Warscapes Articles

Cambodia—synonymous with paradoxical ideas: ‘Pearl of the East,’ ‘war,’ ‘Kingdom of Wonder,’ ‘genocide,’ and ‘Land of Smiles’—where deep...

Very few Americans know that Dred Scott and Michael Brown are buried within miles of each other. The first, a slave, who sued for his...

Editor's Introduction Nora Al-Badri has never been to Iraq. But she has connected with her father’s home country via the Internet—not over...

Graphic artists Thomas Henseler and Susanne Buddenberg have collaborated on a reimagination of the 28 year partition of Berlin to produce...

A woman named Muna carries a goose across the border between Syria and Jordan. She has just watched soldiers execute four of her children,...

In Argentina, when we find ourselves referring to Madres with capital M we unequivocally mean the mothers of the desaparecidos ; the...

At the docks of Pidjiguti in the capital Bissau, where the workers’ massacre that ignited the revolution in 1959 took place, the military...

Foreword by Mario Badagliacca Italy, and other European countries, are at the center of serious violations of human rights with the...

In August 1994, Chilean artist Alfredo Jaar traveled to Rwanda in the aftermath of the country’s infamous genocide. He documented scenes of...