How Important is Neutrality in Providing Humanitarian Assistance?
While neutrality is difficult to adhere to, it should be treated as the means to help provide aid to as many victims of conflict, and as quickly, as possible.
Assessing Globalisation’s Contribution to the Sex Trafficking Trade
The sex trafficking industry has been facilitated by Structural Adjustment Programs and the related economic vulnerability of women.
Accepting the Unacceptable: Christian Churches and the 1994 Rwandan Genocide
The role the Christian Church played has come to represent one of heaviest failures of Christian ethics and the institutions that profess and practice its commandments.
Understanding Refugees Through ‘Home’ by Warsan Shire
Home forces us to contend with a larger problem – exclusion from the circle of grief based on the lack of shared norms of humanity.
The Gendered Politics Behind the International Criminal Court
The ICC’s review of gender-based crimes is fraught with biases, although the ICC has been more willing to punish offenders of mass rapes against the Rohingya in Myanmar.
The Responsibility to Protect: A Disputed Matter
Interpreting sovereignty as a responsibility toward a state’s own citizens, not a tool for limitless power, mends R2P’s tension between sovereignty and human rights.
“The Crime He Committed Was to Steal a Cow”: Moral Luck and Gacaca
By rewarding confession and promoting reintegration, the Rwandan justice program Gacaca was marked by a permissive attitude toward individual moral responsibility.
Gender Quotas: Towards an Improved Democracy
Gender quotas improve democracy by improving the quality of representation for everyone and by giving voice to gender-related issues that would otherwise be invisible.
The Call for a New Subject: Gender and the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Covid-19 crisis has further revealed the need for International Relations to more fully incorporate the ideas of gender and feminist theorists.
Violence and Otherness: A New Perspective on Decolonisation Beyond Fanon
One can extend Frantz Fanon’s original account of violent de-othering beyond decolonization by establishing a dialogue between Fanon and the work of Tzvetan Todorov.
