What Violence Prevention Can Learn from Public Health Campaigns
Leaders found that mixing outreach with education can create the critical mass of support needed to drive a social change.
ThinkPeace | Informing Change For Peace
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Somali Piracy and the War That Didn't Happen
Networks of non-state actors have proved to be a more sustainable force in countering piracy than military boots and warships.
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Is Civil Society a Double-Edged Sword?
There are competing perspectives about the role of civil society in weakly institutionalized democracies. At times, the destabilization caused by mass mobilization can seem challenging to democratic governance.
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Do Beliefs Cause Conflict?
The study of individual beliefs and belief systems may have the potential to provide valuable insights into the drivers of many conflicts. But conflict prevention that is not systematic, self-critical and acknowledging of all of the other elements that may spawn conflict, has the potential to devolve into a demonization of belief systems.
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Ruth DeFries: Peace and the Environment
Promoting peace and human security on our planet will require us to overcome a multitude of obstacles, maintaining environmental sustainability not least among them.
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Business and the Third Pillar
The adoption of the “Responsibility to Protect” (RtoP) by the UN General Assembly marked what many people hoped would be a turning point in support for international action to stop mass atrocity crimes...but it has encountered many hurdles.
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Redrawing Our Strategy on Terror
If we allow our reaction to barbarism to be dictated on the fly and by the perpetrators themselves, we condemn the global community to ongoing terror. We need to think differently.
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Joshua Goldstein on What We Know About War
Knowing what we know, the answer to further reducing conflict seems to lie at the intersection of development and conflict.
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