Episode 10: Humanitarian norms and civilian protection in armed conflict

Dr Francesca Grandi, IISS Senior Fellow for Conflict, Security and Development and Editor of the Armed Conflict Survey 2019, joins Dr Kori Schake for this episode of Sounds Strategic.In this episode, Francesca and Kori discuss the great power dynamics currently unfolding in the Central African Republic with Russia’s growing presence and influence in the Middle East and Africa. Francesca explains Russia’s role in the conflict in CAR and the obstacles to the country’s stabilisation despite the signing of a peace agreement.Francesca expands on how aid is used as a weapon of war in today’s conflicts – a key topic featured in the 2019 edition of the Armed Conflict Survey. With a research focus in conflict analysis and post-conflict justice, she evaluates the norms and tools for the protection of civilians and debunks the concept of ethnic wars, which oversimplifies the multicausal dynamism of armed conflict. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.