Per la Pau / Peace in Progress

A look at the decade's peace and security agenda

For centuries, the main problem of the international community, which is based on the sovereignty of states and non-interference, has been the management of armed violence by means of various formulas - some more highly regulated than others - for controlling armed conflicts. The agenda has gradually become more complicated and diversified.

Central articles
- The old and new peace and security agenda
  
  Rafael Grasa
- Peace, the only combat: between hell and reason
  
  Albert Camus (1913-1960)
- The decline of the USA, the financial crisis and military expenditure
  
  Mario Pianta
- Time to solve the Cyprus Problem
  
  Andreas Kyriacou
- After Cartagena. An Assessment of the Second Mine Ban Treaty Review Conference in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia
  
  Maria Josep Parés
- Internal and partial mediation
  
  Gorka Espiau
The interview
- Interview with Thomas Nash
  
  In this interview, Thomas Nash, the coordinator of the Cluster Munition Coalition (CMC) tells us about the highs and lows of the convention on cluster munitions, while also discussing possible ways of broadening the fight for disarmament. This interview has been edited from a selection of the questions and answers of the debate held in Barcelona last November the 23rd in Barcelona, to where he was invited by the Catalan NGO Fundació per la Pau (Foundation for Peace).

Philosophy for caring. A co-educational proposal for peace

Irene Comins Mingol. Filosofía del cuidar. Una propuesta coeducativa para la paz. Barcelona: Icaria, 2009

The starting point of the author's work is the concept of cultures for making peaces as developed by the Chair in Philosophy for Peace at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, which stresses the human capacity for mutual help, solidarity and care, and the various ways in which human beings cultivate relationships between each other and with nature. Among the various human skills for making peace, Irene Comins highlights caring and proposes using care and tenderness as human abilities for living in peace.
International Crisis Group (ICG)

www.crisisgroup.org

"Why had it been so difficult for the international system to effectively respond to Bosnia and other conflicts?” – The question posed by the institute’s founders on a plane out of war-torn Sarajevo in 1993, which sparked the idea that eventually lead to the creation of one of the world’s most respected conflict- assessment, warning and resolution institutions.
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