By Gerard Meagher, August 5, 2016, published in The Guardian For the first time in Olympic history, 10 athletes will compete at Rio 2016for the Refugee Olympic Team in a move designed to bring global attention to the magnitude of the worldwide refugee crisis. After the International Olympic Committee president, Thomas [...]

By Milos Krivokapic and Raphael Satter, July 31, 2016, published in the Associated Press  Muslims attend a Mass in Rome's Saint Mary in Trastevere church, Italy, Sunday, July 31, 2016. Imams and practicing Muslims attended Mass across Italy, from Palermo in the south to Milan in the north, in a [...]

By Hind Kabawat, July 21, 2016, published in The Huffington Post a Syrian woman stands amid the ruins of her house which was destroyed in an airstrike by government warplanes a few days earlier, killing 11 members of her family, in the neighborhood of Ansari, Aleppo, Syria. (AP Photo/Abdullah [...]

By Anita Makri, published in SciDev.net Chris Stowers / Panos Copyright: Chris Stowers / Panos      Programmes to counter conflict are enlisting digital tools. There are successes, and questions over lasting impact. It’s hard to escape a sense that the world is becoming a less peaceful place. Headlines are dominated [...]

By Erica Chenoweth, June 28, 2016, published in the Diplomatic Courier KIEV UKRAINE - JANUARY 24: A row of the riot police with a priest at Hrushevskogo street on January 24 2014 in Kiev Ukraine. The anti-governmental protests were provoked when the Ukrainian president denied to sign an agreement [...]

By Patrick Hiller, July 5, 2016, published in Diplomat Courier  Give Peace a Chance has been an anthem of the American anti-war movement since it came out in 1969. The present peace movement looks very different, and so does the notion of peace. For the purposes of this article, I hope [...]