Comfort Ero: Why Is Violent Conflict Reaching Record Levels? | Foreign Affairs Interview
More than any time in the last 75 years, we’re living in a world at war. Conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine dominate headlines. But that’s just part of it. Last year, Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh, forcing thousands of ethnic Armenians to flee. There’s a full-scale civil war in Myanmar. In Africa, there is war in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Congo, and there have been seven coups on the continent since August 2020.
Comfort Ero, the head of the International Crisis Group, has been tracking these conflicts as closely as anyone. She has watched the international system grow more brittle and less effective at preventing war-and has been doing the hard political work of ending conflict once it breaks out.
Sources:
"The Crisis of African Democracy" by Comfort Ero and Murithi Mutiga
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“Sudan and the New Age of Conflict” by Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood
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“Give War a Chance” by Edward N. Luttwak
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I think this might be the best conversation I have encountered recently. I think Ms Ero is particularly right about her last point that despite all the conflicts and tragedies, nations still come to New York every year to discuss important matters. If going forward, US don’t manage every details carefully, it may very well lose this prestige. As the unipolar power in the world, US too often considers itself as the only universal truth bearer and therefore takes the respects from other nations for granted. Now, in my opinion, this all comes to crumble. It is time for US to earn other countries’ trust and respect if it wants to maintain its status of prestige. I don’t think multipolar is the solution to less conflicts but I do think multilateral is.
Smart guest. Great podcast.
The host and his guest may wish to consider that the double standards they refer to is just another name for hypocrisy. The effort to be absolutely consistent and not a hypocrite, which is very rarely achieved, merely makes you a fanatic.