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Ukraine: Dialogue and East-West cooperation are the key
The events of the last few days and weeks only serve to confirm what the International Peace Bureau (IPB) and others in the disarmament wing of the international peace movement have been asserting for years: that in times of political tension, military force solves nothing. It provokes only more military force from the other side, and risks pushing both parties up and around an infernal spiral of violence. This is an especially dangerous course when there are nuclear weapons in the background.