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  • Why the United States rejects international criminal justice: looking back at Nuremberg0

    Guillaume Mouralis, Humboldt University of Berlin “Today is my second happiest day in government.” With these words, Donald Trump’s national security advisor, John R. Bolton, hailed the decision by the International Criminal Court (ICC) to abandon its inquiry into possible breaches of international human rights laws in Afghanistan, the New York Times reported on April

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  • Israel could strike first as tensions with Iran flare0

    Doreen Horschig, University of Central Florida Iran shot down a U.S. drone on June 19, further escalating tensions between Iran and its adversaries. Relations with Iran have been worsening for months. In early May, one year after the United States withdrew from the nuclear deal negotiated in 2015 between Iran, the U.S., the European Union

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  • There are 70 million refugees in the world. Here are 5 solutions to the problem0

    Gerhard Hoffstaedter, The University of Queensland and Sara Riva, Griffith University This week, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, labelled the world’s refugee problem a crisis that is primarily impacting developing countries, who are hosting most of the world’s 70 million displaced people. It’s the highest number of people fleeing violence since the

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  • Saudi and Iran: how our two countries could make peace and bring stability to the Middle East0

    Samira Nasirzadeh, Lancaster University and Eyad Alrefai, Lancaster University Relations between the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Islamic Republic of Iran have rarely been worse, regarding the attacks on the oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman – for which both sides blame each other. Nevertheless, in the history of relations between the two

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  • India’s Prime Minister Modi pursues politics of Hindu nationalism – what does that mean?0

    Sumit Ganguly, Indiana University Almost immediately after winning a second term in office on May 23, India’s Prime Minister Modi gave a speech making light of parties and individuals who had espoused secularism over the past five years. During the five years while the Indian government has been led by Modi and the right-wing Bharatiya

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  • The history of China’s Muslims and what’s behind their persecution0

    Kelly Anne Hammond, University of Arkansas Over 1 million Uighur Muslims are being held in detention centers in the far western province of Xinjiang, China. Uighur leaders and experts located outside China have warned that the situation could worsen, and “mass murder” could not be ruled out. With upwards of 10% of the Uighurs being

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  • India election: how Narendra Modi won with an even bigger majority0

    Katharine Adeney, University of Nottingham The stunning majority for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the 2019 Indian election is a massive political achievement for its leadership: the prime minister, Narendra Modi, and the party’s president, Amit Shah. Early results from the world’s biggest democratic exercise show the BJP is likely to win more than

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  • Hydropower dams can harm coastal areas far downstream0

    Paula Ezcurra, University of California San Diego and Octavio Aburto, University of California San Diego Thousands of hydroelectric dams are under construction around the world, mainly in developing countries. These enormous structures are one of the world’s largest sources of renewable energy, but they also cause environmental problems. Hydropower dams degrade water quality along rivers.

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  • Rwanda and Sri Lanka: A tale of two genocides0

    Sharry Aiken, Queen’s University, Ontario and Cheran Rudhramoorthy, University of Windsor This year marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and the 10th year since the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka. While the 1994 Rwandan genocide has become part of the world’s collective memory, the 2009 Tamil genocide has not. Mullivaikkal Genocide Remembrance Day

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  • How to tackle India’s sexual violence epidemic – it starts with sex education0

    Madhumita Pandey, Sheffield Hallam University “Do you masturbate?”, “When did you first have sexual intercourse?”, “Did you ask for consent?” These are just some of the taboo-breaking questions I asked convicted rapists in a Delhi prison during interviews for my research. Most of these men did not understand what consent meant or that it needed

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  • Debate: Why the Indian elections are more about Narendra Modi than anything else0

    Britta Ohm, Université de Berne 14 May 2019 India votes until May 19, and Western media and opinion seem to be slowly waking up to the dangers faced by what is often hailed as “the world’s largest democracy” to constitutional guarantees. Like in other cases of today’s right-wing and populist authoritarianisms around the world, these

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  • US ‘foreign terrorist’ designation is more punishment than threat detector0

    Eric Fleury, College of the Holy Cross The Trump administration in April designated the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran, a branch of Iran’s military and intelligence services, as a terrorist group. Any groups designated this way are cut off from potential U.S. funding, communications with Americans, travel to the U.S. and other American “material

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  • India: decades of hostility against NGOs have worsened under Narendra Modi0

    Sujeet Kumar, Jawaharlal Nehru University NGO India has nearly 3.4m non-governmental organisations (NGOs), working in a variety of fields ranging from disaster relief to advocacy for marginalised and disadvantaged communities. They are a major part of civil society which bring rapid change and social transformation. NGOs are considered as independent of the state, and voluntary

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  • How the world’s largest democracy casts its ballots0

    Poorvi Vora, George Washington University About 600 million Indian citizens are expected to cast their votes over a period of 39 days ending May 19, in the ongoing election for their country’s parliament. There are roughly 900 million eligible voters, and the country has typically seen about two-thirds of them turn out to polling places.

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