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    • PEACE AND GLOBAL TRENDS
      • Global Arms Trade and Corruption
        • Revitalizing Debate on the Global Arms Trade
        • Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict
        • Indefensible
        • The Corruption Tracker
      • Political Markets and Conflict Research
        • PeaceREP
        • Carbon Compacts, Decarbonization, and Peace in Fragile States in Africa and the Middle East
    • PROTECTING VULNERABLE GROUPS
      • Mass Atrocities Research
        • Memory from the Margins
        • Mass Atrocity Endings Research
        • Dignity for the Dead: In Their Presence
      • Mass Starvation Research
        • Accountability for Starvation
        • The History and Future of Famine
          • Famine Trends Dataset, Tables and Graphs
      • Tracking COVID-19 in Detention
      • Children and Youth Staying Safe in Violent Conflict
    • AFRICAN PEACE RESEARCH
      • Responding to Crises in the Horn
      • Sudan Peace Archive
      • African Peace Missions
  • Publications
    • World Peace Foundation Publications
    • Alex de Waal publications
    • Bridget Conley publications
    • Sam Perlo-Freeman publications
    • Dyan Mazurana WPF publications
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    • AY2022-2023 Events
    • Past Events
      • In Their Presence: Debates on the dignity, display, and ownership of human remains
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famine

famine mass starvation New Research 

Accountability for Mass Starvation

August 23, 2022March 2, 2023 Lisa Avery 4515 Views 0 Comment famine, mass starvation

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

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famine mass starvation New Publication New Research 

Digital feast and famine

June 6, 2022November 14, 2022 Lisa Avery 1607 Views famine, humanitarian law, social media, starvation

By Susanne Jaspars, Catriona Murdoch and Nisar Majid

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famine Gender mass starvation New Publication Publications 

New Occasional Paper: Gender, Famine and Mortality

December 9, 2021November 14, 2022 Bridget Conley 1420 Views famine, Gender

During 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.

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New Pathogen, Old Politics

March 18, 2020March 2, 2022 Lisa Avery 3643 Views 0 Comment coronavirus, COVID19, epidemic, famine, influenza

Pandemic is a time of confusion and disorder. By definition, the new pathogen is new to epidemiology and microbiology, and

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famine mass starvation Publications 

Accountability for Starvation

June 20, 2019November 14, 2022 Bridget Conley 4995 Views famine

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

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famine mass starvation Publications 

Report: Strategies of the Coalition in the Yemen War

October 6, 2018November 14, 2022 Bridget Conley 23655 Views 0 Comment famine, Yemen

Discussing the impact of the Coalition bombing campaign on food production and distribution in Yemen.

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famine mass starvation 

The History and Future of Famine

November 29, 2017November 14, 2022 Bridget Conley 11780 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.

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famine mass starvation Program 

Famine Trends Dataset, Tables and Graphs

April 14, 2017November 14, 2022 Bridget Conley 243271 Views famine

The Famine Trends dataset includes two kinds of overlapping events, which have hitherto largely been studied separately. First, are great

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