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Is world peace even possible? I study war and peace and here’s where I’d start

  • Written by Alex Bellamy, Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland

By any measure, 2025 was not a good year for world peace.

Worse, it was just the latest of a decade-long decline of peace and upsurge of war.

As author of a book on world peace and how we can achieve it (that’s literally the title), here’s my assessment.

Grim numbers

Peace is on the decline around the world by many measures.

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