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The lives and practices of professional female fighters in the Andes “Bizarre”, “ridiculous”, even “shameful”: these are words that Bolivians repeatedly associate with these women. Yet the lucha libre – [...]
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Canada has undertaken initiatives to protect all “racial” groups, through its multicultural policy-making. Because the government has adopted and tries to promulgate the idea that a person’s race is not [...]
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The world once more celebrated the United Nations International Day of Peace, marked as every year on 21st Sept. Yet the world is far from peace [...]
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Abstract: Many speeches have been given about the importance of people knowing their history, and the issue of armed conflict in Peru is no exception. Two thousand and twelve in [...]
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When voters go to the voting booth they think which candidate offers the best program for education, the lowest taxes, the best pension system, the most reliable healthcare system, the [...]
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In my first year as a Mass Communication student at Ebonyi State University, I was terrorized by [...]
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Abstract: War and peace are two opposite, yet complementary aspects of the complex human nature. One simply cannot exist [...]
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Asked whether conflict is part of human nature, my reply would be pretty straightforward, quoting Aristotle: “We make war that we may live in peace." This is not some [...]
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Abstract: La Paz city got that name because it was founded to pacify the region after the civil war between the followers of Francisco Pizarro and those of [...]
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Slovaks like to call themselves a dove nation - simply because some people tend to think that doves (and dolphins too) are peaceful beings. It doesn't mean that we refuse to [...]
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The question of peace has haunted me ever since I was a teenager. This is hardly surprising because I, like many of my fellow citizens, spent my adolescence during the [...]
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Roughly six weeks after 34 striking miners were gunned down by police at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa, the strikes are over and the miners have all gone [...]
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I can well imagine the slack jawed expressions on some our front benchers’ beatific faces on seeing political cartoonist Aseem Trivedi’s cartoons on the net. Personnally I didn’t think [...]
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Abstract: In Central America, we can rarely determine what we should understand as "peace". If it were to be understood only as the absence of war, then yes, [...]
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India has made progress in terms of increasing the primary education attendance rate and expanding literacy to approximately two thirds of the population. However, the country continues to face stern [...]
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For those of us who can only imagine a time other than the current era, the present may seem like a terrible time, but in fact it isn’t so. “The [...]
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It’s been almost fifteen years since the end of the civil war and the landowners on the island of Bougainville in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are discussing [...]
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Germany has an official agenda of supporting democracy and peace. However, the German arms industry sells weapons to dictators or conflict-suffering regions, sometimes to the detriment of even the country's [...]
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"An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination." Voltaire suggested more than two centuries ago. Scan the headlines of any major broadsheet today and you can see [...]
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Abstract: Just a brief look at our everyday environment verifies the presence of conflict as an inherent fact in community [...]
