On Monday 23 April 2018, the Life & Peace Institute (LPI) took part in the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) Open Debate on Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) in New…

January 2018 Dear Partners and Friends of LPI, Many have summarised 2017 as a turbulent year for our world. Indeed, the Global Peace Index indicates that peace deteriorated…

Congratulations to the Life & Peace Institute’s Hannah Tsadik for being awarded the Swedish Development Forum prize for her “strategic leadership” by the…

For over a decade media reports and analysts have increasingly pointed to the growing trend of Africa drawing the attention of the so-called ‘new’ actors or ‘rising…

In the culmination of a four-year effort, LPI and partners came together in early August to discuss a new draft policy on cross border trade and security. What started as…

Young people from Kibera in Nairobi, intervened when a respected local young singer was spreading discriminatory messages through her songs. The popular singer has…

A Sudanese University student Fatah Elalim brought back lessons to his community in Sudan’s Western Kordofan State, about dialogue as a way to transform local conflicts…

Hot Topic A little more than a year ago this time, the 2016 January-February thematic issue of the Horn of Africa Bulletin (HAB) addressed the issues of countering violent…

The Life & Peace Institute’s Horn of Africa Regional Programme will lead a 3-year project financed by the European Union. The project, launched on 28 March 2017…

The African Union has declared 2017 as the year of youth with the theme “Harnessing the demographic dividend through investment in youth.” The 29th session of the…