Evidence suggests that targeting decisions for armed drones may be plagued by misperception and misinterpretation of the targeting data.
Armed drones may be prone to targeting errors
Armed Conflict
Why peacebuilding fails and what we can do about it
Although research demonstrates that peacekeeping missions, on balance, have a good track record, many of the practices, habits, and narratives that shape peacebuilders’ efforts on the ground are counterproductive. This, at least, is the argument put forward by Séverine Autesserre, researcher and associate professor at Columbia University, after conducting several years of ethnographic research in conflict zones around the world. In her book Peaceland: Conflict Resolution and the Everyday Politics of International Intervention, Autesserre explains how expatriates often live lives that are largely separated from the populations they are trying to help, and how this can undermine the very notion of local ownership that is key to the success of peacebuilding missions.
Keeping terror in perspective
The greatest danger facing us is self-inflicted threat inflation.
10 wars to watch in 2015
Jean-Marie Guéhenno, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, provides an overview of 10 conflicts the international community will face in 2015.
Questionable arms exports up
Canadian arms exports to countries in conflict or known for human violations are on the increase, an analysis by the Canadian Press shows.