People from the Nordic countries are often selected as international mediators in wars and armed conflicts. In a new book, peace researchers at Uppsala University describe what makes mediators ...

This holiday season as the fragile ceasefire in Gaza between Israel and Hamas holds, another one of the rare, hopeful moments in modern Middle East history marks its 75th anniversary. On Dec. 10, 1950 ...

Sweden will wind down it development cooperation with Liberia and officially close its embassy in August 2026. In a press conference Sweden's development minister said the government had made the ...

Håkan Håkansson works at Lund University Library, and headed the digitization of the Ravensbrück Archive in 2014-2022. The digitization was funded by numerous private donations, as well as a number of ...

For a week members of the Stern gang, who haunt the Galina café on Tel Aviv’s Herbert Samuel Esplanade, had been telling correspondents that they intended to deal with Count Folke Bernadotte. Posters ...

“Be very wary and suspicious of the people who are already telling us to stop asking questions about the Charlie Kirk assassination”- Candace Owens. How right Candace is. Yet we must continue to ask ...

Stockholm was among the most romantic places to be in Europe during World War II, according to Pat DiGeorge. It's where her parents, Herman Allen and Hedvig Johnson Allen, met in 1944, she said in an ...

Even in tranquil Rhodes, U.N.’s Palestine Mediator Count Folke Bernadotte was offered a mediation job. Two local soccer teams, the Dorics and Diagonos, both claimed the Rhodian championship, and the ...

Accra, May 26, 2025 , GNA – The Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC) has opened the fourth edition of its Gender Advisers Course in Accra, aiming to deepen gender integration ...