Why We Need to Rethink How to Realize the “Responsibility to Protect” in Wartime
One hundred and forty years ago, the British statesman Sir William V. Harcourt, writing under the pen name Historicus, defined intervention as “a high and summary procedure that can sometimes snatch a remedy beyond the reach of law. As in the case [...]

LSE Report to Justice Africa and UNICEF
Due to the horrendous plight of children affected by armed conflict in recent decades, UNICEF and an NGO Working Group on the Convention on the Rights of the Child conducted a symposium in Cape Town in 1997 to address the crisis of child recruitment in modern warfare and furthermore [...]

The Darfur peace deal signed in May 2006 has failed to halt the cycle of violence and suffering, says a member of the African Union’s mediation team. A new settlement will be harder. But for Alex de Waal, there is no alternative to painstaking, constructive engagement.

A BBC News online debate between Nicholas Crawford, World Food Programme (WFP), and Justice Africa director Tajudeen Abdul-Raheem.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4670744.stm

Alex de Waal on the rise and fall of militant Islam in the Horn of Africa
Published in London Review of Books, Vol. 27, No. 16, August 18, 2005
http://conconflicts.ssrc.org/hornofafrica/chasing_ghosts/