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 nature of intentional attacks against civilians in the world is mutating. Specifically, mass atrocity is transitioning from ‘state-centric and rebel-involved perpetration toward a murkier world of subterranean atrocity.

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.

“Increasingly, the U.S. regards military service as a personal and professional career choice and not a civic or national duty or as essential to the debate on American citizenship,” writes Jomana Amara.

“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.

We may be forgiven for describing our contemporary world as mired in a new dark age of extremism, writes Mansoob Murshed, Professor of Economics.

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

The historic signing of the peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and FARC on September 26, followed by the unexpected narrow rejection of the associated national plebiscite on October 2 has raised many questions as to what happens next.