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SIPRI and the European Union Non-Proliferation and Disarmament Consortium are calling for applications to the intensive online course ‘WMD Non-proliferation and Disarmament: Evolving Challenges’ taking place online from 20–23 January 2026.

This SIPRI Policy Brief explores the connected challenges of climate change, human mobility and security, highlighting how fragmented policies and misconceptions—such as the myth of mass climate migration—hinder effective responses.

On 30 October, Lauriane Héau, SIPRI Researcher, delivered a keynote speech at the first European Union Flagship Conference on Research Security.

Everywhere you look, the United States is at war– at home, through military occupation of cities, institutional violence, and state-sanctioned kidnappings, and abroad, through economic coercion, proxy warfare, and endless intervention. In times like these, when it is far too easy to be overwhelmed by the inexhaustible nature of the war machine, we must remember…

Happiness can isolate; contentment connects. Martina Moneke explores why steadiness and wonder, not peaks of joy, are the truest path to fulfillment. Much has been written about happiness. Encyclopedias of advice, viral think pieces, TED Talks, Instagram affirmations—all converge on a single premise: that happiness is the apex of human ambition, the measure of a…

Poland has more to lose from this than Hungary does, but it’s happy to let Hungary feel the heat for impeding Ukraine’s plans, unless Orban is ousted next spring and Poland is then compelled to replace its role. The EU is making a renewed push to speedily grant Ukraine membership as suggested by two recent…

Leonid Pshenichov, a 70-year-old biologist, has been arrested by the Kremlin for “undermining Russia’s industrial trawling for krill in Antarctica.” He’s been accused of High Treason. He was arrested while preparing to travel to Australia to attend a conference on protecting Antarctic marine life.  According to Russian authorities, Leonid is a citizen of the Russian…

In late October 2025, the United Kingdom conducted Operation Ex Cape Sword, a new military exercise in the Falkland Islands that included live-fire drills, air defence simulations, and troop deployments in areas near Port Stanley. Under the pretext of routine training, London is consolidating a permanent military presence that challenges United Nations resolutions, which urge…

We had early general elections in the Netherland after the fall of the government coalition being  in power only one and a half year. It was a 4-party center/far-right coalition that from the start was an impossible adventure. The far-right populist anti-Islam party of Geert Wilders had won the elections with 37 of the 150…

Ban on mercury in dental fillings is a positive step. But small-scale gold mining will remain the largest global contributor to mercury pollution without urgent action. 07 November 2025. Geneva. Despite the growing crisis of mercury contamination in the Amazon, Africa and parts of Asia caused by mercury use in small-scale gold mining (also called…