Teaching international conflict resolution empowers students to become leaders in their own communities, say three high school educators who have spent the past school year teaching peacebuilding through social studies and foreign language courses. The teachers, part of a 2017-18 cohort doing...

The upcoming U.S. midterms have brought renewed scrutiny to the practice of gerrymandering in the United States. But the practice of drawing legislative districts to entrench political elites and disenfranchise others has advanced to an extreme degree in other countries as well...

Intermittently, images spring from the news to shock us with the suffering of children brutalized by war or their families' desperate flight as refugees. Three years ago, the body of Alan Kurdi, a Syrian boy drowned on a Turkish beach...

Seven years ago this week, South Sudan celebrated independence from its northern neighbor after a decades-long struggle that left at least 2 million dead. But there were no festivities organized by the government in...

After more than four years of brutal fighting and worsening humanitarian conditions, South Sudan President Salva Kiir and opposition leader Riek Machar signed an agreement on June 27 taking a tentative step towards ending the country’s civil war. But about six hours after the agreement’s “permanent” ceasefire...

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo made a surprise visit to Afghanistan on Monday, hoping to give new momentum to peace talks with the Taliban in the wake of a brief truce last month, just as reports swirled that the militant group was ramping up violence against American and Afghan forces.

Pakistanis will cast their ballots on Wednesday in national elections that have been clouded by acrimony and violence. A string of suicide blasts have led to dozens of deaths at campaign rallies. Former prime minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter Maryam were sidelined by corruption convictions...