"Release Peace Magazine" Articles
This year, the Rohatyn Global Fellows have partnered with Release Peace — a non-profit, non-partisan organization (headquartered in The Hague) whose work in the peace and security fields includes interaction with high-level personnel at the EU, US State Department, UN ambassadors, and others. This partnership offers Rohatyn Global Fellows opportunities to work with professional editors to author and publish articles on a range of geopolitical, historical, global, or cultural issues in the organization’s online magazine, Release Peace.
April 2024 - Rob Ambat ‘26, a double major in Economics and in International and Global Studies (Global Security), and Sophia Fatima ‘24, a double major in Anthropology and Biology, have recently had their article “Revelations on EVs, Palm Oil, and Indigenous Land in Indonesia” published in Release Peace Magazine.
“We are going to lose our forests when the company starts operating”, explains Anatasia Manong. Although the Awyu tribe that she belongs to is the owner of a customary area of land in Indonesia, they were not notified when a palm oil company started operating within their land.
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March 2024 - Anna Grytsenko ‘26, an International Politics and Economics major and Madison Kim ‘26.5, an International and Global Studies (Global Security) major co-authored “Upholding the Truth in the Cross Fire” which has just been published in Release Peace Magazine.
A revealing interview with Sevgil Musayeva, editor-in-chief of Ukrainska Pravda, and Yulia Samaieva, editor of the economic section at ZN.UA, about war casualties, corruption, and defending Ukraine’s democracy against Russia.
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February 2024 - Nicolas Woreth ‘26, an International Politics and Economics major, has been published in Release Peace Magazine with the article “The “Left-Behind-Children” of China.”
The beginning of the 2010s marked a turning point for China’s demography. In 2011, for the first time in the country’s 5000-year history, the urban population accounted for the majority of the nation’s total. This trend reflects the range of opportunities that Chinese urban hubs offer, with consistently high growth rates and low levels of unemployment. Yet, is this an indicator that living standards in the countryside may be unsatisfactory?
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January 2024 - Simon Leiderman ‘26.5, an International and Global Studies (Global Security focus) major, has recently been published in Release Peace Magazine with his article “The Lightning Rods: Interviews with Members of the IDF.”
The interviews with 3 Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) soldiers reveal personal views on the war, their motivations to serve in the IDF, and the mixed feelings about the government. It is a glance behind the uniforms.
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December 2023 - Ronan Corley ‘25.5, with a double major in Economics and French, has recently had his article “Financing Terror: How Cryptocurrencies Still Fuel Violence” published in Release Peace Magazine.
Some 1 in 5 terrorist acts may be funded with the help of cryptocurrency channels. In 2021, around $7.7 million in assets were subject to Israeli seizure notifications on cryptocurrency accounts reportedly linked to Hamas. Social media likewise play a significant role in soliciting funds.
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DECEMBER 2023 - Abshir Adam ‘24, a Neuroscience major and Political Science minor, has recently had his article “Is Another War Brewing at the Horn of Africa?” published in Release Peace Magazine.
The mighty Ethiopia with its 150 million people lacks access to the open sea. It currently relies on its tiny neighbour Djibouti for global trade. But recent rhetoric in the region has led to some sleeping uneasy at night.
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