Robert Rotberg

January 14, 2006

Sowing Afghan Security

Op-Ed, International Herald Tribune

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

There is a striking antidote to worsening security in Afghanistan, where suicide bombing and convoy ambushes now occur every day. Increasingly, these Taliban- and Al Qaeda–sponsored attacks are linked to opium and heroin trafficking. Afghanistan supplies 80 percent of Europe's heroin and is the largest grower of poppies in the world.

January 10, 2006

Sowing Afghan Security

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

There is a striking antidote to worsening security in Afghanistan, where suicide bombing and convoy ambushes now occur every day. Increasingly, these Taliban- and Al Qaeda–sponsored attacks are linked to opium and heroin trafficking. Afghanistan supplies 80 percent of Europe's heroin and is the largest grower of poppies in the world.

November, 2005

Battling Terrorism in the Horn of Africa

Book

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Although Afghanistan and Iraq are at the epicenter of America's war on terror, terrorist groups are active in other parts of the world as well. One of the most dangerous is the greater Horn of Africa region--Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, and the Sudan, along with Yem, their volatile neighbor.

October 24, 2005

Why Wait on Darfur?

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

"NEVER AGAIN!" promised Washington, London, Brussels, and the United Nations after the massacres in Bosnia, Cambodia, and Rwanda. But the killing fields of Darfur are more than two years old, and still the world permits innocent farmers, children, and displaced people to be killed and women repeatedly raped. What is to be done?

October 7, 2005

Die Vergessene Tyrannei (The Forgotten Tyranny)

Op-Ed, Financial Times Deutschland

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

August 18, 2005

The End of Tyranny in Zimbabwe

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

TYRANNY OFTEN ends in a whimper, not a conflagration. So it seems in today's Zimbabwe, where President Robert Mugabe's immensely corrupt regime has destroyed a once prosperous African country, leaving behind only the stench of decay.

May 30, 2005

World Must End Mugabe Mayhem

Op-Ed, Toronto Star

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

Dictatorial despotism spirals Zimbabwe ever downward. Zimbabweans struggle to survive, some even starving.

May 10, 2005

Needed: A Medical Peace Corps

Op-Ed, Boston Globe

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

AS ANGOLANS die piteously of Marburg virus and Africans everywhere suffer from HIV/AIDS, malaria, tuberculosis, and a host of other killers, too little attention is paid to the desperate nature of Africa's routine health services.

March 25, 2005

Starving the Voters Is How Mugabe Has Rigged the Election

Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

...Mugabe's staying power and tactics are mirroring those of oppressive regimes in Cambodia and North Korea. Left unchecked as he has been, there is no telling how far he will go.

March 20, 2005

Combatendo o genocidio (Combating Genocide in Darfur)

Magazine or Newspaper Article, Jornal o Brasil

By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution

This article discusses the genocide in Darfur.