The synergy between self-identifying peacebuilders and social innovators is of statistical value, writes economists Topher McDougal and Jelena Starcevic.

Australia’s little known other “intervention” of 2003 wasn’t in the Middle East with the world’s eyes watching, but an effort to prevent a state collapse closer to home.

The basis to gauge an appropriate defense budget should be a rational defense strategy but not a randomly chosen economic criteria.

A Colombian case study: territorial control is facilitated because of the difficulty of civilians to mobilise with a collective purpose.

The number of ISIS foreign fighters is positively correlated with a country’s GDP per capita and its Human Development Index.

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

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 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.

“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.