Vision of Humanity"

"Conflict costs the average developing country roughly 30 years of GDP growth and countries in protracted crisis can fall over 20 percentage points behind in overcoming poverty" - Robert Zoellick, President of the World Bank, 2011 World Development

The 16th of January is Martin Luther King, Jr. Day: a time to reflect on freedom and peaceful activism

The arms trade infographics include: world military expenditure, arms-producing corporations, exporters of conventional weapons, corruption and employment figures.

The OECD Development Centre and the Club de Madrid have jointly launched the 2012 Perspectives on Global Development which focuses on social cohesion.

Article from the Korean Times discusses the relationship between economics and peace, with reference to the Global Peace Index

Sadaf Lakhani blogs on the role entrepreneurs play in peacebuilding in fragile and conflict-affected states

The Fourth High Level Forum on Aid takes place at Busan in South Korea, 29th November – 1st December. Two thousand representatives of governments, the UN, the World Bank, and other multi-lateral organisations and NGOs will meet to debate how aid can

Women, War and Peace is a five part series that reveals how the post-Cold War proliferation of small arms has changed the landscape of war, with women becoming primary targets and suffering unprecedented casualties.

One year at Princeton University: $37,000. One year at a New Jersey state prison: $44,000.