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Armin Rosen

Armin Rosen is a New York-based freelance writer.

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From Victim to (Mutual) Aggressor: South Sudan's Disastrous First Year

From Victim to (Mutual) Aggressor: South Sudan's Disastrous First Year

The new African country, founded in part to escape from the northern government's violence, is showing some hostility of its own.… More »

South Sudan Struggles With Independence

South Sudan Struggles With Independence

Less than a year after declaring independence, a border state in the new African country is troubled by the return of hundreds of thousands of war refugees and a deteriorating relationship with the north.… More »

The Warlord and the Basketball Star: A Story of Congo's Corrupt Gold Trade

The Warlord and the Basketball Star: A Story of Congo's Corrupt Gold Trade

When an athlete-turned-humanitarian and an energy executive tried to buy gold in Kenya, they found themselves mired in Congo's dangerous world of conflict minerals -- and totally outmatched.… More »

How Suing Shell Could Backfire on Human Rights Activists

How Suing Shell Could Backfire on Human Rights Activists

International groups have long been using a 1789 tort to sue corporations for acts on foreign soil. An upcoming Supreme Court case might put an end to that.… More »

Occupy Wall Street Succeeds Where Bush-Era Peace Protests Failed

Occupy Wall Street Succeeds Where Bush-Era Peace Protests Failed

OWS has media coverage, political support, and a sense of generational significance… More »

Egypt's Silent, Poor Majority

Egypt's Silent, Poor Majority

On the margins during the revolution, the millions of impoverished Egyptians could play a larger role in the country's future… More »

U.S. Hosted Alleged Rwandan War Criminal for Military Visit

U.S. Hosted Alleged Rwandan War Criminal for Military Visit

How a Rwandan captain indicted for war crimes ended up on a government-approved tour of the U.S., and what it says about our relationship with the international justice system, and with Rwanda… More »

In Wichita Trial, Justice—or Not—for the Rwandan Genocide

In Wichita Trial, Justice—or Not—for the Rwandan Genocide

The Kansas case of an octogenarian immigrant is emblematic of the imperfect, highly-politicized, and even tainted process of doling out justice for the Rwandan genocide… More »

A Second Chance to Confront War Crimes in Sri Lanka

A Second Chance to Confront War Crimes in Sri Lanka

The world failed to stop the government's killing of thousands of civilians in the civil war that ended in 2009, but a new UN report could finally bring a reckoning… More »

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