alex j bellamyDec 14, 20207 minTwo mothers, one awful choice, two very different results. How civilian protection rests on luckOn the morning of 2 September 2015, the tiny body of two-year old Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish beach near the resort town of Bodrum....
alex j bellamyNov 23, 20205 minWar's fateful logic...or an encounter with Tom BombadilTom Bombadil is one of the most curious characters in JRR Tolkien’s epic saga, The Lord of the Rings. Dressed in a blue jacket, yellow...
alex j bellamyDec 16, 20196 minPeace and the Promise of Christmas: 1914On Christmas Eve 1914, officers of the Royal Flying Corps carefully wrapped a plum pudding and dropped it on the German side of the...
alex j bellamySep 11, 20195 minFor a universal right of conscientious objectionWar is a fiercely collective endeavour. It demands that individual rights, interests, values, and perspectives be set aside in favour of...
alex j bellamyAug 7, 20195 minWorld peace is possibleOnly a very few of us today believe that world peace is possible. Indeed, the very mention of the term ‘world peace’ raises incredulity....
alex j bellamyJul 4, 20195 minThe liberal order isn't dying...we've never had one Vladimir Putin thinks liberalism has become ‘obsolete’. There are many who would agree. But whatever the purveyors of doom might think,...
alex j bellamyJun 17, 20193 minWar no longer fit for purposeWhatever goods that may have once been achieved by war are now better achieved through peace. This is a calculus we can tilt ever more...
