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Byline: MARK MacKINNON; Staff JERUSALEM -- For the first time in his long career as a peacemaker, Gershon Baskin agrees with the consensus in Israel that, when it comes to [...]

Byline: JON GAMBRELL, JOHN LEICESTER, ELENA BECATOROS; ASSOCIATED PRESS OSLO, NORWAY -- Imprisoned Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in recognition of her tireless campaigning [...]

Byline: Geoffrey York and Patrick Martin LEADERSHIP / PEACE Johannesburg and Jerusalem -- THE ACTIVIST Johannesburg - Leymah Gbowee, co-winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, is one of Africa's bravest [...]

Byline: BAHIJA REGHAI Commenting on the 2002 Arab peace initiative, Israeli peace activist Uri Avnery once remarked, 'Every international initiative designed to put an end to the conflict passes through [...]

Byline: SANDRA MARTIN Astudent of the legendary Johannes von Neumann at Princeton in the 1930s, a wrongfully accused spy in Canada in the 1940s, a distinguished mathematician and a tireless [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD A war resisters' support group says Toronto police officers came looking to question a U.S. army deserter, and it accused police of doing the U.S. military's [...]

Byline: RON CSILLAG; Special to The Globe and Mail TORONTO -- For Anatol Rapoport, rationality wasn't all that rational. It was slippery and deceptive and tended to default to the [...]

Byline: OMAR EL AKKAD BURLINGTON, ONT. -- Rabiya Kadeer is stuck in traffic. To the Uyghur people, a Muslim minority group engaged with Chinese authorities in a long-running struggle for [...]

Byline: KATHERINE HARDING AND DAWN WALTON EDMONTON, CALGARY -- The Royal Canadian Legion is threatening to bring out its big guns -- the lawyers -- in a war with peace [...]

Oslo NORWAY -- OSLO U.S. President Bill Clinton and his peace emissary for Bosnia, Richard Holbrooke, are among 103 people and organizations so far nominated for this year&#39s Nobel Peace [...]

Byline: TIM WARD Review by TIM WARD THICH Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Zen Master, peace activist and prolific author of more than 25 books, takes on the Pope in his lucid [...]

Byline: ROBERT SHEPPARD Review by ROBERT SHEPPARD WHEN the Berlin Wall fell six years ago and Communist Europe gutted itself from the inside, Vera Wollenberger did what any self-respecting peace [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK Sernovodsk, Russia -- BY GEOFFREY YORK Moscow Bureau Sernovodsk, Russia MARIA Kirbasova is limping noticeably as she walks down a highway in Western Chechnya. She is a [...]

AL-KHADER, West Bank -- AL-KHADER, West Bank Israeli soldiers clashed yesterday with Palestinians and Jewish peace activists who stormed an army blockade at a disputed construction site in the Israeli-occupied [...]

Jerusalem ISRAEL -- JERUSALEM A clash in the Gaza Strip yesterday between PLO police and Islamic militants opposed to peace with Israel left one officer dead and two Islamic activists [...]

Byline: ELIZABETH RENZETTI WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY CAROLINE THOMPSON Starring David Thewlis and Andrew Knott Rating: In her directorial debut, Caroline Thompson bravely chronicles the travails of Anna Sewell's immortal [...]

Byline: ALAN NIESTER BY ALAN NIESTER Special To The Globe and Mail Writing in the liner notes to the Joan Baez compilation disc Rare Live & Classic, rock writer Anthony [...]

Mexico City MEXICO -- MEXICO CITY Two Canadian native-rights activists were selected yesterday to join a commission for peace in southern Mexico, where rebels began fighting two weeks ago for [...]

Cairo EGYPT -- Reuters News Agency CAIRO A senior PLO official said yesterday the PLO will not sign a peace agreement with Israel on schedule next month unless Israel gives [...]

Staff and wire services In Los Alamos National Laboratory's Bradbury Science Museum, just around the corner from a stark-white bomb case, hangs an image of the charred body of a [...]

Byline: ANDRE PICARD Montreal PQ -- BY ANDRE PICARD Quebec Bureau MONTREAL Rigoberta Menchu, winner of the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize, is pleading for the release of Leonard Peltier, saying [...]

Oslo NORWAY -- Associated Press OSLO Rigoberta Menchu, orphaned by civil war in her native Guatemala, was hailed as a 'vivid symbol of peace and reconciliation' by the committee that [...]

Byline: GEOFFREY YORK Ottawa ONT -- BY GEOFFREY YORK Parliamentary Bureau OTTAWA Three months after the first storm of criticism over the federal government's $4.4-billion helicopter purchase, there is a [...]

RAMLE, Israel -- RAMLE, Israel Israeli peace activist Abie Nathan, imprisoned for meeting PLO leader Yasser Arafat, was released yesterday after his sentence was commuted by President Chaim Herzog. [...]

Baltimore MD -- BALTIMORE Peace activist Philip Berrigan has been sentenced to five years in prison for contempt when he accused a judge of Nazi-like court procedures and refused to [...]

Byline: PATRICK MARTIN Jerusalem ISRAEL -- BY PATRICK MARTIN Middle East Bureau Jerusalem ISRAEL'S widely condemned decision to expel 12 Palestinian activists from the occupied territories may have been more [...]

RAMLE, Israel -- RAMLE, Israel Peace activist Abie Nathan began an 18-month prison sentence yesterday, vowing to continue his fight against a law banning contacts with the Palestin Liberation Organization. [...]

Havana CUBA -- Reuters News Agency HAVANA Cuban dissidents, directly defying a public warning by the island's Communist authorities, said yesterday that they have joined together in a democratic opposition [...]

Byline: ANDRE PICARD Montreal PQ -- BY ANDRE PICARD Quebec Bureau MONTREAL Ovide Mercredi, national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, is following through on his election promise to [...]

New York NY -- Associated Press NEW YORK Three nights of violence and a bottle-throwing rejection of Mayor David Dinkins's call for peace left racial tensions unchanged yesterday in a [...]

Byline: STEPHEN BRUNT BY STEPHEN BRUNT NO one has ever questioned Mike Keenan's smarts and no one has ever confused him with Mohandas Gandhi, the Mahatma. So yesterday, when he [...]

London ENGLAND -- LONDON Two British peace activists were cleared yesterday of helping Soviet double agent George Blake escape from a London prison 25 years ago. Patrick Pottle, 52, and [...]

Jerusalem ISRAEL -- Associated Press JERUSALEM Israeli settlers and peace activists clashed yesterday outside a controversial Jewish settlement, set up in the occupied West Bank amid a round of Middle [...]

Byline: TIMOTHY APPLEBY Toronto ONT -- BY TIMOTHY APPLEBY The Globe and Mail TORONTO Despite the battering it received from the Persian Gulf crisis, Israel's peace movement still represents the [...]

Byline: Sharon Fraser Halifax NS -- Timothy Carter, a writer and filmmaker who has spent time in the reserve infantry, takes issue with Anton Kuerti and the views Mr. Kuerti [...]

Byline: PAUL KORING Amman JORDAN -- BY PAUL KORING The Globe and Mail AMMAN A Canadian doctor will accompany a shipment of medicine to Baghdad tomorrow, as relief supplies begin [...]

Byline: GABOR MATE Vancouver BC -- BY GABOR MATE Vancouver 'ONLY folly could dictate policy which trusts a distant imperial power for protection, while alienating the goodwill of neighbours,' warned [...]

Byline: KEVIN COX Halifax NS -- BY KEVIN COX Atlantic Bureau HALIFAX The first Canadian city to mobilize for war seven months ago is quickly adapting to peace. As naval [...]

Byline: Daniel Levinson Calgary AB -- Martin Krossel's article presents a distorted view of reality that I cannot allow to go unchallenged (Turning A Blind Eye To The Whole Truth [...]

Nicosia CYPRUS -- Reuter and Canadian Press NICOSIA A convoy of trucks loaded with medicines has left the Jordanian capital, Amman, headed for Baghdad on a bombed-out highway, escorted by [...]

Byline: MIRO CERNETIG BY MIRO CERNETIG Alberta Bureau TODAY is Day 29 for Edmonton's peace camp, the unsightly heap of sleeping bags that antiwar activists spread over a patch of [...]

Byline: DEBORAH WILSON Vancouver BC -- BY DEBORAH WILSON British Columbia Bureau VANCOUVER Wives of men headed for the Persian Gulf say they are being harassed by phone calls and [...]

Byline: RHEAL SEGUIN BYBY RHEAL SEGUIN Quebec Bureau CANADIANS who oppose the war in the Persian Gulf say they feel powerless to stop it. They have watched with skepticism as [...]

Byline: SEAN O'MALLEY BY SEAN O'MALLEY Special to The Globe and Mail Canadian doctor Robert Chase hopes to be in the two-kilometre wedge of no man's land between Saudi Arabia [...]

Byline: LINDA HOSSIE Toronto ONT -- BYBY LINDA HOSSIE The Globe and Mail TORONTO A group of prominent peace activists, environmentalists, church people and authors called for Prime Minister Brian [...]

Byline: LINDA HOSSIE and ROBERT MacLEOD Toronto ONT -- BY LINDA HOSSIE and ROBERT MacLEOD The Globe and Mail TORONTO The threat of war in the Persian Gulf has pulled [...]

Baghdad IRAQ -- Reuters News Agency BAGHDAD Peace activists are preparing to camp in the Iraqi desert between opposing armies in the Persian Gulf crisis, vowing that either side will [...]

Byline: PAUL KORING Baghdad IRAQ -- BY PAUL KORING The Globe and Mail Baghdad ON tranquil Aras Island in the middle of the Tigris River as it wends its way [...]

Byline: KEVIN COX Halifax NS -- BY KEVIN COX Atlantic Bureau HALIFAX For the first time in 45 years, the signs of war are everywhere in the Halifax area. In [...]

Byline: PAUL TAYLOR By PAUL TAYLOR After staunchly opposing the federal Government's foreign and defence policies, major Canadian peace groups have now decided to accept $25,000 from Ottawa to help [...]