Global security indicators suggest a significant deterioration in peace and stability. By most accounts, the world is now more violent and more dangerous than at any point in recent history. In 2024, ...

Worse, it was just the latest of a decade-long decline of peace and upsurge of war. As author of a book on world peace and how we can achieve it (that's literally the title), here's my assessment.

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. It wasn’t a one-off statement from President Donald Trump that he would end wars and ...

Dr. Adil Dalal, DBA - CEO, keynote speaker, leadership and AI pioneer. Author of 4 books and 10 global awards, inspiring leaders worldwide. Over 250 conflicts in the past century have claimed millions ...

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Pope Leo XIV, the former Cardinal Robert F. Prevost, prays as he stands on the central balcony of St. Peter’s Basilica at the Vatican after his election as pope May 8, 2025. The new pope was born in ...

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 insisted ...

Every U.S. president has left his mark, for good or for ill, on U.S. foreign policy. But very few had an impact that equaled that of the twenty-eighth president of the United States—Woodrow Wilson.

An international team representing seven countries passed through Sanders County this past week as part of the world's largest Peace Run, a four-month, 10,000-mile relay through all 50 states ...

Former US president Jimmy Carter speaks to the media about his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid on December, 11, 2006. (Robyn Beck / AFP via Getty Images) By signing up, you confirm that you are ...