Human Security

Razor-wire fences, detention centres, xenophobic rhetoric and political disarray; nothing illustrates the tendency of governments to aggressively pursue nationalistic interests more starkly than their inhumane response to refugees fleeing conflict and war.

In an alarming development that illustrates how Europe is adopting police and even military solutions to what it sees as its "migrant crisis" – and reflects the real underlying world crises – Nato has sent warships to the Aegean Sea between Greece and Turkey.

After gunmen attacked shoppers at Westgate Mall in Nairobi in 2013, killing 67 people and injuring dozens more, Kenyan authorities did not hesitate to blame the violence on Dadaab, a complex of refugee camps in northeast Kenya home to roughly half a million people, mostly Somalis.

General Joseph F. Dunford, Jr., the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was quoted recently as saying that the United States is preparing, in conjunction with its imperialist allies, a renewed military campaign in Libya.

Panel discussion: National Mechanisms for Genocide and Mass Atrocity Prevention
Coordinated National Strategies for Confronting Contemporary Genocide

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They say the move will put people’s lives at risk and damage the environment. But it seems their fight is being stone walled by the company’s well organised public relations machinery and their own elected government, which has a 15 per cent stake in the company.

The spike in regional and local conflicts around the globe has boosted the need for professionals skilled in waging peace.

Dear Black African immigrant, The America you dreamt of is an America you never conceived of. You are officially black. In your country you were just you, no color attached to your identity, but now you are black. Stop saying I am Nigerian, I am Zimbabwean, or I am Kenyan.

What is responsible for the mass migration of Africans to Western Europe? Is it the desire for a better life? Can it be greed or bad leadership? Can it be the squandering of resources by corrupt politicians?

Western press and officials now warn that the Rwandan massacres of 1994 are close to a replay in Rwanda’s neighbor Burundi, which shares its Hutu-Tutsi-Twa demographic.