Rosa brooks
foreign policy expert
Marshall Scholar, Class of 1991 (Oxford University)
‘We prefer to imagine brutal wars and atrocities as events that “just happen” every now and then, much like tornadoes or lightning strikes; this metaphor suggests that we can’t generalize from them since they are radically discontinuous with ordinary life. But wars and atrocities do not “just happen”: societies and individuals slide into them, little by little, one tiny decision or omission at a time.’
-Rosa Brooks
SHEDDING LIGHT ON CONFLICT & INJUSTICE
Rosa Brooks is a journalist, author, foreign policy expert, and a law professor at Georgetown University. She is also an Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute and a Senior Fellow at New America. Brooks's latest book, How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, was a New York Times Notable Book of 2016, named one of the five best books of the year by the Council on Foreign Relations, and shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize.