Workers remove the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Richmond, Virginia on July 8, 2020.
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Demands to remove, or preserve, the statues polarize communities, rather than building a shared future.
Suicide is on the rise for multiple reasons.
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The U.S. suicide rate has been increasing for decades. According to a sociologist who studies suicide, depression is just one factor among many implicated social conditions.
Hong Kong’s protesters: looking for external help.
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A bill making its way through the US Congress seeks to tighten scrutiny of Hong Kong’s autonomy. But it will do little to resolve the situation.
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Tips from global conflict resolution on how MPs can find a way to agree on a Brexit deal.
Conflict resolution theory suggests we may be less likely to move toward a competing position if we have taken the time to learn about each other in a genuine way.
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Conflict in the classroom may not look or sound like an argument. It might look like disengagement if students don’t feel seen and heard.
Conservation groups are organizing soccer games to help bridge the gaps between park rangers and communities.
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Environmental organizations are using games to engage communities on conservation matters.
A Panchayat meeting in the Mewat district of Haryana, India, in 2004.
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The panchayat justice system should be used as inspiration to develop a workable model for conflict resolution in India and Pakistan.
Can the media relay a more peaceful message? A mural of Donald Trump in Dublin by the artist Subset.
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Bellicose reporting can lead to a destructive feedback loop.
This sculpture in London commemorates Nelson Mandela, who set up the African National Congress’ armed wing, Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), in 1961 when he lost hope that passive and non-violent resistance to the apartheid government would bear fruit.
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Seeking justice, not peace, in our world changes the conversation about conflict. Conflict has proven integral to achieving a more equitable and secure society.
FARC members take a long-overdue break.
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The last time the FARC joined in democratic politics, thousands of its members and leaders were murdered. Will this time be different?
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Classic conflict analysis can tell us whether there’s a chance that the warring factions can reach a peaceful resolution. Probably not, is the answer.
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Moral disputes are a product of independent minds with independent agendas. Thus, there is little reason to see ourselves as unbiased sources of righteousness.
Training exercises in Luhansk.
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Ukraine is implementing a deal to placate its restive separatists – but other countries have had trouble with similar strategies.
Pride in Bogota.
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Conflict resolution across the world frequently leaves LGBT citizens behind.
Here’s hoping: “Yes” campaigners in Bogotá.
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Colombia has a chance to get behind a peace agreement that its people have waited decades to see.
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Louis Monroy Santander has been looking at how locals in the town of Sanski Most are moving on after a brutal conflict.
Religion can be a force for peace, the goal of these Australian religious leaders, or conflict – the believer and not the religion itself bears the responsibility.
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There are religious and non-religious extremists and we should not confuse violent believers with religion itself, which has a long history of peacemaking.