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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…
On Thursday July 17, 298 people lost their lives when Flight MH17 was downed in eastern Ukraine. Almost immediately accusations were made that the aircraft had been shot down by pro-Russian separatists…
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