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The 2006 WRI International Conference: Appeal to WRI Affiliates

The 2006 WRI “Triennial” conference will be a decisive event in shaping the future of our organisation and our movement. Please make a note of the dates: the open conference will be from 23 to 27 July, while the WRI business meeting will be on 28-29.

War Resisters' International is committed to "strive for the removal of all causes of war". War profiteers, companies profiting from war, are one of the causes of war. For the past year, War Resisters' International has been working on the development of a new WRI campaign against war profiteers, based on our understanding that "war is a crime against humanity".

Howard Clark says in his article in the The Broken Rifle No.67: "War profiteers has been a permanent feature of the military landscape. It is not just that the search for profit can foment war.

Day 1 (Sunday, 26 June): Peace in North East Asia (Opening Panel)

The opening panel will introduce the different security threats and peace related issues of the region to the international and regional audience and also introduce concept of non-violent resistance, which WRI has pursued so far, and will contribute to peace movement in this region. For this panel, we aim to get speakers from South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, China and WRI members.

Report from the international seminar in Seoul, 26-29 June 2005

The 2005 WRI annual seminar was entitled “Peace In North-East Asia” and focused on a variety of related topics over 3.5 days. It consisted of a mixture of panel discussions, small workshops and a nonviolence training session.

Entering South KoreaVisa

Citizens from many countries can enter South Korea without visa.
For countries requiring visa such as Russia, you can get visa from a South Korean Embassy in your country or nearby countries. Invitation letter may be of help to get visa.

Pfarrer Dr. Samuel Kobia, Genf, Generalsekretär des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen (ÖRK):

"Es ist mir eine Freude, Ihnen heute die Glückwünsche und den herzlichen Dank des Ökumenischen Rates der Kirchen zu übermitteln. Über viele Generationen und an unzähligen Orten sind Kriegshelden geehrt und gefeiert worden, während Kriegsdienstverweigerer unter Verachtung und Unehre litten und im Gefängnis landeten.

By Joanne Sheehan, WRI Chair

It is an honor to be here and an honor for War Resisters' International to receive the Friedrich Siegmund-Schultze Award.

War Resisters' International is based on the declaration made by each member that "War is a crime against humanity. I am therefore determined not to support any kind of war and to strive for the removal of all causes of war." A WRI network of more than 85 pacifists groups in over 40 countries has a commitment to this declaration. And that number continues to grow.

Award ceremony in Speyer, Germany, on 28 September

War Resisters' International has received the Friedrich-Siegmund Schultze[1] award to support nonviolent activities in 2004.

This report aims to offer a general overview of Alberto Estefanía Hurtado's contributions to the WRI office during the 2002-2003 year.

His volunteer work can be divided into four basic categories:

1. His contribution to the Dealing With The Past programme

Between February and September, the bulk of his work was within this programme.

I have been an intern at WRI from 19th of January to 25th February 2004.

The changes in Georgia might not be as positive as it seems on first viewAfter the parliamentary elections in Georgia on 2 November the opposition was very quick to shout "fraud"! What followed then was a well orchestrated wave of protests, which brought the Caucasus state to the brink of a civil war, and lead in the end to the resignation of president Eduard Shevardnardze. However, there is only one serious candidate for the new presidential elections, to be held in January: Saakashvili, the leader of the opposition movement. A revolution in Georgia? Hardly.

Entry on WRI in Encyclopaedia of Nonviolence (Garland Publishing 1997)

War Resisters' International

International antiwar organization with members and affiliates in over thirty countries. Headquartered in London, War Resisters' International (WRI) co-publishes the monthly Peace News in English and an internal bulletin The Broken Rifle (in English, French, German, and Spanish).