Shusha, the once-abandoned land recaptured by Azerbaijan, is in the process of construction and renovation, according to Azerbaijani leadership and locals. These renovations came just within two years of the Nagorno-Karabakh War when Azerbaijan retook the area and ethnic Armenians who had inhabited the land fled. In May 2021, Azerbaijan
On May 23rd, President Biden and many other world leaders in countries within the Indo-Pacific region endorsed a new economic platform enabling countries to cooperate on supply chains, digital governance, and sustainable energy sources. “The future of the 21st-century economy is going to be largely written in the Indo-Pacific and
“Peacekeeping has become another aspect of a system which seeks stability within the confines of that system, a system which already made war possible” (Berdal, 2003). Throughout history, peacekeeping strategies have been acknowledged as an important factor for de-escalating conflicts and stabilising war-torn states. We can define this concept as
On June 6, the United States Department of Treasury announced new sanctions on two Bosnia and Herzegovina officials. The officials — Marinko Cavara, a member of the Bosnian-Croat party, and Alen Seranic, the Minister of Health and Social Welfare for the Government of Republika Srpska— were accused of threatening the
Clashes have taken place between Indonesian police and protesters in West Papua, adding to ongoing concerns about allegations of police violence. Younes Douw, a West Papuan human rights activist, claimed that 3000 students and indigenous Papuans participated in the protests. Mr. Douw said that “around 650 students took to the
On June 3, outside of Douentza, a town in central Mali, an improvised explosive device (IED) killed two United Nations (UN) peacekeepers and injured two more. Two days earlier, in northern Mali, one peacekeeper was killed, and three were injured in a gunfire attack from suspected members of a terrorist
