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1. Peace & Justice

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Created on 25 December 2015

2. Phil Harris

(Contacts / Editors and Bureau Chiefs)

... 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, ...

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3. Kalinga Seneviratne

(Contacts / Board of Directors)

... 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 ...

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4. INPS-IDN Editors

(Contacts / Organizations)

... 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 ...

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5. Global Cooperation Council

(Contacts / Organizations)

... – 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, ...

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6. The AU Peace Process to Solve the Conflict in Tigray Alleged to Have Been Undermined

(Horn of Africa)

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 ...

Created on 08 January 2021

7. Unease as UN Peace Mission in Sudan Ends and Ethiopian Soldiers Return Home

(Horn of Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 03 January 2021

8. Peace Prize for Humanitarian Work – Debt Dims Recovery – Better Times for Mental Health Groups

(Africa)

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 ...

Created on 28 December 2020

9. The Culture of Peace: For a Safer, Saner and Sustainable World

(OPINION)

... 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, ...

Created on 28 December 2020

10. Breaking the Culture of Violence to Advance SDG 16 On Peace & Security

(OPINION)

... 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, ...

Created on 16 December 2020

11. 'If We Are Serious About Peace, We Must Take Women Seriously

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 16 December 2020

12. African Women Stress the Need for a Horn of Africa Peace Initiative

(Horn of Africa)

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, ...

Created on 15 December 2020

13. Doubts Whether Space Is Being Used Only for Peaceful Purposes

(Nuclear Weapons)

... 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 ...

Created on 06 December 2020

14. European Parliament in A Joint Resolution Urges Ethiopia to Tread the Path of Peace and Dialogue

(Horn of Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 27 November 2020

15. EU Called Upon to Urgently Engage in Peace Efforts for the Horn of Africa

(Horn of Africa)

... 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, ...

Created on 24 November 2020

16. Breaking the Culture of Violence to Advance Peace and Security

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 09 November 2020

17. Peaceful Resistance Has Proved to Be More Effective Than Violent Protests

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 13 October 2020

18. Cathartic Returns to Morocco: From Peace Corps to Farmer-to-Farmer Volunteer

(Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 01 October 2020

19. Ladakh Buddhist Monk Leads A Campaign for Peaceful Resolution of Border Conflict

(Asia-Pacific)

... 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 ...

Created on 12 September 2020

20. COVID-19 Pandemic Threatening Peace and Security

(Health & Well Being)

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 ...

Created on 10 September 2020

21. Media Outlets Focusing on Perspectives of Peace and Security in South Asia

(South Asia)

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 ...

Created on 15 August 2020

22. A Warrior for Nuclear Peace Dies But His Message Reverberates

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 28 July 2020

23. Former President Mkapa Embodied Tanzanians' Humility, Commitment to Peace

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 27 July 2020

24. Tanzania's Ex-President and Peacemaker Mkapa Dies of Malari

(Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 27 July 2020

25. Why COVID-19 Offers A Chance to Transform UN Peacekeeping

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 18 June 2020

26. U.S. Attacks on China Threaten World Peace

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 19 May 2020

27. Sustainable Water Governance Is Critical for Achieving Peace in Horn of Africa

(OPINION)

... 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, ...

Created on 14 April 2020

28. A Nobel Peace Laureate Calls for Slashing Military Spending and Investing in Healthcare

(Peace & Justice)

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 ...

Created on 02 April 2020

29. Women Peace and Security in the Time of Corona

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 31 March 2020

30. Colombia's Conflict Victims Await 16 ‘Seats for Peace’ in Congres

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 22 March 2020

31. Iran Should Demonstrate That Its Nuclear Program Is Peaceful

(Nuclear Weapons)

... 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. ...

Created on 19 March 2020

32. The Civil Society Prepared for Intra-Afghan Peace

(Peace & Justice)

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 ...

Created on 01 March 2020

33. Why the Peace Movement Must Be Intersectional

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 16 February 2020

34. African Union Campaigning to Achieve Peace and End Conflict

(Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 01 February 2020

35. Climate and Nuclear Weapons Are the Focus of Buddhist Leader's Peace Proposal

(Nuclear Weapons)

... 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 ...

Created on 27 January 2020

36. ‘U.S. Is Greatest Threat to World Peace’

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 06 January 2020

37. WISHING US ALL AND OUR PLANET PEACE & SECURITY

(Peace & Justice)

Created on 01 January 2020

38. From the ‘War Against Nature’ to ‘Peace with Nature’

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 05 December 2019

39. Western Sahara Rights Activist Awarded Major Peace Prize

(Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 03 December 2019

40. Frelimo, Renamo Tear Up Peace Pact After Elections ‘Tarnished by Fraud’

(Africa)

 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 ...

Created on 30 October 2019

41. Bring Women at the Peace Table, Build from the Grassroots to the Tree Tops

(OPINION)

... (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 ...

Created on 30 October 2019

42. Timing of Nobel Peace Prize for Ethiopian Leader Questioned

(Africa)

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 ...

Created on 16 October 2019

43. The Culture of Peace Begins with Each One of Us

(OPINION)

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 ...

Created on 10 October 2019

44. An ‘Arduous Journey’ Toward the Culture of Peace and Beyond

(Quality Education)

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“, ...

Created on 03 October 2019

45. DPRK Blames U.S. For ‘Little Progress’ in Achieving Peace on The Korean Peninsula

(Nuclear Weapons)

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 ...

Created on 01 October 2019

46. Nobel Peace Laureates Call for Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

(Nuclear Weapons)

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, ...

Created on 30 September 2019

47. Securing a World of Climate Resilience, Prosperity and Peace

(Poverty)

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 ...

Created on 17 September 2019

48. UN Convenes A High-Level Forum to Stress the Significance of Culture of Peace

(Quality Education)

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 ...

Created on 10 September 2019

49. Peace Through Jazz Music

(Africa)

... 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 ...

Created on 29 August 2019

50. UN To Commemorate 20th Anniversary of the Culture of Peace Declaration

(OPINION)

... 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 ...

Created on 16 August 2019

51. Nationally-owned Transitions Are Key to Sustainable Peace

(Peace & Justice)

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 ...

Created on 27 July 2019

52. Intra-Afghan Dialogue Seen as A Step Towards Peace

(Asia-Pacific)

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, ...

Created on 14 July 2019

53. Women's Peace Hut Develops into a Driver of Economic Growt

(Gender Equality)

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 ...

Created on 20 May 2019

54. Cambodia, Recipient in 1993, Gives Back to UN Peacekeeping

(Peace & Justice)

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 ...

Created on 20 May 2019

55. Mayors for Peace Call for a Common Ground on the NPT

(Nuclear Weapons)

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 ...

Created on 12 May 2019

56. Peacekeeping

(Tags)

Peacekeeping

Created on 12 January 2016