While young children's rights have received considerable attention and have accordingly advanced over the past two decades, the rights of…
Last year, at a global conference on sexual violence during war, many speakers agreed that the best way to deter such crimes was…
Existing research maintains that governments delegate extreme, gratuitous, or excessively brutal violence to militias. However, analyzing…
Why, despite massive public concern, is child trafficking on the rise? Why are unaccompanied migrant children living on the streets and…
Why does Islam seem to dominate Egyptian politics, especially when the country's endemic poverty and deep economic inequality would seem to…
Which armed groups have perpetrated sexual violence in recent conflicts? This article presents patterns from the new Sexual Violence in…
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, DC, Professor Burns lauds…
Much of the current scholarship on wartime violence, including studies of the combatants themselves, assumes that women are victims and men…
"If I like a boy I cannot tell anybody about my choice because I am a girl. I like making friends with boys but being a girl I cannot do…