Accountability for Mass Starvation
New Publication available August 25, 2022
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- How the International Community is Betraying Tigray—and its Principles September 26, 2022Annotating the Official Script This blog post is a commentary on a press briefing and three documents that reveal the thinking of key international actors regarding the war against Tigray conducted by the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the State of Eritrea. The four documents are: Press briefing by U.S. Special Envoy Mike Hammer, [...] […]Alex DeWaal
- Days under siege August 29, 2022A letter from a young professional living in Tigrai I am writing to share my story with the world as the world seems to be acclimatized to live with our suffering in Tigrai. From time to time I hear the international media struggling to put a positive light on the regime in Addis Ababa following […]Birhan Gebrekristos Mezgebu
Paul Howe: We need to be open to the possibility of the political. How do we understand #famines as systems? The use of models (machine learning, artificial intelligence, etc.) can provide us with a lot of technical insight.
When discussing Accountability for Mass Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law, @tomdannenbaum states, "One of the challenges of international criminal law is that it can suck the oxygen out of other legal framings."
When discussing #famine early warning systems, Dan Maxwell states, "We are pretty good at predicting famine and food insecurity, but we are not good at all at predicting #conflict."