Palestinian officials said yesterday that they were not invited to a summit planned for Bahrain next month to discuss the Trump administration’s proposal to bring economic development to Palestinian areas, as part of a wider peace effort. But private Palestinian business people said they had been contacted about attending…

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A new report from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) presents findings from a study about the participation of women in peace and reconciliation processes currently underway in Mali. The findings are based primarily on focus group discussions with men and women carried out in Segou and Mopti in central Mali, and Tombouctou in northern Mali, in December 2018.

Read the summary here, and full report here.

A roundtable was held at the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul in Jung District’s Myeong-dong neighborhood on May 20 by a European delegation for the 2019 Korean Peninsula Peace-Sharing Forum, an event organized by the archdiocese’s national reconciliation committee…

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President Salva Kiir and his rival Riek Machar’s recent decision to extend the deadline to form a transitional unity government was preferred over the possibility of the collapse of their cease-fire agreement. But it also was a clear indication of how tenuous the truce is, and how far off a lasting peace still remains…

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UN Special Envoy Martin Griffiths told the UN Security Council that withdrawal from Hudaydah was a significant step, but he also underlined the fragility of the good news. “Yemen remains very much at the crossroads between war and peace… There are also alarming signs, in recent days, there are alarming signs of the war… The ease with which progress can be reduced or removed is indeed frightening,” he said.

Read the full briefing here, an analysis of the briefing here, and latest concerns here.