Topic: War and conflict

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Covid-19 and fragile states: Deaths underreported, health services overwhelmed and famine looming

Report / 5th March 2021

The coronavirus pandemic is pushing people in fragile states towards catastrophe, with hunger levels rising dramatically and famine looming in several countries, an in-depth report by the Disasters Emergency Committee’s coalition of leading UK aid agencies. 

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Hunger deaths aren’t simply about famine or no famine

Blog / 9th February 2021

Focus on loss of life – and urgently trying to prevent it – rather than whether a famine has been declared, writes Daniel Maxwell et al for The New Humanitarian. 

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New initiative launched to ‘Transform Defence for Sustainable Human Safety’

Report / 22nd December 2020

A project by Tipping Point North South works to put sustainable human safety at the heart of 21st century foreign, defence, security and international development policy-making.

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UN treaty banning nuclear weapons set to enter into force in January

News / 26th October 2020

In what leading campaigners are describing as “a new chapter for nuclear disarmament”, the ratification of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will now come into force on 22 January, after Honduras became the 50th Member State to ratify on Saturday.

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Time to put an end to the nuclear age

Blog / 2nd October 2020

The risk of nuclear war is the greatest it has been since the height of the Cold War. But there’s also been incredible progress in the past couple of years, explains Olivia Alperstein for OtherWords.

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Decolonizing the United Nations means abolishing the permanent five

Article / 1st October 2020

The only way forward for the United Nations is to acknowledge the key difference between 1945 and 2020 - decolonization - and abolish the permanent members of the Security Council altogether.

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First famines of coronavirus era are at world’s doorstep, U.N. warns

News / 7th September 2020

The first famines of the coronavirus era could soon hit four chronically food-deprived conflict areas — Yemen, South Sudan, northeast Nigeria and the Democratic Republic of Congo — the top humanitarian official of the United Nations has warned.

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COVID-19 is a huge threat to stability in Africa

Article / 17th August 2020

Narrow self-interest makes it unlikely that the global north will commit the resources and know-how necessary to combat the global pandemic — which would also eliminate one of the factors contributing to civil conflict, writes Elizabeth Schmidt for Foreign Policy in Focus.

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With Coronavirus spreading, time to repurpose the arms industry to meet human need

Blog / 26th June 2020

What if more of the arms and defense sector moved into manufacturing health and other products permanently? Surely this is the time for a focus on what peace and security really mean for us all, writes Martin Butcher for Oxfam International.

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'Unimaginable double emergency': Record high of nearly 80 million people forcibly displaced worldwide amid pandemic

News / 19th June 2020

"These numbers should serve as a wake-up call to the international community on the human cost of war, and the social and economic implications exacerbated by Covid-19." By Jessica Corbett for Common Dreams.

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