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Accountability for Mass Starvation

August 23, 2022March 2, 2023 Lisa Avery 4809 Views 0 Comment famine, mass starvation

eds. Bridget Conley, Alex de Waal, Catriona Murdoch & Wayne Jordash

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Digital feast and famine

June 6, 2022November 14, 2022 Lisa Avery 1753 Views famine, humanitarian law, social media, starvation

By Susanne Jaspars, Catriona Murdoch and Nisar Majid

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Accountability for Starvation

June 20, 2019November 14, 2022 Bridget Conley 7299 Views famine

Three new reports in the project “Accountability for Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law” are now available.

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The Return of Famine

March 22, 2018November 14, 2022 Lisa Avery 6061 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.

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The History and Future of Famine

November 29, 2017November 14, 2022 Bridget Conley 12318 Views famine, manmade famine, mass starvation

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy.