Even the most well resourced nation is almost always caught off guard by an emergency. An emergency can cause a humanitarian crisis which leads to a total or considerable breakdown of authority resulting from conflict. In many ...
“There’s certainly no greater pain than losing one’s homeland,” said Euripedes (431 a.c.). In more than 2000 years, history has proved him right countless times. Losing your homeland in most cases, not only strips one f...
The by-election victory of Aung San Suu Kyi last year promised much hope for Burma. Since then, and with pressure from the international community, the government of Thein Sein has been slowly forthcoming with reforms. However,...
North Korea is an Orwellian nightmare, straight out of the Cold War: a dictatorship with the world’s largest active army per capita and the fourth largest active overall, a nuclear arsenal, more than one million people suffer...