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Welcome to Peace Today, a channel that exposes the stories behind our conflicts so we are better equipped to resolve them.
We unravel the stories behind today’s battles of political narratives by having honest conversations. By gathering knowledge and seeking understanding we aim to inform and encourage civil and political society to properly consider what is necessary to break our cycles of war and conflict.
We ask ourselves: how many lives must be ruined and blood spilled until we have to do what we should have done from the very beginning, sit down and talk?
It is time to talk. It is time for peace today.
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Pieter Rambags talks to Dana Mustafa about her trip to Egypt for the March for Gaza - to show solidarity with Palestine and pressure governments (and media) to act against genocide. Instead, Dana and travellers from 36 other countries were treated like criminals, beaten, and deported by the Egyptian military. Dana is raising funds for an artificial leg for a nurse from Gaza, treated in Egypt for injuries incurred by Israeli bombing. Please donate via: Gofundme: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-bra... or via direct donation: https://payment-links.mollie.com/nl/p...
The struggle for justice and security in Lebanon. While Israel and the West test their weapons on Lebanon, the people's stories are lost behind the 'official' narrative. Shirine Jurdi about the role of women and holistic approaches to peace in the face of ongoing militarisation, patriarchism, and colonialism as the root causes of instability and injustice in Lebanon.
Filosoof Martijntje Smits over Recht vs Vrede, de rol van nieuwe technologiëen en de dictatuur van het oorlogsnarratief. Video language: Dutch Support Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donating Peace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects
Journalist en historicus Tayfun Balçik over gentrificatie, segregatie en extreemrechts in Nederland.Video language: DutchSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects
Reinout Koperdraat is politicoloog (UvA) en journalist/tekstschrijver in Amsterdam en actief lid van Hart voor Vrijheid.Op verzoek van The Hague Peace Projects vertelt hij in deze video over de "oude" vredesbeweging: waar hij in de jaren tachtig samen met zijn actiekameraad Hans Straeter bedacht om minister-president Lubbers massaal de rug toe te keren tijdens de aanbieding van het Volkspetitionnement (3,7 miljoen handtekeningen).In 1986 bedacht en organiseerde hij - ook samen met Hans Straeter en met stevige hulp van radicale Brabantse vredesactivisten - een "menselijke ketting" rond de vliegbasis Woensdrecht.Dit tegen de grote gevestigde vredesorganisaties in, die zichzelf in hun zogenoemde "slaapstand" hadden gesust! Het vredesgerichte bobo-establishment (KKN, IKV, Pax Christy, Mient-Jan Faber, Maarten van Traa, e.a.) had aldus in al haar wijsheid besloten...De menselijke ketting rond de Woensdrechtse hekken werd desondanks een groot succes - wereldnieuws: met rond 20.000 vrolijke demonstranten, vele sprekers en... precies op de start van het podiumprogramma: een kring om de zon!Wellicht luisterde de Russische president Gorbatsjov óók naar onze westerse vredesbeweging...?In elk geval: die kruisraketten kwamen hier toen niet!Bekijk Reinouts' herinneringen en zijn tips voor de vredesstrijd van vandaag.
Jakob de Jonge talk to Maya Vodopivec about the weaponization of ethnicity and human rights by liberal neocon peacebuilding forces and the consequent downfall of social and economic rights.
Jon Solomon talks about the extremely ideological and problematic common narrative of the past and how this structures our lives, choices, and view of the world today. Without an accurate version of history in the West we remain captives of a narrative that disguises fascist imperialism with a liberal democracy frame, corrupting our vocabulary and our ability to think and act towards positive change.Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects#colonialism #history #totalitarianism
Dutch teacher and activist Waldo Swart speaks with Muhanad al-Qaisy, director of the Joint Advocacy Initiative and third-generation Palestinian refugee, about the intergenerational trauma of the Nakba and what it means to grow up in its aftermath.The interview unfolds Muhanad’s story in layers: his family’s forced displacement in 1948, his childhood in Deheisha refugee camp, the realities of Israeli apartheid policies in the West Bank, and his firsthand experiences of military incursions. It ends with a look at the hope he continues to plant through the Olive Tree Campaign. This conversation is more than testimony - it is a testament to resilience, resistance, and the fight to keep hope alive. Recorded ahead of Nakba Day 2025, it reminds us that behind every statistic, there is a life lived, a memory held, and a story that must be heard.This interview was recorded during an event of Plant an Olive Tree at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, titled “From the West Bank to Gaza: The Ongoing Erasure.”Website: www.planteenolijfboom.nlVideo language: English
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Author and peace-educator Nina Koevoets about nonviolence as the key to social change.Website Nina Koevoets: https://peace-power.org/Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects
Jakob de Jonge interviews Szilvia Csevár about colonial legacies and the hidden drivers of conflict.They discuss capitalist development routed in colonial logic that continues to treat lands as property and perpetuate acts of war and violence against indigenous sovereignty. A disturbing pattern of profit-driven land-grabbing, supported by governments, drives violence that is not accidental, nor incidental, but systemic with the strategic aim of breaking resistance and removing people from their lands.
Jakob de Jonge interviews journalist Ewing Amadi Salumu about the war in East Congo and the violent game for control of resourcesVideo language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects#Colonialism #Capitalism #Congo #naturalresources
Jakob de Jonge interviews Maurits Berger about the effects of the Gaza genocide on muslims and the academic community.Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects#Genocide #Muslims #Racism #Palestine #Gaza
Jakob de Jonge interviews Nikolaos van Dam, former Dutch ambassador to Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and Indonesia about the situation in Syria and the consequences for Palestine and beyond.Video language: EnglishSupport Peace through Dialogue: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects#Israel #Syria #War #Palestine
Jakob de Jonge interviews filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova shows the human face of soldiers in her debated documentary 'Russians at War'.Video language: EnglishSupport Peace through Dialogue: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects#Russia #War #Ukraine
Jakob de Jonge interviews theologian and activist Eline van der Kaaden about how Christianity should inspire us to rebel against the system.Video language: DutchSupport Peace through Dialogue: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects
Dorine van Norren, academic researcher and civil servant at the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs has done research into the non-Western sources for law: African, Asian and Latin American philosophies that have different concepts of life, humanity and the world. Many of these thoughts make us aware of the specific Western context in which international law has been developed and its flaws. Compared to Western philosophies, non-Western thought seems to care more for community rather than an exclusive focus on the individual. It tends to have more respect for all life and nature itself because it presents a more holistic and interconnected universe, as opposed to an alienated, alone human individual in a disconnected world. We can learn a lot from these philosophies and see where Western thinking and actions have become extremely violent, beyond the point where it can be accepted as normal.Video language: EnglishSupport Peace through Dialogue: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects
Jakob de Jonge interviews civil servant Jan Wouter Vorderman about the Dutch complicity in the Gaza genocide.
Jakob de Jonge interviews Dutch teacher and activist Waldo Swart about why NL keeps supporting the indefensible: genocide on Palestinians by Israel.
Jakob de Jonge sits down with economist and former Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis to discuss the structural flaws of the European Union, the rise of warmongering, and the complicity of Europe's political mindset in the genocide in Gaza.What is the path forward? Varoufakis argues that resistance is not only necessary—it is both meaningful and, as he puts it, "fun and never futile."
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