Peace
Conferring the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace upon Madam Graca Machel is Honouring the Struggle for Self-Rule and the Protection of Human Rights
Dedicating her life to improving the lives of vulnerable communities by creating a more just and equitable society for all, and the struggle for self-rule and protection of human rights has paved the path for conferring the ‘Indira Gandhi Prize…
NCCA Highlights the Filipino Identity of Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao through the 7 Arts
As February approaches, the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) once again leads National Arts Month (NAM) 2026, rallying Filipinos under the theme “Ani ng Sining: Katotohanan at Giting.”* This year’s theme underscores the power of the arts…
When Empires Fall, Neighbors Bleed
The post–Cold War dream of a stable unipolar world, dominated first by the United States, is coming to an uneasy end. The global order now resembles a multi-polar chessboard in which old superpowers are losing coherence, medium powers are seeking…
Ballots, Blasphemy, and Blood: The Rising Persecution of Religious Minorities in South Asia
By Dimitra Staikou “Peace requires everyone to be in the circle, wholeness, inclusion,” writes Isabel Allende, encapsulating a fundamental prerequisite for any form of sustainable social peace. In Bangladesh, however, the principle of inclusion is being tested in an increasingly violent…
When 2025 Sets, a New Game Begins: Faith, Fate, and the Promise of Peace
As the sun slowly sets on 2025, it casts long shadows of both triumph and trial. This year, like life itself, unfolded between moments of success that inspired us and moments of failure that humbled us. It became a living…
Peace under pressure: power, asymmetry and the structural limits of negotiation in Palestine-Israel
The international situation at the end of 2025 is marked by a fragile truce in Gaza, reached after months of indirect negotiations mediated primarily by Egypt, with the support of the United States, Qatar and Türkiye. This ceasefire does not…
Let’s give a new meaning to the word solidarity.
My Dear Friend, As a person who joined my local YMCA in 1979 as a youth and then became an Executive Secretary of the National YMCA in 1988, I had the opportunity to work with the people in the North…
Francesca Albanese – Winner of the Lay Down Your Arms Award
An Alternative Peace Prize in Line with the Will of Alfred Nobel The annual Nobel Peace Prize ceremony takes place on December 10 in Oslo, Norway. In a symbol of Western hypocrisy, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize was controversially awarded…
The Obsolete Engine: How Pakistan’s Profit-Driven Education System is Failing Our Future
In the heart of Pakistan’s societal crisis lies an education system running on fumes. It is a system profoundly misaligned with our cultural values, utterly unfit for the challenges of the 21st century, and obsessively modelled on the industrial paradigms…
NATO Bases and the Armed Forces, Except When Serving as UN Blue Helmets, Endanger Our Security
The Casalecchio di Reno Massacre Exactly 35 years ago, on 6 December 1990, an out-of-control Italian Air Force Aermacchi MB-326 crashed into the Salvemini Institute in Casalecchio di Reno (Bologna), killing 12 young people and injuring 88 others, including students…
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