Accountability

The primary tools have been diplomatic condemnation, sanctions, and weapons shipments to Ukraine. More possibilities exist.

Japanese American incarceration and subsequent redress campaign offer timely lessons for U.S. public and policymakers.

A powerful family story of incarceration under Executive Order 9066 shows how the past is very much present.

A collection of Just Security essays reflect on national security policy past and present, 80 years after Order that led to mass incarceration of Japanese Americans.

The absence of accountability is not neutrality, but an invitation to escalate wrongdoing and for others to follow suit.

A curated selection of Just Security articles offers insights for 2022 on issues of racial justice, democracy and the rule of law, diplomacy, foreign policy, and more.

Recent months have seen a flood of revelations concerning civilian harm resulting from U.S. military operations. The last U.S. airstrike of the war in Afghanistan, which killed…

As the Taliban seized control, evidence of human rights abuses had to be destroyed, hidden, or risk capture. It didn't have to be this way.

Accountability needs to include reckoning with Guantanamo, state-sanctioned U.S. torture, and secretive and unlawful lethal strikes.

The growing trend seeking to hold corporations liable for their role in human rights abuses abroad is gaining new momentum.

To avoid failing in other counterterrorism training missions, the US needs to invest in and empower assessment, monitoring, and evaluation.

The Massacre destroyed not only Black generational wealth but also the political and civil power that is tied to economic success.