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World Peace Foundation The WPF is an operating foundation affiliated with the Fletcher School. It aims to provide research for non-violent futures.

The World Peace Foundation was established by Edwin Ginn, a Boston-based publisher of educational texts and an advocate for international peace. Created initially as the International School of Peace on July 12, 1910, the WPF was tasked with educating a global audience about the ills of war and promoting international peace. In 2011, the World Peace Foundation established a program at The Fletcher School at Tufts University, the first graduate-only school of international affairs in the United States, under Executive Director Alex de Waal. In line with the educational and practical vision of its founder, today the Foundation aims to provide intellectual leadership on issues of peace, justice and security. We believe that innovative research and teaching are critical to the challenges of making peace around the world, and should go hand in hand with advocacy and practical engagement with the toughest issues. As the Foundation enters its second century, our underlying theme is reinventing peace for the globalizing world. The WPF does not make grants to outside organizations and individuals.

Recognizing the assumptions and blind spots that shape our understanding of the world matters for peace. But how do we d...
10/14/2026

Recognizing the assumptions and blind spots that shape our understanding of the world matters for peace. But how do we develop this capacity?

Drawing on medicine, global health, and education, Quentin Eichbaum explores metacognition: the ability to recognize and question our own thinking, assumptions, and biases.

He argues that expertise alone is not enough. We must also recognize its limits and adapt accordingly.

For more peaceful futures, it offers a way to listen meaningfully, recognize blind spots, and remain open to correction.

This essay is part of Ways of working for more peaceful futures: A global health humanities roundtable, a Future of Peace series bringing perspectives from global health humanities into conversation with questions of peace.

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Read the essay: https://worldpeacefoundation.org/blog/the-value-of-metacognition/

Explore the full roundtable: https://worldpeacefoundation.org/publication/ways-of-working-for-more-peaceful-futures/

10/14/2026

Every setback reveals new pressure points. Every cycle creates new possibilities for resistance.

Palestine has been a wake-up call.

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10/07/2026

“This is the self-licking ice cream cone.”

The arms industry funds the politicians who approve the budgets that fund the arms industry.

Paul Holden of Shadow World Investigations breaks down the circular system that keeps spending growing — and why disrupting the money flow is the only way to break it.

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The High Level Panels for the , from 2009 to 2013, were the AU’s most sustained and ambitious activity. Some fiftee...
10/02/2026

The High Level Panels for the , from 2009 to 2013, were the AU’s most sustained and ambitious activity. Some fifteen years on, much of the story of the AU panels remains untold. The Sudans: Africa’s Search for Peace, Democracy, and Two Viable States fills the gap.

Please join us next Monday, October 5th at the The Fletcher School at Tufts University Ginn Library for a book talk by Executive Director Alex de Waal on his new book.

10/01/2026

“The making of weapons that kill other human beings should not be a for-profit industry. It’s as simple as that.”

In our latest episode of Disrupting Peace, Andrew Feinstein of Shadow World Investigations breaks down how corporate profits incentivize war — and why the arms trade is, in his words, a scam funded by your .

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In a new essay, Nomusa Mngoma examines the power relations through which global health knowledge is produced, valued, an...
09/30/2026

In a new essay, Nomusa Mngoma examines the power relations through which global health knowledge is produced, valued, and shared.

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09/30/2026

“Peace is bad for quarterly earnings. War is good for them.”

In our latest episode, Janet Abou-Elias of the Quincy Institute and Women for Weapons Trade Transparency exposes how defense stocks literally rise when conflict escalates, and how an AI system generated over 37,000 targeting recommendations in the first six weeks of the war on Gaza, with officers spending twenty seconds reviewing each one.

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News broke last week about going rogue and meddling with US Government websites, without the knowledge of the makers o...
09/28/2026

News broke last week about going rogue and meddling with US Government websites, without the knowledge of the makers of technology. It is not the first time an has attempted to hack or breach organizational or governmental sites in recent months, including the Australian government.

Some AI leaders, including the founders of OpenAI and , have called for the slowing of AI development for safety purposes. But President has argued that he does not believe an AI slowdown is necessary.

Revisit a piece from last summer by Executive Director Alex de Waal on the fears and future of AI.

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09/24/2026

“It was clear to us that the whole world is designed in a way that enhances impunity more than accountability.”

Radhya al-Mutawakel chairs Mwatana Organization for Human Rights, which has documented over 19,000 violations in Yemen, visiting sites, interviewing survivors, tracing weapon remnants back to their manufacturers. Her team took that evidence to the ICC and to courts in the UK, Italy, and France. None of it led to accountability.

In this episode of Disrupting Peace, she talks with researcher Ruth Rohde about why the arms trade keeps flowing to perpetrators of atrocities, and what it would actually take to stop it.

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