US President Barack Obama's forthcoming trip to Indonesia is an opportunity to congratulate President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono for the considerable success he has had as a peacebuilder. He was a worthy Nobel Peace Prize nominee for his contribution to peace in Aceh, and made admirable contributions to building peace in Ambon and Poso, among other places. Unfortunately, he could never be a worthy Nobel winner because of the situation in West Papua. Obama's visit is also an opportunity to confront the failure to grasp the need for peacebuilding in Papua.

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The second solar eclipse of this year 2010, will be a total solar eclipse taking place on 11th of July 2010. None the less, this is also the only total solar eclipse visible for this year. In this eclipse of sun, the totality will go on for a duration of 5 minutes and 20 seconds, The totality will start at 18:15:15 GMT (UT) and will end at 20:51:42 GMT (UT) as the Moon's shadow leaves the Earth.

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In 2007, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore received the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Prize Committee noted that their work could ‘contribute to a sharper focus on the processes and decisions that appear to be necessary to protect the world's future climate, and thereby to reduce the threat to the security of mankind.' Yet, in spite of this prestigious award, surprisingly little academic evidence has been produced within IPPC or elsewhere that point to a strong link between climate change and conflict. In fact, most peer-reviewed studies based on

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This article attempts to contribute to the discussion about the emerging concept of ‘East Asian Peace', which in its narrower formulation refers to a dramatic decline in the number of battle deaths from 1979 onwards. By using the data on armed conflicts and peace processes from the School for a Culture of Peace at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the following article raises some academic questions that need further research.

Understanding the East Asian peace: some findings on the role of informal processes by Mikael Weissmann, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Whereas the discussion on East Asian Peace has primarily focused on armed conflicts, this article contributes by discussing unarmed conflicts in the East Asian region. The article presents the regional picture of the prevalence of these types of non-violent, popular uprisings and contends that these types of social conflicts are important to consider in order to get a better grasp of what kind of relative peacefulness that East Asia is experiencing.

East Asia's relative peace has finally been noticed. There are now a growing number of activities dealing with the theme, seeking to explain the phenomenon. In addition to a relatively small panel at the Convention of the International Studies Association (ISA) last year, the phenomenon was addressed this year during a Panel of the European Alliance for Asian Studies at the 6^th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in Daejon, South Korea. Furthermore, the ASEM Education Hub for Peace and Conflict Studies organized