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A Better Path for Peace and Security? Focus on Dignity.

Efforts to end wars and protect civilians could benefit greatly from a renewed commitment to the near-universal value of dignity.

Oct. 8, 2026 Leanne Erdberg Steadman and Peter J. Quaranto

Aerial view of dozens of people milling about in an arid landscape of red earth, a lone tree in the background and a range of mountains in the distance at the back right of the image. There are a few makeshift shelters of scrap wood or covered in white tarps, and what looks like rows of more shelters at the back right. Several people are leaning against stacked white bags of wheat flour in the foreground.

How to Better Enforce the Darfur Arms Embargo

Rather than expand the arms embargo on Darfur, the UN Security Council should take steps that would give the existing embargo teeth.

Oct. 7, 2026 Mutasim Ali and Yonah Diamond

Why the U.S. Must Prepare for Rapid Global Population Aging – and How

The United States lacks a strategy and coordinated agency efforts to adapt foreign and security policy to the rapid aging of the global population.

Oct. 7, 2026 Jane Buchanan

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Just Security’s Russia–Ukraine War Archive

A catalog of over 100 articles (many with Ukrainian translations) on the Russia Ukraine War -- law, diplomacy, policy options, and more.

Oct. 6, 2026 Clara Apt and Tess Graham

Security forces in camouflage stand and walk on a dirt road next to a field on the left of the image, alongside small olive green armored vehicles arrayed against a fence extending along the right side of the image. the metal fence is twice the height of the personnel and has concertina wire looped along the length of its midsection and across the top.

Activists at the Poland-Belarus Border are Still Being Prosecuted for Providing Aid to Migrants

People who help migrants and asylum seekers at Poland's border with Belarus continue to be targeted with prosecutions, interrogations, and home searches by Polish authorities.

Oct. 1, 2026 Brian Dooley and Suchita Uppal

The president, wearing wire-rim glasses, a dark suit with white shirt and baby blue striped tie and solid kerchief, is walking from the right of the frame to the left across a blurred background of red earth.

America Sent Them Into a Dictatorship’s Torture Chambers, Then Looked Away

The United States is deporting third-country nationals to Equatorial Guinea despite its documented pattern of human rights abuses.

Sep. 17, 2026 Tutu Alicante

Kouloglou, dressed in a blue suit and white, open-neck shirt, stands in a street holding a mobile phone in one hand in front of him, as if he is either speaking to someone on it via video or taking a photo.

Tackling Spyware Abuse: What States Must Do Under International Law to Protect Journalists and Strengthen Security

States should treat spyware governance as a top-tier political priority and work toward a binding, enforceable regulatory framework.

Sep. 17, 2026 Catherine Amirfar

The Camp Justice sign near the Military Commissions court area on June 27, 2023 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

The War on Terror: A Quarter Century of Unheeded Warnings

The global war on terror demands reflection and reckoning for the damage it caused to human rights and the international legal order.

Sep. 16, 2026 Helen Duffy

The charred remains of a small sedan, perhaps white originally, sit on a pavement in front of a tall stone wall with what appear to be wooden doors at various points along the wall. Clothes hang on a line as if to dry.

“They Will Kill Me”: Haitian Deportees from U.S. Face Fear, Uncertainty

Haitians deported from the United States face the threat of widespread gang violence, poverty, and instability.

Sep. 16, 2026 Nathalye Cotrino

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A Plea from Forgotten Families in Detention in Northeast Syria: “What Will Happen to Our Children?”

More than 2,400 children and mothers once linked to ISIS are still held in detention in Roj Camp and other facilities in northeastern Syria.

Sep. 14, 2026 Beatrice Eriksson and Fionnuala Ní Aoláin KC (Hons)

9/11 Then and Now: How It Shapes Us 25 Years On

We asked experts with deep personal and professional ties to the post-9/11 era: how did 9/11 shape your path, and how does it continue to shape us 25 years later?

Sep. 11, 2026 Just Security

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A Crucial Moment for Persons with Disabilities: The Right to Community Inclusion vs. Institutionalization

The Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACtHR) will hear arguments in a potentially transformative disability rights case for Guatemala, the Americas, and the world.

Sep. 10, 2026 Matthew "Hezzy" Smith, Michael Ashley Stein and 1 more

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