As UN Renews Peacekeeping in Mali, Civilian Protection Requires Ongoing Push for Air Assets
By Seán Smith The United Nations Security Council is in the final stages of renewing the mandate for the peacekeeping…
Great Expectations: AFRICOM’s New Quarterly Report on Civilian Casualties
By Dan Mahanty March feels like a decade and a thousand COVID-19 news cycles ago, so you could be forgiven for…
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…