Intellectual leadership for peace
The role of digital technologies in food security and famine risk, the application of IHL, and what it means for analysis and action in conflict-induced humanitarian crises.
How are our nuclear weapons choices decided? Who gets a say in making the knowledge that is used to justify these choices? Emma Belcher discusses these questions with Dr. Benoit Pelopidas, founding director of the Nuclear Knowledges program at Sciences Po (CERI) in Paris. On Early Warning, Alex Hall sits down with Dr. Bridget Conley, research director at the World Peace Foundation. She discusses how civilians are protected under the laws of war, and the intersection between nuclear weapons and genocide.
An engaging podcast on nuclear policy and national security, Press the Button is co-hosted by defense experts Tom Collina and Michelle Dover of Ploughshares Fund, a global security foundation.
WPF Blog: Reinventing Peace
"The big idea: How satellite imagery is helping tell the story of Ethiopia’s war."
Lauren Jackson interviewed me & Prof Jan Nyssen for @nytimes covering our work. We both highlight, what we don't know is way more than what we have learned so far. #Tigray https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/23/podcasts/tigray-ethiopia.html?smid=tw-share
There’s talk of peace in #Ethiopia, and it’s for real. 🇪🇹 Apparent recognition by PM @AbiyAhmedAli that his forces cannot defeat the Tigrayans is moving the parties toward the negotiating table. Alex de Waal on @RStatecraft http://ow.ly/jZS750JFnbw
I joined my @FletcherSchool colleagues Alex de Waal @WorldPeaceFdtn and Dan Maxwell @TuftsNutrition to write about the use and criminality of starvation tactics in war for @ConversationUS https://theconversation.com/starving-civilians-is-an-ancient-military-tactic-but-today-its-a-war-crime-in-ukraine-yemen-tigray-and-elsewhere-184297
