Peace negotiations are often driven by an urgent imperative: stop the violence. But when those accused of war crimes remain indispensable to reaching an agreement, efforts to secure peace can collide with demands for accountability. That tension has become increasingly visible as governments, private mediators, and other diplomatic actors seek negotiated solutions to conflicts while [...]

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Ten years ago, world leaders in Paris committed to limiting global warming to well below 2°C above pre-industrial levels, while pursuing efforts to limit it to 1.5°C. Since then, the average global temperature was recorded above 1.5°C for the first time in 2024, prompting questions about the relevance of this target. However, a new report [...]

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In an interview with JURIST’s Divyabharthi Baradhan, Professor Manlio Graziano,* an expert in geopolitics at Sciences Po Paris, explores whether the two-state solution is an effective means of bringing lasting peace between the two states, taking into account the historical context, power dynamics, as well as lessons learned from other state partitions in the past. [...]

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