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Gaza and the dilemmas of genocide scholars

Increasing partisanship in Genocide Studies threatens the field itself, as well as the very act of genocide prevention.

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest as they take part in the "Biden: stop supporting genocide!" rally in New York City, U.S., January 20, 2024. REUTERS/Jeenah Moon

Where is the ‘responsibility to protect’ in Gaza?

Yesterday’s proponents of the ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine are today’s biggest supporters of Israel’s assault.

Civilians evacuate buildings as Israeli attacks continue

Sudan is heading towards complete state collapse

The international community needs to take immediate action to eliminate the RSF threat.

People walk among scattered objects in the market of El Geneina, the capital of West Darfur, on April 29, 2023, as fighting continues in Sudan between the forces of two rival generals

(Mis)understanding and (mis)managing the Sudanese crisis

African Union’s peacemaking efforts in Sudan are doomed to failure if it does not change its approach to the conflict.

Bankole Adeoye (3-L), African Union (AU) Commissioner for Political Affairs, Peace and Security, and Moussa Faki Mahamat (2-R), Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), attend a meeting of the Extended Mechanism on the Sudan Crisis at the AU headquarters in Addis Ababa on May 2, 2023. (Photo by Amanuel Sileshi / AFP)

Sudan cannot afford to reject foreign help

This is not the time to indulge in anti-humanitarian rhetoric and condemn foreign aid in the name of anti-colonialism.

A Sudanese girl who fled the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region, and was previously internally displaced in Sudan, moves past makeshift shelters, near the border between Sudan and Chad

There is much danger in the Sudan crisis but also an opportunity

The proliferation of militias has long undermined the Sudanese state. The ongoing fighting could put an end to it.

Sudanese greet army soldiers, loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan

The Darfur conflict revisited: Lessons un-learned

The violence in Darfur attracted global attention in the 2000s, but that did little to ease the suffering of its people.

One of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) vehicles that was ambushed by unidentified assailants is seen at El Geneina, October 3, 2012. Four Nigerian peacekeepers were killed and eight wounded in an ambush in Sudan's western Darfur region, the international peacekeeper force UNAMID said on Wednesday. "They were killed last night some 2 km (1.2 miles) from our regional headquarters in El Geneina. They came under fire from all sides," a spokesman for UNAMID said. Picture taken October 3, 2012. REUTERS/United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur/Albert Gonzalez Farran/Handout (SUDAN - Tags: CIVIL UNREST MILITARY POLITICS TRANSPORT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Sudan’s states of exception

Why did the Sudanese transition stumble into a coup?

People chant slogans during an anti-coup protest in Khartoum, Sudan on October 30, 2021 [AP/Marwan Ali]

What is left of America (and its experts) in the Taliban era?

Why is it that a superpower so rich in experts, scholars, pundits and policymakers keeps messing up?

An American soldier stands near a burning M-ATV armoured vehicle after it struck an improvised explosive device in the Arghandab Valley north of Kandahar on July 23, 2010 [File: Reuters/Bob Strong]

Palestine and the UN’s ‘responsibility to protect’ doctrine

Under its P2P doctrine, the UN must deploy to Palestine to protect Palestinians from further Israeli war crimes.

Major General Indar Jit Rikyhe of India reviews a guard of honour on arrival at the Gaza Strip Airfield on January 29, 1966 to take over as commander of the United Nations Emergency Force in the Gaza Strip [File: AP]