In watching the calamitous events of the Syrian civil war unfold before my very eyes, I am starkly reminded of the horrors of the Bosnian War which claimed an estimated 110,000 lives, according to the UN Prosecutor's Office at the War Crimes Tribunal in The Hague. While it is...
Editor's Note: Google Chrome may be required to view this page correctly. "The only thing unique about Syria is something called the November 2012 Presidential Election." Dr. Lori Handrahan is a Professional Lecturer at the American University's School of...
It is mid-January 2012 in the city of Bulawayo in Zimbabwe, the second largest city after the capital Harare, and three women are rounded up in a police van after being accused of “standing” near a mall. They are known by the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front...
It isn’t hard to do, is it? This international, intergovernmental organization is the butt of many jokes, countless criticisms and far too many polemical diatribes to even begin to count. It’s ineffective. It’s overly bureaucratized. It spends money...
In South Africa until the last two decades, special administration and land laws governed natives (aboriginal black Africans) resident in native reserves. These measures were part of a pattern of racial differentiation and white control of indigenous people. That policy was...
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