Josh Gorringe at the Debney Peace site in 2019.
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The Debney Peace, negotiated over a 5-day ceremony on Mithaka Country, is nationally significant to 21st century Australia.
The U.S. military released a defoliant called Agent Orange over the South Vietnam countryside to weaponize the forest during the Vietnam War as part of the Operation Ranch Hand project.
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Green spaces can be used as non-coercive modes of warfare to further social cohesion and diminish the likelihood of insurgency.
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Politicians aren’t necessarily the best mediators. International experts on peace mediation should be involved.
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Metaphors, analogies and comparisons abound when talking about the war in Ukraine, but are they helpful? An expert in peace and conflict resolution explains.
Refugees from Mariupol sit in a bus crossing the Ukraine-Russia border on March 15.
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Written more than 200 years ago, Kant’s Toward Perpetual Peace sets out a plan for peace we can still aspire to achieve.
The prospect of a peace deal remains remote.
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This is a situation with many moving parts, any one of which can derail diplomacy.
People crowd under a destroyed bridge as they try to flee by crossing the Irpin River in the outskirts of Kyiv, Ukraine, on March 5, 2022.
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a catastrophe and should be condemned, but that doesn’t mean the West should dismiss some of Putin’s conditions as a step to ending the war.
NATO has struggled to remain unified in recent years.
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Existing alliances arose in the wake of World War II, when global politics were very different and today’s challenges were yet unimagined.
Zen Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh praying during a three-day requiem for the souls of Vietnam War victims in 2007.
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Thich Nhat Hanh’s teachings, which earned him a global following, gave simple instructions on mindfulness and emphasized how it could be practiced anytime, even when doing routine chores.
Wall art of Indian Hindu and Muslim hugging each other in religious tolerance and harmony.
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Interfaith, peacebuilding and what can happen when people of different faiths work together.
A FARC rebel holds her four-month-old daughter Manuela outside her tent at a rebel camp in a demobilization zone in La Carmelita, Colombia, in 2017.
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Reintegration is a gendered phenomenon — women, men and LGBTQ+ people experience it differently.
Project citizen-photographers from Las Cruces, Colombia.
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People wanted to use photography not only to document the aftermath of war and violence, but also to actively support peace.
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When it comes to the study of international relations and power, Australian scholar Coral Bell was a superstar.
President Joko Widodo (foreground, second from right), flanked by then Vice President Jusuf Kalla, welcomes Afghan and Pakistani mullahs to the Trilateral Ulema Conference held at Bogor Palace in West Java, Indonesia.
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Indonesia needs to consider long-term engagement to produce deeper and more sustainable impacts.
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New Zealand scores well against other countries — especially over its handling of the pandemic — but there are still areas that need improving.
Food aid from the World Food Programme arriving in Juba, South Sudan in 2011.
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The World Food Programme can’t stop hunger on its own – that also requires political action.
In times of crisis, what happens to rivalries between great powers?
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History shows what moments of great political and economic uncertainty mean for tensions between military rivals.
Eventually: members of the UN Security Council pass a resolution calling for a global cesefire on July 1.
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António Guterres, the UN secretary general, called for a global ceasefire in late March. Three months later, the UN security council has only just agreed to back it.
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Whether it’s cars passing nearby, a neighbour’s blaring music or the constant drone of a lawnmower, the trouble with sound is that – unlike light – it can be hard to block out completely.
The National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Alabama, documents the lynchings of more than 4,400 people between 1877 and 1950.
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Research into how war-torn and fractured nations find justice and societal reconciliation finds ways to establish sustainable and lasting peace in divided societies.