The war in Myanmar draws far less western attention than Ukraine or the Middle East. Why is such an enduring and intractable conflict being treated with so little urgency?
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The permanent members of the UN Security Council have repeatedly used their power of veto to block resolutions relating to mass atrocities. Is it time to revoke that power?
Many genocide classes review the Holocaust or Cambodia’s Killing Fields. A scholar wanted to show that genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and ethnic cleansing still happen today.
Despite the recognition of risk, it’s clear that the scope and severity of the Ethiopian crisis has caught many by surprise.
Intervention in Cabo Delgado is a potentially dangerous move with far-reaching consequences for SADC if its efforts fail, or it becomes a protracted intervention.
There is no responsibility to protect people from pandemics – but the world must still safeguard those at risk of mass atrocities.
The devastating costs of economic sanctions on Venezuela are being ignored or disregarded. So too is the lack of a legal basis for international intervention.
Nearly 15 years after the international community endorsed the Responsibility to Protect (R2P), standards tragically are slipping.
While his appointment as UN Secretary-General was a huge breakthrough, Kofi Annan also led the organisation through some of its ugliest moments.
While the Syria strikes were clearly violating international law, using force to uphold the ban on chemical weapons is becoming acceptable in the international community.
The legal standards for military intervention are complicated and highly specific. It’s not clear an attack on Syria would meet them.
Employers like Michigan State play a critical role in protecting people – or not – from abuse by people on their payroll.
Hardly an enthusiastic upholder of human rights, Qatar has been welcomed as a participant in R2P – even though that obligates it to do basically nothing.
The UN’s peacekeeping efforts are all very well, but they take too long to mount and are unevenly spread across member states. It’s time to build something less ad hoc.
The UK’s response to the migrant crisis is legal, but it’s also immoral.
Does anyone seriously expect Beijing or Moscow to change their behaviour because of a hail of hopeful retweets?
After the NATO-led interventions in Kosovo and Libya, many commentators argued that the Responsibility to Protect, the fashionable name for humanitarian military intervention, had finally become an established…
The conflicts in Ukraine, Gaza and Syria are symptomatic of deeper problems in the international system. If the Security Council were to fulfil its role under the UN Charter, tackling many of these tragic…
The Srebrenica massacre of July 1995 is one of the most horrendous atrocities of post-war European history. The mass killing of 7,000 to 8,000 Bosnian Muslims accompanied by the deportation of 25,000 to…
The US has regularly wielded its veto on issues relating to Israel and Palestine.
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Adjunct Professor of Mass Atrocities Prevention, Georgetown University; University of Connecticut
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Reader in International Relations, University of Westminster
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Senior Lecturer, UNSW
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Associate Fellow, Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria
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Professor of Politics, Cardiff University
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Part-time Professor at the School of International Development and Global Studies at the University of Ottawa and the School of Public Policy and Administration at Carleton University, Carleton University
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Research Coordinator, Security Institute for Governance and Leadership in Africa, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in Global Security and Mass Atrocity Prevention, University of Leeds, University of Leeds