Lisa Avery – World Peace Foundation

Commemorating Starvation in the 21st Century

November 19, 2018November 19, 2018 Lisa Avery 24 Views famine, Ireland, mass starvation, memorialization

Address given at Quinnipiac University on October 11, 2018 by Alex de Waal

World Peace Foundation Publications

November 2, 2018November 6, 2018 Lisa Avery 241 Views

Books, research paper, reports and other publications distributed by World Peace Foundation Books, articles, reports and other publications by

famine New Fellow

Catriona Murdoch

September 17, 2018October 1, 2018 Lisa Avery 235 Views 0 Comment

Catriona is a Senior Legal Consultant with Global Rights Compliance, specializing in international human rights, criminal and humanitarian law. Learn more about our new and current Fellows here.

Arms Trade Corruption and Political Finance

July 6, 2018November 16, 2018 Lisa Avery 727 Views 0 Comment corruption, Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, political finance

This occasional paper examines the link between political finance and corruption in the arms trade, drawing from the Compendium of Arms Trade Corruption cases of corruption in the arms trade and the broader military sector from around the world.

famine Updates

Can we prosecute starvation?

July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 Lisa Avery 387 Views 0 Comment

Published in partnership with Global Rights Compliance, this paper addresses what law might apply and what evidence would be required to pursue prosecution.

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Corruption in the Russian Defense Sector

May 18, 2018May 21, 2018 Lisa Avery 646 Views corruption, Global Arms Business, Global Arms Trade, Russia

The report by Polina Beliakova and Sam Perlo-Freeman discusses information on corruption in the Russian defense sector, especially the arms industry, identifying key cases of corruption that have become visible in recent years, in particular since 2008, when Russia’s current set of military reforms, and major rearmament drive, began.

Events famine

The Return of Famine

March 22, 2018July 10, 2018 Lisa Avery 2072 Views

Friday, May 4, 2018
9:00am – 5:30pm
Drawing on Tufts University’s distinguished record of scholarship and public engagement on the subject of famine, this conference will bring together faculty and researchers from across the University, in conversation with outside experts. Panels will address why famine has returned, today’s humanitarian challenges, legal and political issues related to criminalizing famine, and the most pressing famine of today, Yemen.