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.

Pope Leo XIV greets visitors in St. Peter's Square as they gather to pray the Angelus prayer on the feast of the Holy Family, Dec. 28, 2025. Credit: OSV News photo/Matteo Pernaselci, Vatican Media.

The world has begun to close out 2025, toasting the end of a year that brought an American pope, precarious peace talks in several parts of the globe and a U.S. president whose impact was felt ...

A new kind of Mideast peace process is underway, as a determined Trump administration and its allies in the Muslim world seek to broaden a tenuous cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. By David M.

Director of the Asia Pacific Centre for the Responsibility to Protect and Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, The University of Queensland Worse, it was just the latest of a decade-long decline ...