A ceasefire has brought some respite for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip this month, amid fears that the Trump administration is signalling greater impunity for violence and intimidation by Israeli military and settlers in the West Bank. Andrew Rigby calls for urgent protection of Palestinians in the Masafer Yatta area, already experiencing a ‘frontier genocide’ by Israeli settlers.
UK Denies Toxic Nuclear Legacy in Kiribati
The second Meeting of States Parties to the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons is underway in New York. Absent (again) is the British government. Ben Donaldson of Spoiler Alert reports on how the UK is refusing to face up to the toxic legacy of nuclear testing in its former colony, Kiribati.
Everyday Peace Indicators: A way to measure and build peace
For decades, calls for greater attention to local, everyday experiences in peacebuilding have been growing. Yvette Selim and Roger Mac Ginty discuss Everyday Peace Indicators’ bottom-up participatory approach to understanding and tracking changes in difficult-to-measure concepts like peace, reconciliation and governance in conflict-affected communities.
Global Heating, Climate Justice and Security
We are already in climate triage, argues Sam Adelman, and the responsibility to address global heating lies disproportionately with countries like the UK with the largest historic greenhouse gas emissions. Climate justice is the new imperative.
No Climate Justice, No Peace
Molly Scott Cato argues that the unjust and unequal impacts of climate chaos, as experienced most acutely in Africa and the Global South, are deeply linked to centuries of racism and exploitation by colonialist European states.