Peace Education on the Brink
Peace Education on the Brink Author: Sabrina Sideris Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 11/18/2005 Category: Conciliation Biking walking climbing with your own two feet two hands, navigation services provided by your own eyes, lashes your only windshield-wipers, without horsepower or combustion engine, powered by the muscles in your limbs, no assigned seating, […]
Peace vs. Accountability in Colombia
The author, analysing the nature of the conflict in her country, sees a way out to resolve over forty years of conflict in Colombia. She puts reconciliation before prosecution and punishment.
Poems for Peace
Poems for Peace Author: Olumide Olaniyan Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/10/2005 Category: Diaries RAPED BY THE INCUBUS In the hot sun By the side of the road The incubus over-powered us Tore off our flesh Leaked our blood with snake-like tongue Like dying stones, we screamed voicelessly With shrill laughter, […]
Ready to Vote
On the ground in Afghanistan, pre-election tension and hope.
Remembering Rwanda
Remembering Rwanda Author: Ross Ryan Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 04/09/2009 Category: Editorial Rwanda is a small country, but it occupies a central place in the discourse of peace and conflict studies, illustrating the full range of the human capacity for violence, as well as forgiveness and reconciliation. The events surrounding the […]
Resetting the nuclear disarmament agenda
Secretary General Ban Ki-moon addresses the Geneva Lecture in Switzerland, emphasizing the need to prioritize disarmament and forward the Millennium Development Goals.
Security Concerns in Georgia
The BBC reports (May 5, 2004) that the “Georgian leader Mikhail Saakashvili has imposed direct presidential rule in the rebel region of Ajaria. The moves came amid growing pressure on Ajaria’s leader Aslan Abashidze to accept Tbilisi’s authority or resign. The Georgian government has warned Aslan Abashidze that he has only a few hours to step down and avoid bloodshed.” We offer Vahagn Muradyan’s article on the problems of identity in Georgia in explaining its Security Policies.
Revolution as Poetry
Regina Eddelman takes her first trip to Nicaragua and finds a nation of poets.
Rogelio Fernández Güell: Un Quijote costarricense, homenaje a los 91 años de su asesinato
Rogelio Fernández Güell: Un Quijote costarricense, homenaje a los 91 años de su asesinato Author: Ronald Castro Fernández Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 05/08/2009 Category: Comment El pasado 15 de marzo se cumplieron 91 años del asesinato del Ingenioso Costarricense Don Rogelio Fernández Güell en Buenos Aires de Osa, a manos de […]
Oily Iraq
The elections in Iraq were widely hailed as a tentative success in an otherwise disastrous situation. But considering the history of foreign intervention in the Middle East when it comes to oil interests, perhaps this silver cloud has a dark lining.