Peace remains ever more elusive in the beleaguered nation of Yemen. Talks held in Geneva, Switzerland, last week to seek an end to the sectarian violence in that Arab country foundered miserably. UN Special Envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed traveled to the Geneva talks with what he apparently thought were modest enough objectives: an at least temporary truce and agreement on a seven-point plan for extending peace beyond a ceasefire. But hopes for a cessation of hostilities throughout the Muslim holy month of Ramadan (June 17 to July 17)―let alone for approval by both sides of any sort of agreement―were quickly dashed when negotiators failed even to get the warring sides to meet in the same room. Instead, Amhed and his team had to meet with the two warring sides―Houthi rebel-led delegates from Sana ′a and representatives of Yemeni President-in-exile Abd Radduh Mansur Hadi― in separate rooms, thus carrying out a sort of “shuttle diplomacy” between the two belligerents, but without ev
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Author Roberto Vivo comments on wars past and present, on the world’s great peacemakers and on the pathway to global peace. His basic philosophy: In a world where 9 out of every 10 victims of armed conflict are civilians, war is no longer a viable political alternative. Indeed, it is the ultimate crime against humanity. If rising generations are to have a future, the key will lie in world peace. War is the pathway to oblivion.