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Published in UN News Centre, March 31, 2015. The United Nations Support Mission in Libya (UNSMIL) has today welcomed the ceasefire and the withdrawal of forces from the Sidra Oil Crescent area, a move which follows weeks of mediation efforts between parties. The talks took place between the Sunrise (Alshuruq) [...]

By Nonviolent Peaceforce, published in Cpnn, March 27, 2015. The formation of Women’s Peacekeeping Teams (WPTs) is an important part of the programming of the Nonviolent Peaceforce (NP) in South Sudan. In various communities where NP is based, NP supports the development of teams of roughly 10 women who work to [...]

Published in Daily Mail,  March 31, 2015. Myanmar's president Tuesday hailed a draft national ceasefire with armed rebel groups, described by the UN as a "historic and significant achievement" as the country tries to end decades of civil war. Reformist leader Thein Sein, who has placed a ceasefire agreement at [...]

By Roy Speckhardt, published in Huffington Post, March 31, 2015.  Watching the recent chaos in Yemen and Tunisia, it's easy to feel as though the Arab Winter will never end, and that the violence will just spiral upward, both in the Middle East and worldwide. But that's not a foregone conclusion. Steven Pinker, noted [...]

By Dan Jones, March 11, 2015, Published by Nature: International Weekly Journal of Science The world is full of bloody conflicts that can drag on for decades. Some researchers are trying to find resolutions through complexity science. In the seven decades that Colombia has been riven by civil war, the [...]