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“The Return of Famine?” Conference at Tufts University on May 4, 2018 Why has famine returned? Presentations by Dan Maxwell,
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Can we prosecute starvation?
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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The Return of Famine
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.
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine
Mass Starvation upcoming book events for 2018
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Mass Starvation
Mass Starvation: The History and Future of Famine (Polity Books, 2017). In Mass Starvation, WPF Executive Director, Alex de Waal, provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they almost ended.
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Famine Research
The future famine?
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Our research programs aim to be innovative and provocative, marrying commitment to rigorous, interdisciplinary research with creative questioning in order to spark new conversations about we might understand and respond to the challenges of armed conflict today. Methodologically inductive, all of our programs are founded on analysis into the questions of the nature and causes of violent conflicts and mass atrocities, and how they are ended
Read moreFamine Trends Dataset, Tables and Graphs
The Famine Trends dataset includes two kinds of overlapping events, which have hitherto largely been studied separately. One set of
Read moreHistoric famines and episodes of mass intentional starvation
This is a dataset of historic famines and episodes of mass intentional starvation. It is a working dataset, to be
Read moreThe end of mass famine?
We are starting a project that will document the patterns of famines and episodes of mass starvation over history, including their causes, locations, and best estimates for the numbers of people who died. Remarkably, this does not appear to have been done before in a systematic manner. Our aim is to bring together evidence for major famines and instances of deliberate mass starvation (related to war and genocide).
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