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April & May 2022 | Volume 78 | Number 2

Syria How the regime’s victims brought a war criminal to trial – and won Afghanistan The Taliban may have fought alone, but they can’t rule alone Germany Why poets of the Stasi secret police wrote sonnets about filing

Securing a future without war Strategies that can make conflict prevention work