Education for Peace
The UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan has recently submitted his Report to the United Nations General Assembly on the University for Peace.
Embedded militarism
The editor remarks on current trends in militarism.
Environmental Ombudsman in Third Year of Operation
Frans van Haren reports a success story
Eye to Eye
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.
Far-Right Parties in the European Parliament
Key terms: Eurosceptics, Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy, far-right parties, political agenda, European Parliament
A Little Goes a Long Way
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 you send it to them?” […]
A Ceremony of Forgiveness
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 ten in the morning on […]
You can’t make a deal with the dead
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 Middle East conflict. If a peace process is serious, each side must accept the other as they find it rather than remould their enemies into a more compliant state by assassination and political diktat.
Africa: Gateway to Peace
Brendon Lewis explains why world peace could start with collective security in Africa.
An Agenda for Kosovo
From this month UNMIK, the UN Mission to Kosovo, is to be headed by a new Special Representative. The International Crisis Group offers its advice and proposals for a new agenda.