The Peace Integrity Score: Why Ceasefires Are Not Enough
Ceasefires stop guns; peace rebuilds trust. The Peace Integrity Score helps readers, policymakers, and media tell the difference, measuring inclusion, rights, justice, and durability.
From Rights to Responsibilities: Rebalancing the Moral Equation of Peace
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights changed the world. But in an era of climate collapse, disinformation, and social fracture, we need to evolve—toward a framework of shared responsibilities.
How Nations Weaponize Stories to Protect Fragile Identities
Nations, like individuals, can act narcissistically. They rewrite history, deny harm, and cast themselves as victims to shield fragile identities. From MAGA to Russia’s “historic destiny,” from Israel’s perpetual siege to Australia’s ANZAC myth, weaponized stories bind and blind us. The challenge is not to abandon myth but to create narratives resilient enough to hold truth as well as pride.
From Care Crisis to National Policy: Rebuilding Australia Through Right Human Relations
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.
The Architecture of Escalation: Why Peace Must Be Built Like Defence
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?
When Peace Becomes More Than the Absence of War
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...
Truth-Telling: The Gap Between Personal Narrative and Reconciliation
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.
Lest We Forget: A Promise to the Future, Not Just a Tribute to the Past
Anzac Day is not just memory—it’s a call to create a world where peace is policy, not just prayer.
The Eye Color Experiment: Our Unfinished Journey to Empathy
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...
Supply Chain Leverage: The New Power Brokers of Global Trade
Global trade’s quiet revolution: Once-mighty buyers now bend to sellers who control critical supply nodes—a shift reconfiguring peace and power alike.