Evidence suggests that targeting decisions for armed drones may be plagued by misperception and misinterpretation of the targeting data.
Tag Archives: 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 […]
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.