The World Peace Foundation aims to provide intellectual leadership on issues of peace, justice and security. We believe that innovative research and teaching are critical to the challenges of making peace around the world, and should go hand in hand with advocacy and practical engagement with the toughest issues.

Latest Updates:

New Essay available: "Contesting Visions of Peace in Africa: Darfur, Ivory Coast, Libya"

An excerpt from Alex de Waal's essay, "There appears to be a peer group effect: when they act collectively, African leaders are more closely informed by those norms than when acting individually." Read the entire essay on WPFs blog.

 

 

 

 

New materials available:

Full text versions of the African Union and United Nations Security Council resolutions on Sudan and South Sudan now available on our blog.

 

New Blog series: On Memorialization and Human Rights

In support of the African Union Human Rights Memorial, the WPF has initiated a blog series dedicated to the issues of memorialization and human rights in Africa. Contributions address why the AU needs such a memorial, the legacy of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, South Africa, the Red Terror in Ethiopia, and more.

New Partnership:

The WPF encourages its audience to check out the new coalition effort to bring informed analysis and debate to discussions of Uganda and the LRA, Making Sense of Kony. WPF is a partner and Alex de Waal is a contributor. See also Alex de Waal's contributions to the WPF blog, Reinventing Peace: "Don't Elevate Kony" and "Kony: What's to be done"