How do we move towards a world without wars, weapons, police, prisons, the death penalty, and borders? How can we work towards our collective liberation, recognizing that oppressions are interconnected? Come to #NoWar2025 to explore how we can join in solidarity across movements and borders to abolish these interwoven systems and build a world based on common security — “no one is safe until all are safe.”

There are successful examples of abolition throughout history that we can learn from. Virtually no one in societies that have abolished such things wants to bring back dueling, slavery, serfdom, human sacrifice, cannibalism, child labor, or other evils that are understood as beyond reform. As we envision and struggle to bring forth a world free of war, we need to come together and learn from other abolition movements such as those working to abolish police, prisons, and the surveillance state.

When is the moral and strategic approach properly to “end it, not mend it,” and how does such an approach differ from one aimed at reforming or “modernizing”? What can we learn from past and current abolitionist movements? How can we advance the cause of war abolition from being understood as overwhelming, to being recognized as necessary?

#NoWar2025 will make the case for abolition, explore intersections between abolitionist movements, learn from successful case studies of abolition, and strategize about how we can truly move towards a world beyond war.

ACTION: Register for World BEYOND War’s annual virtual conference, #NoWar2025: Exploring Abolition Movements

Your ticket gets you access to all of the conference sessions (view the schedule here), which will be held on Zoom. Standard tickets are $15; student/low-income tickets are available for $5.

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And we’re excited to announce a special bonus panel happening on Saturday, October 25 at 7:00pm-8:30pm ET, which will take place both in-person in Toronto, Canada hosted by the WBW Toronto Chapter and live-streamed on Zoom. A conference ticket includes access to this panel along with all the other sessions throughout the 3-day schedule (view the full agenda here!).

Join us for a cross-movement discussion to learn from each other in our shared struggles to dismantle systems of violence – from police and prisons, to colonization, militaries, and borders – while cultivating communities rooted in justice, care, and collective well-being.