by Aref Dostyar | Nov 17, 2022 | Political Process
Several armed opposition groups launched attacks against the Taliban in multiple provinces over the last year. While these groups may be in their initial stages of formation, the number of casualties they have inflicted on the Taliban is enough to meet the definition...
by An Afghan peacebuilder | Nov 17, 2022 | Governance, Peacebuilding
When the Taliban took over Kabul in August 2021, the Taliban asserted that the war was over and that they now had control of the entire country. But just a year into Taliban control, an armed opposition front is taking shape, albeit only in a few provinces. Some...
by Linda Quiquivix | May 25, 2022 | Gender, Intersectionality
Conventional approaches to feminist justice often focus on demands for equality between genders without abolishing the relation of domination that governs patriarchy itself. In patriarchal worlds, where humans categorized as male are granted rights over those...
by Sarah Ihmoud | May 25, 2022 | Gender, Intersectionality
In the militarized geography of occupied East Jerusalem, a Palestinian girl named Lama described the erection of a new Israeli checkpoint, or what she and her classmates renamed “killing boxes,” in the communal space of Bab al-Amoud (Damascus Gate) as she walked to...
by Katherine Marshall | May 25, 2022 | Gender, Intersectionality, Religion
Photographs and paintings of formal peace negotiations over the centuries bear witness to the historic male domination of diplomatic processes. The absence of women, so visually striking, is documented by various analyses as well as lived experience. Recent advocacy,...
by Prashan de Visser | Apr 26, 2022 | Peacebuilding, Youth
I grew up in the midst of a civil war in Sri Lanka. I have lived through the curse of violence and seen the prejudice and hate passed on by one generation to another. Sri Lanka has experienced many cycles of violence over the years. At each cycle, it was the youth...
by Cambria C. Khayat, Siobhán McEvoy-Levy, Julio Trujillo | Apr 26, 2022 | Peacebuilding, Youth
Youth are key to creating sustainable peace, a just peace that is locally self-renewing, because they have roles, needs, and ideas that shape communities and cultures and they are uniquely-positioned change agents. As liminal actors connected to childhood and...
by Naún Álvarez González | Apr 26, 2022 | Peacebuilding, Youth
Recent scholarship has demonstrated that youth are not mere subjects of policy interventions, but vital actors in peacebuilding. I place this finding as the central starting point for peace research with youth in Colombia. For nearly a decade I have engaged in...
by Caesar Montevecchio | Feb 15, 2022 | Catholicism, Mining, Religion
The word “integral” has become ubiquitous in the Catholic Church. It can be traced back to Pope Pius XII speaking of “integral peace” in his 1942 Christmas message, though it is more commonly associated with Pope Paul VI, who introduced “integral human development” in...
by Rigobert Minani, SJ | Feb 15, 2022 | Catholicism, Mining, Religion
In 2019, the links between the extractive industry and the escalation of conflicts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) were documented in a report to the UN Security Council. For over two decades, experts on the Great Lakes region, including diplomats,...
