Nigeria has a policy of de-radicalisation of former Boko Haram fighters, but overlooks the voices of soldiers who have to carry out the policy.
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A shaky truce is still in place in Lebanon. But the country remains on a tenuous footing with Israeli forces in the country’s south and Hezbollah refusing to lay down arms.
Disarmament programs rarely collect all weapons, but handing them over is a deeply symbolic gesture.
Fully implementing the principles of a ceasefire agreement is critical to post-war recovery in Ethiopia’s north.
The causes of violence in the DRC are complex. Narrowing them down to the single lens of ethnicity can be misleading.
Conflict is prevalent in the region characterised by harsh climate, vast wilderness and low levels of development.
Based on the Cote d'Ivoire experience, the United Nations must reconsider its emphasis on coordinating reintegration and transitional justice irrespective of the post-war context.
Ending violence is only a first step. Research from Colombian universities sheds light on the role of education in peace-building.
Côte d'Ivoire’s government needs to provide different incentives and opportunities to former combatants.
Delays in setting up disarmament camps for former guerillas have cast doubt on the Colombian government’s commitment to peace. But the real problem is its national history.
In the summer of 1946, the U.S. government detonated the first of many atomic bomb tests in the Marshall Islands. Seventy years of radiation exposure later, residents are still fighting for justice.
Machines that can target and kill people without human intervention or accountability pose a moral threat to the world.
Today’s nuclear arsenals are so powerful that dropping a Hiroshima-size bomb every two hours for 70 years would not exhaust their destructive capacity. The global disarmament regime is broken.
One sprawling region stands apart for having largely avoided, and at times even reversed, the steady global proliferation of illegal firearms and death by gunshot.
Two odd facts. First, the United Nations General Assembly has declared today, September 26, the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons. You might yawn. Why bother? That’s never…
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