Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) on Friday reintroduced legislation to establish a Cabinet-level “Department of Peacebuilding,” with the goal of cultivating a culture of peace at home and abroad. The bill is ...

In the dry valley between the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá mountain ranges, in northern Colombia, former combatants in the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia guerilla ...

Across the West African sub-region, Ghana is widely regarded as an oasis of peace . The 2021 Global Peace Index (GPI) ranked the country as the second most peaceful in Sub-Saharan Africa .

This commentary is by Jill Cardenas, the executive director of The Mediation Center of the Coastal Empire. We are living in polarizing times, when divisions within families and communities often seem ...

As we reach the anniversary of the Hamas attacks on Israel and mark a year of living with the unimaginable, one thing is clear: The kind of peacebuilding and interreligious dialogue work we do at ...

The impacts of climate change are locked in for the next 20 to 30 years. One of these impacts is the increasingly negative effect climate change has on the underlying drivers of violent conflict. As a ...

Japan’s Self-Defense Forces have not been deployed on a peacekeeping mission since 2017, when an SDF contingent was withdrawn from South Sudan. Going forward, what can Japan do to contribute to ...

An Afghan man from the Badghis region of northern Afghanistan speaks with Sima Samar (R), the deputy chairperson of the Loya Jirga grand assembly, in Kabul June 15, 2002. (Caren Firouz/ Courtesy ...