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Published in: 50.50NPT: the gulf between the nuclear haves and have-notsThe key question as the conference enters the endgame is whether the P-5 nuclear weapon states are willing to drop...
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Published in: 50.50UK election outcome: lessons for peacebuilding
Inclusive democracy is a key constituent of positive peace. Does the surprise coalition government in Britain have...
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Published in: 50.50Is it time for a worldwide strategy for the building of peace?
On average, one dollar spent on programmes to prevent violent conflict achieves as much as sixty dollars spent...
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Published in: 50.50NPT conference: half time glass half full
Frustration at the failure of nuclear weapon states to honour the agreements made at previous NPT Conferences is...
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Published in: 50.50Objecting: an act of civil disobedience
Conscientious objection is not "opting out". It is an effort to stimulate a new social imagination and a...
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Published in: 50.50United States at the NPT: how far will the 'good guy' go?
Unless the role and value assigned to nuclear weapons in deterrence is challenged among the nuclear-armed states,...
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Published in: 50.50Implementing SCR 1325: lessons from Israel
The attempt to implement Security Council Resolution 1325 after the failure of the Oslo Peace Process revealed a...
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Published in: 50.50Nuclear weapons: beyond non-proliferation?
The stakes are high and the outcome too close to call as the Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty opens...
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Published in: 50.50The strongest power of all
If violence is out, what power can nonviolence offer? Courage, numbers and solidarity are vital to confront...
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Published in: 50.50Getting to peace: what kind of movement?
Today’s antiwar movements could become wider and deeper and more united if they took the critique of gender properly to heart
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Published in: openSecurityImpossible bedfellows: civil-military cooperation through NATO's eyes
In a continued search for relevance in the post-Cold War world, the armed forces of NATO have adopted a burgeoning...
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Published in: HomeThe myths that surround the military's power to do good
"We need to construct ourselves as cooperative entities, so that the way we understand belonging and identity does...
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Published in: 50.50Eat or be eaten: courting disaster
Two very different ways of viewing the world result in radically different ways of approaching conflict. When we...
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Published in: 50.50From a culture of war to a culture of peace
The time has run out for traditional military answers. Ours is a culture of war, but cultures can change. We need...
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Published in: 50.50Saying 'no' to Pinochet’s dictatorship through non-violence
There were many approaches to resisting dictatorship in Chile that contributed to its demise. One of them owed much...
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Published in: 50.50Gender, war and conflict transformation
As Shelley Anderson suggests, war and gender are intimately related. Gender lies at war’s heart and the conduct and...
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Published in: 50.50Vital peace constituencies
The last decade has seen much more detailed attention to the many, sometimes contradictory, roles women play in...
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Published in: 50.50Peace process in Mindanao
How does conflict transformation work? Peace advisers have a particular range of skills which must be adapted and...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond stalemate: replacing the vicious with the virtuous circleWhat is conflict transformation? How do you begin to approach the mutual hurt of conflict embedded in systems and...
