Rather than representing a new age of apathy to human suffering, international inaction in Syria instead should be viewed as the result of years of misuse, mistakes and misjudgments in intervention.

The images of violence are just too many, and thus are unable touch our empathy anymore.

Reconciliation is a slow, uneasy process, and Northern Ireland still needs its own time to heal from the traumas of the past.

Above all, she is presented as a messenger, constantly reaffirming her desire to return home—introducing the possibility that not all migration in North America has the same motivations or stakes as hegemonic narratives would have us believe.

The millions of people who counted as the enemy were subjected to unbelievable cruelty and violence because they were treated as if they were not human. Where the enemy is not even human, violence against them is allowed and, more importantly, just.

As it appears, international justice mechanisms so far have failed to charge or even investigate crimes committed by sitting members of governments.