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Achieving peace through the eradication of hunger

In western countries, we never had to face the reality of death as a collectivity in the past decade more than in 2020. Of course, we have experienced the horror of terrorism, but those traumatic events awoke more islamophobia than thanatophobia. Since last March, the number of deaths caused by the Covid-19 pandemic has skyrocketed…

Esther-Lauren M’bilo February 18, 2021

International Day of Peace and Promoting Peace in our lives

International day of peace works to promote peace in the world. These are how we are failing and how we might be able to work more towards it.

Gurjinder Khambay November 12, 2020

International Dysfunction, Institutional Failure & The Post-Pandemic World

No Order, No Peace Horror vacui, a fear of emptiness can be likened to the coming age in international affairs. The era of western-led order is ending and we, as citizens of a globalised world, now coexist in a nonpolar international spectrum. Power has diffused and is no-longer held by monopolising states or alliances in…

Multiple Authors July 22, 2020

Women in Peacekeeping: roles and opportunities in diversity

The role of women in Peacekeeping Operations (PKOs) as a principal driver of long term peacebuilding and a necessary element of optimal implementation has only recently been acknowledged. The United Nations has since spearheaded initiatives to diversify Peacekeeping Operations across the world, yet the percentages of women participating in these operations still remain strikingly low. In 1993,…

Esther Brito March 5, 2020

Terrorist Dealings in Afghanistan

Transitioning Democracy, Peace in the Balance Afghanistan, a state that has been ravaged by tortuous war for four decades, has become the subject of a failing peace process and a highly ambitious push for democracy by the Afghani President, Ashraf Ghani. While democracy is widely propelled as a catalyst for peace, in this case, it…

Benjamin White November 12, 2019

A Sri Lankan Childhood: Cricket Minus the War – Part 1

There is a small island south of India which played some cricket for a while and won the international cricket status in 1982. Beating India! Yes, that is how the story started as they went on to comprehensively beat India in the 1979 World Cup as a non-test playing nation. The 5th of May 1993:…

April 6, 2016

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