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Local Resilience Can Mitigate Climate Conflicts in the Pacific
By Tobias Ide | 31 January, 2026
Emphasising how Pacific communities successfully deal with and maintain peace in the context of climate change provides different perspectives. It highlights how local communities and state institutions have significant capacities for climate change adaptation and bottom-up peacebuilding.
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The Art of Saying ‘No’ to Trump’s Peace Board
By Ramesh Thakur | 29 January, 2026
There are two parts to US President Donald Trump’s revolutionary Board of Peace (BoP): a vote of no confidence in the United Nations and an alternative governance structure for maintaining international peace and security. The first part has some merit but the second is deeply flawed and likely to fall flat sooner rather than later.
International Law Meets an Age of Impunity
By Jordan Ryan | 28 January, 2026
On 26 January, the UN Security Council convened a high-level open debate on “Reaffirming International Rule of Law.”, chaired by Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud and featuring briefings from Secretary-General António Guterres and former International Court of Justice (ICJ) judge Abdulqawi Yusuf.
Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’: Reign of the Rich
By Herbert Wulf | 24 January, 2026
Trump keeps the world on edge with military actions, fantasies of conquest and tariffs. Now, his latest idea: a Board of Peace that would marginalize the United Nations.
Middle Powers After Davos
By Jordan Ryan | 23 January, 2026
At the World Economic Forum in Davos this week, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech that cut against the prevailing diplomatic instinct to soften uncomfortable truths.
After Five Years, What Impact Has the Nuclear Ban Treaty Had on the World?
By Susi Snyder | 22 January, 2026
After five years, the TPNW is now signed, ratified, or acceded to by the majority of countries eligible to do so, demonstrating a global majority in favor of the most comprehensive nuclear weapons prohibition ever negotiated.
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