QUITO, Ecuador—In academia, the study of peace often falls inside the field of political science. For many observers and practitioners alike, the notion that politics can be described as
The experience threw a major tilt into my academic interests. My subsequent “discovery” of environmental peacemaking theory and practice shifted my thinking further. I began to consider how I could
This month Deceleration is traveling and reporting back! Greg will be in Ecuador for a three-week intensive course on environmental peacemaking, while I just returned from Detroit, where I attended
This past week the environmental humanities arm of Deceleration took two days off work and Xanax’ed our way through nightmare flights to/from Detroit, where we joined up with
The pace of dramatic and extremely damaging policy actions rolling out from the Trump Administration can be overwhelming and lead one to despair and withdrawal. We know; we feel it
Press Release:
March 4th, 2017, Amherst, MA – This morning at 9:01am a group of local residents locked
themselves to 55 gallon drums at the front entrance to the Bank
Kazu Haga/Waging Nonviolence
I admit, I laughed a little too. When I first saw videos of white nationalist Richard Spencer getting punched by a protester, I thought it was
Sure, pipelines are good for oil companies, but what about jobs related to preserving nature and culture?
Chip Colwell, University of Colorado Denver
On his fourth day as U.S.
Without court injunction, construction that would tunnel beneath Standing Rock Sioux’s primary source of drinking water could begin within 24 hours
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on
Outdoor clothing and gear company Patagonia provides grants to nonprofit organizations engaged in environmental work.
The company’s environmental grant program supports small, grassroots activist organizations that have provocative direct-action
Part of a gathering movement in San Antonio, Texas, and reflective of actions taking place across the country and around the world, a group of roughly 40 area residents occupied
