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  • quick hits

    Posted: May 31, 2011, 10:40 am by kenopp
    What disasters reveal. Excellent read. From disasters we get to know more about the societies that experience them. Perhaps the glaring international example of this was the difference in destruction and response to the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile. Haiti’s non-existent state capacity was exposed for the whole world to see. Facebook diplomacy. Are freedom [...]

  • double standards

    Posted: May 31, 2011, 8:36 am by kenopp
    The Times has a nice story on Obiang’s Equatorial Guinea that is worth reading: Officially and unofficially, Americans do business with one of the undisputed human rights global bad boys, Equatorial Guinea, Africa’s fourth biggest oil exporter. Its widely criticized record on basic freedoms has offered little barrier to broad engagement by the United States, [...]

  • Judges reject kenya’s bid to stop icc case

    Posted: May 31, 2011, 7:38 am by kenopp
    The government of Kenya has lost in its bid to convince the ICC that it has the political will and capacity to try key perpetrators of the 2007-08 post-election violence (PEV). Kenya had asked for six months to get its justice system in order and convince the ICC that it could bring to book those [...]
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