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.
The Housing Ecosystem: Australia’s Peace Depends on Residential Biodiversity
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.
The Architecture of Division: How Strategic Exclusion Shapes Political Power in 2025
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.
Beyond the Absence of War: Integrating Positive and Negative Peace in Policy Development
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:...
Diplomacy in the Age of Transactional Leadership: A New Path to Peace
In a world of power-driven diplomacy, traditional peace efforts fail. How can we adapt strategies to navigate dominance without losing core values?