100 years of using war to try to end all war - time to try something else?
We will have to move beyond war to nonviolent conflict resolution, aid, diplomacy, disarmament, cooperation, and the rule of law.
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Albert Einstein and the First World War
Einstein thought the first world war was madness and he was a lifelong pacifist and war resister.
The Man with the Gold - Newark debut for riveting play on Lawrence of Arabia
The play is set in a museum where ghosts and passions are unwittingly summoned as archaeological relics are unpacked.
Islamic State has turned T E Lawrence’s WW1 dream of an Arab nation into a nightmare
ISIS posted footage online of the Sykes-Picot line between Iraq and Syria being blown up. Lawrence thought the Arab revolt had failed; in fact it was only just beginning.
Chewing at a steel door with false teeth: the 1916 battle for Verdun
In 1916, in one of history's longest and deadliest battles, 300,000 French and German troops died for a few acres of France. The ghosts still linger.
Rethinking Remembrance: Why I'll be wearing a black poppy this year
It is the lost rebels - and the ones who will step forward in the future - who deserve to be celebrated on remembrance day, says ex-soldier Joe Glenton.
Armistice Day 98 years on and the need for a peace to end all wars
The 1920s Outlawry Movement sought to replace war with arbitration, by first banning war and then developing a code of international law and a court with the authority to settle disputes.
Why dandelions with seeds blown away in the wind should be used to remember WW1 dead
And when he saw them marching up Whitehall / I remember what old Arthur said / He said the donkeys are all wearing poppies / So I shall wear dandelions instead
Wearing a red poppy was once a pledge of peace but now serves to sanitise war
Judged from the perspective of those first wearers of the poppy – that the red flower should be a declaration of hope that wars should never happen again – the poppy has been a sad failure.
Why I will never again wear a red poppy by 94-year-old veteran Harry Leslie Smith
Harry Leslie Smith will no longer allow his obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror
Regimenting the public mind: how the American people were duped into supporting WW1
Public opinion in the first world war was manufactured and managed through communications strategies that aimed for the gut rather than the brain.
How Britain exploits the dead of the First World War to promote militarism today
Britain’s dominant historical narrative is one of victory and pseudo-remembrance in a country that has never stopped using military force abroad and often prides itself on its willingness to do so.
Michael Morpurgo on what he learnt about the first world war that made him write his book War Horse.