... social equity, ecological sustainability, gender equality, natural disaster resilience and peace.
Together with Prof Peter Golding, he edited and contributed to Beyond Cultural Imperialism: Globalization, ...
... UN Media Peace Award for his work on Australian community radio. He has been a consultant for UNESCO in a number of curriculum development and training projects in Asia covering journalism and community ...
... Ltd.
The Global Cooperation Council is a membership organization and a think tank devoted to genuine cooperation in the interest of fair globalization as well as the culture of peace, a prerequisite ...
... – and culture of peace, a precondition for building a sustainable global society. It works closely with the International Press Syndicate.
We believe that instead of clinging on to out-dated social, ...
Compiled by EEPA
BRUSSELS (IDN) – Ethnic Tigray soldiers suspended and/or returned from Ethiopian peace-keeping missions are being reportedly imprisoned by the Ethiopian Federal Government. Ethnic Tigrayan ...
... Africa, is a Belgium-based Centre of Expertise with in-depth knowledge, publications, and networks, specialised in issues of peacebuilding, refugee protection and resilience in the Horn of Africa. EEPA ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Mixed news from Africa: the Somali Practitioner of ‘Yogadishu’, Ilwad Elman, is the German Africa Peace Prize Winner for 2020. Ilwad Elman has ...
... and founder of the Global Movement for The Culture of Peace (GMCoP). The following are extensive excerpts from his virtual special lecture at the International Studies Institute at University of La Verne, ...
... Peace and Partnership. They capture with such lucid precision what is referred to as “all areas of critical importance for humanity and the planet.”
These are all areas deserving of concerted attention, ...
... championing for a decade for the implementation of the 1325 on “Women and Peace and Security” in Israel. I had the pleasure of meeting its representatives – Netta and Anat - in New York in 2015 during ...
By Reinhard Jacobsen
BRUSSELS (IDN) – The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace Prize to Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed Ali "for his efforts to achieve peace and international cooperation, ...
... and technological cooperation" opening up "new prospects for various countries to work together in the peaceful exploration of outer space".
In the U.S. that night, CBS newscaster Walter Cronkite said ...
... The speakers called for de-escalation and a resumption of the dialogue for peace between the Ethiopian federal government and representatives of the Tigray region. The discussion followed a draft Joint ...
... will be able to find the peace it needs for its development and the well‑being of its people.”
More than 55 signatories to the letter include Prof. Dr Mirjam van Reisen, Professor International Relations, ...
Viewpoint by P.I. Gomes*
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (IDN) – The Preamble to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development refers to what is called the 5P’s of People, Planet, Prosperity, Peace ...
... half-forgotten is when in 1986 millions of Filipinos took to the streets in Manila in peaceful protest and prayer and the dictatorial regime of Marcos was toppled on the fourth day. In 2003 Georgians ousted ...
... President of the High Atlas Foundation (HAF), uttered them in gratitude for the food set before them or in hope for something good to come of their efforts as Peace Corps Volunteers. “It makes you more ...
... territory, and Bhikkhu Sanghasena, a leading Buddhist monk, based in the state capital Leh has been leading a campaign for a peaceful resolution to the conflict, since the deadly clash between Indian and ...
By Rosemary DiCarlo UN Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Following are extensive excerpts from Ms DiCarlo's briefing to the Security Council on the impact of the COVID-19 ...
News briefs compiled by Suresh Jaura*
TORONTO | NEW DELHI (IDN) – The focus of media outlets on South Asia in the month of July has been on the perspectives of peace and human security in a region marked ...
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power*
LUND, Sweden (IDN) – Bruce Blair, one of the great unsung heroes of the nuclear bomb age, died on July 19 at the age of 72. In his twenties he had been an intercontinental ...
... and was genuinely committed to Pan Africanism and the liberation struggle, in the mould of Kenneth Kaunda and Thabo Mbeki.
He was repeatedly asked to help mediate peace across the continent because of ...
... Bank and International Monetary Fund and resulted in the cancellation of some of Tanzania's foreign debts.
Kenya's former prime minister Raila Odinga eulogized Mkapa, recalling that he mediated peace after ...
Viewpoint by Charles T. Hunt and Adam Day *
LONDON (IDN | The Conversation) – United Nations Peacekeeping may be entering a period of major change. Over the past four years, there has been a steady decline ...
... United Nations and its peacekeeping work. It has deployed 2,500 peacekeepers, more than all the other permanent members of the Security Council combined. This highlights the remarkable shift from a radical ...
... peace.
In a new report published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Jan Eliasson, former Deputy Secretary-General of the United Nations, stresses that in the Horn of Africa, ...
By Jutta Wolf
BERLIN (IDN) – The world's oldest peace NGO, the 1910 Nobel Peace Prize-winning International Peace Bureau (IPB), is calling for a "dramatic reduction" of military spending in favour of healthcare ...
... to these impacts, the realities of women living this pandemic, and the relevance of the women, peace and security agenda now more than ever.
LONDON (IDN) – 2020: It was always going to be a big year ...
Viewpoint by Hobeth Martinez Carrillo*
LONDON (IDN) – Four years after the UN-monitored peace agreement that was intended to end more than five decades of civil war in Colombia, the communities that ...
... non-nuclear weapon state party to the nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty is required to implement a safeguards agreement with the IAEA to provide assurance that its nuclear activities are entirely peaceful. ...
By Bernhard Schell
DOHA | KABUL (IDN) — Women, youth as well as community and religious leaders in Afghanistan have been craving for peace and earnestly preparing for it long before the United States ...
... The framing was picked up by others, adapting the title to environmentalism and to activism more broadly but it was far less talked about in the peace movement.
Peace campaigners have long pointed ...
... various efforts in search of peaceful co-existence and development and the African Union’s quest for silencing the guns by 2020.
In 2013 African Union (AU) member state representatives gathered at its ...
... annual peace proposal by Daisaku Ikeda, president of the Soka Gakkai International (SGI) Buddhist network.
Titled 'Toward Our Shared Future: Constructing an Era of Human Solidarity', the proposals were ...
... America is the biggest threat to world peace. According to Iran Press/America, he told a New York school on January 4 that the former Republican Party had now become a "radical rogue" that has abandoned ...
... fragility and violence to conditions that allow peace to be created and sustained.
Certainly, climate change mitigation and adaptation deserve the same priority and privilege that we accord to conventional ...
... and violations of fundamental human rights, they continue their peaceful struggle. The Sahrawis deserve to be supported by all so that, one day, they will achieve independence and freedom.”
Aminatou ...
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network
NEW YORK (IDN) – Hopes for a lasting peace between longtime rivals Frelimo and Renamo are fading fast as a recent vote for president of the southern African ...
... (IDN) – The UN Security Council Resolution 1325 of 2000 is a commitment to work resolutely toward greater protection of women and girls in conflict zones, to appoint more women in UN peacekeeping operations ...
Viewpoint by Makeda Saba
BRUSSELS (IDN) – On October 11, 2019, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2019 Nobel Peace prize to the Prime Minister of Ethiopia Dr Abiy Ahmed. He is the fourth African ...
Viewpoint by Ambassador Anwarul K. Chowdhury *
The writer is the founder of The Global Movement for The Culture of Peace (GMCoP), former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United ...
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – “Let’s Build a Culture of Peace,” exhorted Nobel Peace laureates in an urgent call to “all countries and organizations of the world, their leaders and citizens“, ...
By UN News
NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – Lack of progress in achieving peace on the Korean Peninsula is “entirely attributable” to the United States, a senior official from the Democratic People’s Republic of ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – Ten Nobel Peace Laureates and 30 organisations bestowed that honour have expressed profound concern that 74 years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ...
By Jutta Wolf
BERLIN (IDN) – In the run-up to the Climate Action Summit at the UN in New York on September 23, the World Future Council (WFC) has called for immediate measures to cut carbon emissions ...
By Ramesh Jaura
BERLIN | NEW YORK (IDN) – "The seed of peace exists in all of us. It must be nurtured, cared for and promoted by us all to flourish. Peace cannot be imposed from outside – it must be realized ...
... works to promote global peace, justice and rule of law.
Jazz events held each year in different countries around the globe culminate in the International Jazz Day, a star-studded musical concert in a ...
... on the Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace in 1990. The forthcoming UNGA is convening on September 13 the High-Level Forum on the Culture of Peace underlining the importance the world ...
Viewpoint by António Guterres
Following are extensive extracts from the UN Secretary-General's remarks at Security Council Briefing on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace: Strengthening Partnerships for ...
By R. Maxwell Bone
The writer is Vice President for Political Affairs, Democracy, and Governance at the International Institute for Peace, Democracy, and Development (IIPDD). He lives in Washington, ...
A UN Women News Feature
This feature first appeared on May 7, 2019 with the headline A place of peace, reconciliation and growth.
NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – The air is dry and hot in Gao. Here, in the north ...
By Santo D. Banerjee
NEW YORK | JUBA, South Sudan (IDN) – “Cambodia received peacekeeping troops in 1993, and we feel that we have to contribute in the same way as other countries did when they worked ...
By J Nastranis
NEW YORK (IDN) – In anticipation of the review conference of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) in 2020 at the United Nations, the Mayors for Peace have in a ...