Feb 28, 2022
The February Town Hall found activists dispirited over Russia's attack on Ukraine, with only Abraham Weizfeld offering justifications for it. Some were concerned about the risk of radiation from Chernobyl and Ukraine's other nuclear power plants, which Russians now control, but possibly not properly. Finally we discuss...
Feb 24, 2022
With Russia's war against Ukraine underway, four guests discuss the notion of creating a zone of peace, not only in Ukraine but also in the south Caucasus. Christopher Mitchell, who has studied peace zones as an academic, meets with two of his former students: Irakli Kakabadze, who now runs a Gandhian institute in...
Feb 24, 2022
Ingeborg Breines was a director specializing in gender issues at UNESCO at the end of the Cold War – a time of optimism, when there was reason to hope that democracy would spread around the world and that the OSCE would be the paramount international organization for Europe and the other northern countries of the...
Feb 23, 2022
Metta Spencer was invited to speak to the fellows of McLaughlin College, York University about climate change. Her title, “How to Subtract" reviews five of the possible methods of either shielding the planet from the sun's heat with whiter clouds or removing carbon from the atmosphere to store it in the soil or...
Feb 23, 2022
On the day following Putin's decision to recognize the breakaway Donbas republics of Ukraine, both James Simeon and John Foster are preoccupied with the apparent imminence of a major war in Europe. Simeon studies forced migration, which he attributes largely to the prevalence of protracted wars. We don't need another...