SCIENCE FOR PEACE PRESENTS: Making the Abolition of War a Realistic Goal” Monday March 2 5 - 6:30 pm EST Friends House, 60 Lowther Ave, Toronto & Hybrid on ZOOM 46 years ago, Gene Sharp argued, in an award-winning article, that war could be abolished if societies built credible, civilian-based nonviolent defence systems capable of deterring and defeating aggression. Today, we remain no closer to abolishing war than we were in 1980. Is Sharp's idea of civilian-based defence flawed, or can it be adapted to make abolition a realistic goal? Read the article here: https: //www.nonviolent-conflict.org/resource/making- the-abolition-of-war-a-realistic-goal/ Isaiah Ritzmann: Co-founder and Richard Sandbrook: VP of Magdalee Brunache: Blumenfeld Co-Faciltator of the Canadian Science for Peace and Professor Junior Fellow and PhD student, Coalition for Nonviolent Defence Emeritus, UofT UofT