Human Security Centre Human Rights and International Security Research

October 20th, 2016 By Andrada Filip – Junior Fellow “The phenomenon of children used as soldiers is not isolated to one country or continent. Despite international conventions, children continue to fill the ranks of seven state armies and fifty non-state ...

An overview of the strategic threats and challenges Iran has confronted and continues to confront.

Sexual violence in various regions of the world, such as Africa or the Middle East, has reached alarming thresholds.

Time and again conflicts erupt during which alarmingly high rates of rape and other forms of sexual violence are being recorded.

The issue of equitable water management is likely to become an important area of study in the field of conflict resolution strategies given the acceleration of climate change and the ongoing depletion of the environment.

On the 21st of August 2013, the biggest chemical weapon attack since the tragedy of Halabja, in 1988, occurred in Syria. The US had detailed evidence of strategic planning on behalf of the Assad forces, leading up to the attack. A report released by the White House on the 30 August 2013 stated that the Assad regime was keeping track of all those targeted in the chemical weapons attacks from the East Ghouta region of Damascus, which lead to the deaths of 1,400 people.

Refugee flows have always represented a sensitive issue in the field of International relations. However, the responses by the international community and the various interpretations which were given to the movement of populations from conflict zones change. This depends on the international, regional and national contexts in which a given crisis is unfolding and how it is being analyzed by key stakeholders.