Project Ploughshares
Building Peace, Preventing War

Our Mission

  • Educate ourselves and our communities on peace and justice issues.
  • Help Canadians understand how specific policy initiatives serve or undermine the pursuit of security.
  • Help Canadians consider new approaches to building peace and preventing war.
  • Promote alternative national defence policies, arms control, and nuclear disarmament.

    Underpinnings

  • Peaceful resolution of political conflict is possible when justice and equality become the basis of decision-making for people, institutions, and governments.
  • Canada’s historical commitment to peacekeeping roles is an honourable one.
  • Though conflict is inevitable, violent responses to conflict are not.
  • Non-violent responses are effective and valued by many.
  • When it comes to building security, development projects are superior to military interventions.

    View the inspiring TED.com talk Scilla Elworthy: Fighting with non-violence.

    Download a copy of Dimensions of War and Peace, an educational teaching unit for grade ten students. It was completed by Carrie Malloy of the John Humphrey Centre on behalf of Project Ploughshares.

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