67 Years in the Peace Movement

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INTRODUCTION

Seven years ago, Holger Terp, the founder and web editor of the Danish Peace Academy, invited me to write something about my 60 years of work in the peace movement. I gladly accepted his invitation, because I was 81 years old, and in poor health. I thought that I might not have another opportunity to write about my experiences in the peace movement. The most rewarding thing about working for peace is that it allows you to meet really wonderful people, and what I wrote at Holger’s invitation is mainly about the fantastic friends with whom I was privileged to work.

Now, seven years later, I am almost 88 years old, still with serious health problems, and during the last two years, also with failing eyesight, but miraculously still alive. I have written a great deal during the last seven years, and almost all have been about the serious problems that are facing the world today.

Between 2014 and 2018, I wrote primarily articles and essays for Countercurrents, TMS Weekly Digest and Human Wrongs Watch. The editors of these important alternative news sites, Binu Mathiew, Antonio C.S. Rosa and Baher Kamal, whose heroic and dedicated work I very greatly admire, accepted my work, and so I wrote almost one article every week for them. I also wrote longer essays for the two journals of the World Academy of Art and Science, Cadmus and Erudito.

Later, from 2019 until 2021, I wrote fewer articles and essays, and more books. The extremely distinguished theoretical physicist, Professor Pervez Hoodbhoy, has an educational website named Eqbal Ahmad Centre for Public Education.

I knew Professor Hoodbhoy a little because we had both attended many meetings of Pugwash Conferences, and through him I became aware of his splendid website dedicated to public education. I began to submit my books on serious global problems to this website and they can be downloaded free of charge and circulated from here.

Many of my articles are also available from this website, and some of my scientific books and articles can be found there too.

Let me now tell you about my method for writing books during the last three years. I start by deciding on the topic about which I want to write. Then I assemble, as a starting point, everything that I have previously written about that topic. This gives me some momentum and avoids writer’s block, but it also means (I am ashamed to say) that the reader may find a chapter from one book repeated in another. Then I add new material. In the end, the book usually contains about half new material and half reused writing, but the total amount of new material in my work keeps increasing. Whether or not this is a legitimate way of writing, I am not sure, but it has been my method during the last three years.

Recently, Binu Mathiew, the courageous and dedicated editor of Countercurrents, set up a website to promote my books and to make downloading them more easy. Here is the link to the website.

Flaminia Sonnino, the editor of Wall Street Magazine, has also published many of my books and articles here:

I hope that you will enjoy reading some of the things that I have written, and that you will circulate the links given above to your friends who might be interested.

Read the entire book above or download it here.

We thank John Scales Avery, a renowned intellectual, EACPE board member, and theoretical chemist at the University of Copenhagen, for giving us permission to reproduce his latest book for EACPE.