A report by MPs finds the UK is contributing less than its partners and the British military lacks a strategy for defeating ISIS.  

DPRK’s ignorance of international norms does not only pose a risk to international peace and security, but also a threat to the concept of internationalism.

The civil war in Darfur will most likely continue to escalate as the violent acts of rebel groups and an uncooperative government remain unpunished.

There are other competing theories as to who is behind the Parisian massacres, but the theory that the Kouachis were financed and trained by AQAP certainly seems to hold the most water.

Sunni Wahhabism or Shi’ite fundamentalism paired with nuclear weapons or access to nuclear material is a nightmare scenario of the worst sort.

More attention needs to be given to the destabilising impact that ransom funding provokes. This could entail a network of sanctions that would categorically link ransom payments to the illegal act of funding terrorism.

Almost ten years from the United Nations Security Council’s (UNSC) referral of the situation in Darfur, in Resolution 1593, to the International Criminal Court (ICC) the humanitarian situation in Darfur remains volatile.

There is no conclusive evidence of the Court either impeding or facilitating peace, and we must be mindful that achieving peace in conflict countries will never be easy.

In the 1960s, the American Civil Rights Movement took the country by storm. Decades later, and well into the new century, the recent tragic events of the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner have questioned national unity

The legal classification of cross-border armed conflicts between State and non-State parties has become increasingly complex as such conflicts do not fit into the neat typology of international armed conflict (IAC) or non-international armed conflict (NIAC).