UN Security Council (UNSC)

The international community failed 20 years ago to stop mass atrocities and genocide in Darfur, and is now failing again.

Sanctions programs could benefit from certain measures to restore their function as a critical U.N. Security Council tool for peace.

COP28 opens with loss and damage fund commitments, a UN Security Council briefing on the Israel-Hamas war, North Korea's nuclear program, and more.

A UN Security Council resolution on the Israel-Hamas war, US airstrikes in Syria and Article 51 implications, ICJ elections, and more.

A response to an article published on how military campaigns can never be rendered disproportionate by the total harm inflicted on civilians.

Top experts reflect on what the Biden administration's new executive order means for the future of AI and efforts to regulate it.

Whether the magnitude of State responses to terror is ethical and wise goes beyond determinations of legal compliance.

Prevention and the responsibility to protect are subordinated to other UN agendas, and special advisers too often sidelined.

The right of self-defense does not permit a disproportionate loss of civilian life, writes Professor Adil Haque in this essay on what U.N. Member States can say.

This arc reveals both the African Union’s strengths and weaknesses in stopping atrocity crimes, and what it might yet accomplish.

The failure of past counterterrorism policies and practice has led to unending cycles of violence.

Reinvigorating the atrocity prevention agenda requires focusing on accountability.