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.

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.

An open letter to those who believe in just war against ISIS. Author: Alex Powell Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 12/08/2015   You might agree that it isn’t just to destroy the confused and so understand the notion of Jihad or Just War to be invalidated but

On Sunday April 25, a group of 25 Palestinian women met at Biddu’s city council to have peaceful women’s march against the destruction of their land, the ghettoization of their community and the persisting escalation of violence from the Israeli army against nonviolent demonstrators. As with most peacefull demonstrations

The Washington Office on Latin America has been working to improve conditions in Latin America for thirty years. It's founder, a native of Colorado and resident of Costa Rica, remembers the early days. This is the first of a two part interview with the editor.

Books Received II Author: Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 09/20/2004   Recent Books Received Two on Terrorism..By and Against the State Yevgeny Primakov, A World Challenged: Fighting Terrorism in the Twent-First Century, Brookings Institution Press, 204, pp. 150 The author was Russian prime minsiter 1998-9, and like

In a world where many people expect progress with each generation, most of the young Central Asia are worse off than their parents. They have higher rates of illiteracy, unemployment, poor health, and drug use, and they are more likely to be victims and perpetrators of violence. The Central Asian

“There is scope for a workable compromise in Mostar that can win support from all concerned”, says Senad Slatina, Sarajevo-based analyst for ICG, “and it is a solution that can be applied as a model for city government throughout the Federation and BiH."