El fracaso de la comunidad mundial para responder de manera eficaz a las atrocidades cometidas en Siria, puede representar un golpe para la Responsabilidad de proteger (Responsibility to Protect, R2P), pero la doctrina aún sigue con vida. La R2P sigue ofreciendo un enfoque con base en principios p
El caso de Siria muestra la dificultad de llevar a la práctica la responsabilidad de proteger (responsibility to protect, R2P), pero es necesario hacerlo si queremos que R2P sea algo más que un acrónimo extravagante. Sin embargo, cualquier intervención militar debe estar vinculada con el diálogo p
Politicians and the press are locked in a cycle of increasing anti-immigrant rhetoric, presented as 'uncomfortable truth'. Yet the problem is not immigration but socio-economic inequality. Poverty and exclusion are faced by working class people of all backgrounds.
The unexpected Washington-Moscow diplomacy - made possible by London's parliament - creates space for progress in ending Syria's "double proxy war".
Twenty years in twenty photographs. See the introduction here in part 1.
Are there any Israelis and Palestinians who still believe in peace between them? Yes, there are, but they are implementing a different “process”. The following stories are of coexistence.
Has ‘multilevel governance’ replaced the nation state or European confederation, creating the precondition for a multilevel citizenship? Or is this just a name we give to the empty place left by the demise of the nation state?
Sovereignty matters, but so does preventing mass atrocity. A doctrine like the Responsibility to Protect (R2P) permits us to override inertia and inaction to alleviate mass suffering, although in Syria we haven’t yet seen an effective plan for doing so. A response to the openGlobalRights debate on
The manner in which the Syrian crisis has been addressed by western polities signals a shift, at least for now, in how acts of war are deliberated by those governments considering military intervention. But how significant is this? There is both some good and bad news in this regard.
The use of chemical weapons in Damascus should, at the very least, give us pause to reflect on the principles guiding our nuclear weapons policies.
Though postponed, the US still threatens to attack Syria to punish the Assad government for the use of chemical weapons. But it would be illegal, and ineffective - helping neither the people of Syria, nor the principles of Responsibility to Protect (R2P). A contribution to the openGlobalRights deb
