Starving Tigray
The war in Tigray has comprehensively dismantled the region’s economy and food systems.
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New Publication
New Pandemics, Old Politics
New publication from Alex de Waal
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Business as Usual: How major weapons exporters arm the world’s conflicts
This report is part of the WPF research program, Defense industries, Foreign Policies and Armed Conflict.
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COVID-19 in Women’s Prisons
COVID-19 and the policies designed to counter it in American prisons pose distinct medical, emotional, psychological, and economic threats for incarcerated women and their families.
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Talking about Disorder
Every day we read that we live in an age of disorder. But what does that mean? Are our intellectual
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96 Deaths in Detention: A View of COVID-19 in the Federal Bureau of Prisons as Captured in Death Notices
On March 28th, the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported the first death of someone in their custody: Patrick Jones, a
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Corrupt third-parties in the legal arms trade
This paper presents a preliminary typology of arms trade intermediaries as encountered in the more than 40 cases of corruption in the compendium.
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Purposes of Starvation: historical and contemporary uses
Published by the Journal of International Criminal Justice, in a special edition on Starvation and International Law.
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Recent publications from the Conflict Research Programme
Creating a peaceful political order in South Sudan often seems like trying to cage a torrent: however creative the formula, however forceful its application, the water always escapes.
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