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Human RightsSaudi Arabia: New Year Beheadings Pour Oil on the Flames
As a major oil producer, the government of Saudi Arabia might know the dangers of pouring oil on a fire. Tensions between...
Global CooperationThe Peace Walls Must Eventually Come Down
In Northern Ireland, there are barriers known as peace walls separating Irish Catholic and British Protestant neighborhoods from each other. Most of...
Global CooperationLocal Engagement with Armed Groups in the Midst of Violence
The armed conflict in Iraq and Syria becomes more complex each day, and good faith negotiations seem ever further away. Those of...
Global CooperationSyria: Global Solutions Urgently Needed
Citizens for Global Solutions addresses a diverse set of global needs. Each deserves attention. But two difficult problems signal possibly severe ruptures...
Peace & DisarmamentFighting Ideas: Military Power vs. Ideology
We have been sold a story that goes like this: spend more on weapons, get more peace. But a strong government with...
Global Cooperation10 Horrifying Facts about Nuclear Weapons
This article was originally published for BogglingFacts. It has been cross-posted with the permission of author Reagan M. On August 6, 1945,...
Human RightsKeeping Hearts and Borders Open
In the wake of the terrorist attacks that shook Paris last Friday, many have turned to analyze the alleged organizers of the...
Human RightsYemen: Where Humanity Is Flouted
At the United Nations headquarters in Geneva On October 31, 2015, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and President of the International Committee of the...
Human RightsKashmir: The Oldest Unresolved Conflict in the World
This week, the UN General Assembly’s Third Committee meeting dealing with social, humanitarian and cultural questions was held. Here, Pakistan and India...
Global JusticeA Radical Win-Win Solution for Syria
The perspectives of Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S President Barack Obama on Syria are so different that you have to wonder...
Human RightsWoman as Peacemakers
Seeing with eyes that are gender aware, women tend to make connections between the oppression that is the ostensible cause of conflict...