ARTICLES AND OP-EDS
January 14, 2006
Sowing Afghan Security
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
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.
October 24, 2005
Why Wait on Darfur?
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)
Financial Times Deutschland
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
August 18, 2005
The End of Tyranny in Zimbabwe
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
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
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
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)
Jornal o Brasil
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
This article discusses the genocide in Darfur.
February 15, 2005
Asian Exports Crimp Africa's Rise
Boston Globe
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
A NEW SURGE of manufactured exports from China and India is threatening prosperity in Africa.
