Iranians mourn the death of Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah on Sept. 27, 2024.
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Iran’s ‘axis of resistance’ is looking for Tehran to respond in force as a commitment to regional network of proxies.
Demonstrators in London, UK, take part in a march to draw attention to the civil war in Sudan in May 2024.
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Negotiating peace is not a matter of following a simple recipe; it rarely has well-defined stages.
Matobo, Zimbabwe, May 2024: southern Africa’s drought has devastated crops and pastures, leading to displacement.
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Climate change disrupts community stability, especially when it leads to food shortages and displacement. Governments must work with communities to set up policies to prevent this.
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The government needs a more streamlined, equitable and effective response to assist people facing persecution and danger to take refuge in Australia.
A peacekeeper of the UN mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The UN faces a crisis because of its failure to address the world’s biggest conflicts.
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The African story is not just about conflict, corruption, poverty, poor leadership, bad politics and disease. Its coverage should be more nuanced.
A shop owner counts Ethiopian birr notes in his stall at the Shola Market in Addis Ababa.
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Ethiopia’s macroeconomic policy shift holds the promise of significant progress, but success is far from certain.
Sudanese refugees from Darfur at a relocation camp near the border with Chad in April 2024.
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El Fasher is experiencing a humanitarian crisis, with the Rapid Support Forces encircling the city, preventing civilian escape.
A Rwandan officer on patrol in Palma, Mozambique, during a military assistance mission in 2021.
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Kigali wants to be seen as a reliable security provider at home and abroad.
More than two years of war have left swaths of Ukraine in ruins.
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The World Bank estimates that it will take $480 billion of investment to get Ukraine back on its feet after the war.
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Most social media PR blurb is designed to convince the public these tech companies are a benign force for good. What the public really needs is a public service internet.
A Palestinian girl holds aloft an empty bowl to protest food shortages in Gaza on March 12, 2024.
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In Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, famine affects increasing numbers of people.
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Maps can shape how we see conflict.
War games that incorporate AI are set to dramatically alter how nations contemplate or prepare for war.
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The rise of generative AI and its effect on war-gaming will fundamentally transform how senior military and political leaders plan and prepare for war.
It’s important to understand both the possibilities and limitations of campus dialogue. A person walks past a board with the message ‘Free Palestine’ on the campus of Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, Feb. 7, 2024, in Indianapolis.
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In 2015, I saw Jewish and Muslim students forge a set of group agreements so they could dialogue on the Middle East conflict. Initiatives like this or a ‘Semester in Dialogue’ program are promising.
Jacqueline O’Neill, Canada’s ambassador for Women, Peace and Security, appears before the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Trade in November 2023.
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The recent release of Canada’s third National Action Plan on Women, Peace and Security highlights challenges and opportunities that go far beyond the ‘add women and stir’ approach.
Burundian military officers arrive in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo to tackle the rise of militias in the region.
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The RED-Tabara armed group operates out of the DRC’s volatile eastern region, which shares a porous 243km border with Burundi.
Members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps conduct a drill with ballistic missiles in 2021.
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Tehran has warned that no Israeli embassy is safe following deadly bombing of its mission in Damascus.
Hanadi Alashi points to Palestinian family members in a photo at her home in Ottawa on Dec. 1, 2023. Alashi is one of many Canadians who have applied for family members to come to Canada under a special extended family visa program created in response to the conflict in Gaza.
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Refugee programs in Canada have always been politicized, but more so in recent years, evidenced in discrepancies between programs for refugees from Gaza and Sudan and those from Ukraine.
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The armed gangs of Haiti have a very clear assessment of their power as movers and shakers of the country’s future.