The chief EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier has pledged that peace in Ireland and citizens in the union will be protected in “all circumstances” as fears of a hard Brexit grow.

President Bill Clinton said today that “inclusive tribalism” – as he witnessed in Northern Ireland and in other parts of the world – is key to creating a greater global peace.

Key elements of Northern Ireland's Good Friday Agreement peace deal have had a lasting impact on subsequent accords worldwide, researchers said.

THE decision to award the 2017 Nobel Peace Prize to the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN) is an entirely appropriate rebuke to President Donald Trump, who seems unable to understand that his nuclear high-wire act with North Korea and Iran is a form of lunacy far beyond any issue immediately in play.

French President Francois Hollande has described the suspension of Syrian peace talks as "very worrying".

Flanked by Vatican bodyguards in flak jackets and machine-gun-toting UN peacekeepers, Pope Francis plunged Sunday into conflict-wracked Central African Republic and urged the country’s Christian and Muslim factions to lay down their weapons and instead arm themselves with peace and forgiveness.

South Sudan’s president is expected to sign a peace deal today to end a 20-month-old conflict but will list his reservations in an annex to the pact, his foreign minister said.

South Korea has said that it has agreed to halt propaganda broadcasts at noon after North Korea expressed regret over a recent land mine blast that maimed two South Korean troops.

The UN political chief has said the risk of escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict "is palpable".

Israelis and Palestinians would gain billions of dollars from making peace with each other, while both would face daunting economic losses in case of other alternatives, particularly in case of a return to violence, according to a study.

Two sets of important negotiations are running in parallel. One — hopefully — to end a process, the other — hopefully — to prevent a civil war or something as catastrophic breaking out on the fringes of Europe.