Conflict Zone News

Opinion

Global trends: disruptive, dangerous and disorderly

Growing intra-state conflicts, increasing inter-state conflicts and proxy wars, and transnational threats are contributing to global disorder

4 min read25 Feb 2018
Politics

Natural resources: boon or bane?

A paper finds that conflict in a region is dependent on its own resources and the resources in the surrounding areas with chances of conflict rising with higher inequality

3 min read17 Feb 2018
Opinion

Will 2018 trigger the peace process in conflict zones?

Here is the first of a series of executive summaries of key conflict, conflict resolution, and human rights matters in India and South Asia in 2018

3 min read21 Dec 2017
Politics

J&K police urge Kashmiri youths to not converge at encounter sites

Youngsters in Kashmir Valley converge and resort to stone-pelting at encounter sites and are caught in the crossfire between the army and the militants

1 min read30 Mar 2017
Opinion

Internet is like oxygen, let it flow

Restricting Internet access impacts more than a physical curfew in a geographical area

4 min read17 Aug 2016
News

More than 56 million trapped in ‘vicious’ cycle of violence and hunger: UN

Conflict is a leading cause of hunger because it forces people to flee their homes and fields, and disrupts markets leading to higher prices for food

1 min read29 Jul 2016
Opinion

Will empowering gram sabhas derail development?

People want to be heard. By imposing development on them by the power of the gun we are only creating conflict

3 min read13 May 2016
Opinion

Human rights: the Doha round

Qatar continues to be pilloried for creating infrastructure for the football World Cup in 2022 on the backs of slave-like treatment of guest workers, their frequent injuries and deaths

3 min read22 Apr 2016
Opinion

Virtual education in conflict zones

Aid groups are already blazing the trail, using the Internet to provide Syrian refugees with educational opportunities

2 min read22 Feb 2016
News

Airlines to push for independent guidance on airspace safety after Ukraine crash

Global airlines will push to get neutral information on whether to avoid airspace over conflict zones during UN aviation agency meeting

3 min read29 Jul 2014
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