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• The PSC is expected to reaffirm that the R-ARCSS remains the most viable framework for achieving sustainable peace, stability, unity and democratization in South Sudan. Amani Africa
• None has addressed the White House's proposal to spend another $350 billion through the unusual use of reconciliation funding, though discussions are underway for a smaller reconciliation package that could include money sought in a supplemental request for operations in Iran and other priorities. PilieroMazza PLLC
• While everyone hopes for peace in Lebanon, Washington's apparent acknowledgement of Tehran's direct political influence in Lebanon through Hezbollah may well qualify as the worst diplomatic concession of the Trump era. NE Global Media
• BRICS Chairmanship provides India with an opportunity to strengthen faith in the push for global stability, diversification, and peace, and to gain considerable negotiating leverage that will benefit India's strategic autonomy, both directly and indirectly. BRICS
• Israel rejects a Gaza peace roadmap plan presented by the U.S.-led Board of Peace, maintaining that Israeli forces will not withdraw until Hamas is fully disarmed. Awani
• Oil prices rose for a third consecutive session, with Brent approaching USD 97/b and WTI near USD 95/b, as growing doubts over a US-Iran peace agreement and renewed regional tensions heightened concerns about prolonged supply disruptions. MUFG Research
• Israeli strikes in Lebanon have killed at least 32 people, threatening to derail talks between the United States and Iran aimed at cementing a fragile peace deal. Al Jazeera
• The biggest driver remains uncertainty over how quickly exports through Hormuz can recover and whether the tentative peace framework between the U.S. and Iran will hold. IC Your Trading Edge | Official Blog | Blog
• The US and Iran began renewed tit-for-tat strikes this week, threatening an already fragile ceasefire and further undermining efforts to bring about a permanent peace deal. The Guardian
• Oil prices are going to keep moving higher unless signs emerge of willingness from either the U.S. or Iran, or both, they are ready to start discussing peace. investing.com
• A durable peace on the Korean Peninsula will not come from accepting permanent division or validating the sovereignty claims of the Kim family regime. UPI
• Iran's nuclear and missile programs and its support for regional proxy groups such as Hezbollah will all but certainly be additional sticking points as talks aimed at peace in the region progress. ZeroFOX
• At 20 x if gold swings 2% + in an hour or two after Trump threatens Iran with military action unlike anything ever seen before or declares peace imminent because Iran desperately wants to make a deal, leveraged gold-futures traders positioned wrong risk devastating 40% + losses! investing.com
• The Australia-Solomon Islands pact will be an interesting case to see whether new pacts are actually about local peace and security priorities, or just bilateral aid negotiations by another means, with a side serving of Australia's strategic denial. Lowy Institute
• Chile's success will depend on whether it can reconcile growth and legitimacy - not as competing objectives, but as mutually reinforcing ones. Americas Quarterly
• Given President Trump's unpredictability, it will not be possible to engage in long-term peace processes with the United States - not for the coexistence of Israel and a Palestinian state, not for a sovereign and viable Ukraine, and not for a lasting solution to the conflicts in Africa. Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
• If Putin succeeds in portraying the EU sanctions as an obstacle to peace, Trump could call on Hungary or Slovakia, for example, to veto their extension. Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
• In a security environment dominated by hybrid threats, Europe's ability to enhance security and peace depends less on uniform spending benchmarks than on effective capabilities, societal resilience and coordinated contributions across countries. InterEconomics
• There is a risk in dismissing Trump's cartography of mass distraction as a frivolous symbolic tactic, since it can have real consequences for what is taught in classrooms, reconciliation efforts with Indigenous peoples, and the badly needed repair of relations between the United States and Canada. Time

Last updated: 02 November 2026