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What was the Sykes-Picot agreement, and why does it still affect the Middle East today?

Some national borders are determined by natural phenomena like seas, mountains and rivers. Most, however, are created by people.

The Conversation · Feb 13, 2025

A century ago, the women of Wales made an audacious appeal for world peace – this is their story

February 11 1924, on board the RMS Cedric: Saw Statue of Liberty glowing in the sunlight. Bitterly cold wind, bright sunshine. At lunch, a press man came to me and said: ‘Mrs Griffiths, I am from the press.’ ‘I have nothing to say,’ I said. ‘Oh!’ said he, ‘we know…

The Conversation · May 25, 2024

The Ruhr

A hundred years ago, at a meeting of the League of Nations societies held a resolution has been passed expressing the opinion that the machinery of the League should be used with the assistance of Germany and, if possible, the United States

The Hindu · Jun 28, 2023

A brief history of Esperanto, the 135-year-old language of peace hated by Hitler and Stalin alike

In the late 1800s, the city of Białystok – which was once Polish, then Prussian, then Russian, and is today again part of Poland – was a hub of diversity, with large numbers of Poles, Germans, Russians and Yiddish-speaking Ashkanazi Jews. Each group spoke a different language and viewed members…

The Conversation · Jul 25, 2022

After the War

In the aftermath of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, it's time for Europe to step up and America to step back.

Reason · May 2, 2022

War in Ukraine has put the United Nations’ role under the spotlight

Letters: Cornelia Navari discusses Russia’s position as a permanent member of the security council and Duncan G Naughten compares Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s appearance at the UN to Haile Selassie’s at the League of Nations in 1936

The Guardian - UK · Apr 11, 2022

Act or dissolve, Zelensky challenges UN, but Ukraine atrocities already pile pressure on Russia

In his first address to the UN Security Council since the Russian invasion, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky this week called on the 15-member body to reform itself or face dissolution. That may be easier said than done. But the response to reports of Russian atrocities in Bucha, near Kyiv, highlights…

France 24 · Apr 7, 2022

The United Nations has the power to punish Putin. This is how it can be done

Ukraine urgently needs help – and if the UN can’t act, the global consequences could be catastrophic, says foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

The Guardian - UK · Apr 6, 2022

Canada: An invader, warrior, peacekeeper and arms supplier in conflicts near and far

Bob Rae, Canada’s ambassador to the United Nations, has compared the Russian invasion of Ukraine to Benito Mussolini’s Italian invasion of Ethiopia in the 1930s.

The Conversation · Apr 3, 2022