issues have not been published in these languages.</p><br /><h5 class="western">wri-info</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> email-newsletter wri-info is published as needed, and was used in<br /> April 2011 to distribute information on the imprisonment of <i>Maikel<br /> Nabil Sanad.</i> There is no clear policy on what qualifies as<br /><b>wri-info</b>.</p><br /><h5 class="western">CO-Update / Informe OC / Objo-Infos</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">CO-Update<br /> is the monthly e-newsletter of the Right to Refuse to Kill<br /> programme. It is available in English and Spanish.</p><br /><h5 class="western">co-alert</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI<br /> launched its email based co-alert system in July 2001. Although<br /> there has been a system for urgent actions before, this was the<br /> first time the email list co-alert has been used.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Since<br /> then, hundreds of co-alerts have been emailed out. With the launch<br /> of the new website, the co-alert system has been integrated into<br /> WRI's conscientious objection database, and is now managed entirely<br /> through the WRI website.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Co-alert<br /> is an English only email list, although some alerts are also<br /> available in other languages on the WRI website.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h5 class="western">warprofiteers-news</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> email newsletter warprofiteers-news is the newsletter of the<br /> Nonviolence Programme's work on war profiteers. Warprofiteers-news<br /> is published bimonthly in English and Spanish.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /> email-newsletter has been an important tool to provide information<br /> on matters related to war profiteering to a wide range of groups and<br /> activists, and facilitates networking of groups working on war<br /> profiteers.</p><br /><h4 class="western">Facebook</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI's<br /> Facebook cause now has more than 2,800 members and is mainly used to<br /> post announcements.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Attempts<br /> to raise funds using Facebook have so far seen only moderate<br /> success.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">There<br /> is also a Facebook page for WRI at<br /><a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-Resisters-International/116749965016853">http://www.facebook.com/pages/War-Resisters-International/116749965016853</a>.</p><br /><h4 class="western">Twitter</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">You<br /> can find WRI at <a href="http://twitter.com/#!/warresistersint">http://twitter.com/#!/warresistersint</a>.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h4 class="western">Books and other print publications</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Devi<br /> Prasad's <i>War is a Crime Against Humanity </i>(2005)<br /> is now online as a pdf.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI's<br /><i>Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns </i>(2009)<br /> has now been reprinted in English. See the Nonviolence Programme<br /> report.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Ellen<br /> Elster and Majken Soerensen, eds, <i>Women Conscientious Objectors -<br /> An Anthology </i>was published in<br /> April 2010 is also available<br /> online at <a href="http://wri-irg.org/pubs/WomenCOs">http://wri-irg.org/pubs/WomenCOs</a>).<br /> Michelle Renye has painstakingly translated this into Spanish and<br /> it could be online before the Council meeting in Lulea.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">The<br /><i>WRI Yearbook - </i>this<br /> proposal discussed by Council in September 2008 and again in<br /> Ahmedabad - is presently stuck.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">WRI<br /> supported the <i>Eritrean Antimilitary Initiate</i> (EAI) in<br /> publishing and distributing a Tirgrinya version of Gene Sharp's <i>From<br /> dictatorship to democracy</i>.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">There<br /> has been a variety of publications by WRI staff, Executive and<br /> Council members in magazines, journals, books and encyclopaedias.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h4 class="western"><b>Achievements</b></h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western">Since<br /> the web redesign in 2008, WRI has increased its presence on the<br /> internet.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"><br /> The regular<br /> email-news­letters of the two main WRI pro­gram­mes<br /> have increa­sed WRI's credibility in these areas.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"><br /> The<br /> publica­tion of the <i>Handbook for Nonvio­lent Cam­paigns</i><br /> has clearly an­swe­red an existing need, as can also be<br /> seen by the number of translations being worked on.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h4 class="western">Challenges</h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"><br /> The new WRI<br /> website was designed to facilitate contributions from the WRI<br /> network. However, this has so far rarely happened.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto; page-break-after: auto"><br /> A<br /> distribution network and strategy for publishing more books is so<br /> far missing.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><br /> Translation<br /> of the e-newsletters and of the Broken Rifle has become<br /> increasingly difficult, especially into German and French, but WRI<br /> is also short of translators into Spanish, and from any of these<br /> languages into English.</p><br /></li><li><p class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2"><br /> The <i>WRI<br /> Yearbook </i>needs new impetus.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h3 class="western">5. WRI - the organisation </h3><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">Many<br /> matters of organisational development, including representation and<br /> cooperation with other organisations and networks, are included<br /> throughout the report. They are not repeated in this section. The<br /> important work of mutual solidarity (beyond the programme work) is<br /> rarely featured but was highlighted shortly after Ahmedabad by the<br /> Zimbabwean government offensive against WRI affiliate, Gays and<br /> Lesbians of Zimbabwe.</p><br /><h4 class="western">5.1. Council</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>5.1.1<br /> WRI Council members</b> - whether they represent affiliates or were<br /> elected in Ahmedabad. They are an underused resource, as people with<br /> their own networks, ideas and activities. Within WRI, a number feel<br /> guilty that they have not found ways of contributing more.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>5.1.2<br /> Electronic Council - </b>an<br /> electronic council took place in November, with patchy<br /> participation. It took decisions on affiliation, began discussion<br /> on some important topics, and had a lively forum on the Freedom<br /> Flotilla.</p><br /><h4 class="western">5.2. Executive</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">Far<br /> more work is now expected of the Executive commitee, although it<br /> also meets less frequently. A large part of the January meeting in<br /> the Basque country was devoted to discussing how the Executive could<br /> be more effective.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">The<br /> Executive has issued three political declarations - one on the<br /> Freedom Flotilla in 2010, one on the murder of Chidi Nwosu, and one<br /> on military intervention in Libya.</p><br /><h4 class="western">5.3. Working groups</h4><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">The<br /> Africa Working Group is keen to promote the International Conference<br /> in 2013. Other working groups are more or less in abeyance, but<br /> there is now an initiative for a Queer working group.</p><br /><h4 class="western">5.4 Office</h4><br /><h5 class="western">5.4.1 - Staff level</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>A</b>fter<br /> the Ahmedabad conference, the post of finance and administrative<br /> worker in the office was abolished and Seth Wheeler was asked to<br /> leave. This work is now shared between the two programme workers.<br /> Having a staff level of two is not satisfactory, especially in view<br /> of the amount of travel they each are required to do, but<br /> maintaining a part-time post of finance and admin has been generally<br /> problematic and an inefficient use of resources.</p><br /><h5 class="western">5.4.2 - Interns and Volunteers</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">As<br /> well as the RRTK internships (see RRTK), WRI investigated some other<br /> possibilities for longer term internships - so far without fruit. In<br /> addition, <i>Christopher<br /> B</i><i>oe</i><i>sch</i><br /> continued his internship, primarily working on RRTK questions, until<br /> August 2010. <i>Jung-Min</i>,<br /> from WRI-Korea who is currently finishing an MA in Peace Studies in<br /> Britain, is hoping to be a volunteer with the Nonviolence Programme<br /> from September for the rest of the year. WRI's volunteer base in<br /> London is now weaker than ever, relying primarily on <i>Martyn<br /> Lowe</i><br /> (now retired from employment and able to do regular data entry as<br /> well as his usual help with filing and mailings).</p><br /><h5 class="western">5.4.3 - Translation</h5><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm">A<br /> number of volunteer translators (not forgetting translation<br /> editors/re-writers) have helped in the period in the period since<br /> January 2009. These include: <i>Carlos<br /> Barranco</i>,<br /><i>Francesca<br /> Denley</i>,<br /><i>Gerd<br /> B</i><i>ÃŒ</i><i>ntzly</i>,<br /><i>Igor<br /> Seke</i>,<br /><i>Inge<br /> Dreger</i>,<br /><i>Nayua<br /> Abdelkefi</i>,<br /><i>Oscar<br /> Huenchunao</i>,<br /><i>Pedro<br /> Ballesteros</i>,<br /><i>Rene<br /> Burget</i>,<br /><i>Tikiri</i>,<br /> Denise Drake, Ian Macdonald and Benjamin Molineaux.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>5.4.4<br /> - Council Medellin in 2012<i> </i></b>and<br /> the International Conference in South Africa 2014 will be<br /> significant agenda items in the Lulea<br /> Council meeting.</p><br /><h4 class="western">Achievements:</h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Apart from<br /> Skype, the office now runs on open source software.<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> The high<br /> quality of the staff's work is widely recognised.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h4 class="western" style="font-style: normal">Challenges:<br /></h4><br /><ul><br /><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> To find more<br /> effective means to use the resources of Council<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> To improve<br /> the functioning of the Executive<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> Too many<br /> projects get stuck<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> WRI<br /> internships do not seem to be attractive to organisations who<br /> arrange placements<br /></p><br /></li><li><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal"><br /> WRI's<br /> translation capacity urgently needs expansion<br /></p><br /></li></ul><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><br /><br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal">And<br /> finally a word from our Treasurer:</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm"><br /><br /></p><br /><h3 class="western">6. Finances - more of a team effort! </h3><br /><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.17cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><br /> This<br /> is both what we have and what we need: a good degree of team effort<br /> has helped correct a few worrying trends in the last few years.<br /> However we need the continuous involvement of many people and<br /> affiliates to keep rowing upstream.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.17cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><br /> On<br /> the positive side: WRI income and expenditure is more balanced,<br /> including funding staff time on preparing the India conference; the<br /> income from affiliation fees has risen slightly (after several years<br /> of decline); the sales of the NV Handbook and the Women CO Anthology<br /> are making a difference in our budget; we have improved the<br /> accountancy system.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.17cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><br /> This<br /> we have done despite cutting the part-time post of "<i>Finance<br /> and Admin Worker</i>". We need to thank the programme workers -<br /> Andreas and Javier - for accepting this increase in their<br /> workload, as well as for the amount of fundraising work they were<br /> already taking on. As you know, writing funding applications is a<br /> strain on an organisation with such a small structure.</p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.17cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'entity_embed_container' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> </p><div alt="" data-embed-button="image_embed" data-entity-embed-display="image:responsive_image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{&quot;responsive_image_style&quot;:&quot;body_inline_half&quot;,&quot;image_link&quot;:&quot;&quot;}" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="6de98fd6-eb26-4fb6-91c4-e4b617ec2434" title="WRI Finances overview" class="align-left embedded-entity" data-langcode="en"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image_formatter' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'responsive_image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'image' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --> <img srcset="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/images/ReportdraftJune2011_html_m33185fd3.home.jpg?itok=OV31F5zR 1x" src="/sites/default/files/public_files/styles/large/public/images/ReportdraftJune2011_html_m33185fd3.home.jpg?itok=OV31F5zR" alt="" title="WRI Finances overview" typeof="foaf:Image" class="img-responsive" /><!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/system/image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image.html.twig' --><!-- END OUTPUT from 'core/modules/responsive_image/templates/responsive-image-formatter.html.twig' --></div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/entity_embed/templates/entity-embed-container.html.twig' --> <br /><br /><br /><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.17cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>This<br /> is where the network comes in</b>.<br /> Our successful fundraising would not have occurred without the<br /> involvement of several of our affiliates, who wrote up and presented<br /> grant proposals in their countries on our behalf, or who took on<br /> financing the participation of other network members. Several groups<br /> also placed big orders for WRI publications, guaranteeing that we<br /> could actually make a profit on sales.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.17cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal"><br /> However,<br /> we are very worried: in spite of a noticeable improvement, we have<br /> not managed yet to cover the structural deficit we show every year.<br /> In 2011, the Council meeting itself might break even, and the<br /> Rowntree grant covers the full cost of the RRTK programme and some<br /> overhead, but we still do not have enough to cover the rest. The big<br /> EU grant proposal we submitted this year might change that picture,<br /> but we certainly cannot only rely on unpredictable fundraising<br /> results from such institutions or on receiving legacies from<br /> long-time supporters.<br /></p><br /><p class="western" style="margin-top: 0.17cm; margin-bottom: 0cm"><b>Again,<br /> this is where the WRI network comes in: </b>we<br /> need you to guarantee that we can maintain a minimum degree of<br /> financial autonomy and that the basic cost of our much needed<br /> international work can be sustained. If you represent an affiliate,<br /> can it increase its affiliation fee? If it doesn't pay anything,<br /> could it pay at least something? Could it collaborate in grant<br /> applications? Could you place orders to help distribute WRI<br /> publications? Or to try to get the Broken Rifle badges to again be a<br /> source of revenue and a visible image for our network? 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OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Fri, 08 Jul 2011 09:45:09 +0000 warresisters 13300 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2011/office-and-executive-report-january-2010-may-2011?language=en#comments Report of the Office and Executive Committee to the International Conference on Activities in the years 2006–2009 https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2009/report-office-and-executive-committee-international-conference-activities-years-2006?language=en <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--9177.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="9177" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 03 Nov 2009</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><!--break--><p></p><h1>Introduction</h1> <p></p><p>In this report, we present the good work that War Resisters' International has been involved with since 2006 and the challenges WRI faces to become more effective. Yet our starting point, as always, has to be the world in which we live.<br /> WRI's work mainly revolves around two themes - refusing war and war preparations, and promoting nonviolent action. </p> <p></p><p>If our work on refusing war has registered some gains, these are far outweighed by the climate<br /> engendered by the "war against terror" which states<br /> invokes to justify state terrorism and torture, and to insist on<br /> unquestioning obedience to "military necessity" - no<br /> matter how criminal. Where there is war, however, we usually find<br /> some level of resistance. If a strong movement has yet to cohere<br /> against the war in Afghanistan and the kind of thinking that lends<br /> it a veil of legitimacy, at least a basis is being laid for this,<br /> including through the work against NATO in which WRI is engaged.</p> <p> </p><p>At the WRI conference in 2006 on<br /> "Globalising Nonviolence", there was optimism about the<br /> growing "counter-power" of the movements opposing<br /> capitalist globalisation. Perhaps these movements are now in a less<br /> optimistic phase, yet at the same time the spread of the use of<br /> nonviolent action on global issues continues in local livelihood<br /> struggles as well as on global issues such as climate change. The<br /> "people power" revolutions of the early part of the decade<br /> have had only limited success in establishing democratic values in<br /> their societies - and it is clear that there is need and more space<br /> for the kind of values-based construction of nonviolent movements<br /> that WRI advocates. At the same time, the current resistance to the<br /> coup in Honduras and the range of international nonviolent actions<br /> mounted in solidarity with the Palestinians are just the most<br /> publicised of a growing range of activities where people turn to<br /> nonviolent action to confront unjust and illegitimate power.</p> <p> </p><p>WRI itself has not made many headlines<br /> in the last three or four years. However, we think we have taken<br /> some solid steps in both of our staffed programmes – the Right to<br /> Refuse to Kill and the Nonviolence Programme (which includes our<br /> work against War Profiteers) – as well as in our networking<br /> activities, especially in Latin America and in the European campaign<br /> against NATO (which includes opposing the further militarisation of<br /> the European Union). Moreover, five years ago, we rather expected<br /> that by 2009 we might be discussing how to close down the WRI<br /> office. Instead, we are in a slightly stronger position and looking<br /> forward with some optimism. Our work is having an impact, which puts<br /> us in a better position – with your help – to find the resources<br /> to make it viable.</p> <p> </p><h1>Finances</h1><br /><h5>Achievements</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI received two significant<br /> (but one-time) grants, including our first ever from EU funds,<br /> which may be used as a model for future fundraising.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> We were able to significantly<br /> cut our regular costs, especially the costs of office rent.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Not exactly an achievement,<br /> but due to several legacies WRI has received, we were able to keep<br /> afloat, and now have a better balance than at the beginning of this<br /> period.<br /></p><br /></li></ul><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Challenges</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Network-generated<br /> income continues to be a small proportion of what WRI needs.<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> There<br /> is still no permanent and reliable source of funding for the<br /> Nonviolence Programme.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Income<br /> from sales and individual donations is dwindling.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI<br /> needs to find other reliable sources of income (e.g. through<br /> affiliates doing more international fund-raising, through<br /> merchandising, through internationalising our donor base, etc.)</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_mb5c752e.png" name="graphics5" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics5" /><br clear="LEFT" />Figure<br /> 1: Evolution of WRI's network income sources 1998-2008</p><br /> As we prepare<br /> for the Triennial, time has come to have a look back at the<br /> evolution of WRI's finances over the past few years. We found quite<br /> useful to do it from a 10-year perspective, keeping in mind what<br /> Council said in 2004: "WRI should maintain its radical<br /> anti-militarist character and should function as a network<br /> rather than switch to being a funding-led NGO".<br /><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The figures you see tell a different<br /> story:<br /></p><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_44f9c318.png" name="graphics6" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics6" /><br clear="LEFT" />Figure<br /> 2: WRI general financial results 1998-2008</p><br /> Our <b>main direct income from<br /> the WRI network, the affiliations fees, have gone up and down</b><br /> over the past decade, reaching an all-time low in 2007 (See Figure<br /> 1). We have fared much better in 2008 and will try to maintain that<br /> trend through more efficient reminders to affiliates, but this<br /> income covers less than half a salary in the London office, which<br /> makes us highly dependent on external non-network based funding.<br /><br /></li></ul><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><b>WRI project fundraising</b> (mostly<br /> the Right to Refuse to Kill programme) is the single most important<br /> funding source. In 2007, for example, it <b>accounted for 57% of<br /> our overall income.</b> However, this grant will not go on forever,<br /> and we will have to find alternatives in the short to medium term.<br /> In the meanwhile, we are still faced with the challenge of getting<br /> a stable funding source for the Nonviolence programme, which WRI<br /> has been financing mostly out of its general funds. It is an<br /> extremely valuable programme, well-received within and outside the<br /> WRI network. Giving it continuity is one of our top priorities.<br /></p><br /></li></ul><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><b>Individual donations</b>, once a<br /> significant source of funding, <b>have come down</b> to represent<br /> less than 10% of the overall income. Our donor base is still<br /> overwhelmingly British and does not renew itself.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The rest of our regular income comes<br /> from <b>merchandising</b>. However, this is a <b>very small<br /> contribution</b>, especially since the sales of Broken Rifle badges<br /> have dwindled to almost nothing.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> As you can see from Figure 2, the year<br /> results (i.e., straight income minus expenses) have shown mostly<br /> deficits, with a record low in 2002. So, what has saved the WRI<br /> central office from having to shut down? Of course, we have c<b>ut<br /> on office expenses all we could </b>without<br /> major disruption, the last one being a significant reduction<br /> in office space at Caledonian Road, which does not make staff work<br /> any easier. But what has kept us afloat have actually been<br /> periodical, life-saving<b><br /> legacies </b>(see Figure 3). We would, of course, like to express<br /> our gratitude to the individuals – past volunteers and supporters,<br /> such as <i>Ron and Inge Carley</i> and <i>Dorothy Merkins</i> –<br /> who bequeathed these life-saving sums to us. However, legacies are<br /> hardly a predictable, sustainable funding source for an organisation<br /> like ours.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_395cf7c7.jpg" name="graphics1" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics1" /><br clear="LEFT" />Figure<br /> 3: Proportion of different funding sources in WRI's income,<br /> 1998-2008, not including grants.</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In summary, there is therefore a<br /><b>permanent tension between our ambitions</b> – following a<br /> network rather than NGO model, investing in projects we believe in,<br /> organising costly international meetings, etc. – <b>and our<br /> ability to diversify funding sources</b> and obtain funds in due<br /> time.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Not everything is bad news, though, and<br /> there are some encouraging signs we might be able to start turning<br /> things around. Here are some examples:<br /></p><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In 2008, we managed to break even<br /> thanks partly to a £15,000 legacy, but mostly to getting 100%<br /> funding for the Bilbao Council meeting (including almost £10,000<br /> for the Nonviolence Programme). We also cut down on central office<br /> costs.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The 2009 CO day event was a financial<br /> success, mostly due to the efforts of our Korean affiliates. This<br /> is the way to go.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Towards the end of 2009, we have<br /> received a €20,000 grant as part of the “Europe for Peace”<br /> project. The programme and fundraising process is a collective<br /> effort by several groups in Europe (initiated by our Flemish<br /> section, <i>Vredesactie</i>),<br /> most of which are WRI affiliates. WRI's central office participated<br /> in this project as a UK-based group, and the money will be used to<br /> organise a meeting in the UK linked to the work of the Nonviolence<br /> Programme. This is the first time that WRI (as distinct from its<br /> affiliates) receives European Union funds. It is also a very good<br /> model to follow in the future, especially because it is a<br /> consequence of political work.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> On the merchandising and publications<br /> side, almost all the copies of the English edition of the <i>Handbook<br /> for Nonviolent Campaigns</i> have been speedily distributed through<br /> bulk orders to WRI affiliates and other organisations. We are<br /> also looking into merchandising options which can be organised and<br /> shipped from outside the London office (e.g. a music CD), and would<br /> like to pursue other ideas with WRI affiliates who could take the<br /> lead on it. The new WRI webshop will prove a big help in that<br /> respect.<br /></p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><b>Looking at the future</b>, we have<br /> to keep working on long-term sustainability and one of the main<br /> goals is <b>to increase the percentage of funds coming from<br /> the WRI network. </b>Getting external funding costs an enormous<br /> amount of time, and fundraising cannot fall only on an already<br /> overstretched staff and Exec, as the work priorities shift too far<br /> away from continued network building and programme development.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> We therefore need <b>more overall<br /> commitment from the network to pay affiliate fees </b>and<br /> to engage in other international fund-raising activities as several<br /> have for the conference in India. We also could organise<br /><b>merchandising agreements</b> with some of our member<br /> organisations, both for income and visibility (such cooperation is<br /> also necessary because the London office is now very limited in<br /> storage space). And we need to <b>a</b><b>dapt our pattern of events<br /> to financial reality</b>. Important savings have already been made.<br /> For instance, we are testing out an electronic Council format; but<br /> face-to-face meetings remain indispensable and the success of such<br /> meetings depends strongly on fundraising efforts by local organisers<br /> and specific affiliates, as conference and travel costs are<br /> increasingly difficult to obtain from foundations and trusts.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><b>Another important goal is to<br /> internationalise and diversify our individual donor base</b>: WRI´s<br /> new website will be very useful to reach out to even more people,<br /> but the support of our affiliates remains absolutely necessary,<br /> especially outside of Britain. Affiliates could help by giving WRI<br /> access to their database, organising an appeal on WRI´s behalf or<br /> holding a fundraising event in WRI's benefit.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Finally, it is very important we<br /> identify and pursue <b>funding sources for the Nonviolence<br /> Programme</b>, which cannot receive deficit funding any longer. Here<br /> again, WRI affiliates can help, approaching funders in their own<br /> countries.<br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> It is hard work, but we do get the<br /> rewards from it: higher visibility outside the network, more<br /> dynamism inside the network, more representation from countries in<br /> the South and more south to south collaboration… WRI is still up<br /> and walking after all these years, this is no mean feat in our<br /> current world.</p><br /><h1 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Programme<br /> Work</h1><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Nonviolence Programme</h2><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Achievements</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The <i>Handbook for<br /> Nonviolent Campaigns</i> has been<br /> written and published. Within six months of its publication it has<br /> already been translated to five languages and more than a thousand<br /> print copies have been sent out.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; font-style: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Important networking has been<br /> fostered by various programme activities.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; font-style: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> A first training project (in<br /> Russia) has been organised under the auspices of the programme, and<br /> others are planned.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; font-style: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has gained much<br /> credibility in its work on linking different struggles against war<br /> profiteering.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; font-style: normal; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Some fundraising successes<br /> have been scored, from the relatively small-scale “Triathletes<br /> for Peace” effort to the relatively large one-off grants secured<br /> for the Nonviolence Trainers' Exchange in Bilbao and the new Europe<br /> for Peace project.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Challenges</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Despite<br /> these local successes, the Nonviolence Programme still has no<br /> regular source of funding, and creates a deficit of up to £30,000<br /> in WRI's annual balance. A reliable source of funding for the<br /> programme has to be secured.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The<br /> programme needs to have a stronger programme committee accompanying<br /> it.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Nonviolence Programme was created<br /> in 2005 and has since been staffed by Javier Gárate. In 2005 the NV<br /> Programme was supposed to run for two years using money in WRI's<br /> general funds, with the aim of making the programme self financed<br /> afterwards.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Funding</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Funding still remains the biggest<br /> challenge of the programme, though we had some successful<br /> experiences, especially thanks to the work of <i>Dominique Saillard</i><br /> as WRI Treasurer, who obtained a considerable, but non-renewable,<br /> grant from the Basque Government. The programme has launched a<br /> number of appeals to individuals, some bringing in more money than<br /> others. The latest and relatively successful one was the Triathletes<br /> for Peace appeal, where <i>Javier Gárate</i>, <i>Andy Neidhardt</i>,<br /><i>Ed Neidhardt</i> and <i>Matt Neidhardt</i> ran the London<br /> Triathlon to raise funds for the programme. The programme has<br /> received some project-specific grants, which include the grants for<br /> the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns from <i>Haella Foundation</i><br /> and a grant for the work against war profiteering by Greenpeace<br /> London.<br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Obtaining a larger grant that can cover<br /> for a larger percent of the programme expenses is still a challenge<br /> for the programme. We are now working on raising funds for our work<br /> against war profiteers and for projects linked to nonviolence<br /> training and resources.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Projects</h3><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Handbook<br /> for Nonviolent Campaigns</b></i></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> After much work by the editorial<br /> committee and staff, the Handbook was published in February 2009,<br /> with a print run of 1200 copies. Currently (October 2009) there are<br /> less than 100 copies left in the WRI office and a new print run is<br /> being considered. All the content of the handbook is available on<br /> the WRI website, where there are already new resources that did not<br /> appear in the printed version, and which we plan to continue<br /> updating.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Handbook has so far been translated<br /> into Arabic, Indonesian, Korean, Russian and Spanish. Some of the<br /> texts in the other languages are available from the WRI website as<br /> well. The Indonesian version has already been published while the<br /> Arabic, Korean and Spanish are in the process of being published.<br /> The Russian version is only planned to be distributed as a PDF file.<br /> A Turkish version is being worked on and plans for translating the<br /> Handbook into Hebrew are also being considered.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Both the demand for the English version<br /> and the number of translations show that the Handbook has been well<br /> received and that it answered a real need in terms of resources for<br /> nonviolent campaigning.<br /></p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Nonviolence<br /> training</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Since 2006 the Nonviolence Programme<br /> has conducted several nonviolence trainings. Some have been offered<br /> at world and regional Social Forums, as well as at the Alternative<br /> Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela. In April 2009, a weekend<br /> training was given in Russia by <i>Jørgen Johansen</i> and<br /> coordinated by the Nonviolence Programme. The Nonviolence Programme<br /> also helped coordinate the nonviolent direct action training in<br /> preparation for the NATO-ZU action at the NATO Summit in Strasbourg<br /> in 2009.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Nonviolence<br /> Trainers' Exchange</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Attached to the 2008 WRI Council, there<br /> was a nonviolence training exchange gathering organised by the<br /> Nonviolence Programme in Bilbao, Basque Country. The gathering<br /> brought together trainers from different parts of the world for a<br /> three day event. Participants mainly included members of WRI but<br /> trainers from outside the WRI network also took part.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m4d90a5a3.jpg" name="graphics4" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics4" /><br clear="LEFT" />Nonviolence<br /> Trainer's Exchange, Bilbao</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Global<br /> Initiative against War Profiteers</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m2d5d8f89.png" name="graphics8" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics8" /><br clear="LEFT" />WRI's<br /> e-newsletter warprofiteers-news</p><br /> Working against war profiteers<br /> has been part of the programme since its beginning. First it was<br /> conceived as a global campaign against war profiteers, with the aim<br /> of building a global campaign. This effort was not pursued as it was<br /> hard for the network to agree on one focus for a campaign. In the<br /> last years the effort has been on sharing resources on campaigns<br /> against war profiteers. In 2006 the programme started producing a<br /> by-monthly newsletter – War Profiteers' News – featuring stories<br /> on campaigns against war profiteers and with the highlighted<br /> sections The War Profiteer of the Month and the Campaign of the<br /> Month. For the production of the newsletter there has been a special<br /> effort to invite people working in the field to write articles and<br /> also do their own companies and campaigns profiles, which has<br /> strengthen the cooperation with groups working against war<br /> profiteers.<br /><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Javier<br /> Gárate has represented WRI at several European Network<br /> Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) meetings, he also attended the Stop the<br /> Merchants of Death Conference in the USA. As part of this work the<br /> programme has regularly given workshops on the topic at Social Forum<br /> gathering and also gave a presentation at a conference in Medellin,<br /> Colombia, organised by Red Juvenil.</p> <p> </p><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Nonviolence for Change</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> As mentioned above, the NV programme<br /> organised a WRI presence at a number of Social Forums – with a<br /> comparatively large delegation at the World Social Forum in Nairobi,<br /> Kenya. The NV programme also helped coordinate the efforts of the<br /> European Peace Action Forum in Malmø, that was part of the European<br /> Social Forum. See also under Regionalisation.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_534e9e80.jpg" name="graphics7" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics7" /><br clear="LEFT" />WRI<br /> staff Yvonne Kassim at the World Social Forum in Kenya</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>WRI's<br /> International Conferences</b></h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Nonviolence Programme is closely<br /> linked to the thematic focus of both the previous and the upcoming<br /> WRI International Conference. The 2006 Triennial in Paderborn,<br /> Germany covered a wide range of areas of where nonviolence is alive<br /> in social movements and brought together activists from all<br /> continents. The upcoming Triennial in Ahmedabad, India, with the<br /> theme: “Nonviolent Livelihood Struggle and Global Militarism:<br /> Links &amp; Strategies” is also closely related to the work of the<br /> Nonviolence Programme and promises to be an important gathering to<br /> continue strategising on how to make nonviolence play a more<br /> fundamental role in our work for social change.</p><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" align="LEFT" xml:lang="en-GB">The<br /> Right to Refuse to Kill Programme</h2><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Achievements</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI was able to renew the grant for the Right to Refuse to Kill<br /> programme. The programme is now financed until April 2011.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The UN Working<br /> Group on Arbitrary Detention now considers any detention of a CO as<br /> arbitrary, not just repeated imprisonment.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Work<br /> with Colombian CO groups has been stabilised.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Challenges</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> It is becoming<br /> increasingly difficult to find a focus country for the<br /> International Day on Conscientious Objection (15 May), and to raise<br /> the funds needed for the international event.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> It has<br /> so far not been possible to strengthen the work of WRI and European<br /> WRI affiliates on counter-recruitment and the professionalisation<br /> of the military.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> There is presently little awareness of the issue of conscientious<br /> objection for professional soldiers.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The<br /> programme needs to have a stronger programme committee accompanying<br /> it and promoting more activist involvement.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Right to Refuse to Kill programme<br /> was launched in 2001, with initial funding for 2 years (up to April<br /> 2003). WRI succeeded in securing further funding three times, now<br /> until April 2011. The programme is staffed by Andreas Speck.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Activities</h3><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>International<br /> CO Day</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI started to co-ordinate activities<br /> for International Conscientious Objection Day (15 May) in 2002, to<br /> fill a void left by the International Conscientious Objection<br /> Meeting (ICOM), which did not meet after 1996, and now no longer<br /> exists.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In 2007, International CO Day focused<br /> on Colombia, and was organised in co-operation with the <i>National<br /> Assembly of Conscientious Objectors</i> in Colombia. The event was<br /> hosted by WRI affiliate Red Juvenil in Medellín.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The focus of International CO Day 2008<br /> was on the professionalisation of the military, and<br /> counter-recruitment. However, due to a range of problems an<br /> international event did not happen that year.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In 2009, the focus was on South Korea.<br /> In addition to an issue of <i>The Broken Rifle</i>, WRI published a<br /> documentation on conscientious objection in South Korea, in close<br /> co-operation with <i>Korea Solidarity for Conscientious Objection</i><br /> (KSCO).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_5bb31d2d.jpg" name="graphics9" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics9" /><br clear="LEFT" />Performance<br /> in Seoul on 15 May 2009 - International Conscientious Objection<br /> Day. Photo: Simo Hellsten</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In 2009, South Korean intern <i>Myungjin<br /> Moon</i> and German volunteer <i>Julian Dinkgrefe</i> did a lot of<br /> the work on the documentation. In addition, Myungjin Moon drafted an<br /> update to the WRI <i>World Survey Conscientious Objection and<br /> Recruitment</i> country report.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> For 2010, it is planned to have a focus<br /> on Women and Conscientious Objection. A possible host country for an<br /> international event is Paraguay.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Prisoners<br /> for Peace Day</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> While WRI attempted in the past to<br /> develop Prisoners for Peace Day on 1 December into more of a<br /> campaign, this has not been successful. Since 1 December is now also<br /> World Aids Day, it is almost impossible to get media attention for a<br /> niche theme such as Prisoners for Peace on that day.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In 2006, the focus of Prisoners for<br /> Peace Day was on “Supporting peace and human rights in Russia”,<br /> following the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. In<br /> 2007, the focus was “Support antimilitarists in Turkey”.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In 2008, it was decided to scale back<br /><i>Prisoners for Peace Day</i>, and to no longer produce an issue of<br /><i>The Broken Rifle</i> dedicated to it. This coincided with the<br /> launch of WRI's new website, which includes a permanent <i>Prisoners<br /> for Peace</i> list, accessible via the “<i>In Prison Now</i>”<br /> link on the front page. However, in 2008 WRI still produced a<br /> “Prisoners for Peace Honour Roll”, which was also included with<br /> WRI's December Appeal.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Conscientious<br /> Objection Information System (COBIS)</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> With the launch of WRI's new<br /> website in November 2008, WRI also launched the <i>Conscientious<br /> Objection Information System</i><br /> (COBIS). The COBIS system combines several elements of WRI's work on<br /> conscientious objection:</p><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI's co-alert system in cases of<br /> imprisoned conscientious objectors;</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> a conscientious objector and activist<br /> database;</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> the co-update e-newsletter;</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> and the world survey on conscientious<br /> objection and recruitment.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The system also includes a permanent<br /> Prisoners for Peace list, which will strengthen our support for<br /> imprisoned conscientious objectors and peace activists.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The core of COBIS is the<br /> Activist/Conscientious objectors' database, which features<br /> conscientious objectors from many countries, and includes a range of<br /> data.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Women<br /> CO Anthology</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> While the project to publish a Women CO<br /> Anthology, which started after the WRI Council meeting in South<br /> Korea in 2005, got stalled in 2008, despite some initial enthusiasm,<br /> it was revived again in 2009 and is now scheduled for publication in<br /> early 2010 (ISBN 978‐0‐903517‐22‐5).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Almost all contributions have now been<br /> received and translated into English. They also have been reviewed<br /> by editors <i>Ellen Elster</i> and <i>Majken Sørensen</i>, and are<br /> presently being copy-edited by <i>Mitzi Bales</i>. <i>Cynthia Enloe</i><br /> has contributed a preface, and so far WRI received endorsements from<br /><i>Cynthia Cockburn</i> and <i>Ayse Gül Altinaı</i>.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>World<br /> Survey of Conscientious Objection and Recruitment</b></i><b> updates</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m42ac156e.jpg" name="graphics10" align="LEFT" width="151" height="209" border="0" id="graphics10" />As<br /> a cooperation project with WRI Council member <i>Tobias<br /> Pflüger </i>MEP, WRI produced<br /> an update to the <i>Refusing to<br /> bear arms</i> world survey,<br /> limited to the countries of the European Union and European Union<br /> candidate countries. This update includes information on<br /> conscientious objection for professional soldiers. The update was<br /> published by the GUE/NGL parliamentary group in October 2008, and<br /> the individual country reports<br /> have also been incorporated into WRI's <i>World<br /> Survey on Conscientious Objection and Recruitment</i>.<br /> The report itself can be downloaded from WRI's website. Print copies<br /> are available free of charge on WRI's webshop at<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/8415">http://wri-irg.org/node/8415</a>.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In addition to this update, the country<br /> report on Eritrea has been updated by <i>Julian Dinkgrefe</i>, and<br /> the country report on Switzerland was updated by WRI's programme<br /> staff.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Country-Specific<br /> Work</h3><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Colombia</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Since 2006, Colombia has been one focus<br /> of WRI's Right to Refuse to Kill programme. In July 2006, just<br /> before the WRI Triennial in Germany, <i>Andreas Speck</i><br /> participated in an international conference on solidarity with<br /> Colombian conscientious objectors in Bogota. This was the beginning<br /> of a close co-operation with the <i>National Assembly of<br /> Conscientious Objectors</i> (ANOOC) in Colombia.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> International Conscientious Objection<br /> Day 2007 focused on Colombia (see above), and on this day WRI and<br /> ANOOC also launched the “Conscientious Objectors' ID Card”.<br /> Although the card does not have any legal status, it is a symbol of<br /> the recognition of the right to CO in international law, especially<br /> following the ground-breaking decision of the UN Human Rights<br /> Committee on two South Korean CO cases from November 2006<br /> (CCPR/C/88/D/1321-1322/2004, 23 January 2007).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m77db0d91.png" name="graphics11" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics11" /><br clear="LEFT" />The<br /> CO ID card (sample)</p><br /> The card and the underlying<br /> Conscientious Objectors' Database form the basis of solidarity<br /> activities in case a 'registered' conscientious objector gets into<br /> trouble with the Colombian authorities, as background infomation<br /> about the CO concerned is then already available to the network<br /> (with the launch of WRI's new website in November 2008, the database<br /> has been expanded to also include conscientious objectors from other<br /> countries. It is now also the basis for WRI's permanent Prisoners<br /> for Peace list).<br /><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Two members of the <i>Accion Colectiva<br /> de Objetores y Objetoras de Conciencia</i> from Bogotá visited<br /> Europe in November and December 2007, and also visited several WRI<br /> affiliates – among others, groups of AA-MOC in the state of Spain<br /> and Union Pacifiste in France.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><i>Andreas Speck</i> visited Colombia<br /> again in May 2008, and visited groups in Cali, Villa Rica, Bogotá,<br /> Sincelejo, and Medellin. He also met various governmental officials<br /> and the <i>Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights</i> in<br /> Colombia.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Also in May 2008, the United Nations<br /><i>Working Group on Arbitrary Detention</i> published its Opinion No<br /> 8 (Colombia) on three cases from Colombia, submitted to the Working<br /> Group by War Resisters' International.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In March 2009, Colombian NGOs and CO<br /> groups submitted a “demand of inconstitutionality” to Colombia's<br /> Constitutional Court, claiming that the country's recruitment law<br /> violates the constitution by not providing exemption for<br /> conscientious objectors. Jointly with the Quaker United Nations<br /> Office at Conscience and Peace Tax International, WRI submitted an<br /><i>Amicus Brief </i>to the Constitutional Court.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In August 2009, WRI submitted a<br /> detailed report on recruitment and conscientious objection in<br /> Colombia to the United Nations <i>Human Rights Committee</i>.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In addition, WRI has intervened with<br /> Colombian authorities in several individual cases of recruitment. In<br /> spring 2008, the combined efforts of ANOOC, WRI and others lead to<br /> the release of Diego Alexander Pulgarin and Diego Yesid Bosa Rico<br /> from military service, after several months of resisting within the<br /> military.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Turkey</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_792234a4.jpg" name="graphics12" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics12" /><br clear="LEFT" />Halil<br /> Savda</p><br /> Turkey was the focus for<br /> Prisoners for Peace Day 2007. In addition, WRI acted on the cases of<br /> COs <i>Halil Savda</i> and <i>Mehmet Bal</i>, both of whom were<br /> arrested in the course of 2007. Mehmet Bal has now been released,<br /> while Halil Savda was only released after serving his prison term.<br /> Both have been discharged from the Turkish army as unfit for<br /> military service. Turkish COs consider the discharge of objectors<br /> from the military as “unfit for service” following an arrest to<br /> be possibly a new strategy of the Turkish state.<br /><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI presented the case of Halil Savda<br /> to the <i>Working Group on Arbitrary Detention</i>. Its opinion,<br /> published in May 2008, goes further than in the past and now says<br /> that any deprivation of an objector's liberty – not just repeated<br /> imprisonment – has to be seen as arbitrary.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Turkish edition of the book<br /> documenting the international conference on CO in Istanbul on 27-28<br /> January 2007 has been published. The English edition was published<br /> by Zed Books in spring 2009, and is now available on WRI's webshop.<br /> Both have been edited by <i>Özgür Heval Cınar</i> and <i>Coskun<br /> Üsterçi</i>, and include contributions by, among others, <i>Andreas<br /> Speck</i>, WRI Executive member <i>Pelao Carvallo</i>, and several<br /> other WRI activists.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Russia</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><i>Andreas Speck</i> and Exec member<br /><i>Sergeiy Sandler</i> visited Russia in late February and early<br /> March 2007, consolidating existing links and making new contacts<br /> with a variety of Russian groups. It is becoming increasingly clear<br /> that most Russian contacts are interested in WRI for its experience<br /> of antimilitarism and nonviolence, and work little on the<br /> formalities of conscientious objection. As a follow-up, <i>Olga<br /> Miryasova</i> participated in the WRI/New Profile seminar on gender<br /> and militarism in August 2007, where she gave a presentation on<br /> “Abuse in the Military – Gender Aspects” (available on the WRI<br /> website).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Work on Russia also continues as part<br /> of the Nonviolence Programme.</p><br /><h1 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Organisation<br /> and Network</h1><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB">The<br /> Office</h2><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB">Staff,<br /> Volunteers and Interns</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> All three WRI staff members have often<br /> been working long hours, and the workload has sometimes been<br /> increased due to changes in the office (see below). In September<br /> 2009, WRI's finance and admin worker <i>Yvonne Kassim</i> retired,<br /> and at the time of writing the report WRI is recruiting a<br /> replacement.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In the last three years WRI has<br /> received a range of volunteers and interns. <i>Sofie Henell</i><br /> helped in the office about two days a week in autumn 2008 with work<br /> on the India conference. <i>Julian Dinkgrefe</i> from Germany did a<br /> voluntary social year in the WRI Office from August 2008 to July<br /> 2009, doing most of the porting of the old WRI website to the new<br /> website. In September 2009, <i>Christopher Bösch</i> from Germany<br /> started his voluntary social year in the WRI Office. From January to<br /> April 2009 <i>Myungjin Moon</i> from South Korea did a three month<br /> internship in the WRI office, mostly working on conscientious<br /> objection in South Korea.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Unfortunately, in September 2007, two<br /> Russian interns who were supposed to come to London got their visas<br /> denied. This meant that work on Russia could not progress as much as<br /> we would have hoped.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> London-based volunteer <i>Natasha<br /> Burton</i> volunteered in the office three days a week from 2007<br /> until December 2008, first trying to raise funds for a co-operation<br /> project with the Eritrean Antimilitarism Initiative in Germany and<br /> the Eritrean Movement for Democracy and Human Rights in South<br /> Africa. After that, she developed a research proposal on military<br /> service and domestic violence. <i>Martyn Lowe</i> is still taking<br /> care of WRI's paper archives, and helps with mailings. <i>Mitzi<br /> Bales</i> is presently volunteering to copy-edit the Women CO<br /> Anthology.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Until the launch of the new WRI<br /> website, in November 2008, <i>Ken Simons</i> was the voluntary<br /> webmaster of WRI, often putting up new information at an incredible<br /> speed. <i>Simo Hellsten</i> volunteered to provide the theming for<br /> WRI's new website.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has also benefited from the work of<br /> our financial agents: <i>Tom<br /> Leonard in New York, taking over from the late Ralph DiGia, and<br /> Helga Weber in Germany continue to do vital voluntary work handling<br /> WRI's income in the USA and Germany.</i></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> And last but not least, WRI would not<br /> be able to function without the many voluntary translators: <i>Inge<br /> Dreger</i>, <i>Gerd Büntzly</i>, <i>Francesca Denley</i>, <i>Pedro<br /> J. Ballesteros</i>, <i>Carlos Barranco</i>, <i>Nayua Abdelkefi</i>,<br /><i>Pelao Carvallo</i>, <i>Oscar Huenchunao</i>, <i>Cecile Barbeito<br /> Thonon</i>, <i>Ima Katarina Segunda Drolshagen</i>, <i>Silke<br /> Makowski</i>, <i>Tikiri</i>, <i>Rene Burget</i>, and many others.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><b>Deaths:</b> Under finance, we have<br /> already noted legacies bequeathed to WRI by people who have died<br /> since 2006. We also look back with gratitude on the long and active<br /> lives of figures such as <i>Jean van Lierde</i>, past treasurer and<br /> vice-chair of WRI, <i>Ralph DiGia</i>, our US financial agent for<br /> decades, and <i>Howard and Margaret Cheney</i> (British tax<br /> resisters and generous donors to WRI). The sudden death of <i>Keith<br /> Goddard</i> in October 2009, director of Gays and Lesbians of<br /> Zimbabwe who had planned to come to the conference in Ahmedabad, has<br /> been a heavy blow for all those who worked with him.<br /></p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Office<br /> Space and Equipment</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> There have been many changes in the<br /> office space, especially in 2007, aimed at cutting down on office<br /> rent. WRI gave up the meeting room and the small front office at the<br /> 1<sup>st</sup> floor of 5 Caledonian Rd., London. In exchange, WRI<br /> got a new small office extension on the roof of the building. Peace<br /> News Trustees, the owners of the building, have also created a new<br /> meeting room space in the basement, which can be used by all the<br /> groups based at 5 Caledonian Rd. free of charge.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> All these office changes put an extra<br /> burden on WRI staff, who not only had to cope with the construction<br /> works, but also had to do some of them, especially wiring and<br /> furnishings, themselves. However, these changes allow us to save<br /> several thousand pounds a year on rent.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In 2008, WRI took over managing its<br /> premises from the <i>Lansbury House Trust Fund</i>, who had acted as<br /> an intermediary before. Immediately, WRI switched its electricity<br /> provider and now uses <i>Ecotricity</i>, a company providing<br /> electricity produced entirely from renewable sources, mainly from<br /> wind turbines.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In terms of equipment, WRI maintained<br /> its policy to buy one new computer every year, to keep its computer<br /> system up to date. In September 2009, WRI also completed the process<br /> of moving the entire office to the <i>GNU/Linux</i> operating<br /> system, so that WRI no longer is dependent on commercial proprietary<br /> software.</p><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">The<br /> Network</h2><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB">Achievements</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> After a long break, WRI again<br /> has a treasurer.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Serious work has been done,<br /> and partly implemented, on the WRI's pattern of meetings.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI's first ever<br /> Internet-based Council meeting took place in June 2009.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Challenges</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Follow-up<br /> on discussions and decisions between Council meetings is minimal.<br /> Almost all of the work that is being done is coordinated, and<br /> mostly performed, by the office staff and, to a lesser degree, by<br /> Executive members and a handful of other committed, but busy,<br /> individuals.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Gender<br /> balance on Council and in the Executive Committee is difficult to<br /> attain.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Participation<br /> in the e-Council was strongly dominated by men, and by staff and<br /> Executive Committee members.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI<br /> needs to review the utility of the Working Groups, that only exist<br /> nominally, and adopt other models for developing cooperation.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB">Executive<br /> Committee</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Executive consists of <i>Howard<br /> Clark</i> (chair), <i>Boro Kitanoski</i>, <i>Sergeiy Sandler</i>,<br /><i>Majken Sørensen</i> (until July 2008), <i>Pelao Carvallo</i><br /> (from September 2008), and <i>Hilal Demir</i> (from September 2008).<br /><i>Dominique Saillard</i> joined the Executive as Acting Treasurer<br /> in February 2008, and was appointed as Treasurer at the Council<br /> Meeting in Bilbao in September 2008. The Executive as a whole now<br /> has a clearer understanding of financial objectives. Dominique has<br /> also contributed her own fundraising and organisational skills into<br /> our work. She obtained the funding for the <i>Nonviolence Training<br /> Exchange</i> and the 2008 Council in Bilbao and did much of the<br /> organising work for the event.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Executive usually met three times a<br /> year – once at the seminar and Council meeting, and twice in the<br /> course of the year. While regular Executive meetings were<br /> traditionally held in the office, since 2008, they have increasingly<br /> taken place elsewhere, often linked to other activities (such as<br /> NATO-Game over in Brussels in March 2008, or the Berlin anti-NATO<br /> conference in October 2009), to allow for a stronger WRI presence in<br /> these events.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Council<br /> meetings and conferences</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The 2007 Council meeting was held in<br /> Neve Shalom, Israel, in August 2007. The 2007 Council meeting raised<br /> several issues of importance for our future work. Substantial<br /> progress has been made on the difficult issue of the WRI<br /> Constitution, serious and detailed consideration has been given to<br /> planning WRI's pattern of meetings in the coming years and some<br /> thinking was started on decentralising WRI's activities, both to<br /> prepare for the possibility of losing our central office and to<br /> strengthen the WRI network in general.<br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Alas, follow-up on these subjects in<br /> between Council meetings was a problem – another testimony to the<br /> need to expand and invigorate our network. The issue of<br /> decentralisation was essentially not followed up. The Constitution<br /> Committee held very few discussions over the following year.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Council 2008 took place in September<br /> 2008 in Bilbao in the Basque Country (State of Spain), and was<br /> mainly organised by WRI's Treasurer <i>Dominique Saillard</i>. The<br /> Council finalised a proposal for a new WRI Constitution (see under<br /> Constitution), and decided on to hold WRI's an electronic Council<br /> meeting in summer 2009.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI's electronic Council meeting (or<br /> e-Council, for short) was held on 3-16 June 2009. While we did have<br /> an e-mail consultation of Council back in 2003, this was the first<br /> time we experimented with an internet-based format for a proper<br /> Council meeting. This, of course, allowed for a very significant<br /> saving in resources, and is a format that we should probably be<br /> using more in the future.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In some senses the experiment was a<br /> success. There were discussions, some quite lively, on the different<br /> Council threads. All in all, we had 34 people taking part, on one<br /> level or other, in e-Council discussions, which is quite comparable<br /> to the attendance of a physical Council meeting.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> That said, the pattern of participation<br /> revealed many problems. About two thirds of participants were men,<br /> who were responsible for more than 85% (!) of all posts to the<br /> discussion threads – a classical exercise in gender studies<br /> wouldn't have produced a more telling picture. The participation was<br /> also very much centre-driven, in that WRI staff, Executive Committee<br /> members, and a few others who were facilitators of discussion<br /> threads were together responsible for almost two thirds of the posts<br /> made. On the other hand, the relatively large number of<br /> contributions made was very off-putting for many other participants,<br /> who could not handle the amount of e-mail messages they received, or<br /> had difficulty with the technical side of things. Finally, language<br /> was also an important issue, as the little discussion there was on<br /> the Spanish language Council forum was often quite disconnected from<br /> the discussion on the same subjects in English.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> All these problems call for reworking<br /> the ways in which future e-Council meetings will be conducted, both<br /> in terms of the technological systems used and in terms of our own<br /> discussion etiquette.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> As for the topics discussed, the<br /> e-Council accepted the HRJP Foundation of Nigeria to WRI as an<br /> associate, and the Tolstoyans (UK) as a section, some discussions<br /> have been held in preparation for our International Conference in<br /> India and our Global Initiative against War Profiteers (see under<br /> Nonviolence Programme above) was discussed and received the blessing<br /> of several activists inside and outside the WRI network, who took<br /> part in the discussion.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Working<br /> Groups</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The idea of Working Groups was that<br /> they could offer a place for WRI activists to network with each<br /> other on particular themes without depending on the office.<br /> Historically some valuable work has been carried out by some of<br /> these groups – but at the moment not one of them offers a model of<br /> how our network can function more effectively.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Africa Working Group, despite the<br /> effort made in having a noticeable WRI presence at the Nairobi World<br /> Social Forum in 2007, remains largely limited to the<br /> information-gathering and networking with African groups of its<br /> long-time convenors, Matt Meyer and Jan van Criekinge. Their<br /> valuable work is greatly appreciated, but 15 years ago we thought of<br /> this as a launchpad for something more.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Colombia Working Group is no more<br /> than an email list – useful for some coordination but not a group,<br /> and with no plans.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> There has been little activity in the<br /> Nonviolence Training Working Group email list. Group convenor Dorie<br /> Wilsnack and some list members made a significant contribution to<br /> the editorial process of the <i>Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</i>,<br /> but it seems a different structure is required to give more support<br /> to the development of nonviolence training as part of the<br /> Nonviolence Programme.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI's work on gender has continued –<br /> notably the 2007 seminar in Neve Shalom, the gender exercises in the<br /> 2008 Nonviolence Training Exchange, the bringing to completion of<br /> the Women's CO Anthology (credit goes to editors Ellen Elster and<br /> Majken Sørensen), and the process of reflection stimulated by<br /> Cynthia Cockburn's research work on WRI (Cynthia was present at our<br /> Council meeting, and the preceding trainers' exchange, in Bilbao,<br /> and has presented her project to us there; her profile of WRI has<br /> been completed and sent out on the WRI-Internal mailing list).<br /> However, this has largely taken place outside the framework of the<br /> Women's Working Group, and there has been little activity on its<br /> email list.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Working Group on Military<br /> Intervention established notionally at WRI's 2006 conference has not<br /> functioned as envisaged but see the section below on European<br /> regional networking.<br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Apart<br /> from the Women's Working Group, WRI Working Groups have not provided<br /> a good vehicle for cooperation within WRI more or less since the<br /> advent of the internet! Increased regional cooperation in Latin<br /> America and Europe is pointing to a different way of improving<br /> cooperation between WRI activists, but the need remains for some<br /> more global and more thematic meeting points.<br /></p><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Regionalisation and Liaison with<br /> Other Groups</h2><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB">Achievements</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In recent years, it has been<br /> possible to develop a core network of European WRI and non-WRI<br /> groups working together against NATO and militarism.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The work within the broader<br /> anti-NATO coalition has also increased the visibility of WRI and<br /> its affiliates in the broader peace movement.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> On the initiative of<br /><i>Vredesactie</i>, it has been possible to obtain funding for<br /> several European WRI affiliates to continue this networking.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> A Latin American regional<br /> network is also forming. The need for such a network has been felt<br /> and recognised by a number of Latin American activists and groups,<br /> and lively communication has been established between them, linking<br /> also with the WRI office in London.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has strengthened its<br /> cooperation with a range of international and regional<br /> organisations.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The participation in the<br /> International Coordination Committee No to NATO 2009 has increased<br /> WRI's visibility in the broader peace movements, although it has<br /> not always been easy.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Challenges</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Too much of the European<br /> networking has so far been initiated or coordinated by the WRI<br /> Office, and also by WRI's Belgian affiliate <i>Vredesactie</i>. The<br /> network does not yet function on its own, and does not yet take<br /> decisions as a network.<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Latin America network is<br /> yet to arrange a regional meeting (although one is planned for the<br /> coming year).</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Too much of the liaison with<br /> other organisations is reliant on the WRI Office, even when there<br /> is not a clear need for this.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Regional<br /> Networking: Europe</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In early 2003, in the run-up to the war<br /> on Iraq, British nonviolent action groups called for coordinated<br /> action at military bases against the war on Iraq. In February 2003,<br /> the WRI Executive Committee decided to take up the idea to call for<br /> a weekend of nonviolent action at military bases under the slogan<br /> “<i>Reclaim The Bases</i>”. This was meant also to strengthen<br /> networking among WRI's more action-oriented European affiliates.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> While back then the success was very<br /> limited – not only in terms of the attempt to prevent the war on<br /> Iraq, but also in terms of strengthening our network – WRI's<br /> Belgian section <i>Vredesactie</i> later took the initiative to<br /> build a stronger European network focusing on nonviolent direct<br /> action (expanding a network of its own European contacts, including<br /> some other WRI affiliates, developed while organising actions<br /> against nuclear weapons sites since 1997).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> For the <i>European Social Forum</i><br /> (ESF) in London in 2004 the WRI Office initiated some cooperation<br /> between European WRI groups and other peace organisations, to<br /> organise a series of workshops at the forum. This involved – among<br /> others – <i>DFG-VK</i>, <i>Vredesactie</i>, and the <i>Campaign<br /> Against Arms Trade</i>.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> At the Triennial in Germany in 2006, it<br /> was decided to establish a <i>Working Group Against Military<br /> Interventions</i>, focusing primarily on groups in Europe. The<br /> objectives were:</p><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> to create a network of groups (WRI and<br /> non-WRI) to work on actions against military interventions and<br /> military infrastructure</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> to promote this area of work among<br /> European WRI members</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> While it is hard to claim that the<br /> Working Group really functioned, <i>Vredesactie</i> and the WRI<br /> Office have cooperated in strengthening the European network since.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_77b92f61.jpg" name="graphics13" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics13" /><br clear="LEFT" />NATO-Game<br /> over action in Brussels, Easter 2008</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In March 2008, <i>Vredesactie</i><br /> organised an international <i>Bombspotting</i> action at the NATO<br /> headquarters in Brussels, with support from the WRI Office. Of the<br /> 1,000 participants, more than a hundred came from other European<br /> countries – Spain, France, Britain, Sweden, Denmark, Germany,<br /> Finland, Croatia, Macedonia, Russia, and possibly other countries.<br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Following the action itself, a seminar<br /> on <i>Military Globalisation and Nonviolent Resistance in Europe</i>,<br /> co-organised by Vredesactie and WRI, was held with the aim of<br /> strengthening the European coordination of groups campaigning<br /> against military infrastructure and military intervention coming out<br /> of Europe. The seminar was attended by many groups in the WRI<br /> network and beyond. WRI affiliates <i>AA-MOC</i>, <i>KEM-MOC</i>,<br /><i>Peace Action</i>, <i>AMK</i>, <i>DFG-VK</i>, <i>AKL Finland</i>,<br /><i>UPF</i> and possibly others were involved.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In September of the same year, WRI was<br /> involved in an initiative of the Swedish antimilitarist group <i>Ofog</i><br /> to organise a <i>European Peace Action Forum</i> as part of the<br /><i>European Social Forum</i> in Malmø, 17-21 September 2008. This<br /> again brought many of the groups mentioned above together.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Following the European Social Forum WRI<br /> got involved in the international coalition against NATO, which was<br /> formally launched at an international conference in Stuttgart on 4/5<br /> October 2008. In addition, <i>Vredesactie</i> and the WRI Office<br /> pushed for nonviolent direct action at the NATO summit in Strasbourg<br /> on 3/4 April 2009, which lead to the formation of the coalition<br /><i>NATO-ZU</i> (<i>Shut down NATO</i>) in January 2009. In April,<br /> more than 200 people from many WRI affiliates participated in the<br /> NATO-ZU blockade. In October 2009, a meeting of several European WRI<br /> affiliates and other nonviolent groups is to take place in Berlin,<br /> to plan coordinated activities against NATO in the future.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Regional<br /> Networking: Latin America</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Since<br /> the last WRI Triennial, there have been a number of developments on<br /> regional networking in Latin America. Latin American participants at<br /> the 2006 Triennial in Germany agreed that more and better<br /> cooperation between antimilitarist groups in Latin America is<br /> needed. In parallel, following the CO day training and action in the<br /> USA in May 2006 some of the activitsts present proposed to relaunch<br /> a Latin American network, which later included the proposal of<br /> having a WRI regional office. The proposal was discussed at later<br /> gatherings (the <i>No Bases</i><br /> conference in Quito and the 2007 CO day events in Colombia). The<br /> idea of a regional office fell through, at least for the time being,<br /> but work began on strengthening the direct cooperation between<br /> antimilitarist groups on the regional level.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> As<br /> a first step, an e-mail group of Latin American antimilitarist<br /> activists was created for sharing information and working<br /> on concrete proposals of cooperation. Through these last years this<br /> listserve has been very active and groups from several countries are<br /> subscribed to it.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Some<br /> concrete examples of<br /> cooperation have been the two statements from the network, the first<br /> denouncing the escalation of conflict between Colombia, Venezuela<br /> and Ecuador in March 2008, and the second condemning the recent coup<br /> in Honduras.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Another<br /> important cooperation<br /> effort has been the publication of the magazine <i>Periferica,</i><br /> an initiative of GAAA in Asunción, Paraguay. The magazine has<br /> enjoyed the active participation of members from the regional<br /> network, which is consistent with their editorial line. The magazine<br /> has been a space for exchanging content and promoting the work of<br /> different organisations in the region.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> An initiative that is<br /> still pending is to have a regional meeting that provides the space<br /> for consolidating the regional cooperation process. A proposal for a<br /> meeting in Quito, Ecuador, has been explored, without much success<br /> yet (mainly due to funding problems), but there is confidence that<br /> some kind of regional meeting will take place within the next year.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Following on the<br /> relatively good level of presence of Latin American activists at the<br /> 2006 Triennial, WRI has had Latin American activists present at its<br /> meetings since. Xavier León of Ecuador was present at the 2007<br /> Council in Israel. A larger contingent of activists from Paraguay,<br /> Ecuador and Colombia took part in the 2008 Council in Bilbao. Latin<br /> American regionalisation was also one of the subject threads of our<br /> e-Council in 2009.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The<br /> presence of Adriana Castaño<br /> Román<br /> and Pelao Carvallo as elected Council members and especially Pelao<br /> joining the Executive, has helped to make WRI more visible in<br /> Latin America and to make Latin America more visible in WRI. We hope<br /> that the seeds that have been planted in these four years will bear<br /> fruit in the future.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Liaison<br /> with groups outside WRI</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has more or less close<br /> relationships with a range of other organisations.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">International<br /> Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has had contact with the IFOR<br /> office in Alkmaar on several occasions. Isabelle Geuskens and<br /> Benashe Hejazi from IFOR's <i>Women's Peacemaker Programme</i> (WPP)<br /> participated in the WRI/New Profile seminar “Gender and<br /> Militarism” in Israel in August 2007. This followed on from the<br /> close co-operation between the WRI Women's Working Group and IFOR's<br /> WPP on the international training consultation “<i>Asking the<br /> Right Questions: Gender and Nonviolence</i>” in 2004.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The Women's Peacemaker Programme will<br /> also be present at our upcoming conference, <i>Nonviolent Livelihood<br /> Struggle and Global Militarism – Links &amp; Strategies</i> in<br /> January 2010 and gave us a crucial lead for fund-raising.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> IFOR is also helping to spread WRI's<br /><i>Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</i>, and in spring 2009 ordered<br /> 200 copies of the handbook.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Quaker<br /> Peace and Social Witness/Turning the Tide</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"></p> <p> </p><p lang="en-GB" align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m278efce1.jpg" name="graphics14" align="LEFT" width="100%" border="0" id="graphics14" /><br clear="LEFT" />Steve<br /> Whiting from QPSW/Turning the Tide at the Nonviolence Trainers'<br /> Exchange in Bilbao</p><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has had a good cooperation with<br /> Turning the Tide in the past few years. Staff members of TTT helped<br /> in the process of producing the Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns<br /> and helped promoting it. Steve Whiting from TTT attended the<br /> Nonviolence Training Exchange in Bilbao. TTT also cooperated with<br /> WRI in the preparation for workshops in nonviolence at the European<br /> Social Forum in Malmø in 2008. Marcus Armstrong represented them in<br /> Malmø and conducted a workshop on the Movement Action Plan together<br /> with Andreas Speck.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> TTT has a year-long nonviolence<br /> training programme, which WRI interns have attended.<br /></p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>International<br /> Coordination Committee No to NATO 2009 (ICC)</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In October 2008, WRI joined the<br /> International Coordination Committee No to NATO 2009 (ICC), which<br /> has been formed to organise the protest against the NATO summit in<br /> Strasbourg and Baden Baden on 3/4 April 2009. The ICC is a broad<br /> international (mainly European) coalition of peace, anti-war and<br /> anti-capitalist groups, involving groups from most European<br /> countries, but so far dominated by German and French groups.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Working in this coalition has not<br /> always been easy. Before the summit, WRI had to work hard co create<br /> understanding and acceptance for actions of civil disobedience<br /> during the summit – something which especially most of the French<br /> groups found hard to accept.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> After<br /> the summit, which was overshadowed by violent actions, WRI's<br /> objective is to be clearer on nonviolence within this broader<br /> coalition. This has been reflected, among other things, in a series<br /> of articles by Andreas Speck, which have generated a fair amount<br /> of debate in the movement (see: “Strasbourg<br /> – The organiser’s viewpoint”,<br /> in <i>Peace News</i><br /> No 2510, June 2009; “NATO-ZU/Shut<br /> down NATO: A successful nonviolent blockade in Strasbourg in the<br /> middle of violence”,<br /><a href="http://wri-irg.org/node/7162">http://wri-irg.org/node/7162</a>;<br /> “After<br /> Strasbourg: On dealing with violence in one's own ranks”,<br /> in <i>Graswurzelrevolution</i><br /> No 339, May 2009).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI's future involvement in the ICC and<br /> the broader anti-NATO coalition is to be discussed at a meeting with<br /> several European WRI affiliates and other nonviolent action oriented<br /> groups in Berlin, in October 2009.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Quaker<br /> United Nations Office (QUNO) Geneva</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has a close cooperation with QUNO<br /> Geneva as part of the work of the <i>Right to Refuse to Kill</i><br /> programme. Rachel Brett from QUNO Geneva participated in meetings<br /> with Colombian authorities following the 15 May activities in<br /> Colombia in May 2007. There has also been a close co-operation on<br /> submissions to the <i>Working Group on Arbitrary Detention</i> and<br /> in relation to the <i>Universal Periodic Review</i> and the<br /> evaluation of country reports by the <i>Human Rights </i><i>Committee</i>.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Conscience<br /> and Peace Tax International (CPTI)</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has a close cooperation with CPTI<br /> as part of the work of the <i>Right to Refuse to Kill</i> programme,<br /> also linked to our joint work with QUNO (referred to above). Derek<br /> Brett from CPTI participated in meetings with Colombian authorities<br /> following the 15 May activities in Colombia in May 2007. In<br /> addition, Derek Brett and Andreas Speck regularly share information<br /> on the situation regarding conscientious objection in a range of<br /> countries – information which forms the basis of CPTI's and WRI's<br /> submissions to the <i>Human Rights Committee</i> and the <i>Universal<br /> Periodic Review</i>.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Andreas Speck also participated in the<br /> International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax<br /> Campaigns in Manchester in September 2008.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI, CPTI and QUNO Geneva submitted a<br /> joint amicus brief to the Constitutional Court of Colombia, in<br /> support of a claim of unconstitutionality of the Colombian law on<br /> recruitment (see <i>Right to Refuse to Kill</i> programme). The same<br /> organisations – plus the Geneva based <i>CCPR Centre</i> – hope<br /> to co-operate on a project to update and expand Emily Miles' book<br /><i>The Conscientious Objector's Guide to the UN Human Rights<br /> System</i>”, originally published by WRI in 2000.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>SFD<br /> Kassel</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In 2008, WRI began a cooperation with<br /> the SFD Kassel, an organisation sending Germans abroad for a<br /> year-long voluntary service. As part of this cooperation, Julian<br /> Dinkgrefe did a voluntary service at WRI from August 2008 to July<br /> 2009. Christopher Bösch started his voluntary service on 1<br /> September 2009.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>El<br /> Libertario</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> El Libertario is an anarchist and<br /> antimilitarist periodical published by a collective of the same<br /> name. Cooperation with El Libertario started in 2004 when Rafael<br /> Uzcategui, from Venezuela, attended the 15<sup>th</sup> of May event<br /> in Santiago, Chile. In 2006 WRI actively participated at the<br /> Alternative Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela which was organised<br /> by El Libertario. In 2007 Rafael Uzcategui joined the WRI delegation<br /> to the World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya, to speak about the<br /> importance to strive against all militarism, highlighting the strong<br /> militarisation that the Venezuelan society is facing in the past<br /> years, while at the same time recognising the importance of changes<br /> in Venezuela. More recently Howard Clark wrote the preface for a<br /> forthcoming book published by El Libertario about militarism. Rafael<br /> Uzcategui has been one of the key members promoting a stronger<br /> cooperation between antimilitarist groups in Latin America and<br /> helped draft the statements against the escalation of confrontation<br /> between Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador as well as the statement<br /> against the coup in Honduras. Finally WRI has published several<br /> articles written by Rafael Uzcategui focusing on Venezuela and the<br /> arms trade and the general increase of militarisation in Venezuela.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Ofog</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI's<br /> worked closely with the Swedish antimilitarist group Ofog in<br /> organising the European Peace Action Forum at the European Social<br /> Forum in Malmø, Sweden, in 2008. Ofog has also been our partner in<br /> several anti-Nato actions, and, most recently, in the Europe for<br /> Peace project (see under Finances above).</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">European<br /> Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT)</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI has had a good cooperation with ENAAT since the last WRI<br /> Triennial. ENAAT was very well represented at the Germany Triennial,<br /> with activists from Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT) in the UK,<br /> Vredesactie in Belgium (also a WRI affiliate) and Campaign Against<br /> the Arms Trade in the Netherlands, who were key participants of the<br /> theme group on war profiteers. WRI has attended ENAAT annual<br /> meetings in Oslo and in Barcelona (where we were represented by Exec<br /> member Hilal Demir).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI organised a workshop on war profiteers at the 2008 European<br /> Social Forum, where SPAS from Sweden, Centre d' Estudis JM Delas<br /> from Catalonia and Vredesactie from Belgium were speakers<br /> representing ENAAT. The latest manifestation of this cooperation was<br /> the participation of Ann Feltham (CAAT, UK), Inez Louwagie<br /> (Vredesactie) and Wendela de Vries (Campaign Against the Arms Trade<br /> in the Netherlands) at the war profiteers topic at WRI's e-Council.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Committee<br /> for Conflict Transformation Support (CCTS)</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> As in previous years, WRI remained<br /> represented at CCTS meetings. At the moment the future of the<br /> committee is not clear. Some individuals and organisations are still<br /> keen to have the committee continue functioning. WRI has been clear<br /> that it cannot put any energy into it apart from attending meetings<br /> and the odd cooperation when requested. Nevertheless, it was through<br /> the contacts made in the CCTS that we managed to raise funds for the<br /> nonviolence training in Russia from the International Peacemakers<br /> Fund of FOR England.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>European<br /> Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO)</b></h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI cooperates with EBCO especially as<br /> part of its <i>Right to Refuse to Kill</i> programme. Andreas Speck<br /> attended EBCO meetings in Brussels and Athens.</p><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">WRI<br /> publications</h2><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Achievements</h5><br /><table dir="LTR" align="LEFT" width="478" hspace="8" vspace="8" border="1" bordercolor="#000000" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" frame="VOID"><br /><col width="52" /><br /><col width="26" /><br /><col width="30" /><br /><col width="36" /><br /><col width="32" /><br /><col width="28" /><br /><col width="42" /><br /><col width="33" /><br /><col width="31" /><br /><col width="42" /><br /><col width="38" /><br /><tr><br /><td colspan="11" width="470" valign="TOP"><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" style="margin-top: 0cm; background: transparent" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><i><b>Website access<br /> statistics</b></i></h4><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52" bgcolor="#00ffff"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Month</b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="4" width="148" bgcolor="#00ffff"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Daily<br /> Average</b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="6" width="254" bgcolor="#00ffff"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><b>Monthly<br /> Totals</b></p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><br /></p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Hits</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="30"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Files</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="36"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Pages</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="32"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Visits</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="28"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Sites</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Volume</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="33"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Visits</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="31"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Pages</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Files</b></i></p><br /></td><br /><td width="38"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="CENTER" xml:lang="en-GB"><i><b>Hits</b></i></p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Sep<br /> 2009<a href="http://stats.wri-irg.org/usage_200909.html"><sup>*)</sup></a></p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">23461</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="21953" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">21953</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="12868" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">12868</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="2628" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">2628</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="8503" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">8503</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">2.75<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="18401" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">18401</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="90081" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">90081</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="153677" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">153677</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="164230" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">164230</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Aug<br /> 2009</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">29625</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="27171" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">27171</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="19023" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">19023</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="2833" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">2833</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="29885" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">29885</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">13.24<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="87827" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">87827</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="589735" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">589735</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="842331" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">842331</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="918385" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">918385</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Jul<br /> 2009</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">28226</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="26403" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">26403</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="17776" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">17776</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="2048" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">2048</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="28345" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">28345</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">12.77<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="63508" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">63508</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="551063" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">551063</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="818513" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">818513</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="875008" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">875008</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Jun<br /> 2009</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">30519</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="28180" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">28180</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="17281" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">17281</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="1996" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1996</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="29936" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">29936</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">13.52<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="59887" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">59887</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="518434" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">518434</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="845402" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">845402</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="915572" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">915572</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">May<br /> 2009</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">30732</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="28779" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">28779</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="16894" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">16894</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="2026" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">2026</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="32200" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">32200</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">13.95<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="62809" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">62809</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="523738" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">523738</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="892169" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">892169</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="952713" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">952713</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Apr<br /> 2009</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">33340</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="30784" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">30784</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="17122" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">17122</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="1968" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1968</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="30346" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">30346</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">18.89<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="59067" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">59067</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="513661" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">513661</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="923538" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">923538</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="1000224" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1000224</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Mar<br /> 2009</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">35329</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="32669" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">32669</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="18469" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">18469</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="1889" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1889</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="35576" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">35576</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">27.97<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="58588" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">58588</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="572547" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">572547</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="1012762" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1012762</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="1095204" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1095204</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Feb<br /> 2009</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">31192</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="28027" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">28027</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="19308" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">19308</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="1844" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1844</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="26570" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">26570</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">13.72<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="51641" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">51641</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="540630" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">540630</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="784756" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">784756</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="873399" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">873399</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Jan<br /> 2009</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">26889</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="24331" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">24331</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="16153" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">16153</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="1328" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1328</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="23710" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">23710</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">11.55<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="41195" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">41195</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="500760" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">500760</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="754282" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">754282</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="833579" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">833579</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Dec<br /> 2008</p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">32419</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="28341" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">28341</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="20910" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">20910</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="1363" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1363</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="26993" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">26993</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">12.95<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="42275" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">42275</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="648235" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">648235</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="878582" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">878582</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="1005007" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">1005007</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr valign="TOP"><br /><td width="52"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Nov<br /> 2008<sup>**)</sup></p><br /></td><br /><td width="26"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">7754</p><br /></td><br /><td width="30" sdval="5504" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">5504</p><br /></td><br /><td width="36" sdval="4013" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">4013</p><br /></td><br /><td width="32" sdval="277" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">277</p><br /></td><br /><td width="28" sdval="5526" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">5526</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">2.93<br /> Gb</p><br /></td><br /><td width="33" sdval="8324" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">8324</p><br /></td><br /><td width="31" sdval="120415" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">120415</p><br /></td><br /><td width="42" sdval="165143" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">165143</p><br /></td><br /><td width="38" sdval="232633" sdnum="2057;"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" align="RIGHT" xml:lang="en-GB">232633</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /><tr><br /><td colspan="11" width="470" valign="TOP"><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.31cm; margin-right: 0.01cm; margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> *)<br /> Statistic has been prepared on 7 September, so does not cover all<br /> of September</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-left: 0.31cm; margin-right: 0.01cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> **)<br /> The website only went live at the end of November 2008, so the<br /> statistic does not cover the full month</p><br /></td><br /></tr><br /></table><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Through its new website, WRI has increased its presence on the<br /> internet.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The regular email-news­letters of the two main WRI pro­gram­mes<br /> have increa­sed WRI's credibility in these areas.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The publica­tion of the <i>Handbook for Nonvio­lent<br /></i><i>Cam­paigns</i><br /> has clearly an­swe­red an existing need, as can also be<br /> seen by the high number of translations being worked on.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><h5 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Challenges</h5><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The new WRI website was designed to facilitate contributions<br /> from the WRI network. However, this has so far rarely happened.</p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" align="JUSTIFY" style="margin-right: 0.49cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; background: transparent; widows: 2; orphans: 2; page-break-before: auto" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> A distribution network and strategy for publishing<br /> more books, and especially a WRI Yearbook, is so far missing.</p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Since summer 2006, WRI's publications<br /> have seen quite a few changes. New publications have been launched,<br /> and existing ones revamped. With the launch of WRI's new website in<br /> November 2008 (see below), WRI's publication strategy focuses much<br /> more on the internet.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Launch of WRI's new website<br /> wri-irg.org</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> On 26 November 2008, WRI finally<br /> launched its new website, based on the open source Drupal Content<br /> Management system. The website was developed by <i>Netuxo<br /> Ltd</i>, a workers co-operative<br /> providing IT services for small<br /> NGOs and ethical business, and designed by <i>Simo<br /> Hellsten</i>, a long term<br /> activist with Finnish WRI section AKL and their section<br /> representative at the WRI Council for several years.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The new site includes a new online<br /><i>Conscien­tious Objection Informa­tion System</i> (COBIS),<br /> which combines WRI's co-alert system in cases of imprisoned<br /> conscien­tious objectors, a consci­entious objector and<br /> activist database, the co-update e-newsletter, and the world survey<br /> on conscientious objection and recruitment. The system also includes<br /> a permanent Prisoners for Peace list, which streng­thens our<br /> support for imprisoned conscienti­ous objectors and peace<br /> activists. In addition, the new website fully integrates <i>WRI<br /> Wiki</i>, WRI's own Wiki.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Since the launch of the website in<br /> November 2008, the site has seen a steady increase of <i>visits</i>,<br /> with an average of 2800 daily visits in August 2009 (viewing 19,000<br /> individual pages).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> At the end of August 2009, WRI also<br /> launched its new webshop, which integrates better into the website.<br /> To increase the number of items for sale (especially books), WRI is<br /> now co-operating with its British affiliate <i>Housmans Bookshoop</i><br /> who will stock peace and nonviolence related books which will be<br /> available for sale on WRI's webshop.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">E-mail<br /> and Web-Based Publications</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-left: 1.04cm; text-indent: -1.04cm; margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><b>Note:</b><br /> All our e-mail-based publications can be viewed and subscribed to on<br /> our website.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">The<br /> Broken Rifle</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><i>The Broken Rifle</i> continues to be<br /> WRI's quarterly newsletter, with most issues published in all four<br /> official WRI languages, and some even in additional languages. Each<br /> issue focuses on a specific theme. Themes covered since summer 2006<br /> include <i>war profiteers</i> (No 71, September 2006, No 77,<br /> February 2008), <i>Supporting peace and human rights in Russia</i><br /> (No 72, November 2006), the <i>World Social Forum</i> (No 73,<br /> January 2007), <i>Support Conscientious Objectors in Colombia</i><br /> (No 74, May 2007), <i>Choosing Nonviolent Action</i> (No 75,<br /> September 2007), <i>Support antimilitarists in Turkey</i> (No 76,<br /> November 2007), the <i>Professionalisation of the military</i> (No<br /> 78, May 2008), <i>NATO</i> (No 79, September 2008, No 81, February<br /> 2009), <i>Nonviolence Training</i> (No 80, December 2008),<br /><i>conscientious objection in South Korea</i> (No 82, May 2009), and<br /><i>Nonviolent Livelihood Struggle and Global Militarism: Links &amp;<br /> Strategies</i> (No 83, September 2009).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Since the launch of the new WRI website<br /> in November 2008, <i>The Broken Rifle</i> is no longer published as<br /> a print publication, and as a consequence the English edition is no<br /> longer included in <i>Peace News</i>. All four language versions are<br /> now published as email-newsletter, and are available as HTML and PDF<br /> on the WRI website. Also, each individual article is now integrated<br /> into the website categorisation system.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">wri-info</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The email-newsletter <i>wri-info</i><br /> was launched in July 2005, with the first newsletter promoting WRI's<br /> seminar and Council meeting in South Korea. The objective of the<br /> newsletter is to provide information from the WRI Office. WRI-info<br /> is mostly published in English, but some issues have also been<br /> translated into some of the other WRI languages.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The email-newsletter <i>wri-info</i> is<br /> not published regularly, but only ad-hoc when it is needed. The last<br /> edition, as of this writing, was published in July 2009, to promote<br /> the upcoming conference in India.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">CO-Update<br /> / Informe OC / Objo-Infos</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><i>CO-Update</i> was launched in<br /> September 2004 as a monthly email-newsletter of WRI's <i>Right to<br /> Refuse to Kill</i> programme. Since June 2006 (No 21), CO-Update is<br /> also published in Spanish as <i>Informe-OC</i>, mostly translated by<br /><i>Cécile Barbeito Thonon</i>. From August 2006 (No 22) until<br /> October 2008 (No 42), most issues were also published in French as<br /><i>Objo-Infos</i>, mostly translated by <i>Tikiri</i>. However,<br /> since then a lack of volunteers for translation into French has made<br /> it impossible to continue the French edition of <i>CO-Update</i>.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In September 2009, the 50<sup>th</sup><br /> edition of <i>CO-Update</i> was published.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">co-alert</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI launched its email based <i>co-alert</i><br /> system in July 2001. Although there has been a system for urgent<br /> actions before, this was the first time the email list <i>co-alert</i><br /> has been used.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Since then, hundreds of co-alerts have<br /> been emailed out. With the launch of the new website, the co-alert<br /> system has been integrated into WRI's conscientious objection<br /> database, and is now managed entirely through the WRI website.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Co-alert is an English only email list,<br /> although some alerts are also available in other languages on the<br /> WRI website.</p><br /><h4 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">warprofiteers-news</h4><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The email newsletter warprofiteers-news<br /> has been launched in June 2006 as a newsletter of the <i>Nonviolence<br /> Programme</i>'s work on war profiteers. <i>Warprofiteers-news</i> is<br /> published bimonthly in English, and since December 2006 also in<br /> Spanish.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The email-newsletter has been an<br /> important tool to provide information on matters related to war<br /> profiteering to a wide range of groups and activists, and<br /> facilitates networking of groups working on war profiteers. Some<br /> issues have also been translated into Korean, Turkish and<br /> Macedonian.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Facebook</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI started a “cause” on Facebook<br /> called War Resisters' International in 2008. The cause has now more<br /> than 2,800 members. The “cause” is mainly used to post<br /> announcements, for example co-alerts, or new editions of<br /> warprofiteers-news or co-update.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> Attempts to raise funds using Facebook<br /> have so far seen only moderate success.</p><br /><h3 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Books<br /> and other print publications</h3><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The publication of Devi<br /> Prasad's book <i>War is a Crime Against Humanity</i> in 2005 was the<br /> beginning of WRI's more recent publishing activity. In January 2009,<br /> WRI published the <i>Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</i>, of which<br /> 1,200 copies have been printed, and more than 1,100 sold by<br /> September 2009 (see more under <i>Nonviolence </i><i>Programme</i>).<br /> The Indonesian edition has been published by <i>Walisongo Mediation<br /> Centre</i> in 2009. At present, the project of a <i>Women CO<br /> Anthology</i> is nearing completion, and will be published early in<br /> 2010 (see more under <i>Right to Refuse to Kill</i>).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> At the Council Meeting in<br /> Bilbao in September 2008, WRI started a discussion to publish a <i>WRI<br /> Yearbook</i>. While this project is still in its early stages, the<br /> WRI Executive hopes that a first edition can be published at the end<br /> of 2010 (Yearbook 2011).</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> In cooperation with Tobias<br /> Pflüger, WRI Council member and Member of the European Parliament,<br /> WRI worked on a publication called <i>Professional Soldiers and the<br /> Right to Conscientious Objection in the European Union</i>. It was<br /> published by the <i>GUE/NGL</i> parliamentary group in October 2008.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI staff, Executive and<br /> Council members contributed to several book projects. WRI staff<br /><i>Andreas Speck</i> and Executive member Pelao Carvallo contributed<br /> to the book <i>Conscientious Objection. Resisting Militarized<br /> Society</i>, edited by <i>Coskun<br /> Üsterci</i> and <i>Özgür<br /> Heval Çinar </i>and published by<br /><i>Zed Books</i> in 2009.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI<br /> Chair <i>Howard Clark</i><br /> co-edited <i>People, Power and Protest since 1945. A<br /> bibliography of nonviolent action</i>,<br /> published by <i>Housmans Bookshop</i><br /> in 2006 and which he frequently updates at<br /> http://civilresistance.info/bibliography/update. <i>Howard<br /> Clark</i> is also editor of <i>People<br /> Power: Unarmed Resistance and Global Solidarity</i>,<br /> published by <i>Pluto Press</i><br /> in 2009 – most of the<br /> contributors to this have links with WRI. This and all other books<br /> mentioned above are available for sale through the webshop on our<br /> new website.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-style: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> With Véronique Dudouet,<br /> Howard Clark was also co-author of a report commissioned and<br /> published by the Human Rights Sub-Committee of the European<br /> Parliament on Nonviolent Civilc Action in support of Human Rights<br /> and Democratisation.</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> WRI staff, Executive and Council<br /> members have also published a range of articles in movement and<br /> scientific magazines and journals.</p><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">The<br /> WRI Constitution</h2><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-top: 0.1cm; margin-bottom: 0.1cm; font-weight: normal" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /> The WRI Constitution has been in need<br /> of revision for more than a decade, to bring it into line with the<br /> current practice of the international and its affiliates. Thanks<br /> especially to the persistence of Kai-Uwe Dosch, Council has reached<br /> a consensus on major revisions to the Articles which have now been<br /> submitted to Sections for a postal ballot. If passed, the next stage<br /> will be to revise the Rules.</p> <p></p><h1 lang="en-GB" class="western" align="JUSTIFY" style="page-break-inside: avoid; widows: 0; orphans: 0" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><br /><br /><br /></h1><br /><h1 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="page-break-before: always" xml:lang="en-GB">Appendix:<br /> WRI's financial figures<br /></h1><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Summary account</h2><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m2ec2ac8b.gif" name="Object1" align="LEFT" width="637" height="308" id="Object1" /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Summary balance sheet</h2><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m64a8f362.gif" name="Object2" align="LEFT" width="641" height="293" id="Object2" /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><h2 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="page-break-before: always" xml:lang="en-GB">Detailed<br /> accounts</h2><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m750d5284.gif" name="Object4" align="LEFT" width="637" height="539" id="Object4" /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="page-break-before: always" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><img src="/system/files/public_files/Report2006-2009-layout_html_m2715eb8b.gif" name="Object5" align="LEFT" width="645" height="740" id="Object5" /><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><br /><br /><br /></p><br /><h1 lang="en-GB" class="western" style="page-break-before: always" xml:lang="en-GB">Elected<br /> and appointed positions chosen or confirmed at the 2006 International<br /> Conference</h1><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Chair:<br /><strong>Howard Clark</strong>, Britain/state of Spain</p><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB">Internationally elected council<br /> members:</p><br /><ul><br /><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Adriana<br /> Patricia Castaño Román</strong>, Colombia<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Albert<br /> Beale</strong>, Britain<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Boro<br /> Kitanoski</strong>, Macedonia<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Chesterfield<br /> Samba</strong>, Zimbabwe<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Hilal<br /> Demir</strong>, Turkey/Spain<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Joanne<br /> Sheehan</strong>, USA<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Jørgen<br /> Johansen</strong>, Norway/Sweden<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Pelao<br /> Cavallo</strong>, Chile<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Sergeiy<br /> Sandler</strong>, Israel<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Stellan<br /> Vinthagen</strong>, Sweden<br /></p><br /></li><li><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><strong>Tobias Pflüger</strong>,<br /> Germany<br /></p><br /></li></ul><br /><p lang="en-GB" class="western" xml:lang="en-GB"><em>The Council also includes a<br /> 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'themes/custom/wri_main/templates/field/field--node--comment--story.html.twig' --> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:26:33 +0000 warresisters 9177 at https://wri-irg.org https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2009/report-office-and-executive-committee-international-conference-activities-years-2006?language=en#comments The War Resisters' International Executive and Office Report July 2007 - August 2008 https://wri-irg.org/en/news/2008/report2008-en.htm?language=en <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_entity_view' --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-entity-view.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'ds_1col' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * ds-1col--node--3175.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node-story.html.twig * ds-1col--node-rss.html.twig * ds-1col--node.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig x ds-1col.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="3175" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 16 Oct 2008</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><!--break--><p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading2">Introduction</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading3">Programme work</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading4">The Right to Refuse to Kill</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading5">Country-specific work</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading6">Non-country-specific work</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading7">Achievements</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading8">Challenges</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading9">Nonviolence Programme</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading10">Global Initiative Against War Profiteers</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading11">Nonviolence for Change</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading12">Fundraising</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading13">Achievements:</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading14">Challenges:</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading15">Cross-Programme Work</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading16">Eritrea</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading17">Social Forums</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading18">Organisation and Network</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading19">The office</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading20">Staff, Volunteers &amp; Internships</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading21">Office space and equipment</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading22">Exec</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading23">Council and Conference</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading24">Regionalisation</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading25">Europe</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading26">Latin America</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading27">Publications and Communications</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading28">Newsletters</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading29">Books</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading30">WRI website</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading31">Mailing lists</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading32">Working Groups</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading33">Finances</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading34">Summary accounts 2006 - 2008</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading35">Financial Figures for 2007 and 2008 (budget and accounts until 22 July 2008)</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading36">Elected and appointed positions chosen or confirmed at the 2006 International Conference</a></li><br /></ul><p></p><h2><a name="Heading2" id="Heading2">Introduction</a></h2> <p></p><p>This report, the annual report by the WRI Exec and staff for the WRI Council and net, is about what we've been up to since the last Council meeting, and where we're at. It focuses on our achievements this year and on the challenges facing us. This time, however, our focus is more on the challenges as WRI faces a crisis.</p> <p></p><p>This crisis has two sides to it, and they are interconnected. One aspect has to do with WRI finances, and the other with the level of involvement of the WRI network in central WRI activities.</p> <p></p><p>Financially, WRI exhausted Myrtle Solomon's legacy two years ago. The reserves that we have come from subsequent legacies and are shown in the balance sheet. One of our two main programmes is yet to gain even a quarter of the funding needed to sustain itself financially, and the income WRI gets from affiliates, private donations, sales, etc. does not come near to covering the cost of keeping our office going. Despite major cuts we have made on office space and expenses, there is still a real possibility of having to shut down our office in about two years' time.</p> <p></p><p>And what then? Without a central office,responsibilities will have to shift to the WRI network, but that has also been a major challenge. Sadly, going through this report, you will find all too often that WRI Working Groups, various committees and teams, have hardly functioned this year. All central WRI activities are being done by the office and a very small number of activists; all are over-stretched, and important political and organisational work gets neglected.</p> <p></p><p>One major challenge we face is thus to get more people in the WRI network involved, doing and initiating WRI work on the international level. This goes beyond the issue of sustaining the office, to the very core of our political work. To take just one example, with a stronger network involvement on the international level, WRI could have responded clearly and early on to the recent war in the Caucasus, building on the contacts we have on both sides. As things stand, though, such a response becomes the task of the office staff, and perhaps one or two Council members - all too busy with other pressing engagements to get things going.</p> <p></p><p>But not all is gloom, and this year has also seen its achievements and its developments giving room for some hope. We finally have a new and excellent treasurer, <i>Dominique Saillard</i>, who has already extended our fundraising efforts and obtained the funds to finance our gathering in Bilbao. Still on finances, we were able this year to secure the extension of the grant for our Right to Refuse to Kill Programme, which this time also includes funding for bringing several interns to the office and for renewing WRI's website. The new website is already being constructed and will be designed to enable greater participation from the net and more sharing of responsibility.</p> <p></p><p>WRI has also been recently enjoying a small influx of volunteers and interns, who can prove to be invaluable to our work in the coming year and beyond.</p> <p></p><p>On the political level, there has been important regional cooperation between our affiliates and contacts in Europe and in Latin America (see under Regionalisation below), which is an important sign of new life in our network at large. Perhaps responding - in voicing your opinions and in contributing your time and energy - to this report would prove to be another such encouraging sign.</p> <p></p><p><i>Howard Clark (Chair), Dominique Saillard (Acting Treasurer), Boro Kitanoski, Sergeiy Sandler (Exec), Majken Sørensen (Exec, retiring)</i></p> <p></p><p><i>Andreas Speck (Office Coordinator, and RRTK Programme), Javier Gárate (NV Programme), Yvonne Kassim (Finances and Admin)</i></p> <p></p><h2><a name="Heading3" id="Heading3">Programme work</a></h2> <p></p><p>Our two staffed programmes - the Right to Refuse to Kill Programme and the Nonviolence Programme - continued their extensive activity throughout the year.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading4" id="Heading4">The Right to Refuse to Kill</a></h3> <p></p><p>This programme included country-specific work and some more general activities.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading5" id="Heading5">Country-specific work</a></h4> <p></p><p><b><i>Colombia:</i></b> The work on Colombia has been a major part of the programme's activities. Two members of the <i>Accion Colectiva de Objetores y Objetoras de Conciencia</i> from Bogotá visited Europe in November and December 2007, and also visited several WRI affiliates - among others, groups of AA-<i>MOC</i> in the state of Spain and <i>Union Pacifiste</i> in France.</p> <p></p><p><i>Andreas Speck</i> visited Colombia again in May 2008, and visited groups in Cali, Villa Rica, Bogotá, Sincelejo, and Medellin. He also met various governmental officials and the <i>Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Colombia</i>.</p> <p></p><p>Since the introduction of the CO Cards in May 2007, WRI has acted on several individual cases of recruited youth and COs, in close cooperation with our affiliates <i>Red Juvenil de Medellin</i> and the Bogotá CO group <i>Accion Colectiva de Objetores y Objetoras de Conciencia</i>. WRI presented several of the Colombian recruitment cases to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention, and is presently awaiting the outcome.</p> <p></p><p>In September 2008, <i>Julian Ovalle</i> from Bogotá will visit Britain, and participate in the <i>12th International Conference on War Tax Resistance and Peace Tax Campaigns</i>, which takes place in Manchester, 5-7 September 2008. WRI will host Julian in London, and is organising a public meeting and meetings with other organisations working on Colombia.</p> <p></p><p><b><i>Turkey:</i></b> Turkey was the focus for Prisoners for Peace Day 2007. In addition, WRI acted on the cases of the cases of COs <i>Halil Savda</i> and <i>Mehmet Bal</i>, both of whom were arrested in the course of the last year. <i>Mehmet Bal</i> has now been released, while <i>Halil Savda</i> is serving a prison term. Both have been discharged from the Turkish army as unfit for military service. Turkish COs consider the discharge of objectors from the military as "unfit for service" following an arrest to be possibly a new strategy of the Turkish state.</p> <p></p><p>WRI presented the case of <i>Halil Savda</i> to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. Its opinion, published in May 2008, goes further than in the past and now says that any deprivation of an objector's liberty - not just repeated imprisonment - has to be seen as arbitrary. The Working Group, as did the UN Human Rights Committee in January 2007, now interprets the failure of states to recognise the right to CO as violating Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (see <i>co-update</i> No 27, February/March 2007 on the cases of two South Korean objectors).</p> <p></p><p>The Turkish edition of the book documenting the international conference on CO in Istanbul on 27-28 January 2007 has now been published. An English edition will be published by Zed Books in spring 2008. Both have been edited by <i>Özgür Heval Cýnar</i> and <i>Coskun Üsterçi</i>, and include contributions by, among others, <i>Andreas Speck</i>, WRI Council member <i>Pelao Cavallo</i>, and several other WRI activists.</p> <p></p><p><b><i>Greece:</i></b> WRI continues to support our affiliate <i>Association of Greek COs</i> on Greek CO cases. The developments in the case of <i>Lazaros Petromelidis</i> have been worrying. He is now preparing an appeal either to the <i>European Court of Human Rights</i>, or to the UN <i>Human Rights Committee</i>. Andreas Speck visited Greece in February 2008, and participated in the General Assembly of the European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) and public activities organised by the Greek section of Amnesty International and the <i>Association of Greek COs</i>.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading6" id="Heading6">Non-country-specific work</a></h4> <p></p><p><b><i>Refusing to Bear Arms updates 2008:</i></b> As a cooperation project with WRI Council member <i>Tobias Pflüger MEP</i>, WRI is presently producing an update of the <i>Refusing to bear arms world survey</i>, limited to the countries of the European Union and European Union candidate countries. This update will include information on conscientious objection for professional soldiers. It is hoped that the updated reports will be available at Council 2008 in Bilbao.</p> <p></p><p><b><i>Women CO Anthology:</i></b> This project has not progressed much, partly due to lack of time. There have been difficulties in reminding contributors, or in communication with contributors who already submitted their article. Translation from several languages into English has also been a problem. However, on the positive side, work has not stopped altogether, and materials are being collected and processed by the editors, <i>Majken</i> Sørensen and <i>Ellen Elster.</i></p> <p></p><p><b><i>International CO Day:</i></b> The focus of International COs' Day 2008 was on the professionalisation of the military, and counter-recruitment. At the Council meeting in Israel in August 2007 it was decided to organise a central event in Spain, but the <i>MOC</i> Assembly in October saw itself unable to organise such an event. Due to communication problems and misunderstandings it was not possible to organise an alternative event in Germany, as suggested by <i>DFG-VK</i>'s section representative <i>Kai-Uwe Dosch</i>.</p> <p></p><p>Our contacts in South Korea proposed that International CO Day 2009 will focus on their country, and plans are underway.</p> <p></p><p><b><i>Military service and domestic violence:</i></b> Natasha Burton, a London-based volunteer in the WRI office, worked on a research proposal on the links between military service and domestic violence. A first draft has been reviewed, but it is now necessary to investigate funders in order to raise the funds needed to carry out the research.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading7" id="Heading7">Achievements</a></h4> <p></p><ul><br /><li>WRI was able to renew the grant for the Right to Refuse to Kill programme. The programme is now financed until April 2011.</li> <p></p><li>The UN Wing Group on Arbitrary Detention now considers any detention of a as arbitrary, not just repeated imprisonment.</li> <p></p><li>Work with Colombian CO groups has been stabilised.</li><br /></ul><p></p><h4><a name="Heading8" id="Heading8">Challenges</a></h4> <p></p><ul><br /><li>It has so far not been possible to strengthen the work of WRI and European WRI affiliates on counter-recruitment and the professionalisation of the military.</li> <p></p><li>There is presently little awareness of the issue of conscientious objection for professional soldiers.</li> <p></p><li>The programme needs to have a stronger programme committee accompanying it and promoting more activist involvement.</li><br /></ul><p></p><h3><a name="Heading9" id="Heading9">Nonviolence Programme</a></h3> <p></p><p>The Nonviolence Programme has three main areas:</p> <p></p><p><b><i>Providing resources for nonviolent action</i></b></p> <p></p><p>The production of the <i>Handbook on Nonviolent Action</i> has taken a lot of effort. It is now in its last stages of production (with a bit of luck it may already be printed by the beginning of the Council meeting). A draft was sent to many people to review it and we received a lot of positive comments about the importance of this resource. Distribution will depend on the cooperation of the WRI network. Further plans are to work on the web-version that will be constantly updated; you can already access it at: http://wri-irg.org/wiki/index.php/Nonviolence_Handbook.</p> <p></p><p>We have been consulting <i>Elena Vilenskaya</i> from the <i>House of Peace and Nonviolence in St. Petersburg</i> on planning a nonviolence training in St. Petersburg and providing resources for nonviolence training.</p> <p></p><p>The Nonviolence Training Exchange, to take place in Bilbao at the end of October 2008, will be an important opportunity to share resources and experiences in the field of nonviolence training.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading10" id="Heading10">Global Initiative Against War Profiteers</a></h4> <p></p><p>The bi-monthly newsletter <i>War Profiteers' News</i> has published contributions from several WRI members, including material on countries where there is little accessible information. The WRI Wiki on war profiteers is being re-worked, with a specific focus on <i>campaigns</i> against war profiteering being conducted around the world.</p> <p></p><p><i>Javier Gárate</i> attended the annual meeting of the European Network Against Arms Trade (ENAAT) in Oslo, Norway, which helped strengthen our important relationship with this network.</p> <p></p><p>We have also supported the efforts of developing a war profiteers working group in South Korea, and have encouraged groups in Latin America to take on this dimension of militarism in their activities.</p> <p></p><p>The connections between mining and the arms trade were the focus of an issue of <i>The Broken Rifle</i> devoted to war profiteers. This is also linked to our preparations for WRI's International Conference, planned to take place in India, December 2009, which will be examining this issue.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading11" id="Heading11">Nonviolence for Change</a></h4> <p></p><p>Despite an effort from the office to try to contact people in Japan to try to put something together for the G8 meetings there, there was no WRI presence this year. Meetings of world and regional Social Forums are discussed under Cross-Programme Work below.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading12" id="Heading12">Fundraising</a></h4> <p></p><p>Making the Nonviolence Programme economically sustainable remains a challenge. Last year we started an effort to approach individual donors to support the programme, which brought in a little more than 10% of the programme budget. The programme has applied for several grants, without much success, especially because of the coordinating character of the work. We hope that as the programme consolidates and starts producing more concrete outcomes it would be easier to access external funding. Material is available for anyone in the WRI Network who wants to offer regular individual donations or to approach others to do so.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading13" id="Heading13">Achievements:</a></h4> <p></p><ul><br /><li>The programme has consolidated its work on sharing resources for nonviolent action and on war profiteers.</li> <p></p><li>It has cooperated with a number of members of the WRI network in producing information on war profiteers and has promoted the issue of war profiteering inside and outside our network.</li> <p></p><li>We have made WRI's work on nonviolence more visible to the outside world.</li><br /></ul><p></p><h4><a name="Heading14" id="Heading14">Challenges:</a></h4> <p></p><ul><br /><li>To make the programme economically sustainable.</li> <p></p><li>Following up on the publication of the <i>Handbook for Nonviolent Campaigns</i>, by providing more training using the handbook, as well as looking at new resources we want to produce.</li> <p></p><li>Moving from a programme sharing resources to one involving more concrete action.</li> <p></p><li>Resurrecting the Nonviolence Programme Committee.</li> <p></p></ul><p></p><h3><a name="Heading15" id="Heading15">Cross-Programme Work</a></h3> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading16" id="Heading16">Eritrea</a></h4> <p></p><p>Since the Triennial in Germany in 2006, WRI has been cooperating closely with the <i>Eritrean Antimilitarist Initiative</i> (<i>EAI</i>) in Germany. After the World Social Forum in Kenya, it was planned to organise a conference of Eritrean exiles in South Africa, under the joint auspices of <i>EAI,</i> the <i>Eritrean Movement for Democracy and Human Rights</i> (<i>EMDHR)</i> in South Africa, and WRI. In the WRI office, WRI's volunteer Natasha Burton has been working on this project since April 2007. However, although <i>EAI</i> and <i>EMDHR</i> managed to raise some funds for the project, these were not sufficient to make the conference happen. Presently, efforts are stalled.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading17" id="Heading17">Social Forums</a></h4> <p></p><p>After the World Social Forum in Kenya, and following the discussion about WRI's presence and role at Social Forums at the Israel Council, the WRI office cooperated with WRI Council member <i>Stellan Vinthagen</i> and discussed options for the European Social Forum in 2008, and the World Social Forum in January 2009. However, due to lack of resources it was decided that the WRI office cannot make a major effort for the WSF in 2009. For the European Social Forum, on the other hand, close cooperation has developed with the Swedish antimilitarist group <i>Ofog</i> and <i>European Peace Action</i> (see under Regionalisation).</p> <p></p><h2><a name="Heading18" id="Heading18">Organisation and Network</a></h2> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading19" id="Heading19">The office</a></h3> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading20" id="Heading20">Staff, Volunteers &amp; Internships</a></h4> <p></p><p>All three WRI staff have often been working long hours, and the workload has sometimes been increased due to changes in the office (see below). In September 2007, two Russian interns who were supposed to come to London unfortunately got their visas denied. This meant that work on Russia could not progress as much as we would have liked.</p> <p></p><p>London based volunteer <i>Natasha Burton</i> continues to volunteer in the office three days a week, and is presently developing a research proposal on military service and domestic violence. <i>Martyn Lowe</i> is still taking care of WRI's paper archives, and helps with mailings. In August 2008, <i>Julian Dinkgrefe</i> from Germany started a one year voluntary social year in the WRI office. He is currently working mostly on WRI's new website (see under Publications below). Another volunteer, <i>Sofie Henell</i>, has contacted the office shortly before this report has been written.</p> <p></p><p>On top of all that, the renewed <i>Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust</i> grant for the Right to Refuse to Kill programme includes a budget for internships. An intern from South Korea will begin volunteering in the office early next year, in preparation for 15<sup>th</sup> of May 2009.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading21" id="Heading21">Office space and equipment</a></h4> <p></p><p>There have been many changes in the office space since the last Council meeting, aimed at cutting down on office rent. WRI gave up the meeting room, and the small front office. In exchange, WRI got a new small office extension on the roof of the building. <i>Peace News Trustees</i>, the owners of 5 Caledonian Rd, are also creating a new meeting room space in the basement, which can then be used by all building users free of charge.</p> <p></p><p>All these office changes put an extra burden on WRI staff, who not only had to cope with the construction works, but also had to do some of them, especially wiring and furnishings, themselves. However, these changes allow us to save several thousand pounds a year on rent.</p> <p></p><p>Presently, WRI is planning to replace its old phone system with a VOIP based phone system, and will also upgrade its Internet connection. Both changes together will allow WRI staff, among other things, to work from outside the office when necessary.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading22" id="Heading22">Exec</a></h3> <p></p><p>The Exec meeting held in London in November was the first to benefit from the presence of WRI's new Acting Treasurer, <i>Dominique Saillard</i>. The Executive as a whole now has a clearer understanding of financial objectives. Domi has also contributed her own fundraising and organisational skills into our work this year. She has obtained the funding for the Nonviolence Training Exchange and the 2008 Council in Bilbao and has done much of the organising work for the event.</p> <p></p><p>To balance the good news, <i>Majken Sørensen</i> announced her resignation from the Exec in July (she will continue her work on preparing the conference in India, on the Women's CO anthology and on other WRI commitments).</p> <p></p><p>Presently, the Exec members are thus <i>Howard Clark</i> (Chair), <i>Dominique Saillard</i> (Acting Treasurer), <i>Boro Kitanoski</i> and <i>Sergeiy Sandler</i>. This raises the need to add another member (or even two) to the Exec, with some emphasis on the issue of gender balance.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading23" id="Heading23">Council and Conference</a></h3> <p></p><p>The 2007 Council meeting was held in Neve Shalom, Israel, in August 2007.</p> <p></p><p>Apart from subjects discussed elsewhere in this report, the 2007 Council meeting raised several issues of importance for our future work. Substantial progress has been made on the difficult issue of the WRI Constitution, serious and detailed consideration has been given to planning WRI's pattern of meetings in the coming years and some thinking was started on decentralising WRI's activities, both to prepare for the possibility of losing our central office and to strengthen the WRI network in general.</p> <p></p><p>Alas, follow-up on these subjects in between Council meetings was a problem - another testimony to the need to expand and invigorate our network. The issue of decentralisation was essentially not followed up. The Constitution Committee held very few discussions over the year, although eventually a proposal is being brought to this year's Council.</p> <p></p><p>As for the pattern of meetings, while here too not much progress has been made on long term planning, there have been some important decisions made for the shorter run. In an e-mail consultation in late April and early May, the WRI Council has accepted the Exec's proposal of postponing the Council meeting originally planned to take place in India in December this year to December 2009, and turn it into a WRI International Conference; the 2008 Council meeting, as you are aware, has been moved to Bilbao and rescheduled for the end of October.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading24" id="Heading24">Regionalisation</a></h3> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading25" id="Heading25">Europe</a></h4> <p></p><p>Since the 2006 Triennial in Germany there has been an active effort to attain closer cooperation and coordination between groups in Europe involved in antimilitarist nonviolent direct action. This last year the main event was <i>NATO Game Over</i>, a mass nonviolent action at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, which was organised by WRI's section, <i>Vredesactie</i>. Following the action itself, a seminar on <i>Military Globalisation and Nonviolent Resistance in Europe</i>, co-organised by <i>Vredesactie</i> and WRI, was held with the aim of strengthening the European coordination of groups campaigning against military infrastructure and military intervention coming out of Europe. The seminar was attended by many groups in the WRI network and beyond.</p> <p></p><p>Next to come are:</p> <p></p><ul><p></p><li>The <i>European Social Forum</i> in Malmö 17-21 September, where there will be a special programme for radical antimilitarist groups, called the <i>European Peace Action Forum</i>. It is organised mainly by <i>Ofog</i>, an antimilitarist group from Sweden. The WRI office is involved in coordinating the event, and also plans to do workshops at it.</li> <p></p><li><i>War Starts from Europe - European Day of Action Against Military Infrastructure</i>, 15-16 November, a decentralised day of action for which this loose network of radical antimilitarists is calling, and where again the WRI central office is helping to coordinate.</li> <p></p><li>There will also be many events happening in the run up to the 60th anniversary of NATO in 2009, and many groups connected to WRI are taking a lead, which the central office will be attending and supporting.</li> <p></p></ul><p></p><h4><a name="Heading26" id="Heading26">Latin America</a></h4> <p></p><p>The IRG-AL email list, used by antimilitarist groups in Latin America, is the most active of WRI's email lists. One tangible product of this activity was a statement reacting to the conflict escalation between Colombia, Ecuador and Venezuela in March this year, see an English version at http://wri-irg.org/statemnt/noqueremos-en.htm. There are initial talks about having a face-to-face meeting of these groups in early 2009, with the aim of defining how to act more concretely as a network. The idea of a WRI Latin American office has been put to one side in favour of a network without the formal structure of an office.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading27" id="Heading27">Publications and Communications</a></h3> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading28" id="Heading28">Newsletters</a></h4> <p></p><p><b><i>The Broken Rifle:</i></b> The office has maintained the regular publication of <i>The Broken Rifle</i> (four times a year in English, French, German and Spanish), with the English version being printed and distributed with <i>Peace News</i>. However, in reviewing the effectiveness of <i>The Broken Rifle</i>, it was felt that continuing <i>The Broken Rifle</i> as a print publication is no longer justified. In March, the Executive therefore decided that the September issue will be the last issue printed with <i>Peace News</i>, and mailed out with the appeal letter. From then on, The <i>Broken Rifle</i> will be turned into an e-newsletter, but A4-format PDF files will also be provided for easy download and printing.</p> <p></p><p><b><i>War Profiteers' News</i></b> is being published six times a year, in English and Spanish. Feedback on <i>warprofiteers-news</i> has been encouraging.</p> <p></p><p><b><i>CO Update:</i></b> published monthly in English, Spanish and French, co-update continues to provide regular information on conscientious objection and conscription. However, there have occasionally been difficulties to keep up with a monthly rhythm.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading29" id="Heading29">Books</a></h4> <p></p><p>The <i>Handbook on Nonviolent Action</i> and the Women's CO Anthology are discussed above. These publications can help raise WRI's profile, provided that affiliates actually use and distribute them.</p> <p></p><p>An idea has been floated and discussed in Exec to create a new publication - the <i>WRI Yearbook</i>, with a focus on research (aimed, among other things, to increase WRI's visibility in this area). A discussion on the subject is scheduled to take place at the Council meeting in Bilbao.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading30" id="Heading30">WRI website</a></h4> <p></p><p>Our website, wri-irg.org, has become a vital repository for information and archives on WRI. We are now upgrading it to become an even more effective resource for discussion, action and research.</p> <p></p><p>As part of the new Right to Refuse to Kill grant, was able to raise the money needed for a complete redevelopment of the WRI website. Netuxo Ltd is presently working on the development of the new site, <i>Simo Hellsten</i> graciously volunteered to do the design and intern <i>Julian Dinkgrefe</i>, is moving content from the old WRI website to the new website, which is based around a content management system (CMS).</p> <p></p><p>By changing to a contents management system, we hope to make the site easier to navigate and will allow contributors from the WRI network to post their own materials to the site. The new website will also fully integrate the present Wiki with the other parts of the website, and will provide forums for discussion.</p> <p></p><p>In its recent discussion on promotions, the WRI Exec saw the website as the centre of a strategy for promoting WRI - including using the webshop to market materials in cooperation with affiliates.</p> <p></p><p>A central feature of the new site is the <i>Conscientious Objection Information System (COBIS)</i>, a multilingual system, providing easy access to public information on the situation in any given country, and password protected levels of access to 'private' information on specific cases. It will allow easy access to all information on a given country, thus making it easy not just to find the existing <i>Refusing to bear arms</i> country report, but also any updates included in our e-newsletters or special country reports. Additionally, the existing Colombia CO-database will be integrated into the system, and will be extended to allow for case specific information from any country to be stored in the database, and be linked to co-alerts and the general country information.</p> <p></p><p><i>A snapshot of the new WRI website</i></p> <p></p><p>The present schedule is to launch the new website either shortly before or shortly after the Bilbao Council meeting.</p> <p></p><p>Nearly two years ago, Ken Simons in Toronto, Canada - who since 1998 has maintained the WRI web-site as a very painstaking volunteer - asked to be relieved of this task. This is now possible. Ken has made an enormous contribution to WRI's in this time. Without his dedication, the WRI web site could not be the central resource it has become.</p> <p></p><p>In this past year, Ken has posted files of several historic WRI documents on the website - including Lakey's <i>Manifesto for a Nonviolent Revolution</i>, Randle's <i>Towards Liberation</i>, and the next will be the Feminism and Nonviolence Study Group's <i>Piecing It Together</i>.</p> <p></p><p>Last year's report mentioned that michelle from Madrid, who used to be on Council, purchased a web domain to set up WRI forums in English and Castellano, and has volunteered to facilitate them. However, again, other people in our network did not follow through and did not participate in forum discussions. This has left yet another enthusiastic WRI activist feeling frustrated.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading31" id="Heading31">Mailing lists</a></h4> <p></p><p>Besides the e-newsletters (<i>co-alert</i>, <i>co-update</i>, <i>wri-info</i>, and <i>warprofiteers-news</i>, with other language versions), to which only the WRI office can post messages, WRI maintains a range of discussion email lists, which are open for subscription by anyone, and more internal email lists, linked to a working group or a certain committee.</p> <p></p><p>With the new website, the WRI-internal list system will be integrated with WRI-internal forums in four languages.</p> <p></p><p>The table on page 8 gives an overview.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading32" id="Heading32">Working Groups</a></h3> <p></p><p>On the whole, the activity of WRI working groups over the last year belongs more under the heading of challenges than achievements. As most network-based (rather than office-based or affiliate-based) activities in WRI, working groups hardly functioned. Things that <i>were</i> done have been reported already above - the work on Colombia as part of the Right to Refuse to Kill Programme, the Nonviolence Training Working group as part of the Nonviolence Programme. The main project of the Women's Working Group has been the Women CO anthology, reported under Publications, in which WWG members are involved as editors and contributors.</p> <p></p><p>Finally, while the Africa Working Group has also had little communication among its members, one related project has matured this year: a two-volume book project edited by Africa WG co-coordinator, <i>Matt Meyer</i>, and <i>Elavie Ndura</i> from Burundi. The first volume, <i>Seeds of New Hope: Pan African Peace Studies for the 21st Century</i>, is to about to be published any day now by Africa World Press; the second - <i>Seeds Taking Root: Pan African Peace Action for the 21st Century</i>, is due out in February. Contributors to both volumes include many members and contacts of WRI and of the Africa WG itself: <i>Chesterfield Samba</i>, <i>Jorgen Johansen</i>, <i>Light Wilson Aganwa</i>, <i>Emanuel Matondo</i>, <i>Jan Van Criekinge</i>, <i>Shelley Anderson</i>, <i>Judith Atiri</i> and others.</p> <p></p><table><br /><caption>Table: WRI mailing lists</caption> <p></p><tbody><br /><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b>Description</b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="center"><br /><p><i>English</i></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="center"><br /><p><i>Spanish</i></p> <p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="center"><br /><p><i>French</i></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="center"><br /><p><i>German</i></p><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="center"><br /><td colspan="5" align="center"><br /><p><b>Newsletters and announcement lists</b></p><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Co-alert email list</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>co-alert@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>CO-update e-newsletter</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>co-update@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>informe-oc@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>objo-info@lists.wri-irg.org</p> <p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>War Profiteers News</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>warprofiteers-news@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>especuladores@lists.wri-irg.org</p> <p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Wri-info</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>wri-info@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>The Broken Rifle<br /><br /> (from October 2008)</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>thebrokenrifle@lists.wri-irg.org</p> <p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>elfusilroto@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>lefusilbrise@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>daszerbrochenegewehr@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="center"><br /><td colspan="5" align="center"> <p></p><p><b>WRI Working Groups</b></p><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Women's Working Group</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>womensworkinggroup@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Colombia Working Group</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>colombiaworkinggroup@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Africa Working Group</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>africaworkinggroup@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Nonviolence Training Working Group</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>nonviolencetraining@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="center"><br /><td colspan="5" align="center"><br /><p><b>Other discussion lists</b></p><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>European NVDA</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>nato-gameover@lists.wri-irg.org</p> <p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Latin America</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>irg-al@lists.wri-irg.org</p> <p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Solidarity with Turkish COs</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>soli4mehmet@lists.wri-irg.org</p> <p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Russia</i></b></p> <p></p><p>(also in Russian: rabochajagruppaporossii@lists.wri-irg.org)</p><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>russiaworkinggroup@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Gender and militarism</i></b></p><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>genderandmilitarism@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>War profiteers (discussion list)</i></b></p><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>warrprofiteers@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Nonviolence at Social for a</i></b></p><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>nonviolentactionforum@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="center"><br /><td colspan="5" align="center"><br /><p><b>Internal committees and lists</b></p><br /></td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Wri-internal list system</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>wri-internal-en@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>wri-internal-es@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>wri-internal-fr@lists.wri-irg.org</p> <p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>wri-internal-de@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>WRI constitution</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>const-com@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>RrtK Committee</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>rrtk-com@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>Nonviolence Committee</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>nvcom@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p><b><i>India Triennial Organising Committee</i></b></p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p>india2008@lists.wri-irg.org</p><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="5" align="left"><br /><p>Check out and subscribe to all (public) lists at http://lists.wri-irg.org/sympa</p><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody><br /></table><p></p><h2><a name="Heading33" id="Heading33">Finances</a></h2> <p></p><p>Council said it clearly in 2004: WRI should maintain its radical anti-militarist character and should function as a network rather than switch to being a funding-led NGO. Yet the yearly accounts give just the opposite picture:</p> <p></p><ul><br /><li>In 2007, the <b>income from the WRI network</b> (affiliation fees and sales) <b>was half that of the early 2000s</b>, accounting for just 7.3% of the overall income. It should improve this year, as reminder letters are being sent out to affiliates, but it still remains an extremely low proportion.</li> <p></p><li><b>WRI project fundraising</b> (mostly the Right to Refuse to Kill programme) <b>accounted for 57% of the overall income.</b> We have been able to obtain a new 3-year grant for the RRtK programme from our single donor, the <i>Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust</i>, but are still facing the challenge of funding the Nonviolence programme.</li> <p></p><li><b>Individual donations</b>, once a significant source of funding, <b>have come down</b> to 9.7% of the overall income. This donor base is overwhelmingly British and does not renew itself.</li> <p></p><li><b>Sales have declined to become completely marginal.</b> <p></p><p>What has saved the WRI central office from having to shut down?</p><br /></li> <p></p><li><b>Cuts on office expenses</b>, the last one being a significant reduction in office space at Caledonian Road, which does not make staff work any easier.</li> <p></p><li><b>Periodical, life-saving legacies</b>. In 2008, we already know of a £15.000 legacy from a British supporter.</li><br /></ul><p></p><p>As last year's Report pointed out, there is a permanent tension between our ambitions - following a network rather than NGO model, investing in projects we believe in, organising costly international meetings, etc. - and our ability to diversify funding sources and obtain funds in due time.</p> <p></p><p>What, then, are some of the <b>key financial issues</b> that the WRI Council and network should look into?</p> <p></p><ul><p></p><li><b>Increase the proportion of funds coming from the WRI network:</b> until now, we have relied on relatively few affiliates and need more overall commitment from the network. Making merchandising agreements with some of our affiliates could also be a way to diversify funding sources and, as importantly, to project WRI's image to a wider public. Our webshop can play a central role here. The Exec is also looking for new graphic designs.</li> <p></p><li><b>Adapt our pattern of events to financial reality</b>: important savings have already been made on exec meetings, but the key factor remains controlling the losses that might arise from organising Councils, Triennials and other events. In the recent past, the only financially successful meetings have been those where the local organisers or anaffiliate have played a huge fundraising role. This year we had to make the difficult decision to postpone the India Council and opt for an "emergency" solution in Bilbao. If all the weight of fundraising falls down on an already overstretched staff and exec, priorities shift too far away from continued network building and programme development.</li> <p></p><li><b>Internationalise and diversify our individual donor base</b>. WRI´s new website will be a very important tool for reaching out to even more people, but the help of our affiliates remains absolutely necessary to try and contact directly potential new donors, especially outside Britain.</li> <p></p><li>Identify and pursue <b>funding sources for the Nonviolence Programme</b>, which is already doing a significant contribution to strengthening the WRI network.</li> <p></p></ul><p></p><h3><a name="Heading34" id="Heading34">Summary accounts 2006-2008</a></h3> <p></p><table><br /><caption>Summary account</caption> <p></p><tbody><br /><tr valign="TOP" align="right"><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>SUMMARY ACCOUNT</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>2008</b> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>2008</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>2008</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>2007</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>2007</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>2006</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>2006</i></b> </td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>% of budget</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>Account</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>Budget</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>Account</b> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>Budget</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>Account</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>budget</i></b> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>Income</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left">Until 22 July</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">WRI Network (affiliations &amp; sales)</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">55.47%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4,714.75</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>8,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">5,064.41</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>9,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">7,538.92</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>9,000</i> </td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Donations</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">8.19%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,966.46</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>24,000</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">17,221.98</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>9,500</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">16,937.65</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>15,500</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">WRI Project fundraising</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">37.51%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">18,688.45</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>49,820</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">39,631.56</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>44,346</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">40,802.05</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>45,260</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Seminar &amp; Triennial fundraising</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>13,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4,266.93</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>14,400</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">22,732.09</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>50,800</i> </td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Other income</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">38.72%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3,226.99</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>8,334</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3,381.88</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2,000</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">3,053.94</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">taken from WRI Reserves</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">2,929.07</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>4,922</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">16,358.67</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>20,720</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>Total</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">27.46%</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">28,596.65</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>104,154</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">72,495.83</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>84,668</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">107,423.32</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>143,280</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>Expense</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Central Office</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">39.80%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">11,826.97</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>29,720</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">25,164.50</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>34,550</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">33,916.44</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>28,040</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">WRI Network</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">23.87%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,575.39</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>6,600</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,954.28</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>3,750</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,645.47</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>3,100</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">WRI Projects</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">38.02%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">25,193.48</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>66,270</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">55,489.07</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>61,346</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">49,248.96</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>59,760</i> </td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Seminar &amp; Triennial</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>8,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,960.64</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>14,400</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">37,295.83</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>55,200</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">WRI Publications</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">66.67%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">600.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>900</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">1,200.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>3,000</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">600.49</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>Total</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">35.00%</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">39,195.84</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>111,989</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">85,768.49</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>117,046</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">122,707.19</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>148,100</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>Year Result</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">135.28%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>-10,599.19</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>-7,835</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>-13,272.66</b> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>-32,378</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>-15,283.87</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>-4,820</i></b> </td><br /></tr><br /></tbody><br /></table><p></p><h3><a name="Heading35" id="Heading35">Financial Figures for 2007 and 2008 (budget and accounts until 22 July 2008)</a></h3> <p></p><table><p></p><caption>Income and expenses</caption> <p></p><tbody><br /><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>INCOME</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2008</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2008</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2008</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2007</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2007</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2006</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2006</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>% of budget</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>Account</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>Budget</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>Account</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>Budget</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>Account</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>budget</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>WRI general income</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Allocated donations</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">1,144.82</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">500</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">663.66</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>4,500</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Appeal donations</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">7.84%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">313.67</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">4000.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3,310.29</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3,000</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">2,910.08</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>5,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Donations (non appeal)</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">33.06%</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">1652.79</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">5000.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">2,298.80</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">5,000</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">5,310.59</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>5,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Legacies</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">15000.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">10,468.07</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,000</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">8,053.32</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>1,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Affiliations</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">54.04%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4323.19</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">8000.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4,552.80</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">7,000</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">6,005.58</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>7,000</i> </td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Sales</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">78.31%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">391.56</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">500.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">511.61</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">2,500</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,533.34</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Interest received</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">56.93%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">569.27</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1000.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,467.64</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,500</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">2,365.25</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Other income</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">70.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1,914.24</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">500</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">688.69</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Service charges</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">58.63%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1970.17</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3360.60</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Overhead from projects</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">15.54%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">617.55</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">3973.80</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">subtotal Donations</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">8.19%</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">1,966.46</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>24000.00</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">17,221.98</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>9,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">16,938</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>15,500</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">subtotal Affiliations/sales</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">55.47%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4,714.75</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>8500.00</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">5,064.41</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>9,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">7,539</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>9,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">subtotal Other income</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">38.72%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3,226.99</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>8334.40</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3,381.88</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2,000</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3,054</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>2,000</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Total</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">24.26%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">9,908.20</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>40834.40</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">25,668.27</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>21,000</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">27,531</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>26,500</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>WRI Projects</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><p></p></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Dealing with the past</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Right to Refuse to Kill</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">46.62%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">18563.45</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">39819.95</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">31,458.26</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">29,346</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">34,649.63</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>33,760</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Nonviolence programme</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1.25%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">125.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">10000.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">8,173.30</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">15,000</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">6,152.42</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>11,500</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">History Project</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Other projects</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Total</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">37.51%</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">18,688.45</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>49819.95</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">39,631.56</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>44,346</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">40,802</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>45,260</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><p></p></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>Yearly Seminars &amp; Triennial</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Yearly Seminars</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">9500.00</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">1,075.81</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">14,400</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Triennial</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3,191.12</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">22,732.09</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>50,800</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Council</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4000.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><p></p><td colspan="1" align="left">Total</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>13500.00</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4,266.93</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>14,400</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">22,732.09</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>50,800</i> </td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>From WRI Reserves</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">2,929</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4,922</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">16,358.67</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>20,720</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>Total Income</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">27.46%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">28,596.65</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>104154.35</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">72,495.83</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>84,668</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">107,423.32</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>143,280</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">LHTF rent&amp;premises</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">2,929.07</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">4,922</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">11,858.67</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><br /></tbody><br /></table><p></p><table><br /><caption>Expenses</caption> <p></p><tbody><br /><tr><br /><td>EXPENSE</td><br /><td>2008</td><br /><td>2008</td><br /><td>2008</td><br /><td>2007</td><br /><td>2007</td> <p></p><td>2006</td><br /><td>2006</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>% of budget</td><br /><td>Account</td><br /><td>Budget</td><br /><td>Account</td> <p></p><td>Budget</td><br /><td>Account</td><br /><td>budget</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Central Office</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Staff and volunteers</td><br /><td>0.412</td><br /><td>6129.87</td> <p></p><td>14879.6</td><br /><td>11,383.91</td><br /><td>13,000</td><br /><td>12,480.25</td><br /><td>12,800</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Office rent &amp; premises</td> <p></p><td>0.4057</td><br /><td>3464.52</td><br /><td>8540</td><br /><td>12,221.69</td><br /><td>13,000</td><br /><td>12,561.24</td><br /><td>10,500</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td>Office equipment &amp; IT</td><br /><td>0.4587</td><br /><td>458.7</td><br /><td>1000</td><br /><td>848.61</td><br /><td>1,500</td><br /><td>2,128.09</td><br /><td>600</td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Postage, copying &amp; stationary</td><br /><td>0.1268</td><br /><td>317.04</td><br /><td>2500</td><br /><td>-493.05</td><br /><td>4,000</td> <p></p><td>3,750.88</td><br /><td>3,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Telecommunication</td><br /><td>0.6733</td><br /><td>471.28</td><br /><td>700</td><br /><td>627.6</td> <p></p><td>750</td><br /><td>740.29</td><br /><td>1,200</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Fundraising costs</td><br /><td>0.5992</td><br /><td>898.87</td><br /><td>1500</td> <p></p><td>1,063.91</td><br /><td>1,500</td><br /><td>1,392.12</td><br /><td>2,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Sales costs</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /><td>-3.6</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>28.62</td><br /><td>500</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Bank &amp; admin costs &amp; other</td> <p></p><td>0.1116</td><br /><td>66.95</td><br /><td>600</td><br /><td>-484.57</td><br /><td>800</td><br /><td>834.95</td><br /><td>800</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td>War Tax Resistance</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>19.74</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Overhead allocated to projects</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>-3,360</td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Total Central Office</td><br /><td>0.398</td><br /><td>11,826.97</td><br /><td>29719.6</td><br /><td>25,164.50</td><br /><td>34,550</td><br /><td>33,916</td> <p></p><td>28,040</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>WRI Network</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Representation (unallocated)</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Networking</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>WRI Affilliates</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>100</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>100</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>WRI Council</td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>3500</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>1,250</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td>WRI Executive</td><br /><td>0.5251</td><br /><td>1575.39</td><br /><td>3000</td><br /><td>1,954.28</td><br /><td>2,500</td><br /><td>1,645.47</td><br /><td>3,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Regional networking</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><p></p></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Total WRI Network</td><br /><td>0.2387</td><br /><td>1,575.39</td><br /><td>6600</td><br /><td>1,954.28</td><br /><td>3,750</td><br /><td>1,645.47</td> <p></p><td>3,100</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>WRI Projects</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Dealing with the past</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Right to Refuse to Kill</td><br /><td>0.3337</td><br /><td>13289.52</td> <p></p><td>39819.95</td><br /><td>26,400.02</td><br /><td>33,346</td><br /><td>25,590.35</td><br /><td>33,760</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Nonviolence programme</td><br /><td>0.4501</td> <p></p><td>11903.96</td><br /><td>26449.92</td><br /><td>29,089.05</td><br /><td>28,000</td><br /><td>23,658.61</td><br /><td>26,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Crisis Response</td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td>History Project</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Other projects</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><p></p></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Total WRI Projects</td><br /><td>0.3802</td><br /><td>25,193.48</td><br /><td>66269.87</td><br /><td>55,489.07</td><br /><td>61,346</td><br /><td>49,248.96</td> <p></p><td>59,760</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Yearly Seminars &amp; Triennial</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Yearly Seminars</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td>8500</td><br /><td>1,806.24</td><br /><td>14,400</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Triennial</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>154.4</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>37,295.83</td><br /><td>55,200</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Total</td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>8500</td><br /><td>1,960.64</td><br /><td>14,400</td><br /><td>37,295.83</td><br /><td>55,200</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>WRI Publications</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><p></p></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Broken Rifle</td><br /><td>0.6667</td><br /><td>600</td><br /><td>900</td><br /><td>1,200.00</td><br /><td>1,500</td><br /><td>600.49</td> <p></p><td>2,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Peace News Magazine</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Books</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td> <p></p><td>1,500</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>WRI Women</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td>Total WRI Publications</td><br /><td>0.6667</td><br /><td>600</td> <p></p><td>900</td><br /><td>1,200.00</td><br /><td>3,000</td><br /><td>600.49</td><br /><td>2,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Total Expense</td> <p></p><td>0.35</td><br /><td>39,195.84</td><br /><td>111989.47</td><br /><td>85,768.49</td><br /><td>117,046</td><br /><td>122,707.19</td><br /><td>148,100</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /><td><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>YEAR RESULT</td><br /><td>1.3528</td><br /><td>-10,599.19</td><br /><td>-7835.12</td><br /><td>-13,272.66</td><br /><td>-32,378</td><br /><td>-15,283.87</td><br /><td>-4,820</td> <p></p></tr><br /></tbody><br /></table><p></p><table><br /><caption>Project expenses</caption> <p></p><tbody><br /><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>2008</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>2008</b> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>2008</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>2007</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>2007</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>2006</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>2006</i></b> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>Council &amp; seminar</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>% of budget</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>Account</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>Budget</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>Account</b> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>Budget</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>Account</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>budget</i></b> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Income</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>13,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1075.81</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>14,400</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">council expenses</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>3,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>1,250</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">seminar expenses</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>8,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">1806.24</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>14,400</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">total expenses</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>12,000</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">1806.24</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>15,650</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">result</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>1,500</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">-730.43</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>-1,250</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><b>result per project</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><p></p></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Dealing with the past</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Right to Refuse to Kill</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">5273.93</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">5058.24</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>-4,000</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">9059.28</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Nonviolence programme</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">71.60%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">-11778.96</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>-16,450</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">-20915.75</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>-13,000</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">-17506.19</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>-14,500</i> </td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Other projects</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Yearly Seminars</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>5,000</i> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">-730.43</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">Triennial</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="left"><br /><br /></td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right">0.00</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">3036.72</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>0</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">-14563.74</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>-4,400</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="left"><br /><td colspan="1" align="left">WRI General (non-projects)</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">-113.26%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">-4094.16</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>3,615</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">278.56</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>-15,378</i> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">7726.78</td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><i>14,080</i> </td><br /></tr><p></p><tr valign="TOP" align="right"><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>check year result</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right">135.28%</td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>-£10,599</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>-£7,835</i></b> </td> <p></p><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>-£13,273</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>-£32,378</i></b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b>-£15,284</b> </td><br /><td colspan="1" align="right"><b><i>-£4,820</i></b> </td><br /></tr><p></p></tbody><br /></table><p></p><h2><a name="Heading36" id="Heading36">Elected and appointed positions chosen or confirmed at the 2006 International Conference</a></h2> <p></p><p>Chair: <b>Howard Clark</b>, Britain/state of Spain</p> <p></p><p>Internationally elected council members:</p> <p></p><ul><br /><li><b>Adriana Patricia Castaño Román</b>, Colombia</li> <p></p><li><b>Albert Beale</b>, Britain</li> <p></p><li><b>Boro Kitanoski</b>, Macedonia</li> <p></p><li><b>Chesterfield Samba</b>, Zimbabwe</li> <p></p><li><b>Hilal Demir</b>, Turkey</li> <p></p><li><b>Joanne Sheehan</b>, USA</li> <p></p><li><b>Jørgen Johansen</b>, Norway/Sweden</li> <p></p><li><b>Pelao Cavallo</b>, Chile</li> <p></p><li><b>Sergeiy Sandler</b>, Israel</li> <p></p><li><b>Stellan Vinthagen</b>, Sweden</li> <p></p><li><b>Tobias Pflüger</b>, Germany</li><br /></ul><p></p><p><i>The Council also includes a representative from each section and a non-voting observer from each associate organisation or publication.</i></p> <p></p><p>War Resisters' International<br /><br /> 5 Caledonian Rd<br /></p> <p>London N1 9DX<br /><br /> tel +44-20-7278 4040<br /><br /> fax +44-20-7278 0444<br /><br /> info@wri-irg.org http://wri-irg.org</p> </div> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--upload--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--upload--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--upload.html.twig * 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'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-1col.html.twig' --> <div data-history-node-id="1498" class="node node--type-story node--view-mode-rss ds-1col clearfix"> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--node-post-date---custom.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--story.html.twig * field--expert--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--expert--story.html.twig * field--expert--node-post-date.html.twig * field--expert.html.twig * field--ds-field-expert.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date--story.html.twig * field--node--node-post-date.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--node-post-date.html.twig * field--ds.html.twig * field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <time > 01 Jun 2007</time> <!-- END OUTPUT from 'modules/contrib/ds/templates/ds-field-expert.html.twig' --> <!-- THEME DEBUG --> <!-- THEME HOOK: 'field' --> <!-- FILE NAME SUGGESTIONS: * field--body--rss.html.twig * field--default--node--body--story.html.twig * field--default--node--story.html.twig * field--default--node--body.html.twig * field--default--body--story.html.twig * field--default--story.html.twig * field--default--body.html.twig * field--default.html.twig * field--theme-ds-field-default.html.twig * field--node--body--story.html.twig * field--node--body.html.twig * field--node--story.html.twig * field--body.html.twig * field--text-with-summary.html.twig x field.html.twig --> <!-- BEGIN OUTPUT from 'themes/contrib/bootstrap/templates/field/field.html.twig' --> <div class="field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field--item"><p></p><h2><a name="Heading2" id="Heading2">Introduction:</a></h2><br /> This is an internal report about WRI and its organisational development in the last year. In evaluating WRI, the starting point always is to measure achievements against our goals in the world situation - in this case, the need for a strong anti-militarist international promoting strategies to counter the rival militarisms that threaten us all and that continually stoke the fires of conflict. For WRI, 'anti-war' does not mean just opposing one war - such as the occupation of Iraq by the USA and its allies - or even opposing one sort of war. Rather, for us, being 'anti-war' means recognising that the various forms of militarism feed each other and committing ourselves to oppose all war and uproot the causes of war. <!--break--><p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading2">Introduction:</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading3">WRI Programme Work</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading4">The Nonviolence Programme</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading5">The Right to Refuse to Kill programme</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading6">Country-specific:</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading7">Non-country specific:</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading8">Cross-programme work</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading9">Internal Organisational matters</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading10">The office</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading11">The Executive</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading12">Council meetings</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading13">International Conference</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading14">Regionalisation</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading15">Publications</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading16">Email lists and Working groups:</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading17">Finances:</a> <p></p><ul><br /><li><a href="#Heading18">Figures</a></li> <p></p><li><a href="#Heading19">Income and Expenses 2004-2007</a></li><br /></ul><br /></li><br /></ul><p></p><p>The period under review includes some notable achievements. It began with the 2006 Triennial Conference, 'Globalising Nonviolence' - a conference that attracted more participants than any WRI event for 15 years. In this period WRI also tried to provide a strong reference point for nonviolence and anti-militarism at the <i>World Social Forum</i>, worked with Colombian objectors to initiate new forms of solidarity, and strengthened connections in other parts of the world. Our web page, the <i>Broken Rifle</i> and <i>War Profiteers' News</i> give WRI and our perspective greater visibility.</p> <p></p><p>At the same it has to be said at the outset that both the staff and the Executive have found themselves over-stretched at times during this period. In addition, we want to use the 2008 Council meeting to make WRI's pattern of meetings more resource-effective. The previous Executive already reduced the number of physical Executive meetings per year and introduced monthly internet 'chats', but the forms taken by the Council/Seminar and the international conference also need rethinking. As part of this, the Executive is particularly keen to look at how regional connections can be strengthened within the international.</p> <p></p><p>These issues surface in various places in this report. If you and your group cannot be represented at Council, we encourage your written input on these issues - or indeed on any others!</p> <p></p><p>WRI is entering a stage of our existence where it is in need of renovation - both involving new people in our organisation and network, and strengthening other contacts and connecting with other nonviolent campaigns. WRI needs to adapt to our own changing composition, and also to find more effective forms of networking. There is an added urgency to these tasks in view of the depletion of WRI's historic financial resources.</p> <p></p><p><i>Howard Clark (chair), Boro Kitanoski, Sergeiy Sandler, Majken Sørensen (Exec)</i></p> <p></p><p><i>Andreas Speck (Office Coordinator, and RRTK Programme), Javier Gárate (NV Programme), Yvonne Kassim (Finances and Admin)</i></p> <p></p><h2><a name="Heading3" id="Heading3">WRI Programme Work</a></h2> <p></p><p>Between international conferences, WRI's work is mainly framed around two staffed programmes - The Nonviolence Programme and the Right to Refuse to Kill Programme.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading4" id="Heading4">The Nonviolence Programme</a></h3> <p></p><p>The Nonviolence Programme has completed its second year, working on three main areas:</p> <p></p><p><b><i>Nonviolence Resources:</i></b> This means developing and distributing resources on nonviolence and nonviolence strategies. The main project so far is the production of a <b><i>Handbook for Nonviolent Action</i></b> to be a cross-cultural resource for antimilitarist and nonviolent grassroots activists. An incomplete rough mock-up will be available at Council. There will be both a print and a web version of the handbook, the web version containing many more details and numerous links to further resources. You can already find the articles that have been written in our own Wiki a web base tool for writing and editing collaboratively: <a href="http://wri-irg.org/wiki/index.php/Nonviolence_Handbook">http://wri-irg.org/wiki/index.php/Nonviolence_Handbook</a></p> <p></p><p>WRI has provided nonviolence trainings at a number of Social Forums, the latest one being at the <i>World Social Forum</i> in Nairobi, Kenya.</p> <p></p><p><b><i>Nonviolence for Change</i></b><i>:</i> Under this heading comes WRI's work with groups interested in using nonviolent action for social change. WRI's activities related to the World Social Forum and the G-8 Alternative Summit in Germany are covered under 'cross-programme'.</p> <p></p><p>Javier has visited Latin America twice in the last year, in August taking part in the conference of Latin American antimilitarist initiatives organised by <i>Red Juvenil</i> in Medellin - "<i>US Intervention and Military Expenditure</i>" - where he led a workshop on war profiteers and made a general presentation on WRI. At the conference Javier gave a workshop on war profiteers, and also a general presentation on WRI. In March, Javier represented WRI in Quito, Ecuador, at the first conference of the No-Bases Network - the <i>International Conference for the Abolition of Foreign Military Bases</i>. Partly organised by our Ecuadoran affiliate, this conference was attended by some other Latin American groups linked to WRI and some WRI members from 'northern' countries, including Council member Tobias Pflüger, and reps from <i>Forum voor Vredesactie</i> and US <i>War Resisters League</i>. WRI has since been invited onto the coordinating committee for this network. Javier's talk emphasised the need to oppose militarism in itself, not just the militarism of the US and its allies. Javier also used the occasion to meet separately with Latin American anti-militarist groups attending to open discussion on the suggestion that WRI open a regional office (more below).</p> <p></p><p><b><i>Global Initiative Against War Profiteers:</i></b> Developing resources and networking around war profiteers with the WRI network. Javier has edited seven editions of <i>War Profiteers' News</i> (http://wri-irg.org/pubs/warprofiteers.htm), an e-mail newsletter on war profiteers, plus a special edition of <i>The Broken Rifle</i> (http://wri-irg.org/pdf/br71-en.pdf) on war profiteers.</p> <p></p><p>As part of this work, Javier sometimes attends meetings of the European Network Against Arms Trade and in October 2006 went to the USA for WRL's conference "<i>Stopping the Merchants of Death</i>", the main goal of which was to form a national network in the USA against war profiteering.</p> <p></p><p><b>Funding the Nonviolence programme</b> is a major problem. We urgently need further suggestions for possible sources of grant funding. In the continuing absence of grant funding, however, we are also pursuing the strategy of asking for pledges from individual supporters - a regular monthly or quarterly earmarked donation. If you have any well-paid friends supportive of nonviolence, please show them the special leaflet at <a href="http://wri-irg.org/pdf/nvflyer07-en.pdf">http://wri-irg.org/pdf/nvflyer07-en.pdf</a> or ask for printed copies.)</p> <p></p><p>The programme worker is <i>Javier Gárate</i>, and the programme committee is formed by <i>Joanne Sheehan</i>, <i>Majken Sørensen</i>, <i>Howard Clark</i>, <i>Stellan Vinthagen</i> and <i>Andreas Speck</i>.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading5" id="Heading5">The Right to Refuse to Kill programme</a></h3> <p></p><p>This programme has involved solidarity campaigns with objectors in particular countries, together with some projects more widely focused.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading6" id="Heading6">Country-specific:</a></h4> <p></p><p><b>Colombia:</b> With the emergence of the <i>National Assembly of Conscientious Objectors (</i>ANOOC), an international solidarity campaign is now under development. Together with ANOOC, WRI has created a database of Colombian conscientious objectors (https://lists.wri-irg.org/codb), which forms the basis for a <i>Conscientious Objector Card</i> (Tarjeta Objetor/a de Conciencia). This card, being issued by WRI to Colombian COs, was launched publicly in Medellin on 15 May. Although the card does not have any legal status, it is a symbol of the recognition of the right to CO in international law, especially following the ground-breaking decision of the UN Human Rights Committee on two South Korean CO cases from November 2006 (<a href="http://tinyurl.com/2w87to">http://tinyurl.com/2w87to</a> - CCPR/C/88/D/1321-1322/2004, 23 January 2007). The card and the database form the basis of solidarity activities in case a 'registered' conscientious objector gets into trouble with the Colombian authorities, as background infomation about the CO concerned is then already available to the network.</p> <p></p><p>This can be considered a form of 'virtual accompaniment', similar to the Peace Brigades International's physical accompaniment on the ground. In this experiment, WRI also cooperates closely with the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva, QUNO's Rachel Brett taking part in the launch and conducting subsequent meetings with Colombian authorities directly after 15 May.</p> <p></p><p><b>Turkey:</b> Following the arrest of CO Halil Savda in December 2006, WRI issued a number of CO alerts, and updated its campaign pages (<a href="http://wri-irg.org/co/turkcampaign-en.htm">http://wri-irg.org/co/turkcampaign-en.htm</a>). In April 2007, WRI submitted the case of Halil Savda to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention. WRI was also involved in the organisation of an international conference on conscientious objection in Istanbul on 27-28 January 2007 in which Andreas participated. As we write this report, a new warrant has been issued for the arrest of Osman Murat Ülke, WRI's former vice-chair who was first arrested for refusing military service in 1995. The office has been active in mobilising international solidarity in protest.</p> <p></p><p><b>Russia:</b> <i>Andreas Speck</i> and Exec member <i>Sergeiy Sandler</i> visited Russia in late February and early March 2007, consolidating existing links and making new contacts with a variety of Russian groups. It is becoming increasingly clear that most Russian contacts are interested in WRI for its experience of antimilitarism and nonviolence, and work little on the formalities of conscientious objection.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading7" id="Heading7">Non-country specific:</a></h4> <p></p><p><b>Women's CO anthology:</b> Some of the materials for the anthology have already been written and collected, and are about to be presented at the seminar before the Council meeting. Publication is now scheduled for 2008.</p> <p></p><p><b>Expert group:</b> In November 2006, Andreas represented WRI at a meeting of experts on the right to CO, convened by the office of the (UN) High Commissioner on Human Rights.</p> <p></p><p><b>Prisoners for Peace Day 2006</b> focused on Russia, following the murder of Russian journalist Elena Politkovskaya. However, it is increasingly difficult to develop Prisoners for Peace Day. The Exec is concerned how useful this day is in today's political and campaigning environment (especially as 1 December is more widely observed as World AIDS day), and wishes Council to discuss this.</p> <p></p><p><b>Funding for the RRtK programme</b> will expire in April 2008, and in October 2007 WRI will need to make a special effort to secure renewed funding for this core programme. The Exec is keen to involve more people in this programme - hence Sergeiy's participation in the visit to Russia - and is now establishing a programme committee, to be convened by Boro Kitanoski.</p> <p></p><h4><a name="Heading8" id="Heading8">Cross-programme work</a></h4> <p></p><p><b>World Social Forum:</b> The presence of WRI at the Social Forums has been a combined effort of the Nonviolence Programme and the Right to Refuse to Kill Programme, that is why we now call it a cross-programme project. WRI was responsible for several sessions at the WSF in Nairobi, Kenya, which was attended by all staff, as well as Council members <i>Tobias Pflügler</i> and <i>Stellan Vinthagen</i> and members of various affiliates. In addition, WRI invited Ela Gandhi from Durban, <i>Theodos Azbaha Haile</i>, an Eritrean exile, and <i>Rafa Uzcategui</i> from <i>El Libertario</i> Venezuela to take part in the sessions it organised. Rafa's participation provided a follow-up to WRI's presence at the Caracas WSF and alternative events in 2006 and offered the WSF another perspective on 'Chavezismo'. Cooperation continues with <i>Jai Sen</i> and CACIM (India Institute for Critical Action: Centre In Movement) in making more space for nonviolence in the WSF process.</p> <p></p><p><b>Counter-events to the G-8 summit in Germany, June 2007:</b> DFG-VK played a major role in coordinating the protests and their journal, <i>Zivilcourage,</i> published an article by Andreas Speck on globalisation and the anti-war movement (<a href="http://www.zc-online.de/zc200706_3.pdf">http://www.zc-online.de/zc200706_3.pdf</a>). The Alternative Summit was attended by members of various WRI groups, as well as Council member Tobias Pflüger. In June, both Andreas and Javier took part in the events against the G-8 in Germany, at the Alternative Summit giving a workshop on Colombia and also collaborating with the workshops of the No Bases International Network.</p> <p></p><p>The success of the nonviolent blockade, organised primarily by X-1000malquer, raises the question of whether WRI, together with groups with which we have an affinity, could play more of a role in coordinating a nonviolent presence at such events.</p> <p></p><p><b>Eritrea:</b> Following the 2005 Prisoners for Peace focus on Eritrea, the participation in the Triennial of Eritrean activists based in Germany and at the Nairobi World Social Forum, WRI - in cooperation with the Germany-based Eritrean Antimilitarism Initiative and the South Africa-based Eritrean Movement for Democracy and Human Rights - is looking to organise a seminar in South Africa in 2008 on possibilities for nonviolent resistance to the Eritrean regime. A regular volunteer in the WRI office is working on this programme.</p> <p></p><p><b>Russia:</b> The visit of Sergeiy and Andreas to Russia in February-March included an introductory workshop on nonviolence and identified the need for more nonviolence training. The plan is to organise one workshop with anarchistic activists and another in St. Peterburg that might link more to Chechnya and would include more elements on nonviolent conflict transformation.</p> <p></p><p>This work will require new funding, as the grant WRI received for work on Russia, as part of the Right to Refuse to Kill programme, will soon have been spent.</p> <p></p><h2><a name="Heading9" id="Heading9">Internal Organisational matters</a></h2> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading10" id="Heading10">The office</a></h3> <p></p><p><b>i) staff:</b> The past year has seen periods of several weeks of absence from the office for Andreas (sabbatical) and Yvonne (medical treatment), which - combined with the rather heavy load of international travel involved in the programme work this year - has led to some hiccups in coordination and the late circulation of minutes and some other communications to affiliates. These should be seen in the context of the achievements of the programme work, and also of the long hours worked by staff (inside and outside the office).</p> <p></p><p><b>ii) interns:</b> the office has some regular London-based volunteers - <i>Martyn Lowe</i> (filing and archiving), and <i>Natasha Burton</i> (Eritrea). In addition, there will be visiting interns - in August and September <i>Sebastian Lahner</i> from Germany working on Prisoners for Peace and war profiteers. Later this year, there will be at least two interns from Russia.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading11" id="Heading11">The Executive</a></h3> <p></p><p>The Executive consists of <i>Howard Clark</i> (chair), <i>Boro Kitanoski</i>, <i>Sergeiy Sandler</i> and <i>Majken Sørensen</i> - only Majken remaining from the pre-2006 Executive. Therefore the Committee has spent some time finding its feet. We hope to be augmented by <i>Dominique Saillard</i> (WRI staff, 1994-98) as treasurer. At the Triennial, another person was asked to serve on the Executive, but he could not give a firm answer at that time. It has since become clear that he cannot serve in this period. However, the Exec members hope that, with a treasurer, we will be able to cope.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading12" id="Heading12">Council meetings</a></h3> <p></p><p>The Triennial charged the Exec with investigating venues and themes for the forthcoming Council meetings. It has become increasingly clear that - unless the local organisers can take responsibility for organising (including raising funds for) the seminar part of the Council - the only way the pattern of an annual seminar/Council can be maintained is if the seminar is considered as part of something larger and with a longer funding cycle. This could be a series of themed meetings and/or as part of one of the core programmes. Otherwise, the additional work - especially fund-raising - for a one-off event is too demanding. A proposal for a seminar/council in Gujarat, India, in December 2008, has been prepared by Majken and Javier, in consultation with the local hosts, and will be discussed at Council.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading13" id="Heading13">International Conference</a></h3> <p></p><p>The International Conference (Triennial) absorbs a lot of energy from both staff and the Executive, as well as involving financial risk. The Exec is therefore asking this Council meeting to devote some time to reconsidering the form of this conference - this in the context of looking at the whole pattern of WRI meetings - Councils / Seminars and Conferences together with a new element, regional meetings.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading14" id="Heading14">Regionalisation</a></h3> <p></p><p>The Executive is working in the perspective that WRI's future is as a radical anti-militarist network promoting nonviolent action. Strengthening regional links is a vital element of making this network more effective. Therefore the Exec were delighted to receive a proposal from <i>Xavier León</i> and <i>Yeidy Luz Rosa Ortiz</i> to consult groups in Latin America about establishing a regional office there (specifically in Ecuador). Xavier will attend the Council meeting. The history of anti-militarist coordination in Latin America is not a particularly encouraging background for this proposal, and there remains some bad feeling left over from previous efforts at continental coordination. Therefore it is essential to ground any project in thorough consultation with the Latin American groups cooperating with WRI.</p> <p></p><p>The Executive is also keen to encourage groups in other regions to consider incorporating some element of WRI regional meetings into events they are organising. In Europe, this has been particularly discussed in the context of forthcoming anti-NATO events in Belgium.</p> <p></p><p>Again, this will form part of the discussion at Council on the pattern of WRI meetings.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading15" id="Heading15">Publications</a></h3> <p></p><p>The office has maintained the regular publication of the <i>Broken Rifle</i> (four times a year in English, French, German and Spanish), <i>War Profiteers' News</i> (six times a year, English and Spanish), and <i>CO Update</i> (monthly, English and Spanish - French currently suspended)<i>.</i> In addition, a <i>Handbook on Nonviolent Action</i> and a <i>Women's CO Anthology</i> are in preparation. These publications are a way of raising the profile of WRI - provided that affiliates actually use and distribute them.</p> <p></p><p><b>Internet:</b> Email lists and the web page are an increasingly important form of communication for our network, and a very cost-effective one too. The web page has been especially cost-effective thanks to the immense voluntary contribution for the past 10 years of our webmaster, Ken Simons. The web page is undoubtedly now the most comprehensive (and convenient) source of information on WRI and its recent past.</p> <p></p><p>As the web has undergone various revolutions in the last 10 years, the Executive is planning for the web site to be redesigned, introducing a Content Management System (CMS). Progress on this is slow so far.</p> <p></p><p>In addition, <i>michelle</i> (from Madrid, a WRI Council member from 1991-98) has bought the domain for WRI to open one webforum in English and another in Castellano, both of which she is prepared to facilitate.</p> <p></p><p>More discussion is needed on how WRI could use the web more effectively, and funds will need to be raised to cover the costs of moving from the current website to a redesigned website with a CMS.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading16" id="Heading16">Email lists and Working groups:</a></h3> <p></p><p>WRI has a number of email lists, some of which carry the name 'working groups'. Apart from wri-info, wri-internal and newsfromthenetwork, the more active email lists are subject-specific and generally connect with staffed programme work. These are open to all interested.</p> <p></p><p>There are currently only two working groups with convenors - Nonviolence Training (<i>Dorie Wilsnack</i>) and Africa (<i>Jan van Criekinge</i> and <i>Matt Meyer</i>, to whom were added <i>Chesterfield Samba</i> and <i>Yvonne Kassim</i> at the Triennial). Working groups initially were intended to be a way of organising WRI activities independently of the office. It has to be acknowledged that - apart from the personal input of the convenors mentioned - at the moment 'working groups' as a structure are not contributing a lot to the WRI.</p> <p></p><h2><a name="Heading17" id="Heading17">Finances:</a></h2> <p></p><p>The context in which WRI works is not just shaped by the way that militarism recreates itself in various parts of the world, nor only by the possibilities opened by anti-militarists and nonviolent groups. There are financial realities! The previous Exec made various cuts in our expenses (including in the frequency of Exec meetings and the amount of office space occupied). Nevertheless, in most of our work we are perpetually faced with budget shortages and the need to make cuts. There is a permanent tension between our ambitions - what we want to try to make possible - and our ability to obtain funds in due time.</p> <p></p><p>The situation we are now approaching is even more severe. For the Right to Refuse to Kill Programme, we have been completely dependent on one funder and do not yet know if the grant will be renewed. For the Nonviolence Programme, we invested two years of work in setting this up, and now desperately need to bring in funds for it.</p> <p></p><p>According to current projections, we have just one year in which we can operate on the current basis. We decided on our political preferences at the Council meeting in Macedonia in 2004: WRI should maintain its radical anti-militarist character and should function as a network rather than switch to being a funding-led NGO. The hard decisions about how to maintain a greatly reduced network still have to be made.</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading18" id="Heading18">Figures</a></h3> <p></p><p>Some comments on the accounts:</p> <p></p><p>1. Income from affiliation fees is down. This probably also has to do with not sending out a reminder/invoice yet, but it is a worrying sign. Howver this would look slightly better with the US accounts, and WRL decided to increase its affiliation fee (hurray for <i>Patrick Sheehan-Gaumer</i> and <i>Joanne Sheehan</i>).</p> <p></p><p>2. Sales are also down - we don't sell many copies of <i>Devi Prasad</i>'s book any more, and not many Broken Rifle badges. A website redesign also needs to include a much easier to maintain webshop, and a better range of merchandise, possibly in cooperation with Housmans Bookshop.</p> <p></p><p>3. Legacies are down too. We received one now, but not that high (but not yet in the accounts).</p> <p></p><h3><a name="Heading19" id="Heading19">Income and Expenses 2004-2007</a></h3> <p></p><p>(2007 figures up to 30 June 2007)</p> <p></p><table border="0" cellpadding="2px" cellspacing="2px" bgcolor="white"><br /><tr><br /><th>SUMMARY ACCOUNT</th><br /><th>2007<br /><br /> Account</th><br /><th>2007<br /><br /> Budget</th> <p></p><th>2006<br /><br /> Account</th><br /><th>2006<br /><br /> Budget</th><br /><th>2005<br /><br /> Account</th><br /><th>2005<br /><br /> Budget</th><br /><th>2004<br /><p>Account</p></th><br /><th>2004<br /><br /> Budget</th><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td colspan="9" style="background-color: #ccffff;">Income</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>General income</td><br /><td>8,502.38</td> <p></p><td>21,000</td><br /><td>27,530.51</td><br /><td>26,500</td><br /><td>115,518.09</td><br /><td>24,000</td><br /><td>26,305.35</td><br /><td>30,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td>Right to Refuse to Kill</td><br /><td>15,551.26</td><br /><td>29,346</td><br /><td>34,649.63</td><br /><td>33,760</td><br /><td>34,143.33</td><br /><td>34,270</td><br /><td>31,520.40</td><br /><td>30,000</td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Nonviolence programme</td><br /><td>1,389.17</td><br /><td>15,000</td><br /><td>6,152.42</td><br /><td>11,500</td><br /><td>50</td><br /><td>1,000</td> <p></p><td>1,262.07</td><br /><td></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Dealing with the past</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /><td>1,589.52</td><br /><td>10,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Other projects</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Seminars</td><br /><td>122.07</td> <p></p><td>14,400</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>16,125.87</td><br /><td>16,100</td><br /><td>2,559.72</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td>Triennial</td><br /><td>3,061.04</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>22,732.09</td><br /><td>50,800</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td> <p></p></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Total</td><br /><td>28,625.92</td><br /><td>79,746</td><br /><td>91,064.65</td><br /><td>122,560</td><br /><td>165,837.29</td><br /><td>75,370</td> <p></p><td>63,237.06</td><br /><td>70,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td colspan="9" style="background-color: #ccffff;">Expense</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>WRI Office</td><br /><td>9,737.58</td><br /><td>34,550</td> <p></p><td>33,916.44</td><br /><td>28,040</td><br /><td>24,808.98</td><br /><td>26,045</td><br /><td>31,044.00</td><br /><td>28,300</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>WRI Network</td> <p></p><td>1,069.20</td><br /><td>3,750</td><br /><td>1,645.47</td><br /><td>3,100</td><br /><td>4,722.13</td><br /><td>6,000</td><br /><td>13,307.42</td><br /><td>13,100</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Outreach (publications)</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>3,000</td><br /><td>600.49</td><br /><td>2,000</td><br /><td>6,266.57</td><br /><td>2,000</td><br /><td>6,710.86</td> <p></p><td>6,400</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Crisis response</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /><td>229.44</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Right to Refuse to Kill</td><br /><td>14,600.63</td><br /><td>33,346</td><br /><td>25,590.35</td> <p></p><td>33,760</td><br /><td>29,110.94</td><br /><td>34,270</td><br /><td>27,414.82</td><br /><td>27,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Nonviolence programme</td><br /><td>18,088.30</td> <p></p><td>28,000</td><br /><td>23,658.61</td><br /><td>26,000</td><br /><td>15,772.96</td><br /><td>17,000</td><br /><td>1,324.11</td><br /><td></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Dealing with the past</td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>778.8</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>11,849.80</td><br /><td>10,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Other projects</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td> <p></p><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Seminars</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>14,400</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>14,785.02</td> <p></p><td>16,200</td><br /><td>1,627.94</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Triennial</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>37,295.83</td> <p></p><td>55,200</td><br /><td>1,193.48</td><br /><td>1,700</td><br /><td>1,833.29</td><br /><td>0</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Total</td><br /><td>43,495.71</td> <p></p><td>117,046</td><br /><td>122,707.19</td><br /><td>148,100</td><br /><td>97,438.88</td><br /><td>103,215</td><br /><td>95,341.68</td><br /><td>84,800</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td colspan="9" style="background-color: #ccffff;"><br /><br /></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Year Result</td><br /><td>-14,869.79</td><br /><td>-37,300</td><br /><td>-31,642.54</td><br /><td>-25,540</td><br /><td>68,398.41</td> <p></p><td>-27,845</td><br /><td>-32,104.62</td><br /><td>-14,800</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>taken from WRI Reserves</td><br /><td>0</td><br /><td>4,922</td><br /><td>16,358.67</td> <p></p><td>20,720</td><br /><td>27,528.00</td><br /><td>26,500</td><br /><td>27,528.00</td><br /><td>18,000</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td>Budgeted result</td><br /><td>-14,869.79</td> <p></p><td>-32,378</td><br /><td>-15,283.87</td><br /><td>-4,820</td><br /><td>95,926.41</td><br /><td>-1,345</td><br /><td>-4,576.62</td><br /><td>3,200</td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><p></p><td>taken from WRI funds</td><br /><td></td><br /><td></td><br /><td></td><br /><td></td><br /><td></td><br /><td></td><br /><td></td><br /><td></td><br /></tr><p></p><tr><br /><td colspan="9" style="background-color: #ccffff;"><br /><br /></td><br 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