How Peace Broke Out in Colombia On June 27th, FARC rebels turned over the last of their weapons to the United Nations in a ceremony...
House of Representatives Cuts Funding for the Same UN Agencies that Helped to Liberate Mosul from ISISA key committee in the US House of Representatives passed a budget this week that would significantly underfund UN programs,...
Can this Woman Bring Justice to Syria?Six years in, the conflict in Syria is synonymous now with the brutality of war. Currently, there are more than...
What’s Next for North Korea at the United NationsThe United Nations Security Council meets this afternoon for an emergency session on North Korea’s latest provocation–the successful test of...
This could be Africa’s Next Big CrisisSubscribe on iTunes, Stitcher or get the app to listen later. Conflict is escalating in one region of the Democratic...
The UN’s Peackeeping Budget is Shrinking. Is that a good thing?On Wednesday evening, Nikki Haley touted a nearly $600 million cut to the UN Peacekeeping budget, boasting this as a...
Peace is Breaking Out in ColombiaColombia marked a major milestone this week in ending its 52 year-long conflict with FARC when the UN certified disarmament...
Podcast: Meet Jeffrey Smith. Meet Jeffrey Smith: A thorn in the side of Africa’s dinosaur presidentsMy guest today Jeffrey Smith helps bring down Africa’s “presidents for life.” His organization, Vanguard Africa, is very new but...
Refugees who have fled the carnage in Afghanistan are being deported in record numbersThis has been a particularly bloody “fighting season” in Afghanistan. Now that winter has ended and the opium poppy harvest...