Democracy Programme
The CESRAN Research Programme for Studies in Democracy is primarily concerned with policy briefings. Researchers, practitioners and students of democracy are heartily encouraged to submit commentary between 800 and 3000...
Centre for Urban Studies (CUS)
We are now in an era in which nation-state boundaries are disappearing and socio-cultural and economic interactions between human beings are increasing rapidly. This is such an era that a...
Competitive Regulation: Stepping Outside the Public/Private Policy Debate
BY DR. JEAN-PAULL GAGNON** | 17.08.2011 The central aim of this work is to try and detail the argument that governmental regulation can move beyond the public versus private policy...
Governance Programme
CESRAN aims to identify the institutional requirements for effective multilateral cooperation in the twenty-first century. This research unit is motivated by the spread of transnational challenges, the rise of new...
The Gangs of Bougainville: Seven Men, Guns and a Copper Mine
It will be difficult to dispute that the international media determines which conflicts the world follows. Certain armed conflicts (mainly those which involve US or European interests), in the opinion...
Buddhism and Conflict Transformation: Philosophical and Conceptual Expansion Of The Nature Of Human
Since the1990’s peace research has witnessed the rise of conflict transformation as one of its key ideas. This paper explores how Buddhism can contribute to conflict transformation by examining how...
Terrorism as Genocide: Killing with “Intent”
Political violence is a broad term that encompasses different types of political action. Political violence can include intra-state or inter-state actions. Flanigan and Fogelman described domestic political violence as coups,...
Terrorism as Genocide: Killing with “Intent”
Political violence can include intra-state or inter-state actions. Flanigan and Fogelman described domestic political violence as coups, rebellions, civil wars, political assassinations, major rioting, etc. However, political violence also encompasses...
America’s Global Terrorism against Peace
BY GHALI HASSAN | AUGUST 29, 2012 Terrorism is the “calculated use of unlawful violence or threat of unlawful violence to attain goals that are political, religious, or ideological...
Tactical Rape as a Threat to International Security: A Norm Develops
Rape in war has long been a reality. In 1992, after visiting refugee camps and women’s groups in and around Zagreb, a team from international aid agencies reported that women...
Corporate Engagement for Conflict Transformation: Conceptualising the Business-Peace Interface
Economic issues have been key factors in many conflicts around the globe. Miall affirms that conflicts are inevitably influenced by economic and political forces. Lederach writes that such forces can...
Humanitarian Safe Havens: Bosnia’s Lessons for Syria
BY DR. SONER ÇAĞAPTAY and ANDREW J. TABLER Humanitarian safe havens can protect vulnerable civilians only if backed up with sufficient power. The uprising in Syria has reached a critical...
What should We Expect from the Afghanistan Conference in Bonn?
Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF On 5 December, it will have been ten years since the conclusion of the Bonn Agreement on Afghanistan, and yet another international conference will be held...
Once Again, War is Prime Time and Journalism’s Role is Taboo
Written by JOHN PILGER On 22 May 2007, the Guardian's front page announced: "Iran's secret plan for summer offensive to force US out of Iraq." The writer, Simon Tisdall, claimed...
The European Union’s South Ossetia Dilemma
Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Saturday, 03 December 2011 16:15 If it wasn’t for the potentially serious ramifications of a further escalation of the current election crisis in South Ossetia,...