Whether or not the present Honduran interim government will be fully recognized by the international community remains to be seen. For the time being, however, states must still decide when and how to conduct relations with the military-appointed government, balancing concerns for pressing international issues with the expected validity and

Key words: UNHCR, Uganda, Lords Resistance Army, humanitarian organizations, IDP camps,

Founding Sisters Author: Carol Peasley Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/16/2009   As we celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month throughout March, we need to remember that the origins of these events go back to long-ago protests in Europe and the United States for the

Faced with further breakdowns in negotiations with the Iranian government, the International Atomic Energy Agency recently passed a controversial resolution that could lead to the referal of Iran's budding nuclear program to the UN Security Council. What's more, in a surprising move, long-time friend India voted with the United States

Be the Change? Author: Susan Carew Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 01/29/2009     I am going to change the world, I whisper, I am changing the world, I feel, I am the change, I see, I am the world, Actually, And what I see, Frees me,

Arms and the Boy Author: Wilfred Owen Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 06/17/2009   Let the boy try along this bayonet-blade How cold steel is, and keen with hunger of blood; Blue with all malice, like a madman’s flash; And thinly drawn with famishing for flesh. Lend

Hal Bolton introduces his ADEPT system for transforming conflict in the workplace and shifting the neo-liberal model of "business as usual" towards a broader concept of prosperity, integrating democratic and humanitarian values.

Speaking in Dublin, Ireland, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon presents an address on Irish involvement in UN peacekeeping missions and the ongoing effort for global security.

Cynthia Fist addresses the issue of gun control in the United States, arguing that the right to bear arms should be weighed against the heavy cost in human lives that they represent.

Victor Valle prefaces his Central American Diary with an historical summary