A World Still Waiting for Peace
On this International Day of Peace, the United Nations will once again call for a silencing of guns. But the truth is that silence is not enough. Peace is not the absence of sound, nor the mere cessation of war. Peace is the presence of justice, the honoring of dignity, the protection of life. And today, in 2025, too many corners of our shared Earth still burn.
The United Nations and the Daily Work of Peace
Every day, far from headlines, the United Nations deploys peacekeepers to buffer fragile ceasefires, negotiators to hold open a door between warring factions, and humanitarian staff to deliver food and medicine into impossible places.
In South Sudan, where climate change has deepened droughts and swollen rivers, UN agencies scramble to feed children while communities displaced by war fight over land that no longer yields enough food.
In the Democratic Republic of Congo, where armed groups terrorize civilians and the earth itself is mined to exhaustion, …
