Post-Conflict

Rats That Can Sniff Out Land Mines are Changing the Perception of the Military in Cambodia

Editor’s note: Dr. Darcie DeAngelo is a medical anthropologist at the Institute for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention (I-GMAP) at Binghamton University, State University of New York. In this interview,...

Historical Patterns of Violence Rear Their Heads Once More in Darfur

After relative peace, violence has returned to Darfur. In July alone, more than 60 people were killed, according to the United Nations. Darfur is made up of three states –...

How Resource Wealth Fuels War

Though mired in the depths of the Cold War, the latter half of the twentieth century was a period in which the standard of living across the globe rose substantially....

Hitting the Pause Button: The “Frozen Conflict” Dilemma in Ukraine

For some time, Ukraine is likely to host frozen conflicts, in Crimea and the Donbas region. Elections last Sunday in the Russian-armed, rebel-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine reinforced this. Moscow...

Facing Reality in Ukraine

The attack letter on the Boistö bilateral U.S.-Russian Track II initiative setting out a path toward a stable cease-fire in Ukraine is sad, yet, in ways, useful. Sad, because it...

The 2014 Israel-Hamas War: A Preliminary Net Assessment

On August 26, after more than fifty days of fighting, the latest phase of the Israel-Hamas War ended with an Egyptian-mediated ceasefire. It will be months, if not years, before...

The Existential Roots of the Gaza War

With the latest Gaza war, the third in less than five years, finally over, this is an opportune moment to reflect on the harsh realities underlying the conflict. Beyond the...

How We Won the Cold War, but Lost the Peace

To have any hope of healing the deep wound in the very heart of Europe that is the crisis in Ukraine, we must first separate two crises that have become...

NATO’s Post-Ukraine Nuclear Policy: Wales Is the Beginning of a Process, Not the Decision Point

The NATO summit in Wales September 4-5 will hardly change the alliance’s nuclear policy and posture, but the debate about withdrawal of US tactical nuclear weapons (TNW) from Europe, which...

Solving the Middle East’s Refugee Disaster

The current policy conversation about redrawing the Middle East map ignores a long-term problem that must be part of the solution: Iraqi and Syrian refugees. As nearly three million Syrian...

Ukraine: Reuniting a House Divided

I recently traveled to Ukraine to take the temperature of what so many pundits have described as the new Cold War. Traffic on the road from the main airport to...

What the European Union Should Do to Help Ukraine

To date, the European Union (EU) has played a key role in the current crisis in Ukraine. Former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to suspend the negotiations for an Association...