Despite the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2417 six years ago, conflict continues to drive acute food insecurity around the globe. From Gaza to Sudan, humanitarian access constraints and infrastructure destruction have led to starvation crises. These patterns echo the suffering seen in northern Ethiopia, where the failure to prevent mass starvation in the 2020-2022 Ethiopia-Tigray conflict revealed critical limitations in UNSC Resolution 2417’s implementation. Moving forward, the international community must adapt and learn from its failures in Ethiopia and develop stronger atrocity prevention and accountability tools to break these cycles of mass starvation.
Preventing Starvation Crimes: Lessons Learned from Tigray • Stimson Center
