What if peace was something we built at home, not just in Parliament? This bold proposal from Ministry for Peace Australia reframes unpaid parenting, community work, and elder care as national priorities—and outlines exactly how we can fund them.
Escalation isn’t inevitable—it’s engineered. From Gaza to Ukraine, modern conflicts follow predictable patterns. What if peace had its own infrastructure to stop them?
There's a moment in every heated family argument when someone—usually the most exhausted person in the room—throws up their hands and says, "Can't we all just get along?" It's a reasonable plea, born from genuine fatigue with conflict. But here's the thing: getting...
A prince borrows Indigenous wisdom to justify his memoir, revealing our modern confusion between personal storytelling and communal truth-telling—where reconciliation requires not just speaking your piece, but making space for contradictory truths.
Anzac Day is not just memory—it’s a call to create a world where peace is policy, not just prayer.
There’s a line near the end of Colin Benjamin’s recent essay—BLUE AYES/BROWN NAYES—that I keep circling back to. It comes after he’s laid bare the way modern identity politics mimic Jane Elliott’s infamous 1968 classroom experiment, where third-graders turned on each...
Global trade’s quiet revolution: Once-mighty buyers now bend to sellers who control critical supply nodes—a shift reconfiguring peace and power alike.
Australia’s housing crisis isn’t just economic—it’s a peace emergency. Viewing homes as an ecosystem reveals how residential biodiversity creates stability our fragmented market cannot.
In Trump’s 2025 America, exclusion functions as political architecture rather than accident—a neurological hack where amygdala overrides prefrontal cortex, transforming belonging anxiety into tribal power and institutional memory into threat.
The quest for peace has been humanity's eternal struggle, yet our understanding of what constitutes true peace has evolved significantly. While most view peace simply as the absence of war, contemporary peace studies reveal a far more nuanced and challenging reality:...
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