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Examining arms manufacturing and trade and domestic and international levels.
Congratulations
Congratulations to WPF's Executive Director, Alex de Waal on receiving the 2023 Royal Anthropological Institute’s Huxley Award! Read more about the award on our blog.
In the News
NEW YORK TIMES | March 9, 2024
I Said the Era of Famines Might Be Ending. I Was Wrong.
Nearly eight years ago I wrote an essay for New York Times Opinion asking whether the world had finally moved beyond the peril of large-scale famines. My answer was that it might very well have.
I was wrong. Famines are back.
THE GUARDIAN | January 31, 2024
Unless Israel changes course, it could be legally culpable for mass starvation
Gaza is on the brink of famine. If the US and UK fail to use every possible lever to stop the catastrophe, they will be complicit
BBC | January 23, 2024
Ethiopia starvation: Fear of famine in Tigray grows
Famine is stalking parts of Ethiopia. The epicentre is in the northern Tigray region.
THE NEW HUMANITARIAN | January 18, 2024
Famine expert Alex de Waal on Israel’s starvation of Gaza
‘The responsibility for that lies overwhelmingly with Israel. It will have to pay not only financially but morally and legally as well.’
WPF Blog: Reinventing Peace
- Mass Starvation: Recent media commentary from Alex de Waal on Gaza, Sudan, and Tigray March 13, 2024Below is a round-up of recent news analysis and media commentary from the WPF’s Executive Director, Alex de Waal, a leading expert on mass starvation and famine. In the past weeks, he has discussed starvation crimes in Gaza (Occupied Palestinian Territories), Sudan, Tigray (Ethiopia) and the Horn of Africa. GazaWorld Peace Foundation
- From the Colonial War Handbooks March 7, 2024In his 1906 Handbook for Small Wars, Colonel Sir Charles Callwell advised his fellow British officers that colonial operations would likely involve confiscating cattle and burning villages, ‘an aspect that may shock the humanitarian.’ He continues: The most satisfactory way of bringing such [native] foes to reason is by the rifle and the sward, [...] […]Alex DeWaal