Urbicide – or an Elegy for Aleppo

September 26, 2016
Aleppo. Photo: Lena Wimmer

"It is time to define it [urbicide] more precisely as the deliberate destruction of urban life beyond anything that might be justified by military necessity as a way to erase identity and expel populations. It is also time to make it a crime," argue Robert Templer and AlHakam Shaar in a recent article about the urbicide taking place in Aleppo. 

Read the full article on the Shattuck Center on Conflict, Negotiation and Recovery website here.

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