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Long-term investment is essential to addressing protracted food crises—even amid conflict
Recent initiatives in Yemen, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa show how aid actors across the humanitarian-development-peace nexus can rise to the challenge of strengthening food systems in fragile settings.
To reduce violent conflict, support non-violent resistance movements
The wealth and power generated by kleptocratic networks help to put actors who drive conflict beyond the reach of international institutions responsible for maintaining peace and security. This blog explains why engaging non-violent resistance movements and the non-traditional institutions they create is therefore critical to building sustainable peace and security.
Demilitarizing environmental protection will benefit Colombia’s biodiversity
Successive Colombian governments have pursued an increasingly militarized approach to environmental protection, which in many cases has undermined and even criminalized ethnic communities and subsistence farmers who are vital to environmental stewardship and conservation. This blog explores why this is happening and what needs to be done.
Beyond food security: The potential gendered consequences of food aid
In conflict zones marked by food insecurity, men and women experience unique challenges, and food aid can impact them differently. While aid efforts seek to address these issues, they can sometimes unintentionally deepen gender inequalities, particularly for women. This blog examines these effects and how to mitigate them.
Where next for the women, peace and security agenda?
As the women, peace and security agenda approaches its 25th anniversary, is the key to progress pushing for a new Security Council resolution or stepping up implementation?
Women, peace and security: Bridging the global–local divide through contextual relevance
This blog explores two approaches to bridging the global–local divide: prioritizing inclusion within participation and strengthening the ‘connective tissue’ between global and local WPS movements.
More effective aid by design: Integrating food, climate and peace
This blog explores why approaches that integrate food security, climate resilience and peacebuilding interventions have been slow to emerge.
The difficult journey to trust in conflict-affected societies
This blog explores processes from past reconciliation efforts that are relevant for rebuilding trust.
Navigating the Red Sea: Addressing threats and harnessing potential
This blog post gives an overview of current issues in the Red Sea region and possible ways to address them, building on the outcomes of a panel discussion at the 2024 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development.
Storytelling: A tool for change
How does destructive storytelling disrupt peaceful societies and relations? And what makes storytelling destructive? A roundtable at the 2024 Stockholm Forum on Peace and Development explored the power of storytelling and what makes a story impactful and constructive for peace. This blog builds on those discussions to look at the other side of storytelling.