The ICC sentence against Al-Mahdi for destroying ancient artifacts at Timbuktu sends the right message that the international community will not tolerate the destruction of heritage sites.
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Rates of child marriage increase among refugee communities, where rates of sexual violence are high and opportunities for families low.
More needs to be done to protect women against sexual violence perpetrated in war.
When commercial considerations work with charitable concerns for the common good.
The international community seems totally incapable of stopping the bloodshed in Syria. But we can express our outrage.
A volunteer force that provides humanitarian aid in the worst of conditions, the White Helmets are the target of some very caustic conspiracy theory.
Encounters with Western countries continue to colour political discourses, including on gender in turbulent Syria. But women’s influence is more diverse and powerful than what is portrayed.
There is precedent for mass rehoming: just look at what happened to the Ugandan Asian population.
Wyatt Roy took it upon himself to look for a gunfight without a cause.
World powers including Russia, the US and Turkey all have a stake in the Syrian conflict – but the networks they rely on for influence are constantly in flux.
Under proposed changes, the war crime offence of murder, in a non-international armed conflict, would not apply to collateral civilian deaths resulting from an otherwise lawful attack.
We know how to prevent gender-based violence, and that we must respond to survivors’ needs. The challenge is in making it happen.
Even if the war in Syria is somehow brought to a close, prosecuting IS members for the crimes they’ve committed won’t be easy.
Tourism will have to be a key element in future peace-building and peace-keeping strategies in Syria.
Europe’s efforts to counter Russian propaganda may need to be stepped up.
The war of words over a bombed UN convoy in Syria is just the latest in a long series of diplomatic breakdowns.
Public attitudes toward migration are a key driver of political instability and controversy across Europe and North America.
The US has met its goal for resettling Syrian refugees in 2016, and will aim to take in 110,000 more in 2017. A migration expert examines whether fears of their arrival are well founded.
In this first of two podcasts, listen in to hear about the rebooting of a Syrian rebel group, an old drug and your computer.
The US seems stuck in War-on-Terror mode even though reality has moved on.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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Professor of Peace Studies, University of Bradford
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Senior Lecturer in History and International Relations, Curtin University
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Senior Lecturer, School of Social Sciences, UNSW Sydney
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Honorary Senior Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Professor of International Relations, Lancaster University
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of International Security, University of Birmingham
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Chair in Global Islamic Politics, Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University
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Reader in International Relations, Royal Holloway University of London
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
