The UN-led Youth, Peace and Security agenda highlights the benefits of working with youth to address violence and insecurity globally. Australia’s foreign policy is behind the curve when it comes to recognising and partnering with young people for positive change.

There is no single origin of extremist violence. Different groups have different origins, with their own unique contexts. Understanding this can aid us in taking a step toward the prevention of violent extremism.

Are our trans-Tasman ties as tight as ever or at risk of fraying? Despite assurances by the leaders that things are 'absolutely fine', it is high time for a comprehensive review of the relationship between Australia and New Zealand.

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. There is no question that Russiaphobia is on the rise across the West, especially Washington, and it shapes our thinking about the Kremlin. What’s missing here is some perspective.

Last weekend, the United States, France and the United Kingdom bombed Syria in response to the regime's most recent chemical weapons attack. With the civil war far from over, the opposition could learn from Lenin. 

It is a year this week until the next presidential elections will be held in Indonesia and speculation has begun about who will put themselves forward to face the incumbent, Joko Widodo.

Indonesia is one of Australia’s closest neighbours. But surprisingly the two countries trade and invest very little with each other. It's time to make the most of geography and work together to prosper.

Former Foreign Minister Gareth Evans once said, "No two neighbours anywhere in the world are as comprehensively unalike as Australia and Indonesia." Despite proximity, Canberra and Jakarta may as well be worlds apart but there are new reasons this must change.

This week’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London takes place amidst an outcry against the threatened deportation of the children of the Windrush generation who immigrated from the Commonwealth Caribbean.

Governments met in New York this week in an important step towards filling the gap in governance of the high seas. Negotiating an agreement will be the first step towards protecting the biodiversity of nearly half the planet.