Attention for Yezidi genocide is waining as focus on perpetrators grows
Six years after the genocide against the Yezidi minority in Iraq, media attention and political willingness to act is waining. Why?
Tag: Conflict
Turkish foreign policy and the troubles for NATO and the EU
Turkey pursues an increasingly agressive foreign policy and threatens international cooperation in NATO and the EU. My analysis of the situation appeared in the Dutch monthly paper De Kanttekening.
Book review: Dutch membership of the Security Council
For the Dutch Review of Books, I reviewed the (former) Dutch UN ambassador’s book on the Netherlands’ membership of the Security Council.
International law analysis for LTO: Holding Syria accountable
I wrote for Legal Tribune Online (LTO), Germany’s leading online magazine for lawyers, about the Dutch initiative to hold Syria accountable.
Quoted by JusticeInfo on Dutch case against Syria
For JusticeInfo I provided some legal and diplomatic context on the decision of the Dutch government to hold the Syrian state accountable for torture.
Quoted by DW on Lebanon
I commented on the upcoming verdict of the Lebanon tribunal in an analysis of international broadcaster Deutsche Welle (DW).
Review of “World Peace (And How We Can Achieve It)”
For the Global Policy journal I reviewed Alex J. Bellamy’s thoughtfull book “World Peace (And How We Can Achieve It)”.
How Coronavirus changes international security perceptions
For the German security and defence magazine Loyal I wrote about the impact of Coronavirus on international security.
Presentation: Ethical challenges for reporting sexual violence in conflict
Today I gave a presentation on the ethical challenges in reporting sexual violence in conflict at a conference of the Queen’s University Belfast.
Book review in International Affairs on the persistence of war
For Chatham House’s journal International Affairs I reviewed Bear F. Braumoeller’s book ‘Only the dead: the persistence of war in the modern age’.