Bombs to Coffee
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.
What happens after a long conflict and how is peace maintained amid lingering animosity and grief over the lives lost in war? Pulitzer Center stories tagged with “Peacekeeping” deal with efforts to maintain peace and rebuild nations once wars have ended and rebuilding begins. Use the Pulitzer Center Lesson Builder to find and create lesson plans on peacekeeping.
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.
The Indonesian government is focusing counterterrorism efforts on prevention through education.
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.
Five years after the conflict on the eastern front of Ukraine began, how have women defined the war? And, perhaps, has the war created a new landscape for women?
When your assumptions are proven oh-so-wrong.
A first look at the confounding reality of Jerusalem by Carly Graf, a Northwestern University student fellow, who is reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the lens of food.
And it’s not because of Brexit.
Tumacoans had high hopes of the accord signed between the government and the FARC, in 2016. But they have been robbed of their chance of peace by other illegal armed groups.
In Colombia, an estimated 83,000 people have been forcibly disappeared since 1958. But peace accords between the government and the FARC, the country’s largest guerrilla group, in 2016 mandated that finding the missing was a necessary step toward reconciliation.
Guns may have been silenced, but Colombia is still reckoning with stark inequalities that jeopardize the country's fragile peace.
What civilian investigators are seeing differs dramatically from what the Trump Administration has been saying about North Korea’s nuclear program.
Thailand is the land of smiles, free elections, and military coups. Why have its efforts at electoral democracy always failed, and can they ever succeed?
For two decades, the eastern Congo has been ravaged by civil war. Can a former U.S. senator help bring peace?
Edging to the brink of civil war, Crimea has turned into a geopolitical crisis, perhaps the gravest threat to peace in Europe since the end of the Cold War.
Today in Rwanda, the 1994 genocide is part of the past, but the country's thousands of maimed amputees are living reminders of the brutal horror.
It has been 15 years since the end of Northern Ireland's Troubles yet in Belfast, a city carved by "Peace Walls," the tension is still palpable.
UN enforcement of "responsibility to protect" has too often focused more on protecting UN troops than civilian populations. In eastern Congo UN military leaders are talking—and taking—a tougher line.
What will happen to the progress that’s been made in education and women’s rights in Afghanistan? It’s a legacy NGOs have spent millions building. And many Afghans worry it's what is most at risk.
Despairing of the ability of their squabbling leaders and militiamen to reestablish the state, Libyans are busy reviving the country on their own.
Tunnels in a mountain in Kazakhstan once used to test Soviet nuclear weapons contained enough plutonium for terrorists to construct dozens of atomic bombs.
We think of drones as an exclusively American weapon, but they're not. Look at Israel's violent northern border, where Israel and Hezbollah are already using the flying robots against each other.
Foreign troops are leaving Afghanistan. As the decade-long effort to secure the country draws to a close, how are Afghanistan’s most vulnerable communities preparing for the challenges that lie ahead?
Jerusalem, the meeting point of three major religions, is always set aside as the final item to be resolved in any discussion of Israeli-Palestinian peace. Have we waited too long?
In $8 billion nuclear bomb upgrade a debate over what constitutes “new."
To the victor go the spoils, but in Syria’s largest city there won’t be much left.
Dovish diplomacy remains a key part of the US's nuclear policy, today as in 1963. Iran's Jewish community agrees that diplomacy, as outlined in July's nuclear deal, will diminish the threat of war.
"Everyday Africa" and other Pulitzer Center grantees included in the Atlantic's Roughly Top 100 non-fiction pieces of 2014.
Ukraine's struggle to build a national identity dates back to the Cold-War. Facing more recent territorial struggles over the Crimea, how will the country's citizens choose to define themselves?
Who is looking out for journalists, especially freelancers, working in hostile environments and conflict zones?
An artist records day-to-day Afghan life from Kabul to Herat in ink.
Pulitzer Center journalist and illustrator George Butler is interviewed by the Today program on BBC Radio 4 about his current project, "Afghanistan: WithDraw."
Crimea is no longer celebrating its reunion with Russia.
Drone warfare—cheap, easy and deadly—is likely to write the next chapter of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Politics in Russia has always made for interesting theater, the current crisis in Crimea being no exception.
The crisis in Crimea has triggered a state of high dudgeon among the political classes here in Washington.