Forty-eight hours before a global peace conference in Vienna was to begin, the venue host cancelled. Peace, it seems, cannot be discussed.
Author: David Swanson, Kathy Kelly, John Reuwer and Brad Wolf
David Swanson is an author, activist, journalist, and radio host. He is executive director of WorldBeyondWar.org and campaign coordinator for RootsAction.org. Swanson's books include War Is A Lie. He blogs at DavidSwanson.org and WarIsACrime.org.
Kathy Kelly ([email protected]) is a peace activist and author whose efforts to resist military and economic wars have sometimes led her to live in war zones and U.S. federal prisons. She is working on planning for the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal; she is board President of World BEYOND War and a co-coordinator of BanKillerDrones.org.
John Reuwer is treasurer and a member of the Board of Directors of World BEYOND War. He is a retired emergency physician whose practice convinced him of a crying need for alternatives to violence for resolving tough conflicts. This led him to the informal study and teaching of nonviolence for the last 35 years, with peace team field experience in Haiti, Colombia, Central America, Palestine/Israel, and several U.S. inner cities. He worked in South Sudan with the Nonviolent Peaceforce, one of the few organizations practicing professional unarmed civilian peacekeeping. He also serves on the Committee to Abolish Nuclear Weapons with Physicians for Social Responsibility. John has been a facilitator for World BEYOND War’s online courses “War Abolition 201” and “Leaving World War II Behind.”
Brad Wolf is executive director and co-founder of Peace Action Network of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A former lawyer, prosecutor, professor and community college dean, he writes for various publications.