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September/October 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
The international community must ensure that people seeking saftey are protected; soverignty is not a shield behind which authoritarian governments may terrorize their own people.
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September/October 2008
Foreign Affairs Article — Summary
Because borders are becoming ever more porous and contingent, everyone has an interest in humanitarian intervention.
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June 12, 2008
Backgrounder
Myanmar's cyclone spotlights the UN's contentious "Responsibility to Protect" doctrine. Many states still view it as a threat to sovereignty.
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2007
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Human Security Report Project compiles research on the trends, causes, and consequences of political violence. This Brief specifically focuses on three main issues: the threat of Islamist terrorism is not increasing as many experts claim; the number and deadliness of armed conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa has declined due in part to a significant increase in international initiatives; there has been little net change in recent years in the number of conflicts in which a government is one of the warring parties, but that other forms of political violence, including communal conflicts, have declined.
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May 25, 2008
Op-Ed
Star-Ledger
Michael Moran discusses the response to Cyclone Nargis by Myanmar’s authoritarian government, “a regime so fearful for its own survival that it would allow tens of thousands more of its citizens to perish of post-disaster disease, exposure and privations, rather than allow a willing world to come help.”
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Updated: May 27, 2008
Online Debate
CFR Senior Fellow Stewart M. Patrick and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation debate the merits of supporting the Responsibility to Protect doctrine.
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May 15, 2008
Op-Ed
Baltimore Sun
Stewart Patrick addresses the difficult question of whether or not the UN should intervene in Myanmar and do something about the “callous indifference” that the ruling junta is showing towards its people.
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Updated: May 15, 2008
Daily Analysis
Experts warn of a humanitarian tragedy in Myanmar, but the country's government continues to block widespread access for aid workers.
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May 13, 2008
Interview
CFR's Laurie Garrett says if Myanmar's regime continues to restrict access to aid workers, the carnage from the cyclone will exceed that of the tsunami.
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May 13, 2008
Op-Ed
The Boston Globe
In response to the devastating typhoon that has ravaged Burma, Ivo Daalder and Paul Stares argue that the UN must invoke its “responsibility to protect” clause and intervene.
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