The UN envoy to Yemen on Friday urged warring sides to “keep the peace” in Hodeida, saying the rebels agreed to talks on the UN taking a leading role in running the lifeline port.
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UN says Afghanistan peace hopes well founded
Afghanistan has a better chance of finding peace than it has for many years, with more coordination in international peace efforts and willingness to include all parties, the top U.N. humanitarian official in the country said on Friday.
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Rohingya want to return, but safely
Multiple displacements of the Rohingya throughout history have shown that premature returns to Myanmar will only backfire. Caitlin Wake of the Overseas Development Institute argues that we owe them a better solution this time in this article in Refugees Deeply, See more on this crisis, and what returning could mean, here.
‘End-of-War’ questions raised in Korea Talks
As President Trump weighs options for a second meeting between himself and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, public discussion increasingly has taken up this question: Should the United States declare a formal end to the Korean War as a new catalyst for diplomatic efforts to reduce risks of a nuclear confrontation? Two USIP analysts of U.S.-Korea relations say such a declaration would offer advantages if U.S.-South Korean defense cooperation is not compromised.
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Peace hackathon tackles Israel/Palestine divide
Fifty young women and men took part in a hackathon in order to find solutions to the barriers to Middle East peace on Friday. The young people came from all over Israel and from almost all of the country’s universities and colleges. Two-thirds of the participants were Jews and the rest were Arabs, Druze and others; 60% of the participants were women. For 24 hours, they defined barriers to peace and developed possible solutions for them.
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