As we enter 2026, calls for peace feel both urgent and fragile in a world marked by escalating violence and deepening divisions. In this reflective essay, a political analyst and her niece show ...

The world is not saved by threatening violence or by judging, oppressing or getting rid of others, Pope Leo XIV said. "Rather, it is saved by tirelessly striving to understand, forgive, liberate and ...

The initiative is the latest example of the president’s dismantling the post-World War II international system and building a new one, with himself at the center. Israel, Saudi Arabia and other ...

Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland Worse, it was just the latest of a decade-long decline ...

Pope Leo XIV greets visitors in St. Peter's Square as they gather to pray the Angelus prayer on the feast of the Holy Family, Dec. 28, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Matteo Pernaselci, Vatican Media.

Jan. 1 is marked each year as the World Day of Peace, a tradition begun by Pope Paul VI in 1967 and continued by every pope since. Across decades and vastly different global moments, each has ...

It was a good rule of thumb during the Cold War that if an organization had the word “peace” in its name it was either an official organ of, or a front group for, the Soviet Union. The origin of ...