Before COVID19 radically upended the lives of billions of people around the globe, peacebuilders were already facing enormous challenges in building safer and more inclusive communities. As we live into the new reality created by the pandemic, many of the same conflict dynamics and peacebuilding challenges still exist. Some challenges have been exacerbated by COVID19, while the health crisis has also given birth to new ones….
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The Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is beset by ongoing conflict, violence and political instability, and atrocities – crimes of substantial magnitude that are carried out in a widespread or systematic way – continue to be inflicted on civilians, with devastating repercussions. Despite a change of national government in December 2018, violence has been steadily rising across the eastern provinces, spurred by a lack of government legitimacy, weak state authority, limited access to formal justice mechanisms and cross-border tensions…
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At a time when hate speech proliferates on social media, 120 young Sri Lankans are becoming the country’s first youth cyber guardians. Their efforts protect communities from the real-world violence that dangerous online rumors can generate…
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Ten years ago, the United States and Russia signed the New START treaty—a nuclear arms control agreement that we, as the heads of our governments’ respective delegations, helped negotiate. Since then, New START has played a central role in keeping the peace and preventing a dangerous arms race between the two countries that together possess 90 percent of the world’s nuclear weapons. Now, however, New START is in trouble: without action to extend it, the treaty will expire in February 2021…
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As the coronavirus ravages lives and economies, it is also pressing at the seams of societies. Severe political polarization has already been tearing apart many democracies, from India and Poland to Turkey and the United States. In responding to the virus, will polarized countries accelerate the winner-take-all battles that are undermining democratic norms, politicizing nonpartisan institutions, and exacerbating intolerance, or will they strive for greater unity?
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