Metta Spencer

Metta Spencer is the former Editor of Peace Magazine. As the founding president and director of the Canadian Disarmament Information Service (CANDIS), she published the monthly Peace Calendar from 1983 to 1985, when the publication changed to magazine format and took the name Peace Magazine. In 2009, Spencer organized the Zero Nuclear Weapons public forum in Toronto, jointly sponsored by four major Canadian peace organizations with which she has been involved since the mid-1980s: Physicians for Global Survival, Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate organization Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, and Science for Peace.

Trying to understand the Tsarnaev brothers

Apr 212013

Features

National culture, not Muslim religion, encourages young Chechen men to violence.

by Metta Spencer

My knowledgeable friend Julia Kalinina, a Russian journalist who covered the first war in Chechnya, says she does not believe that the Tsarnaev brothers had any contact with terrorist groups, but rather that they were motivated to avenge a recent US insult to Ramam Kadyrov, the head of Chechnya.