Welcome to Peace Today, a channel that exposes the stories behind our conflicts so we are better equipped to resolve them.We unravel the stories behind today’s battles of political narratives by having honest conversations. By gathering knowledge and seeking understanding we aim to inform and encourage civil and political society to properly consider what is necessary to break our cycles of war and conflict.We ask ourselves: how many lives must be ruined and blood spilled until we have to do what we should have done from the very beginning, sit down and talk?It is time to talk. It is time for peace today.

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Jakob de Jonge interviews Pascal Lottaz, associate professor International Studies at Kyoto University, about Trump&#39;s imperialism, the risks of global war and EU repression. Link to Neutrality Studies Youtube channel by Pascal Lottaz:<a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHdLVKdAeG6zAeZMGZh91bg" rel="nofollow">  </a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHdLVKdAeG6zAeZMGZh91bg" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://www.gstatic.com/youtube/img/watch/yt_favicon_ringo2.png"></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHdLVKdAeG6zAeZMGZh91bg" rel="nofollow"> / @neutralitystudies  </a> Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/imperialism" rel="nofollow">#imperialism</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/trump" rel="nofollow">#trump</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/eu" rel="nofollow">#eu</a>

Pascal Lottaz about Trump's imperialism, risks of global war and EU repression

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akob de Jonge interviewt Belgisch Oud-ambassadeur Johan Swinnen over de geheimen rond de genocide in Rwanda. Video language: DutchSupport us: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/rwanda" rel="nofollow">#rwanda</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/democracy" rel="nofollow">#democracy</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/genocide" rel="nofollow">#genocide</a>

Belgisch Oud-ambassadeur Johan Swinnen over de geheimen rond de genocide in Rwanda

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Interview with Phil Clark about how the global race for minerals drives conflict and violence in The Great Lakes Region in Africa. The lack of serious interest in the West for human rights concerns in Africa and Western rivalry with the BRICS powers function as a green light for violence as political and military elites fuel local antagonisms in the interest of the economic market and international relations. The aftermath of genocide in Rwanda illustrates the necessity of reconciliation versus the economic inconvenience of civil liberties. Phil Clark is a Professor of International Politics at SOAS University of London. He specialises in conflict and post-conflict issues, transitional justice, peacebuilding and reconciliation. Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/rootcauses" rel="nofollow">#rootcauses</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/rwanda" rel="nofollow">#Rwanda</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/congo" rel="nofollow">#Congo</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/glr" rel="nofollow">#GLR</a>

Prof Phil Clark: How the global race for minerals drives violence in DR Congo

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Jakob de Jonge interviewt Tofik Dibi - lijsttrekker van BIJ1 - over hoe Gaza ervoor zorgt dat we onze politieke mechanismen en hun verhalen opnieuw evalueren, en roept op tot democratische hervormingen geleid door de mensheid in plaats van destructief kapitalisme en hun lobby&#39;s. Video language: DutchSupport Peace through Dialogue: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/gaza" rel="nofollow">#Gaza</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/democracy" rel="nofollow">#Democracy</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/kapitalisme" rel="nofollow">#kapitalisme</a>

Gaza heeft alles veranderd - Tofik Dibi lijsttrekker BIJ1

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Jakob de Jonge interviewt vertaler Siewert Haverhoek over Tolstoj die als vredesactivist nog steeds relevant is voor nu. Video language: DutchSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects

Vertaler Siewert Haverhoek: Tolstoj is als vredesactivist nog steeds relevant voor nu

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Pieter Rambags talks to Dana Mustafa about her trip to Egypt for the March for Gaza - to show solidarity with Palestine and pressure governments (and media) to act against genocide. Instead, Dana and travellers from 36 other countries were treated like criminals, beaten, and deported by the Egyptian military. Dana is raising funds for an artificial leg for a nurse from Gaza, treated in Egypt for injuries incurred by Israeli bombing. Please donate via: Gofundme: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gofundme.com%2Ff%2Fhelp-a-brave-gaza-nurse-walk-again&redir_token=QUFFLUhqa21kMl9BTkNJbFJRUjRmQ1FzTWZXazQ2VTZvd3xBQ3Jtc0trV3VCX1BFbUgyTFhMZkF1ajRhSWZFVWpPRGI2Y2w5Rkg5eEg2TDMtcGRqdERxYVo4OUtTWWtsR0poVExDejF4YTd2ekYxTi13Rllub1FFUU1UZTRiaFlOd0tzN2xRQlhRTjlpSFdKZDJEVl91bjQtVQ&v=F054dClhLtE" rel="nofollow">https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-bra...</a> or via direct donation: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&q=https%3A%2F%2Fpayment-links.mollie.com%2Fnl%2Fpayment%2F53D263NjnBuEuEM7mhNbg%2Fdetails&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbk13andRU0RNVV96eTZvaUJ0WjlvZ0ZBZGJTZ3xBQ3Jtc0tuYk5URXZLUUQtdHZQUzA4T1kyRnpoU2N5T09Fc1VLOElHRWtyTWRhdlZOVTd5bkxNdjBRc3N0eWQtNkFWMjItWmF3dGJjT1BueWNERTNhUlRoVU5feGozeFczSTlCaFNHalpHOU00U3c2cnJZZkVLWQ&v=F054dClhLtE" rel="nofollow">https://payment-links.mollie.com/nl/p...</a>

Global governments ignore humanitarian solidarity and justify genocide in Gaza

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The struggle for justice and security in Lebanon. While Israel and the West test their weapons on Lebanon, the people&#39;s stories are lost behind the &#39;official&#39; narrative. Shirine Jurdi about the role of women and holistic approaches to peace in the face of ongoing militarisation, patriarchism, and colonialism as the root causes of instability and injustice in Lebanon.

Lebanon wants Peace but the Economy wants Blood

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Filosoof Martijntje Smits over Recht vs Vrede, de rol van nieuwe technologiëen en de dictatuur van het oorlogsnarratief. Video language: Dutch Support Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donating Peace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects

Recht vs Vrede, de rol van nieuwe technologiëen en de dictatuur van het oorlogsnarratief

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Journalist en historicus Tayfun Balçik over gentrificatie, segregatie en extreemrechts in Nederland. Video language: DutchSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects

Gentrificatie, Segregatie en Extreemrechts in Nederland

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Reinout Koperdraat is politicoloog (UvA) en journalist/tekstschrijver in Amsterdam en actief lid van Hart voor Vrijheid. Op verzoek van The Hague Peace Projects vertelt hij in deze video over de &#34;oude&#34; vredesbeweging: waar hij in de jaren tachtig samen met zijn actiekameraad Hans Straeter bedacht om minister-president Lubbers massaal de rug toe te keren tijdens de aanbieding van het Volkspetitionnement (3,7 miljoen handtekeningen). In 1986 bedacht en organiseerde hij - ook samen met Hans Straeter en met stevige hulp van radicale Brabantse vredesactivisten - een &#34;menselijke ketting&#34; rond de vliegbasis Woensdrecht. Dit tegen de grote gevestigde vredesorganisaties in, die zichzelf in hun zogenoemde &#34;slaapstand&#34; hadden gesust! Het vredesgerichte bobo-establishment (KKN, IKV, Pax Christy, Mient-Jan Faber, Maarten van Traa, e.a.) had aldus in al haar wijsheid besloten... De menselijke ketting rond de Woensdrechtse hekken werd desondanks een groot succes - wereldnieuws: met rond 20.000 vrolijke demonstranten, vele sprekers en... precies op de start van het podiumprogramma: een kring om de zon! Wellicht luisterde de Russische president Gorbatsjov óók naar onze westerse vredesbeweging...?In elk geval: die kruisraketten kwamen hier toen niet!Bekijk Reinouts&#39; herinneringen en zijn tips voor de vredesstrijd van vandaag.

Journalist en vredesactivist Reinout Koperdraat spreekt over 'vrede doen'

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Jakob de Jonge talk to Maya Vodopivec about the weaponization of ethnicity and human rights by liberal neocon peacebuilding forces and the consequent downfall of social and economic rights.

Asst. Prof. Maja Vodopivec talks about weaponizing ethnicity and human rights for Western hegemony

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Jon Solomon talks about the extremely ideological and problematic common narrative of the past and how this structures our lives, choices, and view of the world today. Without an accurate version of history in the West we remain captives of a narrative that disguises fascist imperialism with a liberal democracy frame, corrupting our vocabulary and our ability to think and act towards positive change. Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/colonialism" rel="nofollow">#colonialism</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/history" rel="nofollow">#history</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/totalitarianism" rel="nofollow">#totalitarianism</a>

Professor Jon Solomon on the roots of modern genocides and their institutionalisation

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Dutch teacher and activist Waldo Swart speaks with Muhanad al-Qaisy, director of the Joint Advocacy Initiative and third-generation Palestinian refugee, about the intergenerational trauma of the Nakba and what it means to grow up in its aftermath.The interview unfolds Muhanad’s story in layers: his family’s forced displacement in 1948, his childhood in Deheisha refugee camp, the realities of Israeli apartheid policies in the West Bank, and his firsthand experiences of military incursions. It ends with a look at the hope he continues to plant through the Olive Tree Campaign. This conversation is more than testimony - it is a testament to resilience, resistance, and the fight to keep hope alive. Recorded ahead of Nakba Day 2025, it reminds us that behind every statistic, there is a life lived, a memory held, and a story that must be heard.This interview was recorded during an event of Plant an Olive Tree at Pakhuis de Zwijger in Amsterdam, titled “From the West Bank to Gaza: The Ongoing Erasure.”Website: www.planteenolijfboom.nlVideo language: English Support Peace Today: <a href="https://thehaguepeace.org/site/donating" rel="nofollow">thehaguepeace.org/site/donating</a> Peace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects

Muhanad al-Qaisy on the Nakba, life under occupation in the West Bank, and the Olive Tree Campaign

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Author and peace-educator Nina Koevoets about nonviolence as the key to social change. Website Nina Koevoets: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/redirect?event=video_description&q=https%3A%2F%2Fpeace-power.org%2F&redir_token=QUFFLUhqbDZudjFiUk02SmhyZUUwSTY4VjI1X0xkNjRsd3xBQ3Jtc0trdkRBd3ZzcnZzQVpmNmZidUlud3c0eFN1UExnT3V1X1BmMk1QN3FxRzlQZ0Z5VlEwTDBkWTB1M0xwQmdFUy1SV0xHVHhpTnVta0Y0QUpIcUhOMmJNdkNCcktpbFJEZkQxbzRmMVQ4NmprbU01Zmtydw&v=2HXHnVvGCIM" rel="nofollow">https://peace-power.org/</a> Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects

Author and peace-educator Nina Koevoets about nonviolence as the key to social change

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Jakob de Jonge interviews Szilvia Csevár about colonial legacies and the hidden drivers of conflict.They discuss capitalist development routed in colonial logic that continues to treat lands as property and perpetuate acts of war and violence against indigenous sovereignty. A disturbing pattern of profit-driven land-grabbing, supported by governments, drives violence that is not accidental, nor incidental, but systemic with the strategic aim of breaking resistance and removing people from their lands.

Szilvia Csevár about colonial legacies and the hidden drivers of conflict

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Jakob de Jonge interviews journalist Ewing Amadi Salumu about the war in East Congo and the violent game for control of resources Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/colonialism" rel="nofollow">#Colonialism</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/capitalism" rel="nofollow">#Capitalism</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/congo" rel="nofollow">#Congo</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/naturalresources" rel="nofollow">#naturalresources</a>

Journalist Ewing Amadi Salumu about the war in East Congo: a violent game for control of resources

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Jakob de Jonge interviews Maurits Berger about the effects of the Gaza genocide on muslims and the academic community. Video language: EnglishSupport Peace Today: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/genocide" rel="nofollow">#Genocide</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/muslims" rel="nofollow">#Muslims</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/racism" rel="nofollow">#Racism</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/palestine" rel="nofollow">#Palestine</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/gaza" rel="nofollow">#Gaza</a>

Prof Maurits Berger about the effects of the Gaza genocide on Muslims and the academic community

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Jakob de Jonge interviews Nikolaos van Dam, former Dutch ambassador to Egypt, Turkey, Iraq, Germany, and Indonesia about the situation in Syria and the consequences for Palestine and beyond. Video language: EnglishSupport Peace through Dialogue: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/israel" rel="nofollow">#Israel</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/syria" rel="nofollow">#Syria</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/war" rel="nofollow">#War</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/palestine" rel="nofollow">#Palestine</a>

Former ambassador Nikolaos van Dam about the situation in Syria and the consequences for Palestine

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Jakob de Jonge interviews filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova shows the human face of soldiers in her debated documentary &#39;Russians at War&#39;. Video language: EnglishSupport Peace through Dialogue: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/russia" rel="nofollow">#Russia</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/war" rel="nofollow">#War</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/hashtag/ukraine" rel="nofollow">#Ukraine</a>

Filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova showing the human face of soldiers in 'Russians at War'

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Jakob de Jonge interviews theologian and activist Eline van der Kaaden about how Christianity should inspire us to rebel against the system. Video language: DutchSupport Peace through Dialogue: thehaguepeace.org/site/donatingPeace Today is an initiative by The Hague Peace Projects

Theologian & activist Eline van der Kaaden: Christianity should inspire rebellion against the system

It is time to talk. It is time for peace today.

Welcome to Peace Today, a channel that exposes the stories behind our conflicts so we are better equipped to resolve them.

We unravel the stories behind today’s battles of political narratives by having honest conversations. By gathering knowledge and seeking understanding we aim to inform and encourage civil and political society to properly consider what is necessary to break our cycles of war and conflict.

We ask ourselves: how many lives must be ruined and blood spilled until we have to do what we should have done from the very beginning, sit down and talk?