Taxonomy Archives: Peace Building

Major General Kristin Lund is the first -- and thus far only -- woman to command a UN peacekeeping operation.…

"You would rather a tsunami comes and kills all your people, you can still recover psychologically. But when it's someone…

"When you're oppressed, when you're not free, you don't have options but to fight." Ambassador Vlora Çitaku made her way…

Women played an important role in securing the Colombian peace agreement, which ended the longest armed conflict in the Western…

The world's worst humanitarian crisis is in Yemen. More than 10,000 people have been killed, more than 2 million are displaced,…

In March 2017, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton presented awards to four Colombians who played a crucial role in shaping the…

The international community was concerned about the potential for violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) around December…

We explore escalating tensions and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo surrounding delayed presidential elections. What would intensified fighting mean…

Dr. Alaa Murabit is the Founder and President of the organization Voice of Libyan Women. She is a leading international…

Burcu Becermen served as a 2013 Bill Maynes Fellow at the Eurasia Foundation. She works on peacebuilding in Turkey, Armenia,…