by Julie Hawke | Feb 23, 2026 | Artificial Intelligence, February 2026
Not every peacebuilding challenge is a data challenge, but all data choices are peacebuilding choices. In conflict environments, what information gets collected and from whom, what categories or labels are chosen, and who benefits from the insights are technical...
by Peter Quaranto | Dec 2, 2025 | Nuclear Disarmament
In my experience at the U.S. State Department, those working on nuclear arms control and those working on resolving violent conflicts could not be farther apart – literally. The Bureau of Arms Control, Deterrence, and Stability and my office in the Bureau of Conflict...
by Gerard Powers | Dec 2, 2025 | Cold War, Nuclear Disarmament
On Aug. 9, 2025, I attended a Memorial Mass at Nagasaki’s Urakami Cathedral, which was destroyed by the atomic bomb of 1945 dropped only 500 meters away. At 11:02 a.m. – the same time the bomb nearly leveled the cathedral 80 years prior – both bells in the rebuilt...
by Maryann Cusimano Love | Dec 2, 2025 | New START, Nuclear Disarmament
President Trump ordered the U.S. to “test” nuclear weapons. While the actual impact of his order is still unclear, it is an escalation of risk. We are at the highest risk of nuclear war since the Cuban Missile Crisis, when President Kennedy estimated we faced a 1 in 3...
by Kelsey Davenport | Dec 2, 2025 | December 2025, Nuclear Disarmament
Over the past 50 years, existing nonproliferation treaties and initiatives have proved remarkably effective in preventing the emergence of additional nuclear-armed states. But nonproliferation efforts are at an inflection point: the risk of additional states...
by Robert H. Latiff | Dec 2, 2025 | December 2025, Nuclear Disarmament
Shielding the population of a nation from the devastation of an adversary nuclear attack is unquestionably a laudable goal for a national leader. Former President Ronald Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) and now President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome Program...
by David Cortright | Dec 2, 2025 | December 2025, Nuclear Disarmament, Peace Movement
Social movements – appealing to public concerns and ethics – have an essential role to play in halting the rebuilding and expansion of nuclear weapons systems today. They can fundamentally shape the public and political conversation around these issues. By reflecting...
by Mohammad Moheq | Nov 6, 2025 | Afghanistan
At the heart of Afghanistan’s conflict lies a deep-seated tension between traditionalist and modernist forces, which has often escalated into violence and armed confrontation between these two groups. A sustainable solution to the crisis in Afghanistan requires...
by Omar Sadr | Nov 6, 2025 | Afghanistan, Gender
The Taliban rule is characterized by scholars and policy analysts in different terms, ranging from systematic discrimination and oppression, to ethnic cleansing, gender apartheid, and Islamic totalitarianism. While all of these characterizations are valid, none alone...
by Bashir Mobasher | Nov 6, 2025 | Afghanistan, Governance
The federalism-unitarism debate In today’s Afghanistan, few debates cut as sharply across ethnic lines as the one over whether the state should be federal or unitary. Many Pashtun elites have long favored a unitary state, arguing that federalism could lead to the...
