In the dry valley between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá mountain ranges, in northern Colombia, former combatants in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerilla ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

An Afghan man from the Badghis region of northern Afghanistan speaks with Sima Samar (R), the deputy chairperson of the Loya Jirga grand assembly, in Kabul June 15, 2002. (Caren Firouz/ Courtesy ...

This commentary is by Jill Cardenas, the executive director of The Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire. We are living in polarizing times, when divisions within families and communities often seem ...

A new study led by Yale anthropologist Catherine Panter-Brick examines how stakeholders in socially diverse, conflict-affected societies conceptualize everyday peace, drawing on a comparative analysis ...

Japan’s Self-Defense Forces have not been deployed on a peacekeeping mission since 2017, when an SDF contingent was withdrawn from South Sudan. Going forward, what can Japan do to contribute to ...

Morocco says it will prioritise peaceful consensus to tackle the world's myriad crises as the kingdom's Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Omar Hilale is unanimously elected as Chair of ...

Thank you for providing me with this opportunity to speak. The ongoing Peacebuilding Commission’s contributions to the international community’s broad peace agenda is commended, applauded. Because of ...