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Iran-U.S. Crisis Reminds Us How Culture Matters in Wartime
As tensions have ratcheted up between the United States and Iran, a series of tweets by President Donald Trump threatening the deliberate targeting of Iranian cultural sites triggered a strong negative reaction around the world. In fact, following Trump’s tweets, Pentagon officials reassured the world that the U.S. would not target Iran’s cultural sites, and would follow the laws of armed conflict. Quickly, the
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What Are the Benefits and Pitfalls of ‘Data-Driven’ Peacekeeping?
- Analysis
- January 9, 2020
The UN is committed to improving peace operations by making them more ‘data-driven,’ but the move toward systematic data analysis comes with practical, ethical, and political challenges. UNpeace operations face a variety of problems, but one of the most pressing,historically, has been a lack of adequate field information. Peacekeepers often fail toachieve core objectives –
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Killing Suleimani: The Tricky Business of Predicting What Comes Next
- Analysis
- January 6, 2020
The killing of Iranian General Qassem Suleimani has triggered the writing of a plethora of op-eds and think-pieces. Many of these make bold predictions without, in fact, providing a great deal of factual basis to support them. In reality, it is impossible to forecast the course of events going forward; it is critical to understand
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Canada Must Learn Its Own Lessons from Afghanistan
- Analysis
- December 20, 2019
In 2003, I saw optimism pervading the country. I saw it on the faces of men, women and children. But that is no longer the case. What should Canada learn for future massive-scale aid programs? Recently, the Washington Post published a lessons-learned report on Afghanistan authored by the U.S. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, SIGAR. The
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