The demonstration – culminating in the area of EU institutions – called for the allocation of the 800 billion euros planned for rearmament to social causes. Over eight hundred organisations mobilised. In the evening, a meeting was held at the Royal Library to define the next initiatives.

New Zealand pacifists are calling on Prime Minister Christopher Luxon and the government to reject military agreements with the United States and not to send troops, funds, or information in support of their wars. Another issue in the public debate is the transit of nuclear-powered submarines.

The shooting down of a drone in Latvia by a NATO aircraft raises the complex issue of the risks at the borders with Russia caused by the war in Ukraine. In May, there had been incursions by drones suspected of being Russian in the Baltic states, but those were also Ukrainian.

This is a seven-month-old child. A human being who had no chance of being perceived as a threat, not even according to the most distorted military logic.

A murky tender has crowned the US F-35 fighter jet as the winner, turning Switzerland from a neutral country into one dependent on exclusive US technology. And now there aren't enough funds to purchase the 36 aircraft agreed at a "fixed price".

Nuclear powers are modernising their arsenals. Military conflicts are tearing apart entire regions of the world. However, there are important processes and civil society movements that are building strategies for peace, cooperation, and denuclearisation. Discover them on Albert.

The Israeli navy intercepted and boarded the ships of the Global Sumud Flotilla while they were sailing in international waters. About ten vessels seized, activists forcibly taken. Francesca Albanese (UN): 'This is how civilians defend what states no longer defend'

This bulletin provides a comprehensive analysis of the world's major crises, but also reveals some signs of hope linked to enlightened institutional actors and, above all, to the role of civil society. However, that "nuclear conscience" that once characterized the pacifist has faded.

According to the official website of the Jehovah's Witnesses, as of May 2026, there are "24 brothers in prison" in Ukraine for conscientious objection. But they are just the tip of the iceberg as 2 million men are being sought for draft evasion. Here is an updated overview.

In the midst of the Cold War, the idea of creating a database of peace organisations around the world was born