- Fascinating series of articles on peace, police, and politics in Mogadishu.
- How the British Empire is like contemporary DRC: a massive territory ruled by a tiny coterie of administrators who project power very unevenly across the areas they claim to rule
- Two insightful posts by Laura Seay on why the US should keep aiding countries which use child soldiers and why everything you know about sexual violence in wartime is wrong.
- Data on conflict: the Armed Conflict Location & Event Dataset, Peacebuilding Data, and the Small Arms Survey.
