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United Nations Operation in Burundi (crop)

When ideas of peace meet politics of conflict

15 Feb 2017

Research by an expert in peacebuilding shows how international ideas, practices and language of conflict resolution are transformed when they meet...

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Gassed by John Singer Sargent

The war that changed everything and nothing: a series of public talks

21 Jan 2014

To mark the centenary of the outbreak of the First World War, the acclaimed historian and author Margaret MacMillan will give a series of public...

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Gareth Evans

I’m a glass half-full kind of person: Gareth Evans gives public talks on war and peace

06 May 2013

In a series of public talks over the next ten days, the distinguished Australian politician and university chancellor Gareth Evans will look at some...

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Mainlehwon Vonhm in a classroom in Liberia

I was still alive and I never gave up hope

23 Jul 2012

As a teenager, Mainlehwon Vonhm walked alone, barefoot and hungry out of war-torn Liberia to the safety of a refugee camp. Two decades later he flew...

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Crowd Blur

Connection not conflict is the best way forward

20 Jun 2011

In the introduction to a new book Nobel Laureate Amartya Sen urges governments to focus on commonalities rather than differences.

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