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A Decade of the Youth, Peace and Security Agenda: Why Disengagement and Reintegration Cannot Be Ignored
In 2025, the Youth, Peace and Security (YPS) Agenda marked its tenth anniversary. Over that decade, the agenda has undeniably gained visibility. Since the adoption of Security Council resolution 2250 in 2015, youth participation in peace and security discussions has expanded, institutional spaces for youth engagement have grown, and the United Nations (UN) has strengthened
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Cultural Heritage Protection as a Strategic Imperative in a Widening War on Iran
Since the start of the ongoing United States–Israeli military campaign against Iran, the human toll of the conflict has mounted relentlessly. Civilian casualties have been reported across the country, and the bombing campaign has caused widespread destruction to infrastructure. Alongside military targets, thousands of civilian buildings have been damaged or destroyed in the first weeks of
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War in Iran: What Does Trump Want?
From the beginning of the Iran conflict, Donald Trump has presented an array of reasons and objectives for attacking Iran. Many of them are contradictory. It’s about nuclear weapons (the same ones that were “obliterated” last year); It’s about fundamental regime change (and yet the “Venezuela solution” would also be just fine); There was an
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A Canadian’s Past, Present and Future with China
Past: The Promise of Reform Almost fifty years ago, I arrived in Shanghai as a member of the Fudan University class of ’77. I was the first foreign student admitted to the Philosophy Department’s History of Ancient Chinese Thought Program since the Sino-Soviet split of 1961. My thesis advisor, Yan Beiming—a prominent figure on the
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