Since President Paul Biya came to power in 1982, Cameroon has been a sleepy regime with a soft and aging dictator, a nation all but forgotten in a remote corner of the African continent. This has dram…

Taha’s dream at the moment is to become a hair stylist. “She has talent for it,” her mother says. Taha* is 16 years old, from Homs, Syria, but had to flee with her family when fighting from the civil …

Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula is increasingly being affected by high levels of conflict and instability, which has left hundreds of people dead and thousands more wounded since 2011. The latest of these att…

The signing of a disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration agreement between the two major armed factions in the Central African Republic has increased hope for the country's peace and reconcilia…

The changing nature of conflict and the emergence of new, asymmetric threats have raised the need for stronger and more effective partnerships in peacekeeping operations, particularly between the …

One year after the establishment of the UN’s peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic (CAR), the peace process in the country is making some progress, but reconciliation is still the k…

At the start of every month, the Global Observatory posts a list of key upcoming meetings and events that have implications for global affairs. First week of April: France starts shipping weapons t…

International peacebuilding is more likely to succeed when it can connect with local- and community-level efforts. This was the main message of a policy forum on “Local Peacebuilding Successes: Le…

Speaking at an IPI Distinguished Author Series event on February 12th, New York Times op-ed columnist Nicholas D. Kristof made an impassioned case for the importance of giving and helping others, …

On February 7, Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) confirmed the country’s forthcoming general elections would be postponed by six weeks. Initially scheduled for February 14, vo…