That zone is situated just before the “Green line” (border between Israel and the West Bank) and of the many fronts within the Middle East conflict, Masafer Yatta is a particularly ugly one. In the “Wild West” of Palestine, 1300 people are threatened with displacement – in favour of a training area for the Israeli army. Just recently, a demolition …

Over the latest decades, a controversial question has roamed the environments of Global Security, both in academia and on the political scene: is NATO an obsolete institution? Many wondered what purposes might the organisation serve in a world where its initial rationale as an opposing party to the Soviet Union had fallen, and its member countries suffered virtually no active …

In February 2015, a rare summit of Russian, Ukrainian, German, and French leaders aimed to restore peace to parts of Ukraine taken over by pro-Russian rebels the year before. These territories became known as the Luhansk People’s Republic (LPR) and the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR) in Ukraine’s Donbas region (DPR). The Ukrainian administration in Kyiv said that the two territories …

The International Court of Justice was established in 1945 to resolve legal disputes brought to it by Member States in accordance with international law, and to provide advisory opinions on legal problems referred to it by authorized United Nations organs and specialized agencies. Impartiality and political neutrality are supposed to be the ICJ’s main objectives. As the principal judicial organ of …

War criminals and dictators should not go unpunished – that was the idea when the International Criminal Court, short ICC, in The Hague began its work in 2002. But since 2015-2016 it is in crisis: several African countries have declared their withdrawal. Their argument: only Africans would be sentenced. Summer 2015: The central African country of Burundi is drowning in …

In Europe, the past months have been regarded as showcases of the extents of humanitarian and governmental solidarity, as millions of refugees fleeing the conflict in Ukraine were welcomed across the continent. Such openness towards Ukrainians, however, bitterly highlights the hypocrisy inherent in the differences in treatment of asylum-seekers of other provenances, of which the latest refugee policy of the …

While the UN Security Council tried to prevent a war against Ukraine, Russia’s President Putin unapologetically sent his troops. The UN Security Council has no significant influence because of the veto power of individual members. Many are therefore pushing for a reform. The powerlessness of the UN Security Council has again been obvious in the Ukraine crisis. Just as the …

In the current article I want to talk about Taiwan, because the actual situation is not good at all and unfortunately, the future doesn’t seem like a bright one. At the time being, all the diplomacy and all the efforts are directed to the ukrainean conflict. Ukraine, which untill now has been a neutral country in all the chapters, in …

In Singapore, there are 32 offenses that could potentially warrant death sentences, 4 of these call for the mandatory death penalty, in fact, judges are not able to take into consideration mitigating circumstances when sentencing Murder, Drug Trafficking, Terrorism, and possession of unauthorized firearms, ammunition or explosives. However, since an amendment to the law in 2012, the mandatory death penalty …

Jamal Khashoggi was about to launch a campaign to discredit the use of the social network Twitter by the Saudi regime, when he was assassinated in Turkey. A New York Times investigation reveals how the social network has been infiltrated by the Saudi secret services and how troll farms, paid by the government, crush all attempts at criticism via this …