A research project brought together Thai and Cambodian youth to listen to the views of people in their societies.

The Indigenous Pygmy peoples of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are currently experiencing an unprecedented crisis. Pygmies are estimated to number between 700,000 and 2 million in DRC. The war ...

Judith Verweijen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of International Relations at the University of Groningen. Her work is situated at the intersection of conflict studies, political ecology ...

In post-war northern Uganda, peace is not just negotiated at high-level tables. It is planted, weeded and harvested.

Rabina Shrestha is the Country Director of International Alert Nepal. She is a gender equality, justice, peacebuilding and rule of law expert with extensive experience working on human rights, ...

This week, on International Day of Peace, UN chief calls for end to wars everywhere. South Sudan’s fragile peace continues to rupture. Trump’s Gaza peace plan. On International Day of Peace, UN Chief ...

On the surface, the arrests of activist Touhidur Rahman “Babu” and college lecturer Ali Reza Biswas in early March, 2026 appeared to be a local dispute over industrial runoff in Bogura, Bangladesh.

Peace is often discussed during elections, ethnic tensions, armed conflict, and political violence. But it can be lost closer to home, in families and communities where people depend on one another ...

Milton Arteaga has been a consultant in public, private and international cooperation organizations on topics concerning the transformation of human relationships in Colombia for the past ten years.

This week, African leaders call for talks on Ethiopia and Sudan. Over 1,400 migrants deported to Myanmar from Malaysia.

Welcome to the first installment of our new series: This Week in Peace, where we will highlight developments in global peacebuilding each week. This week, we cover the end of a brief conflict in ...

Peace News Network aims to present stories from conflict zones we often don’t hear. Our stories are about people taking risks for peace. We highlight the opinions of ordinary people who want ...