Expert from: Coutnerterrorism and its Affronts to Human Rights by. Kurtis Edwards **Eric Prince, Blackwater founder, is the brother of Betsy DeVos, current US Secretary of Education. One of the more sinister parts of detaining terrorists and the subject that brings PMSC back in the conversation is the torture and humiliation of prisoners at theContinue reading “Blackwater (PMSC) Remembered: Abu Ghraib Human Rights”
Category Archives: Conflict
Illegal but Lawful: The Responsibility to Protect
The responsibility to protect (R2P) is an illegal but legitimate conception that faces numerous challenges to becoming international law and a customary norm. The past misuse of R2P by the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) creates challenges to R2P that might be insurmountable; clarion calls of R2P being an arm of colonialism, and a tacticContinue reading “Illegal but Lawful: The Responsibility to Protect”
Communicative Interaction
Conflict Resolution and Post-Conflict Reconstruction do not need to look far or innovate anew to find a general guide or theory that can be useful in practice. Social interaction, communicative construction, or social constructivism, by whatever name you call it, is easily adaptable to the various situations faced in resolving and reconciling conflict. Constructivism isContinue reading “Communicative Interaction”
Permanent Stagnation: The United Nations Security Council and Syria
The failure of the United Nations (UN) Security Council (UNSC) to enact any meaningful response to the conflict in Syria is eroding not only life in Syria but the very foundation of international order. This report uses the Arab Spring conflicts which the conflict in Syria is a part of to talk about larger systemicContinue reading “Permanent Stagnation: The United Nations Security Council and Syria”