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IPPNW peace and health blog title: IPPNW peace and health blog | News and opinion from the international medical movement to abolish nuclear weapons and to prevent war

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by Maria Arvaniti Sotiropoulou “Prevention is better than cure,” taught Hippocrates, the father of medicine. And this motto holds true for every illness. But is war an illness? Many philosophers regard it as a natural state in human history. The figures bear them out. Since 3600 BC, more than 14,000 wars have taken place, 3,500 […]

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Michail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan famously shook hands in front of the wooden Hofdi House in Reykjavik, Iceland on 12 October 1986. Twenty years later, it was revealed that they came within inches of achieving an agreement on total nuclear disarmament, only for Reagan’s “Star Wars” to block their vision. Forty years later, Russia and […]

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe remains one of the most expansive minds in modern intellectual history. His legacy crosses poetry, literature, science, philosophy, and cultural thought, yet beneath this diversity lies a sustained concern with the development of the human being. He lived through revolution, political upheaval, nationalism, and war, but his intellectual response rarely...

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Few whistleblowers have risked as much as Mordechai Vanunu did when he handed over covertly taken photographs of the Dimona nuclear facility in Israel to The Sunday Times in 1986. 40 years ago, on 30 September 1986, he was drugged and abducted by Mossad, taken back to Israel and sentenced to 18 years in prison, […]

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In revisiting my tribute to Jonathan Schell, written in March 2014, more than a decade after his passing, I find that his voice carries an even sharper moral resonance today. What once felt like a reflection on a towering figure in humanitarian thought has become a call to confront a world where civilian suffering is […]

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