Peace at the Margins
This article features a conversation with Dr. Uyanwune, highlighting the intersection of peace, health, and human rights in the context of technological innovation. The UPEACE Global Center for Peace Innovation continues its efforts to envision peace through technology and systemic approaches that empower marginalized communities. Dr. Uyanwune focuses on albinism, a rare genetic condition that poses significant health risks and social challenges, particularly in Africa, where stigma and discrimination exacerbate vulnerabilities. He emphasizes that peace and health innovations do not necessarily require cutting-edge technology but rather inclusive, systemic coordination among health, education, and community sectors. Such multidisciplinary approaches can improve healthcare access, reduce stigma, and foster social inclusion, aligning with several Sustainable Development Goals including good health, quality education, gender equality, and reduced inequalities. This perspective links the fulfillment of the right to health with building positive peace through sustainable, preventative innovation.
Animal Welfare as a Crucial Adaptation Strategy in the Face of Climate Change: Case of Northern Ghana
Animal Welfare as a Crucial Adaptation Strategy in the Face of Climate Change: Case of Northern Ghana Author: Niknaz Alemi Climate change, this modern human crisis, has its effects felt everywhere around the world. Heatwaves, wildfires, water shortages, and more are increasingly impacting more people after so many years of scientists urging attention and prioritizing […]
Conflict in Mali
Conflict in Mali Author: Jackie Schiffer The conflict in Mali is multidimensional. The following analysis, utilizing CR SIPPABIO, will establish a basis of understanding for the quickly evolving and escalating conflict. Following, we will explore peace in Mali, challenges to peace, and future recommendations. Context: Challenges in Mali date from 1960 with post-colonial instability, a […]
Reimagining Sustainable Peace in Tigray: A Transitional Justice Perspective
Reimagining Sustainable Peace in Tigray: A Transitional Justice Perspective Author: Markus Penda Mulandula Angula Published on 5 June 2023 According to Andrews, P. (2015), ‘transitional justice mechanisms are non-judicial bodies set up by governments after armed conflict or internal political violence. These mechanisms usually reflect the compromise reached between warring parties during negotiations to end […]
The phenomenon of the Child Soldiers between International Law
The phenomenon of the Child Soldiers between International Law, UN Humanitarian Action and State responsibility. In memory of Samuel Opiyo Author: Elianna Baldi We worked in Central African Republic (CAR) from 2011 to 2019. In 2016 we met a Ugandan boy, Samuel Opiyo, who escaped from the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) saving a Central African […]
UPEACE Doctoral Candidate – Hassan Shekh Mohamud wins Somalia’s presidential election
UPEACE Doctoral Candidate – Hassan Shekh Mohamud wins Somalia’s presidential election Author: Samuel Ewusi Somalia’s new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud was declared the winner of the Presidential election on Sunday, May 16th, 2022 to become the country’s new president. Mohamud beat the incumbent Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo by 214 votes to 110 in the third round […]
Are reparations owed to the Nigerian citizens?
Are reparations owed to the Nigerian citizens? Author: Ananya Shukla Translated into Spanish by Florencia Prieto de Santis It was in 1984 that anti robbery squads in Nigeria started existing separately from the Nigerian Police Force; the SARS (Special Anti-Robbery Squad), Nigeria’s Anti Robbery Squad was formed in 1992. The purpose behind creating this unit […]
Africa’s forgotten war: The Western Sahara conflict
Africa’s forgotten war: The Western Sahara conflict Author: Mihir Yedur TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH BY SILVANA GORDILLO GONZÁLEZ Much of Africa was born into conflict due to hasty and problematic decolonization mandates that were undertaken by colonial powers in response to growing pressure from the UN and a large part of the civilized world. Apart from […]
Food Security and Conflicts. Case Study: Anglophone Crisis, Cameroon
Food Security and Conflicts. Case Study: Anglophone Crisis, Cameroon Author: John Carlvin Piyinchu There is a tragic link between conflict and hunger and how it still pervades far too much of the world. We need better and quicker access in all conflict zones, so we can get to more of the civilians who need our […]
How Gender Disparities during the Rwandan Genocide Transformed Regional Human Rights
The Rwandan Genocide led to positive changes in Rwandan governance and regional human rights mechanisms, especially on women’s rights.