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Hannah Sim

In the Paris Agreement

By Hannah Sim In the Paris Agreement, an international treaty on climate change adopted in 2015, an overarching goal was set to limit...

Tahia Bristi

Striking a Balance: The Promise of a Hypothetical TRC in Post-War Bosnia

By Tahia Bristi In the tumultuous aftermath of the Bosnian War, the delicate equilibrium between punishment and mercy emerges as a...

Rahul Ramakrishnan

Mindful Healing: Balancing Mental Health, Justice, and Reconciliation in Conflict-Torn Societies

By Rahul Ramakrishnan In pursuing justice for victims in international mass conflicts, the delicate balance between punishment and mercy...

Arnav Raval

A Truth and Reconciliation: The Pathway Towards Reuniting Guatemala

By Arnav Raval Marked by bloodshed and numerous authoritarian regimes, the Guatemalan Civil War fundamentally redefined the nation’s...

Alex Kho

Sudan Crisis

By Alex Kho The Sudanese power conflict is a fierce rivalry emanating from Sudan’s past and clouding the country’s future. In the early...

Kiran Yeh

For Ukraine, A Restoration of Truth is a Restoration of Unity

By Kiran Yeh The truth doesn't drown in water and doesn't burn in fire - Ukrainian Proverb In the aftermath of the Kakhovka dam explosion...

Matthew Lee

Redeeming Democracy: Constructing an Egyptian Truth and Reconciliation Committee

By Matthew Lee On January 25th, 2011, thousands of protestors poured into the streets of Cairo demanding economic and political reform....

Peter Grande

Aching for Accountability, Pining for Peace: The Paradox of Justice in Northern Ireland

By Peter Grande For three gory decades, Catholic Republicans were pitted against Protestant Unionists in a violent sectarian conflict...

Sara Davies

The World's Forgotten Refugees

By Sara Davies Climate change will exponentially expand the global refugee crisis. By 2050, it is predicted that the number of people...

Lucy Fritzinger

The Disproportionate Impact of Climate Change on Displaced Populations

By Lucy Fritzinger Imagine a world in which your house only consists of a 10’x16’ room with five other people (Reid). The persistent leak...

Hannah Sim

Can Nature Re-place those whom it Displaced?

By Hannah Sim Today, there are 890,000 displaced Rohingya refugees from Myanmar “living” in Bangladesh (Rohingya Refugee…; Reid; Khan et...

Raana Forgah

Crushed, but not Destroyed: Can Social Media and Music Transform Lives?

By Raana Forgah “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck...

Robert Cook

Sink or Swim?

By Robert Cook A flash appears in the distance, evidence of another village burning, a place where people lived and loved, now...

Irene Cho

Refugees and their Economic Impact

By Irene Cho With crop struggles, water scarcity, and overall less resources threatening livelihoods and already displacing twenty...

Andrew Edelmann

Damming the Rising Tides of Chronic Instability

By Andrew Edelmann Displacement is no longer linear. With the sheer scope of today’s refugee crisis and the widespread emergence of mass...

Aidan Gouley

Defending Dignity: Redefining Refugee Legal Protections

By Aidan Gouley As the rest of the world enjoys the highest standard of living in human history, 80 million people remain displaced due...

Zoe Lee

Burma, Ukraine, and the Risk of Short-Sightedness

By Zoe Lee Ms. Lee is a Program Associate at Burma Task Force and a fellow of the NYU Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights The...

Eric Han

The UN’s Highest Court Might Convict Myanmar. It Won’t Be Enough.

By Eric Han The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands The International Court of Justice (ICJ) met last month to hear Myanmar’s...

Marta Tsvengrosh, LL.M.

5 Ways for American High School and College Students to Support Ukrainians

By Marta Tsvengrosh, LL.M. Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter under a destroyed highway It was 5 am on February 24 when an explosion woke...

Kevin Tang

John Sexton Essay Contest 2019: Kevin Tang

By Kevin Tang “We are scared to return to Myanmar because if we go, they will kill us.” Chilling, these words uttered by Rohingya refugee...

Zubaidah Chowdhury

Exodus: Will Anyone Help the Rohingya Refugees?

By Zubaidah Chowdhury “My daughter shook me and said, ‘Mom, get up. The house is on fire. You’re burning,’” painfully recalls Mumtaz...

Kelly Su

Resolving Human Rights through Demilitarization and Equal Representation

By Kelly Su The cries of the Rohingya wail, “Please, I have no place to call home and nowhere to go. I am only a displaced person denied...

Jason Tan

Returning Rohingya Refugees Home Safely

By Jason Tan 727,000. To ignorant bystanders, this number represents nothing; to Rohingya refugees this number represents everything....

Elena Li

John Sexton Essay Contest 2018: Elena Li

By Elena Li In 1997, a band of masked attackers with ties to the municipal government sprung from the forests of Chiapa, Mexico,...

Iftida Faria

Cries of the Rohingya Mother, Unseen, Unheard

By Iftida Faria “Please don’t kill my baby”, begged the mother as the Myanmar police snatched her child away. While the Rohingya crisis...

Anab Khan

The Keys to Successful Repatriation of the Rohingya

By Anab Khan Over 700,000 men, women, and children have been displaced from their ancestral home in the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis...

Fiona Neibart

Words Carry Urgency in the Rohingya Genocide

By Fiona Neibart “Maggots.” “Rapists.” “Dogs.” These slurs—translated from Burmese and aimed at Rohingya—are among more than a thousand...

Eric Han

To Assert Rohingya Humanity, Turn to the Arts

By Eric Han Gudar Mia, an eighty-year-old Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, with smoke-filled lungs, croaks an old Rohingya folk song. The...

Yotam Peer

What We Can Do to Help the Rohingya

By Yotam Peer Men, women, and children of all ages sit hunched together. Their clothes are raggedy, and they fill each hut and room to...

Vincent Jiang

The Perils of Comparing Rwandan Dictatorship and Democratization to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis

By Vincent Jiang The irony of the Rohingya crisis is that a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, in the words of UN High Commissioner...

Zoe Lee

Mass Media and Genocide in The Modern Age

By Zoe Lee In order to confront the genocide of the Rohingya, we must recognize the compounding factors that ultimately engender...

Madelyn Fried

Us and Them

By Madelyn Fried A boy sits in a rusted chair on the border of Myanmar with a screwdriver and toothbrush in hand. He fixes phones for...

Aruna Das

John Sexton Essay Contest 2021: Aruna Das

By Aruna Das The word “genocide” is younger than three of my grandparents. A Polish lawyer coined the term in 1944 during Nazi Germany’s...

Hana Kim

Naming and Shaming: The Rohingya Crisis

By Hana Kim In the wake of World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proposed—a vow to never allow the...

Mahiul Bhuiyan

The Case For Intervention

By Mahiul Bhuiyan Former U.S. President Barack Obama once said in an interview, “When you see a genocide, whether it's in Rwanda or...

Emily Hollander

Genocide: Contradictions as a Continuity

By Emily Hollander Genocides are bred in a cesspool of contradictions. Their perpetrators thrive in inconsistencies, using them to build...

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