Accountability for Mass Starvation
eds. Bridget Conley, Alex de Waal, Catriona Murdoch & Wayne Jordash
Read moreeds. Bridget Conley, Alex de Waal, Catriona Murdoch & Wayne Jordash
Read moreBy Susanne Jaspars, Catriona Murdoch and Nisar Majid
Read moreDuring times of famine, sex, gender and age differences matter. But precisely how and why these factors intersect with famine conditions is an issue of much debate.
Read morePanel discussion on war and famine in the Tigray region of Ethiopia.
Read moreThree new reports in the project “Accountability for Starvation: Testing the Limits of the Law” are now available.
Read moreDiscussing the impact of the Coalition bombing campaign on food production and distribution in Yemen.
Read moreFriday, 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.
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.
Read moreThe future famine?
Read moreThe Famine Trends dataset includes two kinds of overlapping events, which have hitherto largely been studied separately. First, are great
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