

Return of the Rohingya: A Lacking Agreement?
Since August of 2017, nearly 800,000 refugees have flooded southeastern Bangladesh, the vast majority of them ethnic Rohingya from...


The Difficult Struggle for Peace
Often, people think that we live in a world where there is either peace or absence of peace. In war-torn countries like Syria or...


United Nations Disarmament Committee
The United Nations Disarmament Commission, was created by the UN General Assembly under Security Council by Resolution 502 of January...

How a Violent Conflict Came to Be
Did you know that 10,900 people have been killed in the Ukraine between April 2014 and May 2017 [1]? That 1.6 million people have been...


How do we Reform Sustaining Peace?
On April 24, the Canadian and Nigerian Permanent Missions to the United Nations co-sponsored a side event for the UN General Assembly...

Organ Trafficking, Education, and War: Women and Their Plight for Sustainable Lives
Recently there was a case in Pakistan where women were tricked into giving their spinal fluid. According to BBC “The gang is thought to...

A Landmine Model for Peace
The word ‘landmine’ is often used in a metaphorical sense to mean an obstacle. For example, distrust between parties is often a landmine...

Uneven Progress: The Aging of the Beijing Declaration
“Over the last two decades, there has been uneven progress towards gender equality.” -The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action...

North Korea and Denuclearization
While Trump and Kim Jong-Un talk about the nuclear buttons on their desks which may not even exist, we have to examine the real...


Spirituality, Psychology, and the Eight Pillars of Peace
There is a large and vibrant international community dedicated to eliminating violence in all its forms. Just as the causes of violence...