When the guns finally fell silent in the northern part of Ethiopia in late 2022, global attention quickly shifted elsewhere. Yet the war in Tigray remains one of the deadliest and most destructive ...

In the aftermath of the war in Tigray, which began in November 2020 and formally subsided in late 2022 without true resolution or any accountability, Ethiopia faces an existential test: whether it ...

World of War Crimes: Eyeless in Gaza … and Beyond, the latest book by barrister and human rights advocate Geoffrey Robertson, quickly establishes that contemporary international laws against war ...

Hostage-taking must be understood within this informational asymmetry. Non-state armed groups no longer treat hostages ...

Some countries are deemed by the US Department of State to be no-go zones, with travelers told that they’re likely to be ...

Few words carry as much emotional and moral weight as the word genocide. Across the world, it immediately evokes memories of the Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia, ...

Eighty years after total war transformed the continent, European countries are making big bets on new instruments of annihilation.

María Corina Machado, Venezuela’s opposition leader and last year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, presented her prize to ...

An entire industry specializing in mediation, peacekeeping, disarmament, and transitional justice has become largely obsolete ...

At the end of the 1990s, a Swedish company called Lundin Oil started drilling in a war-torn region of what was then Sudan. To secure the drilling sites, the company contracted with the Sudanese ...