My Journey into the World of Foreign Policy
I was interested in issues of peace and security from a young age. I used to wake up early every day before school (when I was as young as eight or nine years old) and check Yahoo! News for their…
Maggi Chambers
Sanction: A Buzzword, a Band-Aid, a Bureaucratic Black Box
Paul Esau, July 17th, 2023 The word “sanction” is a problem. It can mean to provide official approval (for example, “the president sanctioned the wealth tax”), or to impose penalties (“the president sanctioned the generals involved”). Technically, the second definition…
Making Security and Advocacy More Accessible
Sophy Macartney June 28th, 2023 In a millisecond after a nuclear bomb explodes, a fireball hotter than the sun forms more than 2 kilometers across. Within this space, everything is vaporized. Thirteen kilometers in every direction, everything even slightly flammable…
ReThink-ing Prevention
Emma Smith May 30, 2023 In 1972, the government of Burundi attempted to slaughter “every possible Hutu male of distinction over the age of fourteen.” Estimates of the final death toll vary by the thousands, but evidence suggests that somewhere…