Poorer states, like Rwanda and Burundi, have economic incentives for maintaining peacekeeping armies.
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While overall atrocities declined last year, they came down from one of the worst years on record. Meanwhile, a number of areas actually got worse in 2024.
Wars always include killings and destruction, but there are limits. An expert in international law explains the rules of war laid out in the Geneva Conventions − and why they’re so hard to enforce.
Many in Africa, including governments and non-state parties to conflicts, don’t trust international law. They consider it intrusive.
The war in Sudan has seen the looting of the country’s museums. Heritage boss Ikhlas Abdel Latief speaks about the losses.
There are no shortcuts to peace in Sudan, but a Marshall Plan-like investment and UN peacekeepers can help local actors diversify the economy and implement reforms once the fighting ends.
Military coups are making a comeback: it’s a return to one of postcolonial Africa’s political traditions.
The past few years have been among the most violent of any time since the second world war.
Lacking formal training in medicine or nursing, Walt Whitman nonetheless realized ‘the simple matter of personal presence, and emanating ordinary cheer and magnetism’ could go a long way.
The work of estimating conflict mortality is difficult. But that doesn’t make this grim exercise, nor accounting for the broader effects of conflict, any less critical.
In the popular imagination, coups d'etat are strictly military-led, palace conspiracies. In reality, a majority of them have required civilian participation.
The impact of wars on children is vast and multifaceted. The trauma inflicted is enduring and will shape the rest of their lives — and by extension, the societies in which they and we live.
The conflict in Sudan is the world’s biggest hunger and displacement crisis.
Depression can severely hinder the ability of refugees to rebuild their lives and integrate into host communities.
War is escalating in the Middle East and continuing in Ukraine, Sudan and Myanmar. Gun violence in the US is ballooning, too. How do our cultures nurture violence? And can we change?
Negotiating peace is not a matter of following a simple recipe; it rarely has well-defined stages.
The government needs a more streamlined, equitable and effective response to assist people facing persecution and danger to take refuge in Australia.
The UN faces a crisis because of its failure to address the world’s biggest conflicts.
While the gravity of the need in Sudan is clear, there are barriers to deploying a peacekeeping mission.
The United Arab Emirates is emerging as the foreign player most invested in Sudan’s conflict.
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