Globally today, we are witnessing an “inexorable intensification of violence” in the world’s armed conflicts. The result is that there are currently 59.5 million refugees worldwide. And among that ...

9月23日、国連総会がニューヨークで未来サミットのために招集された。同サミットは、国連の歴史における最も困難な時期の一つに開催された：ウクライナとガザでの戦争が大国を直接的な ...

平和と安全保障2024年10月30日ソフィー・ブッデンホルン, アダム・デイ国連大学 ...

In August 1883 the painter Edvard Munch witnessed an unusual blood-red sunset over Oslo. Shaken up by it, he wrote in his diary that he “felt a great, unending scream piercing through nature”. The ...

It is not every day that private, for-profit companies pursue social inclusion of waste pickers in their supply chain. But the plastic recycling industry in Mexico is demonstrating that working with ...

Tea is one of the most popular beverages in the world. Making tea can be a sophisticated ritual or ceremony and it has become an integral part of many cultures, especially in Asia. Tea plants are ...

Located on the eastern shore of Australia’s tropical north, Shipton’s Flat is home to Marilyn, a Kuku Nyungkal Aboriginal woman, and her family. She has been living here the ancestral way — far ...

Illegal wildlife trade worth up to $213 billion dollars a year is funding organized crime, including global terror groups and militias, according to a report by the ...

Robert Blasiak from the UNU Institute of Advanced Studies had the opportunity to interview Allan Savory during several bus rides in Nairobi. Savory is a Zimbabwean-born biologist, farmer, game rancher ...

Do you live in the most liveable city in the world? But what does that really mean? We love ranking cities and attaching fancy titles to them. Perhaps you live in a global city? According to the ...

Does climate change cause conflict? It really depends on who you ask. Warming increases the risk of civil war in Africa is the title of a new research paper tabled in the Proceedings of the United ...

The ongoing famine in war-prone Somalia has led to much speculation about the link between violent conflict and food insecurity. Some commentators have also connected this year’s political revolutions ...