Bangkok was the site for the 3rd World Conservation Union Congress – an event that occurs with Olympic frequency, the last one taking place in Jordan in the year 2000. Mohit Mukherjee records a success story.

The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan has recently submitted his Report to the United Nations General Assembly on the University for Peace.

The editor remarks on current trends in militarism.

Frans van Haren reports a success story

This poem was submitted to the Peace and Conflict Monitor by a reader, and calls for what the author, Gihad Ali, sees as justice. Without justice, the poem argues, there can be no peace.

Key terms: Eurosceptics, Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy, far-right parties, political agenda, European Parliament

A Little Goes a Long Way Author: Peter Krupa Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 11/03/2005   “Finish your dinner,” our mothers would say. “There are children starving in Ethiopia who would be thrilled to eat that.” The reply from many a smarmy 9-year-old was, “Then why don’t

A Ceremony of Forgiveness Author: Am Johal Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 08/19/2005   In the small island community of Alert Bay near northern Vancouver Island, hundreds of residential school survivors from St. Michael’s Residential School stood on the idyllic shoreline near the U’mista Cultural Centre around

You cannot negotiate with dead men. MI6 and, eventually, the British government recognised that a political struggle requires a political solution. However brutal the IRA's day-to-day terrorism, a strong, coherent republican leadership was in the strategic interest of the British state. That fundamental insight still appears to be lacking in the

Brendon Lewis explains why world peace could start with collective security in Africa.