Below is a round-up of recent news analysis and media commentary from the WPF’s Executive Director, Alex de Waal, a leading expert on mass starvation and famine. In the past weeks, he has discussed starvation crimes in Gaza (Occupied Palestinian Territories), Sudan, Tigray (Ethiopia) and the Horn of Africa.
Gaza
By: Bridget Conley and B. Arneson
In 2018, when Massachusetts passed comprehensive criminal justice reform, its state system had 16 prisons, including several that operated with both medium and minimum facilities. Today, three of these prisons have closed or will close: South Middlesex Correctional Center (closed in 2021), MCI-Cedar Junction (formerly MCI-Walpole, closed in 2023), and […]
Continue Reading →Grief should not beget grief.
We call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
The long-term policy of displacing Palestinians into ever smaller concentrations of land in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza is not new – but today is newly inflicted at enormous scale, on an accelerated schedule and accompanied by spectacular violence.
The war […]
Continue Reading →Alex de Waal & Chidi Odinkalu
The governments of the western world have decided that they don’t care about the human rights of Ethiopians. Or, perhaps, that there are things more important than an independent, impartial, international process of investigating violations and pressing for accountability.
On October 4, the United Nations International Commission of […]
Continue Reading →Originally published by PRISME on July 31, 2023 as part of debate #1 of the SALAM project.
PRISME/SALAM debate #1 Synthesis paper
The inaugural workshop of the SALAM project asked: What is the role of the arms trade between Europe & North America and the MENA region, especially […]
Continue Reading →Guy Gabriel
More peacebuilders does not mean more peace. There are numerous diplomatic tracks hoping to lead to peace in Sudan at present, each one pitched differently to the others, each with merits and demerits. But that there are numerous concurrent tracks does not amount to a surfeit of peace, so much as its lack. […]
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