Peace Magazine

"Peace Magazine" is a Canadian magazine on disarmament and peacebuilding issues, published by Canadian Disarmanent Information Service (CANDIS).

The magazine published monthly from March to December 1985; bimonthly from January-February 1986 to May-June 1999; and quarterly since July-September 1999. There has been formal and informal cooperation with other Canadian and international peace organizations throughout the magazine's history, and since 1993 the magazine has included a section produced in collaboration with Science for Peace.

"Peace Magazine" was launched in 1985 as a continuation of an earlier CANDIS publication, "The Peace Calendar", which appeared monthly between February 1983 and January 1985. Originally a simple listings sheet for Toronto-area peace events, "The Peace Calendar" had expanded into a 12-page tabloid with articles and analysis in addition to Canada-wide listings in the period immediately before the "Peace Magazine" launch.

"Peace Magazine" was one of the first Canadian magazines to be produced with desktop publishing software. Its website at [http://www.peacemagazine.org www.peacemagazine.org] , online since 1997, contains HTML archives of all articles published previous to the current calendar year.

The magazine has had a strong editorial emphasis on democracy, human rights, and the technical aspects of disarmament. Its writers are roughly equally distributed between activists and academics, with considerable overlap between these two spheres.