Striking a Balance: The Promise of a Hypothetical TRC in Post-War Bosnia
By Tahia Bristi In the tumultuous aftermath of the Bosnian War, the delicate equilibrium between punishment and mercy emerges as a...
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Rahul Ramakrishnan
Mindful Healing: Balancing Mental Health, Justice, and Reconciliation in Conflict-Torn Societies
By Rahul Ramakrishnan In pursuing justice for victims in international mass conflicts, the delicate balance between punishment and mercy...
Arnav Raval
A Truth and Reconciliation: The Pathway Towards Reuniting Guatemala
By Arnav Raval Marked by bloodshed and numerous authoritarian regimes, the Guatemalan Civil War fundamentally redefined the nation’s...
Alex Kho
Sudan Crisis
By Alex Kho The Sudanese power conflict is a fierce rivalry emanating from Sudan’s past and clouding the country’s future. In the early...
Kiran Yeh
For Ukraine, A Restoration of Truth is a Restoration of Unity
By Kiran Yeh The truth doesn't drown in water and doesn't burn in fire - Ukrainian Proverb In the aftermath of the Kakhovka dam explosion...
Matthew Lee
Redeeming Democracy: Constructing an Egyptian Truth and Reconciliation Committee
By Matthew Lee On January 25th, 2011, thousands of protestors poured into the streets of Cairo demanding economic and political reform....
Peter Grande
Aching for Accountability, Pining for Peace: The Paradox of Justice in Northern Ireland
By Peter Grande For three gory decades, Catholic Republicans were pitted against Protestant Unionists in a violent sectarian conflict...
Sara Davies
The World's Forgotten Refugees
By Sara Davies Climate change will exponentially expand the global refugee crisis. By 2050, it is predicted that the number of people...
Lucy Fritzinger
The Disproportionate Impact of Climate Change on Displaced Populations
By Lucy Fritzinger Imagine a world in which your house only consists of a 10’x16’ room with five other people (Reid). The persistent leak...
Hannah Sim
Can Nature Re-place those whom it Displaced?
By Hannah Sim Today, there are 890,000 displaced Rohingya refugees from Myanmar “living” in Bangladesh (Rohingya Refugee…; Reid; Khan et...
Raana Forgah
Crushed, but not Destroyed: Can Social Media and Music Transform Lives?
By Raana Forgah “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck...
Robert Cook
Sink or Swim?
By Robert Cook A flash appears in the distance, evidence of another village burning, a place where people lived and loved, now...
Irene Cho
Refugees and their Economic Impact
By Irene Cho With crop struggles, water scarcity, and overall less resources threatening livelihoods and already displacing twenty...
Andrew Edelmann
Damming the Rising Tides of Chronic Instability
By Andrew Edelmann Displacement is no longer linear. With the sheer scope of today’s refugee crisis and the widespread emergence of mass...
Aidan Gouley
Defending Dignity: Redefining Refugee Legal Protections
By Aidan Gouley As the rest of the world enjoys the highest standard of living in human history, 80 million people remain displaced due...
Zoe Lee
Burma, Ukraine, and the Risk of Short-Sightedness
By Zoe Lee Ms. Lee is a Program Associate at Burma Task Force and a fellow of the NYU Gallatin Global Fellowship in Human Rights The...
Eric Han
The UN’s Highest Court Might Convict Myanmar. It Won’t Be Enough.
By Eric Han The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands The International Court of Justice (ICJ) met last month to hear Myanmar’s...
Marta Tsvengrosh, LL.M.
5 Ways for American High School and College Students to Support Ukrainians
By Marta Tsvengrosh, LL.M. Ukrainian refugees seeking shelter under a destroyed highway It was 5 am on February 24 when an explosion woke...
Kevin Tang
John Sexton Essay Contest 2019: Kevin Tang
By Kevin Tang “We are scared to return to Myanmar because if we go, they will kill us.” Chilling, these words uttered by Rohingya refugee...
Zubaidah Chowdhury
Exodus: Will Anyone Help the Rohingya Refugees?
By Zubaidah Chowdhury “My daughter shook me and said, ‘Mom, get up. The house is on fire. You’re burning,’” painfully recalls Mumtaz...
Kelly Su
Resolving Human Rights through Demilitarization and Equal Representation
By Kelly Su The cries of the Rohingya wail, “Please, I have no place to call home and nowhere to go. I am only a displaced person denied...
Jason Tan
Returning Rohingya Refugees Home Safely
By Jason Tan 727,000. To ignorant bystanders, this number represents nothing; to Rohingya refugees this number represents everything....
Elena Li
John Sexton Essay Contest 2018: Elena Li
By Elena Li In 1997, a band of masked attackers with ties to the municipal government sprung from the forests of Chiapa, Mexico,...
Iftida Faria
Cries of the Rohingya Mother, Unseen, Unheard
By Iftida Faria “Please don’t kill my baby”, begged the mother as the Myanmar police snatched her child away. While the Rohingya crisis...
Anab Khan
The Keys to Successful Repatriation of the Rohingya
By Anab Khan Over 700,000 men, women, and children have been displaced from their ancestral home in the worst ongoing humanitarian crisis...
Fiona Neibart
Words Carry Urgency in the Rohingya Genocide
By Fiona Neibart “Maggots.” “Rapists.” “Dogs.” These slurs—translated from Burmese and aimed at Rohingya—are among more than a thousand...
Eric Han
To Assert Rohingya Humanity, Turn to the Arts
By Eric Han Gudar Mia, an eighty-year-old Rohingya refugee in Bangladesh, with smoke-filled lungs, croaks an old Rohingya folk song. The...
Yotam Peer
What We Can Do to Help the Rohingya
By Yotam Peer Men, women, and children of all ages sit hunched together. Their clothes are raggedy, and they fill each hut and room to...
Vincent Jiang
The Perils of Comparing Rwandan Dictatorship and Democratization to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
By Vincent Jiang The irony of the Rohingya crisis is that a “textbook example of ethnic cleansing”, in the words of UN High Commissioner...
Zoe Lee
Mass Media and Genocide in The Modern Age
By Zoe Lee In order to confront the genocide of the Rohingya, we must recognize the compounding factors that ultimately engender...
Madelyn Fried
Us and Them
By Madelyn Fried A boy sits in a rusted chair on the border of Myanmar with a screwdriver and toothbrush in hand. He fixes phones for...
Aruna Das
John Sexton Essay Contest 2021: Aruna Das
By Aruna Das The word “genocide” is younger than three of my grandparents. A Polish lawyer coined the term in 1944 during Nazi Germany’s...
Hana Kim
Naming and Shaming: The Rohingya Crisis
By Hana Kim In the wake of World War II, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was proposed—a vow to never allow the...
Mahiul Bhuiyan
The Case For Intervention
By Mahiul Bhuiyan Former U.S. President Barack Obama once said in an interview, “When you see a genocide, whether it's in Rwanda or...
Emily Hollander
Genocide: Contradictions as a Continuity
By Emily Hollander Genocides are bred in a cesspool of contradictions. Their perpetrators thrive in inconsistencies, using them to build...
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