Ferdinand Katendeko finds that pre-independence agreements by the then dominant Colonial power over the control of the vital Nile waters may lead to further conflict in conflict-torn Africa.

The international crime of trafficking in women for forced prostitution in BiH has been recognized as such since 1995. However, the first night-clubs with women “dancers” from Eastern Europe have been opened in the early 1990s. At that time, it was not clear whether women were trafficked or had

UN Reform Author: Simon Stander Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 12/08/2004 Category: Editorial On 2 December 2004, the high-level panel of reform of the UN reported to Kofi Annan. The panel was indeed high-level, but, interestingly, excluded anyone from the academic world:   Anand Panyarachun (Chairman), former

Catherine Onekalit asks the question can von-violent methods help to end the war that has lasted seventeen years in northern Uganda destroying the lives of thousands of children and young people. She notes that progress has been slow but that is no excuse for stopping. Quite the opposite, and one

Molly Mayfield Barbee marks the 88th anniversary of the nineteenth amendment to the US constitution with an appreciation of the central role that women are playing in this year's presidential race in the US (Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, and now Sarah Palin), as well as the much longer list of

Catherine Onekalit offers another prose poem to bring home the horror of war and the hope for peace.

Sweden and Norway have successful voluntary restriction of the sale of war toys; Malta prohibits their import; Greece bans television advertising; Australia places some restrictions on imports. The European Parliament recommended that its member states ban advertising of war toys and reduce their sale. What is your government doing about

Jayantha Dhanapala, former Under Secretary General for Disarmament Affairs of the United Nations, says that there is a need for political solutions to resolve the nuclear proliferation in recent times. Dhanapala is now the Secretary General of the Secretariat for Coordination of the Peace Process in Sri Lanka. He has