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Blog (72)

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Emergency food, drinking water and shelter to help people displaced in Rakhine State, western Burma

Rohingya Hunger as State Policy: Food Deprivation and the Question of Genocide
Yousuf Syed Khan June 9, 2026
Famine Famine Voices Genocide Myanmar Rohingya
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Mass Incarceration Crisis of Prison Overcrowding Justice System Failures, Generative AI. Includes book cover image COVID DIAGNOSED THE SYSTEM

The pandemic in Massachusetts’ prisons 2020 – 2021
Bridget Conley May 14, 2026
Covid-19 Justice Prison United States
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medical kit and equiptment for midwives

Women/Girls as Frontline Respondents in Sudan
Omima Jabal April 23, 2026
Famine Famine Voices Gender Gendering starvation Mass Starvation SGBV and Starvation Starvation Crimes Sudan
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gaza

SGBV, Reproductive Violence & Starvation: Mutually Reinforcing Crimes in Gaza
The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy (MIFTAH) March 9, 2026
Famine Gaza Gendering starvation Mass Starvation SGBV SGBV and Starvation
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image of man in yellow shirt shooting at doves of peace

When and How Did World War X Begin?
Alex de Waal January 28, 2026
Autocracy kleptocracy Peacemaking Populism World peace World War X
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photo view of rundown buildings, dirt road with a few people walking around

Rents and Political Settlements – A Hopeless Muddle?
Aditya Sarkar December 2, 2025
Horn of Africa Political Finance Political Marketplace
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illustration of multiple figures being manipulated like puppets

Interrogating the Authoritarian Frame: Boundaries of Belonging
Maeve Murphy, Emily Ruhm November 10, 2025
Authoritarian Gender Justice Security
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Abolitionist arms banner graphic of red bombs, white planes and tanks

Abolitionist Approaches to Arms Trade Corruption
B. Arneson, Alexandra Fischer September 10, 2025
Accountability Armed violence Arms trade Corruption Military Industrial System Military spending
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illustration of multiple red missiles falling down

Internationalization in the arms trade
Ruth Rohde September 3, 2025
Arms trade Corruption Military Industrial System Military spending
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Stack of hundred dollar bills

The Winner of World War X Gets to Make Unlimited Money
Alex de Waal July 18, 2025
Capitalism kleptocracy Political Finance Political Marketplace United States war economies World War X
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Aerial top view container ship at sea port for logistics import export, shipping or transportation.

America versus the Houthis in the Red Sea
Alex de Waal April 1, 2025
Horn of Africa Houthi MENA region Middle East Red Sea Security UAE United States Yemen
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Mint green background with the words, "Disrupting Peace," at the top and an orange graphic design at the bottom, with the words World Peace Foundation.

Lessons from Disrupting Peace
Bridget Conley January 13, 2025
Arms trade Climate Immigration Peacemaking Prison World peace
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close up photo of rings of barbed wire with tall brick building in the background

New Year, Same Plymouth Detention Center
B. Arneson, Hamza Berrios January 10, 2025
Criminal Justice Reform DOC Harm Reduction ICE Immigration Prison Solitary Confinement Violence
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protesters holding signs to stop war in Sudan

The RSF and Genocide in Sudan: Guilty as Charged
Alex de Waal January 7, 2025
Genocide ICC Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo Rape Rapid Support Forces Sudan UAE
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Flag of Lebanon on burning fire backdrop

Lebanon: Where is the state?
Tamirace Fakhoury November 26, 2024
Israel Lebanon Transnational Conflict
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Small flags of the Sudan on an abstract blurry background

Sudan: The Architecture of Mediation
Mulugeta Gebrehiwot Berhe November 19, 2024
Conflict resolution Mediation Sudan
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curve of globe focused on the Horn of Africa with sudan highlighted in red

Pathways to Peace in Sudan: November 2024
Alex de Waal November 13, 2024
Africa African Union Middle East Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo Political Marketplace Rapid Support Forces Red Sea Sudan
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From revolving door to open-plan office: The ever-closer union between the UK government and the arms industry

Path-breaking new report on UK arms industry influence on government policy
World Peace Foundation September 18, 2024
Arms trade Military spending UK
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photo of Naloxone syringes in a box. Image courtesy of Challenges INC SC.

Harm Reduction as Care: An Interview with Marc Burrows of Challenges INC SC
B. Arneson August 1, 2024
Criminal Justice Reform Drugs Harm Reduction Prison
Interview
group of red, yellow, blue and white oil drums

How ‘Traumatic Decarbonization’ Can Impact Political Stability and Peace
World Peace Foundation April 11, 2024
Political Marketplace Sudan Traumatic decarbonization Venezuela Yemen
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Cover of Smoke and Ashes by Amitav Ghosh

Narco-Empires and Pandemies
Alex de Waal March 20, 2024
Capitalism China Drugs Human Rights
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photo of small green plastic army men

Resisting Green Militarism, Refusing Sustainable War – Collective Action for Peace and Ecological Justice
Nico Edwards February 26, 2024
Advocacy Climate Military spending
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Yellow forklift moving boxes off trailer

A Humanitarian Lexicon for Darker Times
Alex de Waal February 14, 2024
Atrocities Famine Humanitarianism Mass Starvation Starvation Crimes
Interview
hand in the shape of a gun on a neon green background

Demilitarizing the University: An Interview with Jinsella Kennaway of dED
B. Arneson February 12, 2024
Advocacy Arms trade
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Photo aerial view of waterfront commercial business district Lagos Island

Mobile Space-Times and the Rescaling of Political Community
Loren Landau November 29, 2023
Africa Equality Precarity
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Small blue vehicle driving down a dirt road past a small clay home

Ethiopia’s Crises in Oromiya: Identity and state viability
Alex de Waal September 20, 2023
Ethiopia Oromo
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An artistic depiction of the globe partially covered in dust

The Deluge Facing Africa’s Leaders Is Going to Get Worse
Alex de Waal August 14, 2023
Africa Fragile states State building
Essay
Nigeria Election 2019

Nigeria Decides 2023: A Backgrounder to the Elections
Jared D. Miller February 23, 2023
Elections Nigeria
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Grainy security camera image of a group of five people on a tarmac near a plane.

Prisoner Swap: drug wars, prison conditions, & trafficking weapons
Bridget Conley December 13, 2022
Arms trade Prison Russia
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Generals of South Sudan's army celebrate during official independence day ceremonies. After two decades of civil war and two million deaths, their dream is finally realized. - photo by Charles Braddix

Can political finance explain the different development stories in Ethiopia and Sudan?
Aditya Sarkar, Alex de Waal November 28, 2022
Ethiopia Food insecurity Political Finance Sudan
Essay
UN flags

Neither Impartial nor Independent: The Joint UN-EHRC Human Rights Investigation in Tigray
World Peace Foundation October 11, 2021
Ethiopia Human Rights Tigray
Essay
WPF circle logo

No new prisons in Massachusetts
Bridget Conley July 23, 2021
DOC Prison
Essay
Au Medallion

Investigating Atrocities in Ethiopia’s Civil War
World Peace Foundation March 11, 2021
Abiy ahmed African Union Ethiopia Tigray
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Photo of Seyoum Mesfin at podium dressed in dark suit.

In Memoriam: Seyoum Mesfin, Ethiopian Peacemaker and Patriot
Alex de Waal January 14, 2021
Ethiopia Tigray TPLF
Interview
WPF circle logo

Interview with Emma Soubrier: Defense Industries, Foreign Policy and Armed Conflict Project
Aaron W. Steinberg July 6, 2020
Arms trade Middle East Qatar UAE
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Kenya National Flag at medical, surgical, protection mask on black wooden background. Coronavirus Covid–19, Prevent infection, illness or flu. State of Emergency, Lockdown

Kenya and Covid: Pandemic Response Risks Excluding Minority Groups
Eliab Taye May 28, 2020
Corruption Covid-19 Kenya Pandemic
Essay
WPF circle logo

Africa’s Imminent COVID-19 Recession in Historical Context: First Thoughts
Alex de Waal May 11, 2020
Africa Covid-19
Interview
Adrienne Klein

A domestic turn: Interview with Adrienne Klein on COVID 19 in NYC
Bridget Conley April 22, 2020
Covid-19
Essay
Cuomo holding hand sanitizer

Condemned to Coronavirus?
Bridget Conley April 2, 2020
Covid-19 Human Rights Prison United States
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cynthia enloe

A domestic turn: commentary by Cynthia Enloe
World Peace Foundation March 16, 2020
Gender Non-violent protest
Interview
Catherine Besteman

A domestic turn: Interview with Catherine Besteman
Bridget Conley March 10, 2020
Justice Migration
Interview
karen jacobsen

A domestic turn — interview with Karen Jacobsen
Bridget Conley February 20, 2020
Human Rights Immigration Migration
Interview
WPF circle logo

A domestic turn: interview with Bret McEvoy
Bridget Conley February 18, 2020
Gender Transitional justice
Interview
Alex Hinton

A domestic turn: interview with Alex Hinton
Bridget Conley February 11, 2020
Cambodia Genocide Violence
Essay
WPF circle logo

A domestic turn –Introduction
Bridget Conley February 10, 2020
Human Rights Prison
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Sam Perlo-Freeman introduces the Compendium of Arms Trade Corruption

New Occasional Paper: ‘Red Flags and Red Diamonds’
World Peace Foundation September 23, 2019
Arms trade Corruption Military spending
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WPF circle logo

Towards a world with a greatly reduced arms trade?
Nicholas Gilby September 6, 2019
Arms trade UK
Essay
WPF circle logo

Sudan’s revolutionaries pin hopes on PM Abdalla Hamdok
Alex de Waal August 28, 2019
Sudan
William Hartung

Trump Policy and Trends in U.S. Arms Sales
William Hartung June 21, 2019
Essay
WPF circle logo

The Arms Dynamic in Evolving Gulf (Geo)Politics
Emma Soubrier June 19, 2019
Arms trade Middle East Military spending Saudi Arabia
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David Wearing

UK arms sales to the Gulf Arab monarchies: corruption in a strategic context
David Wearing June 17, 2019
Arms trade Corruption Saudi Arabia UK
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aerial view of city of Khartoum, buildings and river at sunset

What’s Next for Sudan’s Revolution?
Alex de Waal April 24, 2019
African Union Coup Mohamed Hamdan Dagolo Non-violent political action Non-violent protest Rapid Support Forces Sudan
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grains of rice falling from a spoon into wooden bowl

Mass Starvation Is a Crime—It’s Time We Treated It That Way
Alex de Waal January 24, 2019
Accountability Famine Saudi Arabia Yemen
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Dark map with US highlighted, showing lines around world

Arms trade corruption – what do we know?
Samuel Perlo-Freeman December 11, 2018
Arms trade Corruption
Essay
WPF circle logo

Commemorating Starvation in the 21st Century, part 3
Alex de Waal November 21, 2018
Mass Starvation Memorialization
Essay
WPF circle logo

The Online Gender Struggle of Young Women Artists of Pakistan, part 2
Maleeha Aslam November 8, 2018
Gender Pakistan
Video
black and white The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Tom Dannenbaum on international criminal law and starvation
World Peace Foundation September 4, 2018
Accountability Famine Humanitarian Law ICC
Essay
World Bank Figure

Walking in the shadow of the state A review of the joint World Bank United Nations...
Aditya Sarkar April 2, 2018
Armed violence Peacemaking Political Marketplace United Nations
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WPF circle logo

Including Women, Excluding Migrants, and Reimagining National Belonging in the GCC
Batul K. Sadliwala March 12, 2018
Gender Immigration Saudi Arabia
Essay
WPF circle logo

Sweden s proposed Democracy Criterion for arms exports & 8211 Taking the lead in export controls...
Samuel Perlo-Freeman December 12, 2017
Arms trade Sweden
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WPF circle logo

Can Somalia Ever Win Against al-Shabab?
Alex de Waal October 20, 2017
Africa al-Shabab Armed violence Somalia Terrorism
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CNN better than parents chart

How a statue unveiled the President, part 2
Bridget Conley September 7, 2017
Equality Memorialization Racism United States
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WPF circle logo

UK arms to Saudi – a disappointing, but unsurprising verdict
Samuel Perlo-Freeman July 14, 2017
Arms trade Saudi Arabia UK
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WPF circle logo

Trump fuels Middle East flames
Samuel Perlo-Freeman May 26, 2017
Arms trade Corruption Saudi Arabia Trump UAE United States Yemen
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Tapscott

States of (in)security: Institutionalized arbitrariness as a mode of governance in northern Uganda
Rebecca Tapscott March 23, 2017
Governance Uganda
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WPF circle logo

Theorizing (Dis)order: Exploratory Remarks
Alex de Waal March 14, 2017
Disorder Governance Political Marketplace
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refugees, photo of women and children behind chain link fence

Trump and the Deepening Refugee Crisis
Dyan Mazurana December 12, 2016
Children Migration Refugees United States
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photo of graffiti with military themes, world war 3

Garrison America and the Threat of Global War
Alex de Waal December 5, 2016
Capitalism Democracy Populism
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The customer is always right
Paulos Tesfagiorgis October 31, 2016
Arms trade Saudi Arabia UK
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WPF circle logo

& 8216 The Big Man& 8217 a review of Guichaoua& 8217 s & 8216 From War...
World Peace Foundation October 27, 2016
Genocide Rwanda
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Hillside of small colorful wooden houses

The Masculinities of Gang Violence in Latin America and Caribbean
Adam Baird April 19, 2016
Gender Latin America Violence
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WPF circle logo

Two Definitions of Kleptocracy – and How ‘The Sentry’ Might be Useful
Alex de Waal February 1, 2016
kleptocracy Political Marketplace

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abstract illustration representing atrocities

How Mass Atrocities End

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