Comfort Ero: Why Is Violent Conflict Reaching Record Levels? | Foreign Affairs Interview

More than any time in the last 75 years, we’re living in a world at war. Conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine dominate headlines. But that’s just part of it. Last year, Azerbaijan seized Nagorno-Karabakh, forcing thousands of ethnic Armenians to flee. There’s a full-scale civil war in Myanmar. In Africa, there is war in Sudan, Ethiopia, and Congo, and there have been seven coups on the continent since August 2020. Comfort Ero, the head of the International Crisis Group, has been tracking these conflicts as closely as anyone. She has watched the international system grow more brittle and less effective at preventing war—and has been doing the hard political work of ending conflict once it breaks out. Sources: "The Crisis of African Democracy" by Comfort Ero and Murithi Mutiga https://www.foreignaffairs.com/africa/crisis-african-democracy “Sudan and the New Age of Conflict” by Comfort Ero and Richard Atwood https://www.foreignaffairs.com/sudan/sudan-and-new-age-conflict “Give War a Chance” by Edward N. Luttwak https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1999-07-01/give-war-chance The Foreign Affairs Interview newsletter. Delivered every other Thursday https://www.foreignaffairs.com/newsletter