#pacifism — Public Fediverse posts

@Disputatore @kibcol1049 We all live under a regime. I think it’s far beyond sad that Russians and Ukrainians want to kill each other. (And all the others fighting round the world). How can we possibly put an end to war if we carry on fighting? Or do we just carry on until someone presses the nuclear button and it’s all over? #War #Peace #Russia #Ukraine #Pacifism #PeacePledgeUnion

@kibcol1049 @BenAveling @Disputatore War is terrible. Is there any way we can stop it apart from people refusing to fight? #War #Peace #Russia #Ukraine #Pacifism #PeacePledgeUnion

"On May 15th, International Conscientious Objection Day, we join together to send a clear and powerful message: we reject militarisation and affirm the right to refuse to kill, in response to growing efforts to promote military service as a solution to today’s crises."

#ConscientiousObjection
#RefuseToKill #nonviolence
#pacifism #WarResistersInternational

https://wri-irg.org/en/story/2026/international-conscientious-objection-day-2026

“Pope seems to rebuke Trump in remarks about leaders with ‘hands full of blood’. Pontiff’s unusually pointed comments come after Pete Hegseth’s prayer for violence against enemies ‘who deserve no mercy’.” It’s weird how many supposed Christians don’t understand that Jesus was a pacifist. #Pacifism #PeacePledgeUnion

@OldSquida2 There is only one way to stop war. #Pacifism #PeacePledgeUnion

Today's = 1st 🎂 of article in International Affairs articulating #pacifist critique of reactions to Russian invasion of #Ukraine ➡️ https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/iiae275 #nonviolence #pacifism #war #Russia #militarism

Summary: 1/ asks whether military path worse than coordinated mass
#nonviolent civil disobedience 2/ exposes 2 ingrained assumptions (on efficacy of #violence, & violence in 'human nature') 3/ reflects on how war transforms agents of violence & entrenches 'warism'/militarism

I'm also derided for my #pacifist stance, being told that this is a privileged position and that Black and trans people like myself need to take up arms against oppression.

The amount of violence and hatred in the world is becoming too much for me to cope with. I feel there's nowhere on Earth I fit in at this point.

https://funcrunch.medium.com/is-pacifism-a-privilege-b6d56b932711?sk=82a375ab1bdd313ac2d2c03ba8a4922b

#pacifism

Reminder that #RemembranceDay is coming up, and there's plenty of time to buy #WhitePoppies from the Peace Pledge Union.

🛒 https://shop.ppu.org.uk/collections/frontpage

The #WhitePoppy has been worn in the run-up to Remembrance Day for over ninety years, as a symbol of remembrance and peace.

#peace #pacifism #pacifist #heddwch #SayNoToWar #PacifistNotPassive

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This Saturday was 3rd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://doi.org/10.1093/isq/sqac070

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.

Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: https://sites.google.com/site/christoyannopoulos/publications/tolstoys-political-thought-christian-anarcho-pacifist-iconoclasm

Core chapters explore T’s
#pacifism, #anarchism,
#anticlericalism, #asceticism &
#nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.

Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: https://sites.google.com/site/christoyannopoulos/publications/tolstoys-political-thought-christian-anarcho-pacifist-iconoclasm

Core chapters explore T’s
#pacifism, #anarchism,
#anticlericalism, #asceticism &
#nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.

Today is #Tolstoy's birthday. His #politicalthought is radical, #anarcho-#pacifist & #iconoclastic. Here's my book on it: https://sites.google.com/site/christoyannopoulos/publications/tolstoys-political-thought-christian-anarcho-pacifist-iconoclasm

Core chapters explore T’s
#pacifism, #anarchism,
#anticlericalism, #asceticism &
#nonviolent #activism. Each time first systematising T (with plenty of poignant quotes), then discussing criticisms of his views, then reflecting on relevance since.

Digital painting: Ambiguous impulses for your own mental cinema!
#kunst #contemporaryArt #mentalCinema #digitalPainting #virtualPainting #aiAssistedArt #digitalArt #saveBioDiversity #climateActionNow #systemChange #endFossilFuels #makeArtNotWar #noAFD #NoRacism #NoFascism #humanrights #humanDignity #Нетвойны #bigEye #staringEye #observation #watchingyou #bigCity #skyScraper #streets #gandhi #mahatma #pacifism #ahimsa #bicycle #drawing #trafficLight #helicopter #penguin #saveTheWorld #scribbles

📢 Today = 2nd 🎂 of my article in International Studies Quarterly presenting an #anarcho-#pacifist reading of #IR (freely available via #openaccess): https://academic.oup.com/isq/article/66

Short thread summary: Paper seeks to articulate overdue #anarchopacifist lens to #IR #theory. Explicitly #critical & #normative. Starts with brief #history of cross-pollination between #anarchism & #pacifism.