photo by 995645 in Pixabay. 24 April; International Day of Multilateralism and Diplomacy for Peace was established by the U.N. General Assembly and first observed on 24 April 2019. The resolution establishing the Day is in part a reaction to the “America First, America First”
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Featured Image: Caresse Crosby and her whippet, Clytoris (1922). By Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Caresse Crosby (20 April 1891 – 24 Jan. 1970); was one of the more colorful figures of the early world citizens movement heading the
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Featured Image: Arnold Toynbee. By Atyyahesir, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. Arnold Toynbee (1889-1975) was a historian, a philosopher of history, and an advisor on the wider Middle East to the British Government. Already a specialist in Greece and the
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Portrait of the Dutch lawyer and statesman Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius. By Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. By Rene Wadlow. Hugo Grotius (10 April 1583 – 28 August 1645) whose birth anniversary we mark
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Featured Image: Gandhi spinning at Birla House, Mumbai, August 1942. By Kanu Gandhi, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The Path to Indian Independence (London: I.B. Tauris, 2012, 225pp) Simone Panter-Brick. Simone Panter-Brick had written two earlier books on Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi against
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Featured Image: Photo by Lan Johnson in Pexels By Rene Wadlow. The United Nations General Assembly has designated 5 April; as The International Day of Conscience. An awakened conscience is essential to meeting the challenges; which face humanity today as we move into the World
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Featured Image: Prof. Oliver Richmond By Arianit, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. The Challenges of the NGO Peacebuilding (Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2005, 267pp.) As Kim Reimann writes in this useful overview of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in the peacebuilding field; “In
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