More than 200 human rights, humanitarian, civil liberties and faith-based organizations, think tanks & experts agree that a threat to wipe out 'a whole civilization' may amount to threats of genocide.

We join 200 organizations and experts in calling for an end to President Trump's threats of war crimes, urging all parties to respect international law and noting that those responsible for atrocities can and must be held accountable.

Read more:
stanleycenter.org/publications...

If you're in DC, please join us on Tuesday, April 7 at the National Press Club for a screening of Bombshell, followed by a Q&A with the filmmakers and a timely discussion on nuclear weapons and the importance of independent reporting. 🎥

👉 Register here: stnl.cr/bombshell_screening

Are you a journalist interested in reporting on nuclear weapons & the upcoming NPT Review Conference? 📢
Join RevCon Reporters Group to:
⚛️ Gain insight on nuclear policy
🎙️ Connect w/ fellow journalists
📰 Discover under-reported angles, develop sources, & hone your pitches
➡️ Apply:
stnl.cr/dsp-revcon

Cities should be safe for all their residents. Local governments & those supporting their work have the tools to increase peace and reduce violence. Stanley Center’s Kelsey Paul Shantz presented the Letter of the Local Social Covenant on Violence and Conflict Prevention at the UCLG Annual Retreat. ⤵️

2026 Open Source Nuclear Analysis Bootcamp - Federation of American Scientists In June 2026, FAS is hosting a bootcamp to pass on its practices to the next generation of open-source nuclear analysts.

Call for Applications 📢

The Open Source Nuclear Analysis Workshop will provide training on open source analysis methods to a new generation of nuclear weapons analysts.

📅 June 22-26, 2026
📍Montreal

Co-organized w/ @scientistsorg.bsky.social

➡️ Apply by March 15:
fas.org/osint-bootcamp

#NukeSky

This image features the sixth cohort of Accelerators. There are three individuals shown with names and positions: Esther Kabochi, Senior Assistant Secretary, State Department for Internal Security, Kenya; Zenobia Homan, Senior Research Fellow, School of Security Studies, King's College London; and Sneha Nair, WMD Analyst, Applied Research Associates. The Stanley Center for Peace and Security logo is included at the bottom right.

We are excited to announce the sixth cohort of the Accelerator Initiative!

Esther Kabochi, Zenobia Homan, and Sneha Nair will participate and contribute to Stanley Center's policy programming focused on nuclear risk reduction in 2026-27.

Meet the Accelerators:
stnl.cr/accelerator

#NukeSky

We are excited to announce we are now accepting applications for the sixth cohort of our Accelerator Initiative! ⚛️

This is a #CareerDevelopment opportunity for early-career women and nonbinary people working in nuclear weapons policy.

📆 Apply by Jan 16, 2026

➡️ Apply:
stnl.cr/accelerator

#NukeSky

Tackling the False Dilemma: A Communications Guide for Advancing Balanced and Effective Public Safety Approaches - Peace in Our Cities

A new communications guide by @peaceinourcities.org supports a balanced approach to public safety in Latin America that integrates law enforcement, justice systems, and social prevention to deliver both immediate relief and durable security.

Read the guide:
peaceinourcities.org/resources/ta...

Quote: "...systems, structures, and policies make a difference when people with power choose to listen to, include, and respect the experiences and perspectives of people from across diverse settings within urban landscapes. Jai-Ayla Sutherland PiOC Secretariat." PIOC logo on top right. Background is a gray gridline.

On #HumanRightsDay, how can we reflect on our own agency to build safer, more peaceful, and more just cities—grounded in the inherent rights of all people?

PiOC Secretariat member Jai-Ayla Sutherland highlights insights on how city-led action can confront inequality + identity-based violence. 🏙️

Oral History As A Strategic Tool For Nuclear Risk Reduction - BASIC In collaboration with the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, BASIC recently hosted an oral history workshop to launch the "Adventures in Risk Reduction:

Following the launch of our "Adventures in Risk Reduction: Oral History Project" with @stanleycenter.org last month, Bruno Martini reflects on his experience of the first project workshop and the suitability of oral history methodology for #riskreduction: basicint.org/oral-history...

📣 Happening tomorrow! Join us for the virtual launch of PiOC’s comms guide “Tackling the False Dilemma of Mano Dura: Communications Guidance for Balanced and Effective Public Safety Approaches.”

Video and photography by Alexander Turner
Music by Benjamin Cornelius/MusicRevolution
Narration by Stanley Center for Peace and Security

#IBMV #MassViolence #BookRelease #UrbanPolicy #SocialImpact

Co-organized by the @stanleycenter.org with CRIES - Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, @peaceinourcities.org, and the Violence, Inequality and Power (VIP) Lab. And with thanks to our publisher at Palgrave Macmillan.

Special thanks to our speakers: Michal Braier, Shukria Dellawar, Kate Ferguson, Rachel Locke, Rose Mbone, Kelsey Paul Shantz, Jai-Ayla Sutherland, Serena Wiebe, Ammar Azzouz, Ariana Markowitz, Martin Bisp, Kieran Milton, Antonio Sampaio, and Flávia Carbonari.

Over the course of five days, contributors and editors of the volume spoke with guests about identity-based mass violence at Tate Modern, King’s College London, University College London, the House of Lords, the University of Oxford, and Empire Fighting Chance in Bristol.

We experienced an incredible week in the UK of in-person events for the launch of our edited volume, “Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered.”

Learn more about identity-based mass violence and read the full volume at ibmv.org.

Uncovered: Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts | IBMV This edited volume explores identity, power, and place, making the case that cities have the capacity to prevent violence, including mass violence, ushering in practices and innovations that are roote...

Read "Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered" at ibmv.org. 📖

Co-organized by CRIES - Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales, @peaceinourcities.org, and the Violence, Inequality and Power (VIP) Lab. And with thanks to our publisher at Palgrave Macmillan.

Four people smiling in a gym, wearing matching blue t-shirts, surrounded by colorful sports posters on the walls.

Thank you to Empire Fighting Chance for hosting the event and to everyone working to make our communities safer.

A special thank you to our speakers: Martin Bisp, Serena Wiebe, Rachel Locke, Ariana Markowitz, and Jai-Ayla Sutherland. Photography by Alex Turner. 🙏

Three contributors to the book "Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered" stand at a podium inside a gym filled with boxing posters. The person in the center is speaking while the other two listen attentively.

Person being interviewed by two reporters with microphones in a room decorated with posters and memorabilia.

During Serena Wiebe's reading from her chapter she reminded us that "love wins over hate every time." ❤️

Read her chapter:
link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Martin Bisp of Empire Fighting Chance addresses a group from a podium in the boxing gym, with various posters and a screen displaying the topic and book "Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts" visible in the background.

Martin Bisp of Empire Fighting Chance introduced book contributor Serena Wiebe as someone who stands up to kings, prime ministers, peers, and movie stars to challenge them on addressing violence. 👑

Two individuals are practice boxing in a gym filled with posters on the walls and a boxing ring in the background.

The fight for safer communities for young people requires addressing the fundamental and structural challenges they face. 🥊

Staff and contributors of the "Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered" pose in the boxing ring at Empire Fighting Chance in Bristol, UK. Each person is wearing boxing gloves, smiling at the camera in a gym with posters on the walls.

Staff and contributors of the "Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered" pose in the boxing ring at Empire Fighting Chance in Bristol, UK. Each person has their back to the camera and is lifting one arm with a boxing glove in the air in a gym with posters on the walls.

A diverse group of people applauding enthusiastically at an indoor event, surrounded by posters on the wall.

Two people embracing warmly in a crowded event space with posters on the wall in the background. One person is wearing a colorful striped jacket.

Our recent book launch event at Empire Fighting Chance in Bristol, UK, brought together voices from "Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered" to showcase evidence-based solutions that can reduce and prevent violence while shaping safer, more inclusive communities.

#IBMV

The book interrogates how power shapes the understanding of violence and influences how prevention outcomes are measured. Aimed at reform-minded policymakers, practitioners, funders, and advocates, it offers a practical foundation for collaborative, prevention-focused action and policy innovation.

Through a multidimensional lens, the authors address forms of violence including sexual and gender-based violence, racial and ethnic violence, gang and group-based violence, state-perpetrated violence, political violence, and violence against migrants.

It examines the complex intersections of structural and acute violence in cities and highlights locally driven solutions drawn from the fields of urban violence prevention, atrocity prevention, and peacebuilding.

#IBMV #MassViolence #BookRelease #UrbanPolicy #SocialImpact

Advertisement for the book titled "Identity-Based Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered" available at IBMV.org, featuring an image of a person lying on a map with a city grid in the background, next to the book cover displayed on the right.

📢 The open-access version of "Identity-Based Mass Violence in Urban Contexts: Uncovered" is now available!

This groundbreaking volume represents a multiyear exploration of identity-based mass violence (IBMV) in urban settings.

Read it now for FREE: ibmv.org

Developing Story Project | Stanley Center for Peace and Security The Stanley Center for Peace and Security’s Developing Story Project is a multi-year initiative to support, strengthen, and sustain reporting on nuclear weapons and related issues.

Thank you to all who participated in and contributed to these events!

Learn more about the Developing Story Project:
stanleycenter.org/journalism-m...

🎬 Special screening and discussion of "Bombshell", a documentary that uncovers the fight to control the narrative around the 1945 atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the role of the press in bringing facts to light.

Speakers at the Open Source Intelligence workshop presented by Open Nuclear Network.

Participants work on case studies of media coverage that used (or misused) open source intelligence.

Speakers at the Open Source Intelligence workshop presented by Open Nuclear Network.

🔍 Hands-on training in Open Source Intelligence (OSINT), a game-changing tool for those who report on nuclear weapons issues, presented by Open Nuclear Network.

A group of people walk outside the International Atomic Energy Agency's Nuclear Material Laboratory.

An IAEA staffer shows off an interactive exhibition about nuclear weapons inspectors at the Agency’s newly-opened visitor center.

🔬 Reporting trip to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)’s Nuclear Safeguards Clean Lab in Seibersdorf, outside Austria, where a global team of scientists tests samples for evidence of bomb-making activities. @iaeaorg.bsky.social