Elliot Waring reviews the 2008 film Slumdog Millionaire, drawing attention to the questions of development, poverty, human rights, globalization, and violence that it raises.

Speaking my Truth Author: Bluejay Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 01/10/2008 Category: Comment The continued testing of nuclear weapons is just another one in a long list of things that we should all be very concerned about [see Radioactive Weapons Testing in California in this month’s PCM].

Dr Hahn, Executive Director at the Washington Think Tank, Association of Third World Affairs argues that the SARS epidemic should give China pause for thought in its attitude to Taiwan.

At independence, Zimbabwe was one of the countries in the southern part of Africa with a very solid economic standing. It had the infrastructure and the systems in place for a continued progress of the economy and the country as a whole. Mugabe himself was an acclaimed hero: “the

Alyssa McGary follows the fall of dictatorship and rise of democracy in Chile and Argentina, emphasizing the role of social movements -- especially the struggle for women's suffrage and equal rights.

The collapse and disintegration of the Soviet Union fundamentally altered the structure of international relations and the expression of violent conflict. Where war was once considered the business of nation states, non-state actors and intrastate wars have come to the forefront of global security concerns. Givi Amiranashvili analyses the legal

Kenya’s choices are simple: life or death, penury or prosperity, a cohesive, well governed nation that counts its diversity as strength or a suspicious, hateful one governed by the cynical and awash in the blood of its young. The leaders too must now decide whether they will be remembered

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon writes of the the achievements and challenges facing NATO and the UN in their Afghan mission.

The Youth Organisation of Bhutan (in exile) draws attention to the horrific forgotten plight of 135,000 refugees.