Time to flip the script on congressional arms sales powers
By Annie Shiel and Dan Mahanty On March 3, the House Rules Committee held a rare bipartisan hearing on the erosion of…
Afghan civilians need far more than a week of reduced violence
By Federico Borello Following a week of reduced violence, with as much as an 80 percent drop in major attacks, fighting quickly resumed in…
Reduction of Civilian Harm in Afghanistan: A Way Forward
By Sahr Muhammedally and Marc Garlasco While the United States and the Taliban are engaged in talks, one fact is evident: As all…
IN SEARCH OF ANSWERS: U.S. MILITARY INVESTIGATIONS AND CIVILIAN HARM
February 20, 2020 – For the general public, the notion of a military investigation into a civilian death may conjure…
Making Human Rights a Condition for Arms Sales is Smart Foreign Policy
December 24, 2019 – In the past few years we’ve seen U.S.-made planes and weapons bomb children in Yemen; gross violations…
Protecting Civilians Still Matters in Great-Power Conflict
It’s easy to see why counterinsurgency campaigns tread carefully around local bystanders. It’s no less important in larger-scale war. As…
The Pentagon’s 2018 Civilian Casualties Report: What’s In It and What’s Next
By: Dan Mahanty and Rita Siemion The Pentagon’s latest annual report on civilian casualties, released this morning, lists shockingly low numbers…
#GenderInConflict: Women As Rescuers
The following audio story one piece in a collection on our VOICES blog focused on the gendered experience in conflict and…
Remembering Marla Ruzicka: Fourteen Years Later, Her Bravery, Ambition, and Compassion Live On
Today marks the fourteenth anniversary of the tragic passing of our founder, Marla Ruzicka. Around the world, we remember Marla…