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  • The Nobel Peace Prize for the children of Gaza

    The Nobel Peace Prize for the children of Gaza

    Hundreds have backed the nomination proposed by Professor Mazzarella via *Avvenire*. PD leader Schlein has also taken a stand: there must be no silence regarding the dire situation facing minors. Father Ibrahim Faltas states that recognizing their sacrifice is an act of truth and justice. By Antonella Mariani, AVVENIRE Three hundred children and adolescents killed…

  • NCCA, UNESCO Challenge Teachers to Turn Living Heritage into Classroom Lessons

    NCCA, UNESCO Challenge Teachers to Turn Living Heritage into Classroom Lessons

    The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), in partnership with the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), is inviting Grade 7 to 12 teachers across the Philippines to participate in the Bringing Living Heritage into the Classroom (BLHC) in the Philippines: National Competition on Lesson Plan Development. Submissions are being accepted…

  • Peru: “We Have to Be Active as a Society”

    Peru: “We Have to Be Active as a Society”

    Peru is once again entering an electoral process: the regional and municipal elections for the 2027–2030 term will be held next October 4, when governors, councilors, mayors, and provincial and district municipal council members will be elected. The electoral contest raises the following question: What are the main demands of the population that the future…

  • The miracle homeland and Noah’s ark

    The miracle homeland and Noah’s ark

    In Colombia, it continues to be confirmed that only the people save the people. The new president of the Republic and his Government are unable to grasp the gravity of the earthquake or know how to deal with it. In barely a week in office, the homeland survives thanks to civil society and its solidarity…

  • Anatomy of Deception I: The Lie as an Instrument of State

    Anatomy of Deception I: The Lie as an Instrument of State

    Propaganda, official narratives, silences, and half-truths in a world where the lions have also learned to govern reality “Power discovered centuries ago that it does not always need to hide the truth; often, it only needs to surround it with enough words so that no one can find it.” Political lies were not born with…

  • Ukraine Has Alternatives To Formal NATO Membership

    Ukraine Has Alternatives To Formal NATO Membership

    Even just one of them – let alone a blend thereof – would de facto embed Ukraine within the Western half of the post-war European security architecture instead of restoring its neutrality. Former Commander-in-Chief and incumbent Ukrainian Ambassador to the UK Valery Zaluzhny recently lamented that the West spun “fairy tales” about his country joining…

  • Brazil’s Election: Lula, Bolsonaro, and the Battle for the Future

    Brazil’s Election: Lula, Bolsonaro, and the Battle for the Future

    This week marks the beginning of Brazil’s presidential campaign, with the two front-runners—current President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Senator Flávio Bolsonaro—officially launching their campaigns. After visiting Brazil and talking with politicians, activists, journalists, and ordinary citizens, I came away with the conviction that this is one of the most consequential presidential elections in…

  • Announcing the First Edition of the Journal for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution

    Announcing the First Edition of the Journal for Humanitarian Conflict Resolution

    For much of my adult life, human rights have not been a subject I merely studied. It has been a matter that hit my heart and occupied my mind. I could never treat a violation as an abstraction, because behind every human rights violation lies a human being — the pain, the agony, the fear…

  • Thursday, August 13: from the airport to a friendship born from the rubble

    Thursday, August 13: from the airport to a friendship born from the rubble

    Amidst flights arriving from and departing for Tel Aviv, a sit-in organized by the Sardinian Committee for Solidarity with Palestine (Comitato Sardo di Solidarietà per la Palestina) took place at the airport on Thursday, August 13, as has happened on previous Thursdays. Palestinian flags, placards, and chants were displayed and voiced by over a dozen…

  • SIPRI hosts course on WMD non-proliferation and technological convergence

    On 22–25 June, SIPRI hosted an in-person course on weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation and disarmament in an era of technological convergence.