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...favorite class would have to be painting, Drawing with Two Hands, taught by Thomas Eggerer, or the Politics of Complex Humanitarian Emergencies by Alex de Waal...
...interested in why people, particularly people who are American and want to be involved in humanitarian prevention of war, behave the way they do. I’m interested in, for example, the way the International Criminal Court was set up, and why it has been set up the way it has, and the chasm between theoretical law and real time politics that has opened up. I’m interested in things like that, the specifics of who and why and where...
...Does your remit restrict you to conflict zones, or can you focus on human-rights abuses in places like Burma and North Korea? My job deals with atrocities, genocide and war crimes. Human rights and international humanitarian law are closely related, but my focus is on the latter. I'll be working not just with new developments and existing courts but also unhealed wounds created by past atrocities, in Cambodia for instance...
...regime fell," says Karim Pakzad, a Middle East expert at Paris' Institute of Strategic and International Relations (IRIS). "It's understandable that the Iraqis want to extend their sovereignty to a camp of former militants, whose presence they can no longer stand. But it's also become a humanitarian question: what to do with these people...
...Middle East experts say it's unlikely, however, that the U.S. would take back control of the camp. "It would be difficult go backward now that the Iraqi government is recovering sovereignty," says Pakzad of the IRIS. "The best they and other humanitarian-minded nations could do would be to accept [the camp dwellers] as refugees." A small patrol of U.S. troops is still stationed at Camp Ashraf, but video footage of the July raid shows they did not interfere - some even withdrew into an SUV and rolled up their windows as Iranians begged them for help...