“The number, intensity, and length of conflicts worldwide is at its highest level since before the end of the Cold War.”

Read Peter Salisbury and Emma Beals on the rise in violent wars—and why world leaders need a new approach to managing conflict:
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“Hamas’s brutal attacks in Israel and Israel’s ongoing military response in Gaza, as well as surging violence across Syria, show the limits of containment,” write Peter Salisbury and Emma Beals.
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'The number of civil and interstate wars, and the fatalities they cause, are now at their highest levels since the mid-1980s.'

Emma Beals & Peter Salisbury on the global explosion of violent conflict:

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A monthslong conversation w/
Emma Beals on the limits and self imposed limitations of peacemaking is now in print. Some structural, but many to do with western policy priorities.

Via Foreign Affairs

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What began as a piece detailing the combined anxieties of a Syria nerd (me) and a Yemen nerd (Peter Salisbury) was overtaken by world events and ended up as a highly depressing read about the lack of peace, or even aspiration for peace, in a world aflame. foreignaffairs.com/africa/world-w…

Several UN agencies said they were unable to reach colleagues in #Gaza on Friday as phone lines, internet and mobile service there went down. Earlier in the day, UN chief António Guterres renewed his appeal for greater aid access to the enclave.
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Israel expands ground operations in Gaza on.ft.com/3siEzBn

Washington Post reporters now cannot reach our colleagues in Gaza. Palestinian Red Crescent Society says it has lost contact with medical teams.

I've been pretty quiet of late, but keep on having to answer the question: how is Yemen's peace process going?

My thoughts for World Politics Review: Peace is far away, and Yemen's current limbo will more thank likely persist.

The world is failing to meet the bare entitlements of a part of humanity.

I've been pretty quiet of late, but keep on having to answer the question: how is Yemen's peace process going?

My thoughts for
World Politics Review: Peace is far away, and Yemen's current limbo will likely persist.

For the past year, Yemen has been in a state of limbo, its messy, regionalized conflict on hold but unresolved, Peter Salisbury writes. That’s unlikely to change—for the better, at least—soon.
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I've been pretty quiet of late, but keep on having to answer the question: how is Yemen's peace process going?

My thoughts for World Politics Review: Peace is far away, and Yemen's current limbo will more thank likely persist.

I'm furious that I am currently vulnerable to being accused of being an anti-Semite because I am not a Zionist. I am a Jew. I am the son of a Holocaust survivor who came a from a family largely exterminated by the Nazis. I love my Jewish heritage. I love that my children and now…

Today a bomb hit an empty house next to a temporary shelter in Khan Younis where my Crisis Group colleague in #Gaza and his family had fled to. His son was injured and is now awaiting surgery. Yet another reminder why the bombing needs to stop. Gaza ceasefire now 👇🏻

The life of my dear friend Azmi Keshawi after being forced to flee from his home in Gaza City:

'Gaza under Israeli siege: Bread lines, yellow water and nonstop explosions' -by Isabel DeBre & Najib Jobain

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Arabs public opinions don’t care about Palestinians, they said. It’s a new Middle East where Palestine doesn’t and won’t exist on the geopolitical map, they said. I hope colleagues and policymakers will be more humble from now on.

I sort of wonder why anyone is surprised that Western leaders are so oblivious to international humanitarian law when it comes to Israel/Palstine. I mean, they regard so-called international law as at best an 'opinion.' 1/2

In our latest statement on the alarming situation in Israel and #Gaza , we say that 'Mass casualty events have accelerated efforts to end previous Arab-Israeli wars; the hospital blast should do the same.' What should that look like? Crisis Group
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The #UNSC came agonisingly close to passing a resolution on humanitarian assistance (and a humanitarian pause) to #Gaza this week.

Brazil Mission to the UN did solid work negotiating the text, and made a lot of concessions along the way. [1/3]