Global CooperationIraq: What Does One Do with the Broken Pieces?
There is typically a sign in shops selling china and porcelain that reads, “Do not touch; If you break it, you buy...
Rene Wadlow
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Global Cooperation
Global CooperationThe Law of the Seize
8 June of each year has been proclaimed by the UN General Assembly as the Day of the Law of the Sea....
Global Cooperation29 May: UN “Blue Helmets” Day
How effective are UN peacekeeping operations in preventing and stopping violence? What about in addressing the root causes of conflicts? How does...
Global CooperationSyria: Back to Square One for Good-Faith Negotiations
With the resignation of Ambassador Lakhdar Brahimi as the UN-League of Arab States mediator in the Syrian conflict, I fear that we...
Global CooperationUkraine: What Future for “Self Rule”?
In a previous blog post, I asked the question “Ukraine: A Federalist Future?” At the time, there had been proposals to link...
Global CooperationUkraine: A Federalist Future?
Can tensions in Ukraine be lowered without a federalist-constitutional restructuring of the State? On Thursday, 17 April 2014, US Secretary of State...
Human RightsGeneva II: A Modest Beginning On Which We Can Build
The United Nations-League of Arab States Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi has announced a break in the Geneva II negotiations until 10 February 2014,...
Global JusticeThe Disappearing State of the Central African Republic
In November 2013, Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned the UN Security Council that communal violence in the Central African Republic (CAR) was...
Human RightsWhy do we need a Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women?
When in his Nobel Peace Prize address (1974), Sean MacBride (1904-1988) cited torture along with the development and acceptance of indiscriminate nuclear...
Global JusticeSyria : Chemical Weapons and Restraints in War
There was a recent political drawing in the International Herald Tribune which showed high piles of skulls with signs on them which...