Full Coverage: Peace

29.11.2006 In commemoration of Universal Children’s Day, some 120 young people from different ethnic groups visited Albanian Mosques and Serbian Orthodox Monasteries, as part of an awareness raising activity promoting respect for religious sites among the youth in Kosovo. Rick Spruyt reports for World Vision from Kosovo.

28.11.2006 Des élèves du Lycée Toussaint Louverture ont investi les rues de Port-au-Prince, ce 22 novembre 2006, pour exiger « la désoccupation du pays » par les militaires étrangers déployés dans le cadre de la Mission des Nations Unies pour la Stabilisation en Haïti (MINUSTAH).

25.11.2006 It has been almost 13 years since President Bill Clinton played the saxophone given to him by then President of Czechoslovakia Vaclav Havel, at the stage of the Reduta Jazz Club in Prague. The two presidents shared the stage once again last Wednesday, this time at the Alfred Lerner Hall of Columbia University in New York, where they had an hour long public discussion titled Challenges of New Democracies.

21.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - A New York-based non-profit stepped up a petition drive Tuesday aimed at pushing the Bush administration to engage the international community to bring peace to Iraq.

21.11.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 21 (OneWorld) - A U.S. serviceman who went AWOL after refusing to return for a second tour of duty in Iraq is getting a court hearing Tuesday.

09.11.2006 Based on the observation that in post-conflict countries the attention is usually paid to violations of human rights rather than to needs of victims, the International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ), a New York City based NGO committed to assisting countries where human rights are severely jeopardized, recently launched The Handbook of Reparations that has the unique approach to the question of justice.

08.11.2006 Voices for nuclear disarmament in the South Asian region will find the ISF a strong platform for voicing their pacifist views. Events like - Nuclear Free South Asia, People's Initiative for a Peaceful South Asia and Reducing Military Spending in India and Pakistan - the Peace Dividend - are taking place at the ISF on November 10 and 12. Most have been organised by Indian and Pakistani NGOs working on improving relations between the two countries.

01.11.2006 Last Monday, October 30, a round-table discussion was held at the Journalists’ Club in Zagreb, to discuss the topic of facing the past in Croatia and the interpretation of results of a recent public opinion survey.