By Leah Bolger
Disarm/End Wars Committee and World Beyond War

WILPF partner organization, World Beyond War (WBW), will be holding their third annual conference on September 21-22 in Toronto, Canada.

The conference will be held at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) and the theme this year will be war and its relationship to international law. This conference will explore how the rule of law has been used both to restrain war, and to legitimize it—and how we can redesign systems to abolish the institution of war and uphold human and ecological justice.

WBW believes that international law will be a critical component of a new global security strategy to replace the one we have now based on war and militarism. All participants will receive the fourth edition of the World Beyond War seminal publication, A Global Security System: An Alternative to War.

Ray Acheson, Director of Reaching Critical Willwill be a featured speaker as well as Christine Ahn, the founder and international coordinator of Women Cross DMZ. WILPF US is a sponsor of the conference. On the Sunday after the conference, there will be a Blue Scarf March in celebration of the International Day of Peace.

The full program, a list of all speakers, and more information can be found at worldbeyondwar.org.

For more information:

Contact Leah Bolger, Disarm/End Wars Committee and World Beyond War, at leahbolger@comcast.net