Sam Wolf Cheney comes from a small town in Northern New Mexico, near the state capital of Santa Fe where he has lived for much of his adult life. The conflict there stems from familiar sources: struggle over scarce natural resources (primarily water); the arrival of one ethnic group into

Linus Malu provides the background to the prospects for collective peace-keeping in West Africa. His report appraises conflict prevention and resolution methods employed by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). First, it examines the operations of the ECOWAS Monitoring Group (ECOMOG) in the region and evaluates the impact

"Guantánamo is a professional and humane prison and interrogation centre" , a US Army general is quoted as saying this June at a press conference in Miami. The British journalist David Rose shows convincingly why it is not.

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Ten Imperatives to Prevent Deadly Conflict and Terrorism Author: Dr. John Richardson and Mark Hamilton Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 12/01/2005 Category: Policy Since that fateful day September 11, 2001, questions of terrorism have become etched in US collective memory. In the four years since, government responses

Iran Nuke Redux Author: Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 04/05/2006 Category: Letters Dear Monitor, Shoji Sawada a physicist and a survivor of Hiroshima atomic bombing recently made a ‘Call for the swift abolition of nuclear weapons’. In his open letter to the people and governments of the

Lawal Tsalha discusses the recent reports of massacre in Northern Nigeria involving the Multinational joint Task Force and Boko Haram, as well as the steps taken by President Goodluck Jonathan to respond.

Civilization has to begin somewhere….. Author: Simon Stander Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 05/29/2003 Category: Editorial Charity, so the saying goes, begins at home. So does non-violence. One of the ways to begin to stop war is to ensure that the death penalty is abolished worldwide. Campaigning

Bin Laden is Dead: Unofficial. Or is it? Author: Simon Stander, Editor Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 04/28/2003 Category: Editorial As early as December 2001, the president of Pakistan, Pervez Musharraf, said he thought Bin Laden was dead. He said that Bin Laden had most likely been

Author George Crile published Charlie Wilson's War in 2003. The former CBS journalist began researching the U.S. involvement in Afghanistan around the 1980's. Crile investigated the life and work of Charlie Wilson, a former U.S. State Representative from Texas and former U.S. naval officer. Wilson is most known for leading