Covid-19: How extremist groups in East Africa have capitalised on crisis
By Kalina Dmitriew From intrastate conflicts to interstate wars, peace and security challenges have for a long time posed an obstacle for development in...
The Forgotten Victims of Gender-Based Violence
The Rohingya Crisis continues to make headlines, as more and more evidence of shocking human rights violations comes to light. Gender-based violence has been...
Syria is a shining example of a greater cooperative need for a responsibility to protect
The civil war in Syria is a clear example of the world witnessing unprecedented displacement. It has produced over 6.6 million internally displaced persons...
Crisis in the Central African Republic – The regional impact
In this article Ben Jackson discusses the regional impact of the Central African Republic crisis. The Central African Republic (CAR), a landlocked state in...
The fate of child soldiers
Recent news has demonstrated that Aegis, a British security firm, has been hiring child soldiers. Here, Vanessa Cameron discusses new research that asks what...
Partitioning: A tool for Greater Stability in Syria and Iraq
Is the current strategy used by the international community preventing conflict between Syria and Iraq? Jordan Creed suggests the potential of partitioning as a...
Syria: where do we go from here?
As the UN’s stalemate remains in place, with no official intervention, former DiA volunteer Lydia Greenaway explores the differing attitudes towards intervening and what...
Human Rights Watch Film Festival: The Patience Stone
In the first of a series of reviews from the Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013, blog editor Emily Wight finds a moving account...
UK policy in Sri Lanka: saying one thing, doing the other
Three years after Sri Lanka’s brutal civil war ended, both sides are still feeling the repercussions. Nate Barker reports on the British government’s hypocrisy...
Paralympic Power: Disability in Sierra Leone
As London celebrates a wealth of skill from disabled people around the world, Hannah Loryman considers the shifting attitudes towards disabled people in Sierra Leone...
A tribute to the Blue Berets (the DPKO)
. Alistair Walker analyses the sacrifices made by the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations in Conflict. Alistair is studying an MA in Interactive Journalism...
Sri Lanka: The Killing Fields
. Bombs in no fire zones, executions with no evidence of combat, a corrupt regime that is still in power – what will it...
A Landmark Ceasefire
. To follow Aditi Gupta‘s recent post concerning the treatment of ethnic minorities in Burma, Alistair Walker examines the ceasefire between the Karen separatist movement...
South Sudan: another Biafra?
Six months ago South Sudan was born – yet fighting in the region continues. Rowan Emslie explores the path of the world’s youngest country, drawing...
Egypt: a second revolution?
Tahrir Square c.Ramy Raoof . The events in Egypt of the past six days have not failed to shock the western world and have...
United Nations Day: Genocide trials in Cambodia
. To mark United Nations Day tomorrow, Tom Goodenough assesses the UN’s involvement in the trials of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia. Tom is a...
Fall of a(nother) tyrant
In the aftermath of Muammar Gadaffi’s death, Josephine Forster considers a disturbing pre-occupation with the gory details of death. Josephine is a freelance journalist studying...
Give Your Voice
August 30th marks the International Day of the Disappeared, a commemoration of the thousands of people who have gone missing throughout the world in...
Women in Egypt: ‘Why Not?’
In the second part of DiA’s exclusive coverage of International Women’s Day, Cardiff University Journalism students Sara Maranon and Sandhya Kannan investigate how the...