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Ukraine: The Human Price of War Episode 1

J. Stephen Morrison and Justin Kenny
Mar 6, 2022
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J. Stephen Morrison and Justin Kenny. "Ukraine: The Human Price of War Episode 1." CSIS Commission on Strengthening America's Health Security, Center for Strategic and International Studies, March 06, 2022. Accessed December 21, 2023. https://healthsecurity.csis.org/articles/ukraine-the-human-price-of-war-episode-1/

Russia has shown a pattern of indiscriminate violence in their past behavior in Syria and Chechnya, historically taking a "scorched earth" approach that targets civilian populations and medical infrastructure. On days 8 and 9 of the invasion, Seth G. Jones, Marti Flacks, Jacob Kurtzer, Leonard Rubenstein, and Alla Soroka-Krotova assess the rapid escalation of the war thus far and look forward to the dangerous days ahead.

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Russia has shown a pattern of indiscriminate violence in their past behavior in Syria and Chechnya, historically taking a “scorched earth” approach that targets civilian populations and medical infrastructure. On days 8 and 9 of the invasion, Seth G. Jones, Marti Flacks, Jacob Kurtzer, Leonard Rubenstein, and Alla Soroka-Krotova assess the rapid escalation of the war thus far and look forward to the dangerous days ahead.

Experts in international security, human rights, and global health are joined by the Ukrainian Medical Club’s International Communication Director to open the first episode of Ukraine: The Human Price of War.

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J. Stephen Morrison Senior Vice President and Director, Global Health Policy Center

J. Stephen Morrison is senior vice president at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and director of its Global Health Policy Center. Dr. Morrison writes widely, has directed several high-level commissions, and is a frequent commentator on U.S. foreign policy, global health, Africa, and foreign assistance.

Justin Kenny Small Footprint Films

Justin Kenny is an award-winning journalist, filmmaker and owner of Small Footprint Films- a news documentary production company. In 2017, he wrote and directed (with CSIS’s Stephen Morrison) _The New Barbarianism_ a CSIS Global Health Policy Center film about the rise in attacks on medical workers and other humanitarians in today’s wars. The film debuted on PBS in March 2018 and won first place in the Los Angeles Film Awards. From 2012-2015, Kenny led the PBS NewsHour’s international coverage as the program’s Foreign Editor/Senior Producer and won many prestigious awards including two Emmys, a George Foster Peabody Award and a National Headliner Award. He is currently filming and directing his first independent feature documentary, "The Boy From Serniki", a film about Holocaust survivor and war crimes prosecution witness Nathan Bobrov.

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Ukraine: The Human Price of War Episode 2

By J. Stephen Morrison and Justin Kenny
Mar 19, 2022

The startling escalation of Russian military violence against Ukraine's medical system and civilian infrastructure has displaced over 7 million people, destroyed cities, and caused enormous civilian casualties. On days 19-22 of the invasion, David Miliband, Christina Wille, Alla Soroka-Krotova, Andriy Klepikov, Seth G. Jones, and J. Stephen Morrison dissect how Putin's decisions and the course of the war are driving towards ever high destruction of Ukrainian society, and may soon widen the war and cross boundaries.

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