The recent global heroics of digital dissidents and witnesses betray a larger kink in their armour â a desperate need for...
Tags: Caitlin N. Howarth, communication technologies, crisis mapping, Enough Project, George Clooney, Global Brief, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative (HHI), human rights, humanitarian affairs, JEEAR, Joint Evaluation of Emergency Assistance to Rwanda, Jonathan J. Hutson, Nathaniel A. Raymond, Satellite Sentinel Project, SSP, Sudan
Proposition: âNational interests necessarily corrupt humanitarian interventionsâ
Kyle Matthews (against): Intervening...
Tags: Ethiopia, former Yugoslavia, Global Brief, Kyle Matthews, Libya, Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, R2P, Responsibility to Protect, Rwanda, Sudan, UN Security Council, UN Security Council Resolution 1973, Wolfgang Krieger
GB discusses all things international criminal justice â from the prosecution of the Khmer Rouge leadership in Cambodia...
Tags: Andrew Cayley, Cambodia, crimes against humanity, ECCC, Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia, Gaddafi, Global Brief, Human Rights Watch, ICC, ICC ratification, ICTY, international criminal justice, international prosecutor, Khmer Rouge, Libyan intervention, Middle East, Nuon Chea, Pol Pot, regional diplomatic conference on the ICC, Richard Dicker, Sudan, Syria, war crimes
In the days to come, the world will come to learn whether the Republic of Sudan â Africaâs and the Arab worldâs largest...
Tags: China, civil war, Comprehensie Peace Agreement, Dinka, Egypt, John Garang, Juba, Khartoum, Lamu, oil, Omar al-Bashir, Sam Sasan Shoamanesh, secession, South Sudan, South Sudan People's Liberation Movement, Southern Sudan Referendum Commission, SPLM, Sudan, Sudan referendum, The National Congress Party, UN Mission in Darfur
Changes in law, capabilities and posture â at home and internationally â will inform the new centuryâs responsible...
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GB talks new-century politics and geopolitics â from the local to the general â with former UN Secretary-General Boutros...
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No Sudan by Next Year?
John Fung reporting from Juba, Sudan.
Just two years ago, the drive from Jubaâs rusting airport...
Tags: 2005 peace agreement, Comprehensive Peace Agreement, Global Brief, International Criminal Court, Khartoum, National Congress Party, North-South peace process, Peopleâs Liberation Movement, President Bashir, referendum, Southern Sudan, Sudan, war crimes