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Preparedness Support: Helping Brace Beneficiaries, Local Staff and Partners for Violence is a new report under the auspices of the Cuny Center Humanitarian aid agencies can help beneficiaries, local staff and partners physically prepare themselves today for the violence they

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The third and final part of my review of Gareth Evans’ The Responsibility to Protect. Risk of Perverse Incentives My qualms about R2P are driven not just by the lesson of Somalia and my discomfort with the conventional script about

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Part 2 of my review of Gareth Evans’ The Responsibility to Protect. The Risk of Unrealistic Expectations The subtitle of Evans’ book is: “Ending mass atrocity crimes once and for all.” This is ambitious, perhaps hubristic. The subtitle may of

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Recently, Gareth Evans, President of ICG and the architect of the “responsibility to protect” (R2P), accosted me and argued that I had misrepresented the doctrine—especially that I had equated it with the older, now-superseded notion of “humanitarian intervention.” He makes

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The text of my presentation to the BBC’s World Tonight last week is now available online. (With a sentence added to reflect JEM’s attack on Khartoum, which occurred between my recording the piece and the time it was broadcast.) The

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The World Tonight last night on BBC Radio 4 was a 45 minute special devoted to an examination of the UK’s foreign policy. It was structured around Foreign Secretary David Miliband’s four priorities, viz terrorism, conflict and the responsibility to

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