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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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December 19, 2018
Conflict Prevention
DRC, Afghanistan, and Egypt at Highest Risk for Mass Killing
The Democratic Republic of Congo, Afghanistan, and Egypt top the list of countries most likely to experience a new mass killing in 2018 or 2019, according to a new forecast.
August 12, 2020
Boko Haram
Mass Defection of Boko Haram Fighters in Cameroon
Nigerian Major General Ibrahim Manu Yusuf, commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTF) fighting the Boko Haram Islamist insurgency in the Lake Chad Basin, announced that 109 Boko Haram fighters and their prisoners had defected in Cameroon.
June 21, 2016
Wars and Conflict
Bargaining and Military Coercion: A Conversation with Todd Sechser
Today, I spoke with Todd Sechser, Associate Professor in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. We spoke about his important new article in Journal of Conflict Resol…
February 10, 2020
Southeast Asia
A Horrific Mass Shooting in Thailand: Some Thoughts
Over the weekend, Thailand suffered a horrific mass shooting, in the northeastern city of Nakhon Ratchasima, known as Korat. A gunman apparently angered about a land dispute attacked his commanding o…
September 27, 2005
Sub-Saharan Africa
Interview with Todd Moss on Debt Relief
At a World Bank - International Monetary Fund meeting this week in Washington, DC, an agreement was reached on a plan to provide around $40 billion in debt relief to eighteen of the world’s poorest c…