Center for Strategic Communication

The purpose of war

[ by Charles Cameron — breaking the grip of the war and peace, militant vs pacifist duality, with justice as the proposed “missing” third ingredient ] . ** The purpose of war is never peace in the beginning, or there’d be no need of it, no...

War in miniature?

[ by Charles Cameron — as the Washington Post points out, this has indeed been a busy week for military justice ] . To take just two examples: ** I have pulled these two news-tweets from the BBC out and juxtaposed them, because the charges in both cases had to...

Cherif Bassiouni: The FP Interview

The United Nations should establish an investigation commission to collect evidence about war crimes in Syria to prepare the ground for any future investigation, leading Arab international law expert Cherif Bassiouni told Foreign Policy during a wide-ranging interview...