Triennial

The forthcoming War Resisters' International Triennial will include a theme group on Civil Disobedience and Environmental Action. People from a range of environmental campaigns have been invited to come and discuss their experiences. This article gives the background to one such campaign in southern Chile.

Antiwar Campaign Croatia (ARK) is happy to host the 22nd Triennial Conference of War Resisters' International (WRI) at a crucial time for reconstruction of society and possible rebuilding of multicultural and multinational community in Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The frightening question remains: Will there be a way to establish communication and guarantee the return of people to war destroyed areas? Will the destroyed villages and towns whose inhabitants have been killed or had to take refuge in other countries remain ethnically cleansed?.

How to destroy your organisation Psychosocial effects of obligatory Military Service Children seen as citizens: a human rights perspective Electronic media in the service of human rights Human rights and the arts Experiences of War Women's Peacemaker Program Social Defence Civilian Peace Servic

Follow-up to CONCODOC (the CONscription and Conscientious Objection DOCumentation project) WRI Online Resource Project Indonesia/East Timor working group and mini-seminar tour Conference on social empowerment Mixed group on gender issues Nonviolent blockades of Yugoslav embassies Proposals from the Environmental Action theme group

Visas

Plenary report

Vesna Terselic of ARK welcomed participants to the Triennial and noted the
difficulties facing participants from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
(Montenegro and Serbia, including Vojvodina and Kosova). "The war in Kosova is
gathering force and the humanitarian crises have already started, but the
Croatian administration have not given visas to the people who work for peace
and who could tell us about the `other side' of the conflicts."

1998 Triennial Report (Broken Rifle no. 42)

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Plenaries
Opening and closing plenaries

When armed conflicts reach a ceasefire, international attention often fades
away. The process of reconstruction and democratisation does not merit the same
interest or coverage. In this piece I want to look at some of the peace
activities which take place — on both micro and macro levels — during and
after violent conflicts, to share some observations, to postulate some theses
and to raise some questions.

Wars have changed

The convenor for this plenary is Goran Bozicevic from ARK/Centre for Peace
Studies (Croatia). Clem Mc.Cartney, an independent consultant from Northern Ireland, has been invited as one of the resource people to the session and
has also helped us greatly to produce this written version for the Reader.

What do we mean by this title? It is intended to be very open, but, we hope,
not too confusing. We could be making a statement that Conflict Resolution has
died. Or we could be asking a question about the future of Conflict
Resolution.

On the evening of Sunday the 20th of September we will have a challenging and
provocative plenary called "Justice after War". The perspective will come from
a human rights doctrine: that is, the focus will be based on human rights,
violation of human rights, and policies required to overcome - if that is ever
possible - human rights abuses. We must keep in mind that human rights work
requires creativity and is a constant challenge to the imagination, as it is a
very new field.

Dear
friends from so many different latitudes, North, South, East and West, welcome
to our Reader. We hope that this collection of background papers will help
bring us closer and establish further common ground in preparation for our
Seminar: "Choosing Peace Together". While gathering for the conference in
Poreè, a seaside resort on the Adriatic, its natural beauty cannot
deflect our awareness from the harsh and continuing reality which brings us
there and which we have to face head on: WAR. It is obvious that our struggle
for peace must go on. We are far from reaching our goal.