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The Istanbul talks between the delegates of Russia and Ukraine undoubtedly led to some important developments in the efforts to end the ongoing war in Ukraine that has already devastated cities, led millions of Ukrainians to flee from their home, left thousands dead and injured and isolated the economy of Russia. After the peace talks, which received global attention, Russia announced that it will significantly lessen its military operations in Kyiv and Chernihiv, a northern city of Ukraine. By this time, Moscow has started to withdraw troops from the two noted territories, even if the reduction of troops is very…

The Russia-Ukraine war has led to intense measures and counter measures by Russia and the West. While Russia invaded Ukraine, the West provided weapons to Ukraine to fight against Russia. While Russia was sanctioned by the West, the latter was sanctioned by Russia. Earlier, Russia ordered to keep its nuclear deterrence force ready and threatened

By this time, the Russia-Ukraine war has reached around one month. Of course, many efforts including economic sanctions against Russia, diplomatic talks of the United States, France, Germany and some other countries and bilateral talks directly between Russian and Ukrainian delegates were made. But no efforts got any light of hope in resolving the crisis and there is no sign of ending the war. War is going on in different cities of Ukraine including Kyiv, Mariupol and Kherson. Thus, it remains unclear whether the existing efforts can help to resolve the ongoing war without further destruction of residential buildings, industries…

Targeted killing of enemies after conquering a war, be it a win of the whole country or a single city, often becomes a norm in war. Such an approach of the winning party is seen in civil wars and inter-country wars. Very recently, the Taliban forces in Afghanistan have shown it. Of course, the winning party kills targeted enemies for various reasons including an intention to take revenge over the selected enemies of enemy parties/countries and willingness to make significant damages to the enemy party/country. Even if there may be some justification for such killing from the winning party, it…

The capsize of the Munshiganj-bound launch MV Ashraf Uddin hit by a cargo ship named MV Ruposhi-9 in the Shitalakshya River in Narayanganj that killed at least eight passengers is undoubtedly pathetic. Of course, this is not the only accident in the rivers. Last year, a small-sized passenger-carrying launch was directly hit and capsized by a bigger launch in the same river. Moreover, many other accidents of launches, boats and ferries occur in the rivers of Bangladesh. But, undeniably, such accidents indicate not only the inactiveness of concerned authorities especially the Bangladesh Inland Water Transport Authority (BIWTA) but also the…

Of course, global diplomacy is an important means of preventing and resolving conflicts including intra- and inter-country wars. But the commencement of the Russia- Ukraine war, a failure of diplomacy, puts global diplomacy, especially preventive diplomacy which is conflict prevention and other forms of preventive action aimed at ending armed conflicts prior to the escalation to widespread violence, at a significant threat and has newly revived the problem of its effectiveness. Though global preventive diplomatic mechanisms and efforts are improved much, it is undeniable that preventive diplomacy has failed many times to prevent both intra- and inter-country wars. The case…