William H. Wiley is the Executive Director of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability. Â Prior to the establishment of the CIJA, he served with the Canadian war crimes programme, the United Nations tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, and at the Iraqi High Tribunal during the trials of Saddam…
Eve Register is a Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation and member of NATO Defence Education Enhancement Programme’s Global Threats Advisory Group Hydropower is currently the world’s largest renewable energy source and accounts for over half of renewable electricity production globally. Dam construction skyrocketed in the late 1970s, driven by the reliability and cost-effectiveness of these…
Nadia’s Initiative is a nonprofit organization founded in 2018 by Nadia Murad that advocates for survivors of sexual violence and aims to rebuild communities in crisis. In August 2014, ISIS surrounded the quiet Yazidi farming village of Kocho in Sinjar as part of an effort to ethnically cleanse Yazidis from Iraq. In the week leading…
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey is an analyst and journalist, particularly focused on geopolitical and economic issues in the Gulf region, Middle East and North Africa Oman often flies under the radar as an understated actor in the Middle East, especially compared to its fellow Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) neighbours such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and…
Choon Hwee Koh is assistant professor of Ottoman history at the University of California In the 1840s information traveled at roughly the same speed as it had in 840 BCE. Before the telegraph and the steamship, relay postal systems were the premier technology for long-distance communication. Powered by horses, these overland relays were more reliable than…
Marcus Andreopoulos is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Foundation and a Subject Matter Expert with the Global Threats Advisory Group at NATO’s Defence Education Enhancement Programme Having elected a new president and government at the end of last year, Sri Lanka looks set to chart a new course in its approach to foreign policy. Since…
Karen Dabrowska is a journalist and writer focused on the Middle East South Yemen could be the Hong Kong of the Middle East. Centred on the strategic port of Aden located on the southern tip of Arabia there is tremendous potential for the development of a free trade zone or a special economic zone, a…
Eldaniz Gusseinov is a Non-Resident Research Fellow at the Haydar Aliyev Center for Eurasian Studies and a Columnist for Daryo In recent years, the relationship between Kazakhstan and Afghanistan has been changing significantly, driven by stronger economic and diplomatic ties. A major turning point came in December 2023 when Kazakhstan decided to remove the Taliban from…
Fikry A Rahman is Head of Foreign Affairs at Bait Al Amanah and Vasey Fellow at the Pacific Forum and Karisma Putera Abd Rahman is Senior Analyst for Foreign Affairs at Bait Al Amanah Malaysia has always taken a non-confrontational approach to managing incursions, encroachment, and provocations in the South China Sea. While this stance has…
Sean Paterson is a Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society living in Guangzhou In 1620, the great polymath Francis Bacon published his magnum opus, the Novum Organum. Among an early draft of the scientific method, he considered three inventions that had, in his own lifetime, turned the world upside down. ‘It is well to observe…
