September 21st, 2016 On September 20th, Human Security Centre Director Dr. Dwayne Menezes attended an event at the UN Headquarters in New York at the invitation of the Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations, the ...

The UN urgently needs to reform peacekeeping to restore accountability in its missions, and so to fulfil the core idea of protecting civilians.

The contracting of such PMSC for UN activities is highly controversial and frequently regarded as problematic and dangerous.

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

The ongoing fighting has largely escaped attention from western media up until recently, but the scale of devastation is staggering and cannot continue to be ignored.

Over the past week, Lithuania, Nigeria, Chile, Chad and Saudi Arabia were elected unopposed to five non-permanent member seats in the UN Security Council. Only a few hours later, Saudi Arabia, though hardly a state celebrated for its human rights record, rejected its seat

Guest Contributor: Siiri Makela de Oliveira 5th September 2013 The nature of the crisis in Somalia is ever changing; Somalia experienced a civil war in the 1980s and state collapse, clan factionalism and warlordism in the 1990s.  Over the last ten ...

The Assad regime was behind the stomach-churning nerve agent attack on Ghouta. This is not conjecture. This is not a probability. This just simply is.

Guest Contributor: Dr James D. Boys 25th August 2013 During his all too brief time as president, John F. Kennedy was understood to have lamented the difficulty he faced in making the threat of American power credible. ‘The place to ...