Assistant Coordinator – IPB – International Peace Bureau

Toward Dialogue and Survival in a Perilous Time

Common security lessons for the US and Russia in a world without arms control.

*By Joseph Gerson, Jul 05, 2026, Common Dreams

The following article was initially written at the request of Oleg Bodrov, a Russian physicist with commitments to peace and environmental sustainability and safety. I met Oleg about a decade ago during the World Conference against A- & H- Bombs in Hiroshima, and today we both serve on the board of the International Peace Bureau, a Nobel Peace Prize recipient organization. In addition to serving on IPB’s board, Oleg is chairman of the Public Council of the South Coast of the Gulf of Finland. He lives outside of St. Petersburg and does what he can given the limits of the possible in Putin’s Russia. When he and I last spoke, Ukrainian drones had devastated a massive Russian oil refinery, spewing toxins into the Baltic Sea and across many Russian communities. With Ukrainian drones flying overhead he hadn’t slept the previous night, making Oleg one more innocent caught in that mutually disastrous war.

In our exchanges, Oleg came up with a proposal to take a small step toward bridging the divisions of the new US-Russian Cold War and building for the time when the missiles, drones, and guns of the Ukraine War have been silenced. His idea: I should write an article that shared US peace movement thinking and named actions that can reduce the increasingly perilous military tensions and serve as foundations for a future era of US-NATO-Russian Common security. Oleg would translate the article and arrange for its publication in a Russian scientific journal. As we corresponded about the article’s publication, it occurred to us that it might also prove helpful for US readers, hence its publication here in Common Dreams. Where this will lead, only time will tell. But the truth is that both the US and Russia are going to be around for a long time, and a just and peaceful Common Security order will be essential for this and future generations.

Torture, detention, and denial of alternative service: EBCO calls on Ukraine to uphold the right to conscientious objection

English | Ukrainian. Please see the Ukrainian version below.

Press release by European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO)

The European Bureau for Conscientious Objection (EBCO) condemns the torture and death in military custody of Ukrainian conscientious objector Dmytro Koval and calls on Ukraine to immediately end the persecution, arbitrary detention and ill-treatment of conscientious objectors, adopt legislation guaranteeing alternative civilian service in wartime, and ensure accountability for all abuses committed during mobilisation.

Save Jeju Now: We condemn the attempted offshore rocket launch by the military, Hanwha, and the Jeju Provincial Government!

Photo by Hwang Yong-woon, June 30, 2026

Photo by Hwang Yong-woon, June 30, 2026

On June 30, the military and Hanwha attempted to conduct the fourth test of a solid-propellant space launch vehicle off the coast of Seogwipo, Jeju, but were ultimately forced to cancel it [mainly due to technical reasons]. This occurred less than a month after the explosion at Hanwha Aerospace in Daejeon.

An investigation into the cause of the explosion at Hanwha Aerospace in Daejeon has revealed some facts. Hanwha has consistently ignored workers’ requests to improve their working conditions. Furthermore, Building 56—the explosives cleaning facility where the tragedy occurred—was an unlicensed structure.

The Child Peacebuilder Guide: 10 Pillars for Practicing Peace

Developed by Re-Imagining New Communities. Inspired by children
participating in Children-Led Community Peace Labs ( CLCP-Labs) by
Sahlim Charles

Think about it. Whenever you type the term “Peace Processes” into a
search engine, what appears are images of high-level negotiations in
conference halls, policy forums, diplomatic roundtables and often
military presence in fragile contexts. This is not accidental; these
images reflect how peace is commonly framed and understood in
global discourse. Peace is often portrayed as elite, institutional and
distant from everyday life.

Yet in the everyday life of a schoolyard, a church/ temple/ shrine/
mosque, or a neighborhood, children are already practicing peace in
ways that are immediate, relational and deeply transformative. When a
child says “I will help you,” “I am sorry,” or “Come, let’s do this together,”
they are not merely behaving well, they are exercising leadership. Theseacts by children remind the global community that peace is not
abstract. It is built in daily interactions, small choices, and shared
responsibility.

Peace Wave 2026

The Fifth Annual 24-Hour Peace Wave remains a 24-hour-long Zoom featuring peace actions in the streets and squares of the world, moving around the globe with the sun. But participants will have until November 1, 2026, to submit videos of peace activism, filmed at any time in the first 10 months of 2026.

We will then compile the videos into 24 videos of 40 minutes each. We will then announce the date of a Zoom webinar that will have 40 minutes of video and 20 of introduction and live discussion (including your questions) every hour for 24 hours.

Make Sure Your Video Is Included

Organized by: International Peace Bureau, World BEYOND War, and Stop the War Coalition Philippines.

New Zealand: Military spending prioritised in Budget 2026

By: Peace Movement Aotearoa

Military spending is prioritised again in this year’s Budget as New Zealand continues to pursue a range of militaristic fantasies as it seeks to be a combat capable “force multiplier” with “enhanced lethality and deterrent effect”.

Amidst cuts to public services to eliminate “wasteful spending”, the rapidly escalating climate emergency and the desperate need for more funding for failing social services, military spending allocated this year increased to $5,882,661,000 [1] – an increase of more than 9.3% over actual military spending in the past financial year, which averages out to more than $113.1 million every week. This once more illustrates a government stuck in the same old thinking about ‘security’, choosing to focus on an outdated narrow concept of military security rather than real security that gives all New Zealanders the chance to flourish.

Stop Using Drone Warfare to Perpetrate Genocides in Palestine and Sudan

May 9, 2026 | Post-event Recording

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Statement of Dr. Enkhsaikhan of Blue Banner at the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Review Conference (NPT Revcon) side event on Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones (NWFZs)

United Nations, New York, 6 May, 2026

Enkhsaikhan Jargalsaikhan

I will briefly touch upon 2 issues: first, on Mongolia’s policy to establish a single-State nuclear-weapon-free zones (NWFZs) and second, in doing so how to contribute to broadening the role, breadth and reach of zones.

The first issue. Directly connected with its cold war lesson. Situated between two adversarial nuclear weapon states at that time and hosting military bases of one of them Mongolia turned itself into a nuclear target. Therefore, when Russia was withdrawing its bases it declared the country NWFZ and had committed to work to acquire nuclear-weapon states’ (P5) security guarantees. Since 1998 the issue is on the Assembly’s biennial agenda. The Mongolian Government had issued a number of official memoranda on the issue, the latest for current NPT Revcon.

Tectonic Geopolitical Changes: Which Way to Peace and A Nuclear Weapon-Free World

On the Eve of the NPT Review Conference International Civil Society Demands an End to Wars & a Nuclear Weapons-Free World

At a time when the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Doomsday Clock had been set to 85 seconds to midnight—the closest ever to global catastrophe—and when the viability of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was under increasing strain, an international coalition of nuclear disarmament and peace organizations gathered on the eve of the 11th NPT Review Conference. The moment reflected what Antonio Gramsci described as a “time of monsters,” in which the old world is dying and the new struggles to be born.

Korean A-bomb victims head to UN to tell their stories and seek accountability

Source: Solidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea (SPARK)

【Below are the Korean, Japanese, and Chinese versions】

A delegation of victims and advocates will head to the US next week to alert the international community about the toll that America’s atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki had on Koreans who were forced there during Japanese rule

Han Jeong-soon, the president of the Korean Society for the Second Generation Patients Atomic Bombs, pays her respects at a memorial space featuring plaques with the names of Koreans who died while suffering the aftereffects of the US atomic bombings of Japan, located at a welfare center for Korean A-bomb victims in Hapcheon, South Gyeongsang Province. (Choi Sang-won/Hankyoreh)

Author: Assistant Coordinator