Caravan Aid: Yes, You Can do Something about Syria
By Yassamin Ansari Yassamin Ansari is an International Relations major at Stanford University. She spent the fall of 2012 studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan, where she also reported as an… Read more…
By Yassamin Ansari Yassamin Ansari is an International Relations major at Stanford University. She spent the fall of 2012 studying Arabic in Amman, Jordan, where she also reported as an… Read more…
This piece by Annie Kucklick, a researcher for the Conflict Risk Network, originally appeared on United to End Genocide’s blog. Last week, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir and South Sudanese President Salva Kiir met… Read more…
You can find a lot in the blogosphere and the Twittersphere: cat memes, celebrity gossip, and, increasingly, informative and influential discourse on human rights and U.S. foreign policy. If you’re… Read more…
In light of the recent bombing of Aleppo University on Tuesday, STAND is working with the Syrian American Council to host emergency vigils across the country. For more information, see… Read more…
By Danny Hirschel-Burns, STAND Policy Analyst In South Sudan’s Jonglei state, ethnic violence between the Lou Nuer and Murle communities is a constant characteristic of South Sudan’s internal instability. Along… Read more…
Syria The humanitarian situation in Syria has been deteriorating rapidly. The United Nations is unable to provide food for about one million people and rain and cold are further deteriorating living conditions, leading to a… Read more…
It’s 2013. For conflict analysts, the new year is a time for lists. In particular, those ubiquitous lists of “conflicts to watch,” which seem to pop up on the regular…. Read more…
Democratic Republic of the Congo Just hours before Rwanda was set to join the UN Nations Security Council as a non-permanent member, the Council placed an arms embargo on M23 rebels and… Read more…
By Alex Hart, Indiana University ’15 The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic group living on the west coast of Burma and east Bangladesh. They are described by the United Nations… Read more…
This is the fourth in a series of posts highlighting cases of statelessness throughout the world. Click here for more information about the series. Already displaced from their native home in southern… Read more…