War Resisters' International Launches New Nonviolence Programme

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Editorial This issue War Resisters’ International launches new of The Broken Rifle marks WRI's launch- ing of our new Nonviolence Programme Nonviolence Programme. A process that has been going on since our Council meeting in June, we are looking forward to the arrival of our new programme staffperson, Javier Garate, who will be moving from Chile to London in March. WRI exists to promote nonviolent action against the causes of war. The promotion of nonviolence is one of our two main goals, along with promotion of antimilitarism. We are now merging WRI programmes to strengthen our ability to promote nonviolence. This work will be built on a history of pro- moting nonviolence in WRI, and by WRI Sections throughout the world. WRI is in a unique position as we develop the programme. First War Resisters’First War International conference on Nonviolence Training, Perugia, Italy, 1965 Perugia, Italy, Training, on Nonviolence A secular pacifist organisation for 84 years, we are a network With the appointment of Javier Social Empowerment Study Con- events around them. They start to into social empowerment. of grassroots groups committed Garate as new programme staff ference, which took place in Puri, practice this power against This is also reflected in WRI's to nonviolence, organizing non- for War Resisters’ International’s India, in February 2001. The last oppression and exclusion, for par- approach to globalisation from violent actions, experimenting Nonviolence Programme, WRI main project in this programme ticipation, peace and human below, as expressed in its 2001 with the power of nonviolence. launches its “new” programme for- was the Women's Trainers' Con- rights." statement, issued after the G8 We are committed to education mally. Of course, although the sultation, which took place in Oc- The key aspects of the Nonvio- protests from Genoa: "A strategy and action. Please read this programme is new, nonviolence is tober 2004 in Thailand (see p. 2). lence and Social Empowerment of nonviolence needs to involve Broken Rifle with an eye not new to WRI. The Globalisation and Militarism project remain valid for the building our own strength as a towards seeing how you and In 1928, War Resisters’ Interna- programme goes back to the WRI Nonviolence Programme: movement, and developing alter- your group can be involved in tional published a collection of Triennial Conference in Dublin. Its * the dimension of social empo- natives to economic globalisation this new programme. And essays on nonviolence in German focus was the European Social werment should be a key ele- and corporate rule. A strategy of please give as generously as language, titled Gewalt und Forum, which took place in Lon- ment in considering the impact nonviolence needs to involve you can so WRI can develop Gewaltlosigkeit (Violence and don from 14-17 October 2004. of any social movement activi- making use of the rich heritage of this work. non-violence). In the 1960s, War Both programmes were in the ty; nonviolent movements from all Resisters’ International played an past "network programmes", run * that the framework of social over the world in preparing for Joanne Sheehan important role in spreading the entirely by working groups and empowerment offers a per- nonviolent confrontation, drawing WRI Chair theory and practice of nonviolence volunteers, with no or little invol- spective for cooperation bet- from experience in nonviolence training, for example by organis- vement of central office staff. Mer- ween hitherto competing or training from the US Civil Rights ing a study conference on nonvio- ging these two programme areas even conflicting approaches; Movement, the Gandhian move- lence training in Perugia in Italy in into a staffed position makes a * that strategies of empowerment in India, the landless move- 1965 (see picture). number of new projects possible. ment are intrinsic to the effec- ment in Brazil, the anti-Apartheid The overarching aim of the Non- tiveness of nonviolent move- movement in South Africa, among The Broken Rifle The new Nonviolence violence Programme is to stren- ments; many others." The Broken Rifle is the news- Programme gthen and deepen our under- * that the methodology of nonvi- standing of nonviolence, nonvio- olence offers specific insights continued on page 2 letter of War Resisters’ At the War Resisters' International International, and is published Council meeting in Ohrid, Mace- lent strategies, and nonviolent campaigning, and to develop and in English, Spanish, French and donia, in June 2004, it was decid- German. This is issue 65, ed to merge the WRI programmes provide tools and support to G8 in Scotland groups using nonviolence. It February 2005. "Nonviolence and Social Empo- This issue of The Broken Rifle werment" and "Globalisation and builds on the former Nonviolence Blockade at Faslane and Social Empowerment pro- was produced by Andreas Militarism" to a new programme Britains nuclear weapons - the four Trident nuclear weapon sub- gramme: "Social Empowerment is Speck. Special thanks go to called "Nonviolence Programme". marines based at Faslane on the west coast of Scotland - have a a process in which people find Joanne Sheehan, International The Nonviolence and Social Em- destructive power 1000 times greater than the bomb dropped on back to their own power, the Fellowshop of Reconciliation powerment Programme goes back Hiroshima. They are used, every day, to threaten the rest of the (IFOR), Trident Ploughshares, to the mid-1990s, and had power to shape their own lives world, and to defend Britain's "vital economic interests" like oil sup- and to influence the course of Forum voor Vredesactie, and focused on the Nonviolence and plies and shipping lanes. Trident benefits the big multinational corpo- others who provided the infor- rations who see their investments protected around the world, and mation used in this issue. Upcoming War Resisters’ International events also the weapons companies who benefit from big arms contracts. The G8 is an annual meeting of the eight most powerful countries If you want extra copies of this 15 May 2005: International Conscientious Objectors’ Day in the world (US, UK, France, Italy, Germany, Canada, Japan and issue of The Broken Rifle, Focus: conscientious objection in Greece. WRI and the Greek Russia). The 2005 summit will be held in Gleneagles, Scotland from please contact the WRI office, Association of COs are organising an international seminar, nonvio- 6-8th July or download it from our website. lence training, and action in Thessaloniki from 9–15 May 2005. Contact WRI for more information. The Action War Resisters’ International, We intend to disrupt the work at Faslane as much as possible, 5 Caledonian Road, June 2005: Seminar “Peace in North-East Asia” primarily by blockading the entrances during the morning shift London N1 9DX, Britain In cooperation with South Korean groups, War Resisters’ change. We also hope that people will try to enter the base, whether tel +44-20-7278 4040 International is organising an international seminar “Peace in North- by cutting or climbing the fence or by swimming in. More information fax +44-20-7278 0444 East Asia” for the end of June/early July 2005. After the seminar, on how to do this safely and effectively will be available nearer the [email protected] time. WRI will hold its annual Council meeting. Contact WRI or check on http://wri-irg.org/pubs/ the internet at br65-en.htm http://wri-irg.org/news/2005/council2005-en.htm for more details. More information: http://www.tridentploughshares.org/g8 2 War Resisters’ International’s Nonviolence Programme The Broken Rifle No 65, February 2005

continued from page 1 questionnaire developed for these Nonviolence case studies can serve as a start- Programme staff Areas of work ing point for the commissioning of The Nonviolence Programme will more case studies of recent appointed focus on three closely related and movements/campaigns. intertwined areas: We are very pleased to Nonviolence for Change announce that War Resisters' Nonviolence Resources Networking with groups interested International has hired Javier Development and distribution of in using nonviolence for social Garate from Santiago, Chile as resources on nonviolence and change, coordination of work- staff for our new Nonviolence nonviolent strategies for use by shops at gatherings such as Programme. the WRI network and the wider Social Forums, making WRI's Javier, who is active with Ni movement. Such resources resources available to grassroots Casco Ni Uniforme (Neither include a handbook for nonviolent activists doing anti-militarist and Helmet nor Uniform), a WRI action, a collection of case studies globalisation from below work. Section, brings a variety of of nonviolent campaigns, nonvio- experiences that will help him lence training and campaign In 2002, WRI Council member in his new work. Some of you development materials. Oscar Huenchunao represented may have met Javier when he WRI at the World Social Forum in attended the International In cooperation with WRI's Porto Allegre, as did WRI Council Conscientious Objectors' Day Nonviolence Training Working member Jørgen Johansen, who training and activities in Israel Group and WRI affiliates, and also participated in 2003, and in in 2003. He was also one of building on the work of the former Mumbai 2004. A number of WRI the host organisers for May Nonviolence and Social affiliates and other nonviolent 15th in Chile in 2004. Javier will Empowerment Programme, the groups are present at Social Fora, begin work in London in mid- programme will collect and devel- and other major events, or are March. op resources on nonviolence, involved in major activities of the nonviolent action, nonviolent movement for globalisation from Joanne Sheehan, strategies, and nonviolent training, below, such as Seattle, Genoa, which draw on the experiences of and others. Last year War WRI Chair A nonviolence training with international participants in Turkey, 1998 nonviolent struggles from different Resisters' International coordinat- Photo: Andreas Speck countries and different move- ed a pacifist and antimilitarist ments. A first project could be the presence at the European Social A Nonviolent Campaign Against Roy's call, and will raise aware- collection and publication of a Forum in London in October 2004. War Profiteers ness for war profiteers as a cause "Handbook for Nonviolent Action", It will be an important aspect of Development of resources for of war, from a clearly antimilitarist which can serve as a cross-cultur- the Nonviolence Programme to WRI's war profiteering campaign. point of view. The campaign al introduction to nonviolence and expand on these activities, and to Networking with WRI affiliates needs to be based in the WRI net- nonviolent action. Such a publica- network much more actively with working on such campaigns, sup- work, bringing groups together tion should be made available in groups from the WRI network and porting and coordinating nonvio- that work on war profiteers, and print and online, in several lan- beyond. It is important to make lent campaigns against war profi- providing resources and campaign guages. resources on nonviolence avail- teers. materials. The Nonviolence War Resisters' International com- able to all those willing to use Programme can provide some missioned several case studies them, such as WRI affiliate War At the World Social Forum in form of coordination and strategy prior to the Nonviolence and Resisters League did prior to the Mumbai Arundhati Roy called for development for the campaign, Social Empowerment Study protests at the WTO meeting in the movement "to be the resist- but the campaign itself will not be Conference. These case studies Seattle, when it printed and dis- ance to the occupation of Iraq", a mainly office run campaign. A word from Javier can form the base for a broader tributed 6,000 copies of its and to focus on two major corpo- My name is Javier Gárate. collection of case studies, and "Handbook for Nonviolent Action." rations profiteering from the occu- For more information, check out To be chosen for the job at the should also be made available in pation. WRI's war profiteering http://wri-irg.org/nv-home.htm WRI gives me great joy, and at several languages online. The campaign will take up Arundhati the same time, it is a big challenge. The challenge, that together all of us who are part of WRI can develop an active Asking the right questions: campaign on nonviolence and Nonviolence Training and Gender can struggle against the war profiteers. To meet this chal- WRI/IFOR training in Thailand in October 2004 lenge, a strong network coordination and working together with commitment and cooperation is essential. In this same spirit I intend to draw on the different experiences that have been developed in nonviolence, to create the materials to support the existing experiences and at the same time promote them so that new experiences can emerge in the nonviolence struggle. May 24 International I will bring all my experi- Women's Day for Peace ence gained during the seven years of work in the conscien- and Disarmament tious objection group Ni Casco began in Europe in the early Ni Uniforme in Santiago Chile. I 1980s, when hundreds of thou- am a founding member, and sands of women organised part of the first group to present against nuclear weapons and the ourselves as CO, a right that is arms race. Since the 1995 UN World Conference on Women in still not recognised in Chile. Photo: Some of the participants of the seminar At the same time I hope to Beijing, the International Fellow- contribute with the perspectives ship of Reconciliation and the International Peace Bureau have A new issue of WRI Women, the newsletter of the WRI Women’s Working Group, devoted to the Asking that my anthropology studies the Right Questions: Nonviolence Training and Gender consultation, which took place October 3 to 8, give me in order to promote the published an annual information pack to raise awareness of and 2004, in Chiang Mai, Thailand, has just been published, and is available on WRI’s website. values of cultural diversity. The newsletter can only give a taste of the insights, enthusiasm, questions, energy, and tears that were I don't have more to say increase support for women's peace initiatives. shared during the consultation. A longer report of the consultation is available upon request from WRI or other than to invite you to join from the International Fellowship of Reconciliation's (IFOR) Women Peacemakers Program (WPP). The us in the big challenge that a The 2005 Action Pack looks at women’s nonviolent work for consultation was co-organized by WRI and IFOR's Women Peacemakers Program, with support from the nonviolence program has in International Women's Partnership for Peace and Justice, a Thai-based feminist nonviolence training cen- today's world. peace in the Pacific area, UN SC Resolution 1325 and women com- tre. batants. Some 35 women participated in the consultation, from 22 countries. Casha Davis organized a skillful Javier Gárate group of professional interpreters who provided interpretation into and from English, French and Spanish More information at throughout the consultation. http://www.ifor.org/WPP/whatyou.htm You can read the newsletter online at http://wri-irg.org/pubs/ww-200501.htm The Broken Rifle No 65, February 2005 War Resisters’ International’s Nonviolence Programme 3 A Nonviolent Campaign Against War Profiteers At the War Resisters' International es attention on the US company raw material companies (oil, dia- ing to their website - "provides a under a joint logo too. The devel- Council meeting in Ohrid in June Halliburton, which is one of the monds, minerals, etc.). This vari- unique range of skills and servic- opment of such a campaign 2004, the possibility of a WRI main contractors of the US mili- ety poses a challenge: what es to support the vehicle fleet against war profiteering will be campaign against war profiteers tary and the US government in should be the focus of an antimili- requirements of the British Armed one important aspect of the nonvi- was one important part of the dis- Iraq. According to Corporate tarist campaign against war profi- Forces around the world. Lex olence programme. cussion on the new nonviolence Watch, "the biggest windfall in the teers? Defence is currently responsible War profiteering provides a crucial programme. Many War Resisters' invasion of has most certainly Most people felt that weapon ma- for over £1billion worth of MoD link between economic globalisa- International affiliates work on gone to the oil services and logis- nufacturers and arms dealers are contracts, managing over 13,000 tion and militarism/war. A WRI issues related to war profiteers - tics company Halliburton. The dealt with by often very professio- vehicles on behalf of the MoD, campaign against war profiteers such as the War Resisters League company, which was formerly run nal campaign against arms trade - and is one of the largest suppliers can highlight these links, and with its "Stop the merchants of by Vice President Dick Cheney, in Europe mostly by groups affili- of vehicles, fleet management and combine them with clear antimili- death" campaign, or Forum voor has won over $8 billion in con- ated to ENAAT (European Net- logistic services to the Defence tarist messages, which go beyond Vredesactie in Belgium - but the tracts in in 2003 alone." work Against Arms Trade). It was Logistics Organisation." a economic critic of globalisation. debate also showed that war prof- In Britain, Windrush Communica- also felt that a focus on Hallibur- To get involved in the develop- iteering is an issue which is diffi- tions is one of the targets, as ton as a US company will make it A nonviolent campaign ment of this campaign, contact the cult to define. Windrush organises the Iraq Pro- difficult for non-US groups to against war profiteers WRI office. curement Conferences, where develop their own local campaign. War Resisters' International start- Andreas Speck War profiteering: Iraq contracts to plunder Iraq are ne- While mercenaries - private mili- At the World Social Forum in gotiated. A variety of campaigning tary contractors (PMCs), as they Mumbai in February 2004 - about and action groups is involved in prefer to call themselves - are the 1 year ago - Arundhati Roy called activities against the "plunder of most scandalous part of the spec- on us to "become the resistance Iraq", among others Voices in the trum, many of the companies to the occupation". She went on: Wilderness UK. involved do not provide any other "I suggest that (...) we choose, by services, and the companies gen- some means, two of the major War profiteering: beyond erally are not visible in public. corporations that are profiting Iraq Following down the "tip of spear" from the destruction of Iraq. We A brainstorming at the Council typology (see graphic), military could then list every project they meeting showed the variety of consulting firms and military sup- are involved in. We could locate companies/agencies involved in port firms are often companies their offices in every city and war profiteering: weapon manu- also involved in other public every country across the world. facturers and arms dealers, war spheres. According to P.W. Singer, We could go after them. We could lords and states, the media, the main difference between "mili- shut them down. It's a question of reconstruction companies (such tary provider firms" and "military bringing our collective wisdom as Halliburton) and the "humani- consulting firms" is "the 'trigger and experience of past struggles tarian aid industry", facilities man- finger' factor; the task of consult- to bear on a single target. It's a agement companies, private mili- ants is to supplement the man- question of the desire to win." tary contractors (mercenaries), agement and training of client mili- So far, a variety of groups focuss- financial institutions (banks), and tary forces, not to engage in combat." Military support firms "pro- “Tip of the Spear” Typology of Private Military Companies. This typology vide rear-echelon and supplemen- distinguishes according to range of services and force levels. tary services. Although they do Source: Corporate Warriors: The Rise and Ramifications of the not participate in the planning or Privatized Military Industry. International Security Vol. 26, No 3, Winter execution of direct hostilities, they 2001/2002 do fill functional needs - including logistics, technical support, and ed to discuss war profiteering as a transportation - critical to overall campaign at its Council meeting in Web Resources: combat operations that fall within Macedonia in summer 2004. It http://www.warprofiteers.com - the military sphere." (P.W. Singer, was clear that as an international Website by Corporate Watch US in International Security, Vol 26, pacifist and antimilitarist organisa- on war profiteers, provides com- No 3, winter 2001/2002) Examp- tion, the focus on war profiteering pany profiles and news, mostly Bomspotting XL is a mass action have to respect the limits implied les for military support firms are needs to go beyond Iraq, and also from a US perspective (little about of civil disobedience in which we in them. Finally we try to get as Halliburton subsidiary Kellog, beyond the issue of profit. non-US companies) try to stop the preparation of war broad support as possible for a Brown and Roots (KBR), Sodexho For war resisters, war profiteering http://corporatepirates.gzzzt.net/ crimes by trespassing and inspect- change in NATO strategy. We (a French company providing is wrong not because it generates - Information on the week of ac- ing nuclear weapon-related mili- want our action to be seen as catering and other services for profit, mostly for private compa- tion against the Iraq Procurement tary bases and headquarters. We something in which a lot of people many Armed Forces - especially nies, but because it is one of the Conference. The week of action try in an open and nonviolent way can imagine themselves participat- the USA and UK). causes of war. The antimilitarist will take place from 1-6 April 2005 to inspect these places for nuclear ing. So, a private war against In addition to these areas, private demand is not "take profit out of http://www.voicesuk.org - weapons or evidence about their NATO is not an option during the companies play an increasing role war", but to denounce war profi- Voices in the Wilderness UK. involvement in nuclear weapons action. In this action there is no in running military facilities (such teering because "war is a crime Information on the occupation of policy and to stop this preparation space for any sort of violent act. as Serco in Britan, or the Serco, against humanity" (WRI declara- Iraq, and profiteering from the of war crimes. In the past we have Every participant is required to Lockheed Martin and BNFL joint tion). occupation. carried out actions at the airbase sign an engagement declaration, venture that runs AWE Alderma- However, the challenge for the http://www.antenna.nl/enaat/ - of Kleine Brogel (where American in which they agree to accept the ston, the UK nuclear weapon fac- WRI network will be to develop a portal of ENAAT, with news and nuclear weapons are stored), the nonviolence guidelines.If you don't tory), and in financing military common campaign which allows links to European campaigning political headquarters of NATO in sign the declaration, you are not a equipment. 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