Kim Phuc gained worldwide attention after a stunning photo of her in the aftermath of a napalm attack revealed the horror of war. Now she has been honored with the Dresden Peace Prize, and has spoken about her experience in Nick Ut’s Pulitzer Prize-winning image known as “The Terror of War” or “Napalm Girl”. Read the full story here.

Photo: The Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library

PeaceJam Northwest, in collaboration with the University of Oregon and the LEARN Foundation, will host its fifth annual PeaceJam conference beginning Friday at the University of Oregon. The event will feature 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner Leymah Gbowee from Liberia, who received the award for helping to bring an end to the second Liberian Civil War.

Read the full story here.

Over the past weeks, the US government has been in peace negotiations with the Taliban. It has been 17 years since US and allied troops first deployed to Afghanistan to overthrow the Taliban and support a democratically elected government. The current peace negotiations have progressed further than any other attempted during the conflict. But they have two serious problems…

Read the full story here.

The talks between US and Afghan Taliban slated for Monday have been postponed, according to the insurgent group which alleged that some members of its negotiating team could not travel to Pakistan for the meeting due to sanctions imposed by America and the UN.

Full story here.

The Trump administration will present its long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan after the Knesset elections in April, senior White House adviser Jared Kushner said on Thursday. Kushner was speaking at a closed-door session of a US-sponsored Middle East diplomatic conference in the Polish capital of Warsaw. More than 60 countries were represented at the two-day gathering…

Read the full story here.