African regional assistance to South Sudan and Kenya during the pandemic
How regional responses to Covid-19 by the African Union and Africa CDC affected national responses in Kenya and South Sudan.
Between the 'Regional' and the 'West': Enhancing Indian engagement in Myanmar
One year on from the coup in Myanmar, Monalisa Adhikari and K. Yhome examine the limits of India's current response and how India’s domestically held principles of democracy and...
Ukraine-Russia Crisis: Europe Needs to Rethink Its Security Arrangements
Professor Mary Kaldor (London School of Economics) discusses Russia’s recent foreign policy decisions regarding Ukraine, and how the West may respond.
Art as a Tool for Peace: Young artists from Syria and Yemen illustrate the transformative...
A powerful new exhibition brings together a series of works by young artists from across Syria and Yemen, offering a glimpse into some of the world’s most protracted conflicts.
Peace missions, regional organisations & Covid-19: How the pandemic affects peacebuilding...
Peace missions have continued all over the world during the pandemic, with significant impacts on their operations. This piece outlines how the pandemic has affected peace missions run by...
Shots for Peace? Vaccination ceasefires and the fight against Covid-19
Vaccination ceasefires can be a valuable tool for getting vaccinations to those in conflict zones. The authors of a new report, Breathing Space: Vaccination Ceasefires in Armed Conflict outline...
How do peace agreements deal with communication and the media?
PSRP introduces a new report, ‘Peace agreements, the media, and communication’, which sheds light on how conflict parties address the ambivalent roles of the media and communication in peace...
Peace agreements with a gender perspective are still an exception, not the rule
Two decades after the UN called on all peace process actors to adopt a gender perspective, but amidst an unpreceded challenge to women’s rights globally under the Covid-19 pandemic,...
Implementing Peace Agreements through Domestic Law
Brooke Davies introduces her new report, Implementing Peace Agreements through Domestic Law, which examines how parties to peace agreements can and have used domestic law to implement their terms.
African Peace – Regional Norms from the OAU to the AU
A new book – African Peace: Regional Norms from the Organization of African Unity to the African Union – examines how peace and security norms and practices in Africa...
Pens Against Guns: The uncertain future of Syrian journalism
In the context of Syrian youth in local peacebuilding, this article looks at the media as one of the fields most impacted by the ten-year-long conflict. “Local Voices at a...
Syrian Youth and the Violence of Exclusion: Challenges and opportunities of higher...
Abdulah El hafi examines the challenges and opportunities of higher education in opposition-held areas. “Local Voices at a Crossroads” is an article series in which local actors of everyday peace...