2026 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination: IPRA and Matt Meyer
Introductory Summary Since its foundation in 1964, the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) has arranged peace and peace research congresses annually: a single, biennial global gathering and five regionally conferences biannually in alternating years. In between these conferences, IPRA has been working continuously to create the theoretical basis for sustainable peace, promoting peace proposals for ongoing conflicts, and developing practical policies for sustainable peace based on democracy, Indigenous peoples’ and minorities’ rights, gender equality, participatory peacebuilding, journalism and freedom of the press, and social justice. During the last eight years, under the leadership of Professor Matt Meyer, IPRA has developed a truly global peace studies and peace research movement, based on inter-cultural cooperation and equality between continents and civilizations worldwide. IPRA and Matt Meyer qualify especially well for the Nobel Peace…
World Peace day
Some of The Falls band from Belfast performing their songBorn Back in Time for World Peace Day I've got a paradise With a big grey skyA wall of segregationThat sits 40 feet highI've got a hatred it's in my soulWhich I never felttil I was told soAnd maybe they doHave the same feelings toowe're both just some animalsCaged in the same zooY'know, the man in the suit told me I couldn't fly Cos it's a 50 pound to be caught in his sky And his friends who he hates They say that he's in the wrongY'know, the man in the suit told me I couldn't fly Cos it's a 50 pound to be caught in his sky And his friends who he hates….I had a dream onceThat I was born…
Open letter to President Trump – Stop The Genocide In Gaza
Dear President Trump,The children of Gaza are beingStarved and killed. Israel has killed 18592 Palestinian childrenIn the last two years. There are 39000 Palestinians children orphaned in Gaza, occupied Palestine. This is forced starvation an Israeli policy leading to famine. (Calls for genocide from high Israeli politicians andMilitary generals (see genocidal statement 8/18/2025 via profMichael de Graff.) This is not a natural disaster it is mass murder and intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel. The suffering is so deep and painful. Please do something to stop suchpreventable suffering and death of little Palestinian children by Israelimilitary and politicians.Please president trump cut off weapons and diplomatic support and save the Palestinians from ethnic cleansing And genocide which is being witnessed by the whole world.Thank you for what you are doing for…