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Academia 6 months ago

The world is back to the 1930s war economy

The United Nations has issued a five-point agenda in an attempt to redefine security but the bottom line is that war is profitable and it is the same old battle of short-term vs. long-term gains, pitted against the very survival of our species.

Academia 6 months ago

Tianjin talks: Turning conflict into cautious cooperation

The Tianjin summit suggests that Modi and Xi did not seek reconciliation, but stabilization, learning from the US-Soviet detente during the Cold War.

Community 7 months ago

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Evi Tampakatu: Building peace from a ‘dangerous’ Poso hamlet

In an isolated community of former terrorists and their families, one woman is breaking the stigma with empathy.

Academia 7 months ago

From trinity to today: Turning the page on nuclear testing

A return to nuclear testing would almost certainly spark a dangerous arms race, one that undermines the purposes for which the UN was founded.

Academia 7 months ago

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Elevating ASEAN’s role in peace and prosperity

The ASEAN secretary-general needs to be vested with the capacity of a chief executive officer, allowing him or her to play a more strategic but tactical role in resolving regional issues.

Editorial 7 months ago

Ending the spat over Ambalat

Ambiguous joint arrangements over Ambalat will only allow China to dilute the legal foundations of maritime governance in the region.

Politics 7 months ago

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20 years on, Aceh and Jakarta continue managing peace

Building peace is one thing, but keeping it is another thing altogether, as a boundary dispute over four small islands off Aceh showed earlier this year.

Interview 7 months ago

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Discourse: Aceh people real heroes in 2005 peace deal

It’s the people of Aceh, those community leaders who fought while betting on their freedoms, who we are indebted to.

Politics 7 months ago

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Aceh peace accord leaves a legacy of mutual understanding, dignity

The 2005 Helsinki agreement, which ended almost three decades of armed conflict between the Free Aceh Movement (GAM) and the Indonesian government, still stands as a reference for how to forge a path to peace between conflicting parties.

Asia & Pacific 7 months ago

Japan's peace legacy tested 80 years after WWII

Japan's role as a peace promoter faces increasing challenges in a conflict-prone world, even as Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba reiterated on the 80th anniversary of the end of World War II the importance of maintaining "remorse" and the lessons learned from the deadly war.

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