Swanson -- We Need a Culture of Peace
We Need a Culture of Peace Leave a Comment / June 6, 2026 Remarks from a webinar about the Peace Manifesto. Hi. This is David Swanson and I’m speaking as Executive Director of World BEYOND War. I’m honored to be a part of celebrating one year of the peace manifesto that people can find and promote at activatingpeace.org . Maybe celebrating is the wrong word and recommitting is the right one. I am still sick and tired of the culture of war and supportive of a culture of peace. If it’s OK, I’ll tell you a bit about what I mean by that. I live in the United States where last Monday every single elected official in the country published a message thanking countless young men and women for supposedly having “given” their lives as a so-called “service”. This was a holiday called Memorial Day. Like many war holidays this one has a history of good intentions related to reuniting after a civil war and mourning those slaughtered in war. But the United States now has war holiday...
