The Cost of Running Guantánamo Bay: $13 Million Per Prisoner
Set up nearly 18 years ago to house detainees in the war on terrorism, the prison on the remote naval base has grown into what appears to be the most expensive on earth.
Conflict takes many forms, from disagreements between different political parties to indigenous communities battling government and corporate interests to full-blown warfare. Pulitzer Center grantee stories tagged with “Conflict” feature reporting that covers adversarial politics, war and peace. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on conflict.
Set up nearly 18 years ago to house detainees in the war on terrorism, the prison on the remote naval base has grown into what appears to be the most expensive on earth.
We dialed more than 35,000 random phone numbers to paint an accurate picture of displacement across the entire country.
How the World Health Organization is battling bullets, politics and a deadly virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The legal team defending Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was reshaped less than two weeks after the military court set a January 2021 start date for the trial.
In this coffee shop, former militants learn how to make coffee instead of bombs. They also learn acceptance by serving and interacting with others from diverse religious and ethnic backgrounds.
When families flee conflict, they are forced to choose what to bring and what to leave behind. Tomik the dog refused to stay.
The Indonesian government is focusing counterterrorism efforts on prevention through education.
After the 2008 Russo-Georgian War, the Georgian government built housing for people fleeing the violence. Many South Ossetians still live in these settlements.
A military judge on Friday set Jan. 11, 2021, as the start of the death-penalty trial at Guantánamo Bay of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four men charged as plotters of the attacks.
Countries all around Europe are dealing with the same dilemma: what to do with citizens who went to join ISIS. Tiny Kosovo is alone in opting to bring back a large group of its citizens.
Demonstrations rocked Tbilisi in summer 2019 as the population debated the future of Georgian-Russian relations.
A war court prosecutor confirmed the abrupt firing of a Guantánamo Bay prison commander last April was due to the mishandling of classified information. The commander, Admiral John C. Ring, was fired abruptly four months ago after publicly campaigning for detention facility improvements.
For thousands of refugees, the shores of Lesbos are their first passage into Europe. Can locals cope with the arrival of tens of thousands each month?
James Harkin reports from Syria, in an exploration of human and cultural loss.
Cuban communism is in flux. Citizens own businesses and property; some are even allowed to protest. Yet reminders of the regime are a constant presence.
The Pentagon plans to replace the current nuclear arsenal, including 12 new nuclear armed submarines in the coming decades. But can the United States afford this and is it necessary?
What drives young people to go and fight in Syria? How are governments trying to stop them, and does it work?
As war rages in Ukraine, what do the country's post-Soviet dueling identities mean for its future?
Some of the world’s last isolated tribes are poised to make contact with the outside world as illegal loggers, miners, cocaine traffickers and others penetrate their territory.
ISIS fighters executed and enslaved thousands of ethnic Yazidis in northern Iraq in the summer of 2014 in what the UN calls a likely genocide. A year later, a look at the community trying to heal.
On September 26, 2014, 43 Mexican students went missing in Iguala, a mountain town in the state of Guerrero. This project explores the long-term issues that gave rise to these events.
Syrian and other international volunteers travel at their own expense to Syrian refugee neighborhoods to teach war-traumatized children that they are not "the lost generation" but future peace-makers.
In Myanmar the use of child soldiers remains commonplace but under increasing international pressure small numbers of them are being released from service, returning to parents who thought them dead.
The Central African Republic is one of the last truly wild places on earth, a sparsely populated country that until recently remained quietly anonymous. So why did it descend into chaos?
Can the city shake its reputation for murder?
Illinois student used Pulitzer Center reporting and Picasso's Guernica as the inspiration for a project that uses art for activism.
Ben Taub's reporting on the Assad Papers was covered widely in the news media.
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Can President Bashar al-Assad be held accountable?
Three two-time Pulitzer Prize winners now associated with the Pulitzer Center reflect on the reporting that won the awards and how Pulitzer values continue to inspire their work.
The Society of Professional Journalists honors nine 2015 Pulitzer Center student fellows at regional awards ceremonies throughout the country.
The Middle East has not seen peace in decades—could that be on the path to change?
Review says Pulitzer Center grantee has gift for explaining confusing regional geopolitics with "blessed–and welcome–lucidity" in his debut book on Afghan minority community, U.S. troop withdrawal.
Pulitzer Center grantee Katherine Zoepf, executive director Jon Sawyer and contributing editor Kem Knapp Sawyer visit Northwestern University in Qatar.
Photojournalist and Pulitzer Center grantee Dominic Bracco visited Brookland Middle School to teach sixth graders about the Latin American migration crisis.
The Pulitzer Center staff share favorite images from 2015.