I’ve been much less active on my blog the last few months as work and other activities have taken a great deal of my time.
On the personal front, the Wentworth and Central Couriers have announced that I was chosen to be a Labor candidate for City of Sydney Councillor in the upcoming September elections. I’m looking forward to being involved in the election process and all that it entails.
A lot of people must be wondering about what, if anything, can be done to help the Zimbabwean population. Perhaps the situation in Zimbabwe is an example of what can happen when the monopoly state power has become disconnected from the population and the government seeks to retain power no matter the cost to the population. While, conceptually, the international system could have a whole host of triggers for outside intervention (e.g. genocide), defining triggers can create perverse incentives as states may focus on the definitions rather than the substance (e.g. is it actually genocide?). There seem to be no hard and fast answers.
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