Nonviolence has long been the hopeful narrative. We can develop a bold strategic paradigm for the future for holistic societal change.

One of the Positive Peace pillars is critically predicated upon the efficacy of a modern education system in the production and distribution of human capital in a society.

The humanitarian industry is booming and yet it is in crisis, writes Gilles Carbonnier.

The logic follows that more employment reduces conflict risk, which in turn fosters the economic environment for investment and more jobs, which further increases stability that leads to more jobs and so on. However, the potential to realise this virtuous cycle is a lot more complicated.

The economic priorities of Sudan are distorted by the conflict. Sudan is a relatively poor country that spends far more lavishly on guns than on butter. The costs of the Darfur war are a serious public policy issue and an unaffordable drain on Sudan’s resources.

“Violence shapes governance systems because it affects the distribution of economic, social and political power among social groups” writes Patricia Justino.

“The state has not only lost its dominant position in economic terms but its pre-eminence as an actor in the use of force has diminished too”, writes Herbert Wulf for Economists on Peace.

“Mass atrocities exact an enormous toll, a full count of which conceivably might approach one billion people over the past one hundred years”, writes Jurgen Brauer for Economists on Peace.

An old idea has recently come up again in the search for new funds for peacebuilding, writes Michael Brzoska.

Extracting and leveraging Afghanistan’s mineral wealth for security and development goals is linked to a number of prerequisites, writes USIP’s Sadaf Lakhani.

Conflictive US-Chinese relations are a guarantee for continuing North Korean nuclear ambitions, writes Herbert Wulf for Economists on Peace.