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- Aid
- Syria
How to repair a country like Syria: Big aid...
Can a fragmented aid system get over its internal rivalries…
December 23, 2024
- Genocide
- Human Rights
Does the language of ‘genocide’ enable or hinder a...
It hurts the same whether an atrocity is genocidal or…
December 9, 2024
- War and Peace
If not peace, a four-year pause in death and...
Wars are costly but making peace is not cost-free either,…
November 20, 2024
- Facts and feelings
Media Angst in the Era of Washington Post cancellation
Muddling facts, opinions, and emotions in today’s media reporting is…
November 5, 2024
- Humanitarian
Humanising wars requires going beyond the Geneva Conventions
The Geneva Conventions stagnate while warfare evolves. 28 October 2024…
October 28, 2024
- Peacekeeping
- War and Peace
Unifil can’t keep the peace in Lebanon, but it...
The UN peacekeeper presence on the Lebanon/Israel border is symbolic…
October 14, 2024
- Multilateralism
Why is multilateralism failing to deliver on its high...
Multilateralism is not finished. The world is just getting more…
September 26, 2024
- Sudan
- War and Peace
Sudan needs an exceptional humanitarian endeavour to end its...
Sudan’s traumatised people are desperate for a new approach to…
August 27, 2024
- Governance
What is a country’s rationale in granting asylum to...
What to do with spurned leaders is a dilemma of…
August 20, 2024
- Genocide
- Human Rights
There will be no peace in Sudan until the...
Sudan’s ongoing suffering will persist until the debts of history…
August 6, 2024
- Governance
How should we assess a leader’s fitness to govern?
Fitness to rule is a complex determination that goes beyond…
July 29, 2024
- Global Health
- Humanitarian
Shifting humanitarian health modes will save lives in conflict
The rising civilian toll of death and disease in today’s…
June 25, 2024
- Humanitarian
Should UNRWA step back from its Gaza operations?
Despite being a noble agency, UNRWA has become politically controversial…
June 12, 2024
- Development
- Humanitarian
Aid is increasingly a placeholder for doing something when...
Using aid to project power is immoral and ineffective 21…
May 21, 2024
- Development
Foreign aid is welcome, but it shouldn’t come with...
In our needy world, compassion must be the only justification…
May 10, 2024
- Humanitarian
Twenty years of DIHAD: connecting our past to our...
Do conferences make a difference? Reflecting on two decades of…
April 23, 2024
- Humanitarian
A new humanitarian diplomacy is needed for a world...
Geopolitical shifts require new forms of problem-solving to tackle growing…
April 19, 2024
- Humanity
Hunger is an immoral accompaniment to war
Starvation and famine must not be allowed to become the…
April 12, 2024