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White Paper: A Potential Framework For A Peace Deal In Sudan

1. Executive Summary Sudan’s war between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has become one of the world’s worst humanitarian catastrophes: more than 11–13 million people displaced and over 30 million in need of aid, … Continue reading

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White Paper: The Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords: A Pathway to Resolving the Thailand-Cambodia Border Dispute

Executive Summary The Kuala Lumpur Peace Accords, signed on October 26, 2025, represent a significant diplomatic breakthrough in the longstanding border dispute between Thailand and Cambodia.[^1] Facilitated by U.S. President Donald Trump during the 47th ASEAN Summit in Kuala Lumpur, … Continue reading

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White Paper: From Peace Testimony to Political Violence: The Contradictions of Pacifist Quaker Identity in the Context of Radical Activism

Executive Summary The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, has for centuries stood as a public witness to peace and nonviolence. The historic Peace Testimony, first articulated in 1660, rejects all war and outward violence. Yet in contemporary … Continue reading

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Some Thoughts On The Field Of The Cloth Of Gold

Perhaps the most visually spectacular incident of the Northern Renaissance was the Field of the Cloth of God that demonstrated the sincere efforts of Henry VIII of England and Francis I of France between June 7 and 24, 1520 in … Continue reading

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Book Review: Reconciliation: The Continuing Agenda

Reconciliation:  The Continuing Agenda, edited by Robert J. Kennedy What is the relationship between repentance, penance, and reconciliation?  Admittedly, I find that question to be highly interesting, and it appears as if reconciliation is a matter that causes a great … Continue reading

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The God Of Peace Will Crush Satan Under Your Feet: Satan In Romans 16

There are times where a passage that may seem ordinary inspiration actually has a great deal of insight and complexity hidden with it, and that is the case with Paul’s brief mention of Satan being crushed under the feet of … Continue reading

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Book Review: All Life Is Problem Solving

All Life Is Problem Solving, by Karl Popper In reading a book like this one has to temper one’s expectations.  Typically when a great philosopher or writer dies, there are a lot of essays and generally unread speech transcripts and … Continue reading

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Peace For All Who Desire Peace

There is a strange tension at the heart of pacifist thought.  If one was uncharitable, one might even consider it to be a contradiction.  I should note at the outset that I do not consider myself a pacifist.  My own … Continue reading

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Book Review: Peace: A Very Short Introduction

Peace:  A Very Short Introduction, by Oliver P. Richmond This little book, which is thankfully very short, has at its heart a very deep contradiction.  Not only does it show the peace movement as being like feminism in that in … Continue reading

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Book Review: Peace: Making Our World A Better Place

Peace:  Making Our World A Better Place, by Faces For some reason that I cannot entirely understand, my library shelved this short magazine aimed at preteens to help indoctrinate them into antiwar leftwing politics as a book, even though it … Continue reading

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