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People wearing protective masks as a preventive measure against COVID-19 during a march in Ukraine

Civil society in Ukraine mobilise to respond to COVID-19, defuse tensions

25 August 2020

After Beirut explosion, Lebanese civil society unite across divides

17 August 2020

Prosperity and justice in Nepal after COVID-19

25 June 2020

Police confront members of civil society who staged protests in Nairobi demanding the government stop direct flights between Kenya and China, fearing the spread of COVID-19

COVID-19: Security forces must stop using violence and be part of the solution

11 June 2020

Woman stands in doorway in Tajikistan

Why COVID-19 is a call to action for gender equality and peace

Elizabeth Laruni

01 June 2020

Ramadan in lockdown: the habits we break, the values we relearn

Nina Rayana Bah...

27 May 2020

The pandemic's forgotten faces: the plight of Muslims, women, and other minorities

Nina Rayana Bah...

18 May 2020

A sprayer at the entrance of an Ebola treatment unit in Monrovia, Liberia, 2014

COVID-19: Four ways peacebuilders can respond

Rebecca Crozier

15 April 2020

COVID-19: Seven trends that will shape peacebuilding in Lebanon

09 April 2020

Donated medical supplies are packed at Guangzhou airport in China for shipping to Ethiopia to aid the COVID-19 response in Africa. © Tian Jianchuan/Xinhua/Alamy Live News

COVID-19: Building a more peaceful world from a global crisis

Jessie Banfield

27 March 2020

Protesters lining the streets of Beirut last year © Ali Hamouch

Lebanon protests and prospects for peacebuilding

16 March 2020

Ndeye Sow: 25 years of gender and peacebuilding

08 March 2020

An agriculture shop in Bungoma, Kenya. © Joerg Boethling/Alamy

Rethinking the link between jobs and peace

03 March 2020

Put peace at the heart of the climate response

22 January 2020

UK election: How committed are the major parties to peacebuilding?

10 December 2019

Rust never sleeps: The corrosive power of Mindanao’s warlord clans

Francisco 'Panc...

27 November 2019

Collusion and collision in Muslim Mindanao

Francisco 'Panc...

25 November 2019

The ruthless political entrepreneurs of Muslim Mindanao

Francisco 'Panc...

23 November 2019

Monà Hallab inside the abandoned Opera House in downtown Beirut, October 2019. © Marie-Rose Osta

Lebanese youth are reclaiming public spaces with arts and dialogue

20 November 2019

A woman collecting water in Burkina Faso, where violent conflict has led to a food crisis affecting nearly 1.5 million people. Photo: Ollivier Girard/CIFOR (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

The Sustainable Development Goals look shaky – but here are five ways to deliver

07 November 2019