Sudan and South Sudan’s Unresolved Post-Independence Issues
BY PROFESSOR STEFAN WOLFF | AUGUST 18, 2012 On 2 August 2012, a deadline set by the African Union and endorsed by the Un Security Council for Sudan and...
Responsibility to Protect and Mediation Lessons from the 2007-2008 Post-Election Crisis in Kenya
The mediation in the 2007-2008 post-election violence in Kenya is recognized as a successful application of the responsibility to protect (R2P) through mediation. This paper investigates how and why it was...
Yemen’s Transition: Key Challenges for the National Dialogue
Ali Abdullah Saleh’s autocratic rule in Yemen comes to an end on 21 February 2012 after 33 years as a new interim president is elected in the country which remains deeply fragile...
What next for Saif Gaddafi, Libya and the ICC?
On Monday 21st January a deadline that it now appears was not only arbitrary but also purely notional elapsed. This was the deadline for the current Libyan government to tell...
Somalia: “A famine Caused by Men, not by Global Warming”
Written by T. J. COLES In 2006, Britain and America began a proxy war in Somalia by training Ethiopian warlords to invade the country in order to destroy the government,...
Almost One Year on: Three Lessons from the Arab Spring
Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF When Mohamed Bouazizi, a jobless graduate in the provincial city of Sidi Bouzid in Tunisia, about 200km southwest of the capital Tunis, set himself on fire...
Libya after Gadhafi: Challenges and Opportunities
Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Friday, 28 October 2011 19:06 With Colonel Gadhafi dead and the last major strongholds of his supporters now under the control of the new government,...
The Murder of Kaddafi by lynch Mob and a Dark Start to “New” Libya
Written by PROF. BÜLENT GÖKAY Friday, 28 October 2011 18:36 The killing of Muammar Kaddafi on 20 October 2011 by an armed lynch mob and the victory of the rebel...
Farewell To The Great Loon
Written by WALTER RUSSELL MEAD Saturday, 22 October 2011 06:44 Africa’s King of Kings, the Sword of Islam, the Guide of the People and the Great Loon of Libya is...
Nigeria – Ensuring [un] Rule of Law
Written by BALA MOHAMMED LIMAN Friday, 21 October 2011 08:28 The current crisis in the Nigerian Judiciary is indicative of the failure of the executive arm of government to allow...
Libya is a Mass of Contradictions
Written by PROF. INDERJEET PARMAR Tuesday, 04 October 2011 07:22 However history judges the meaning of the current events in Libya, one conclusion might be hard to dismiss: that the...
Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Libya: Possibilities and Probabilities
Written by PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Tuesday, 04 October 2011 07:14 As the agenda in Libya now decisively shifts to thinking about, different scenarios paint variously optimistic and pessimistic pictures. Roland...
Rebuilding a ‘New’ Libya and Implications for International Politics
BY DR. AYLA GÖL** | 13.09.2011 We [the NTC] request from the international community to fulfil its obligations to protect the Libyan people from any further genocide and crimes against...
Libya: Human Security Challenges
BY PROF. ALAN HUNTER** | 11.09.2011 Human Security conceptualisation analyses the interface between security, development and intervention. Traditionally, 'security' mostly referred to the security of nation-states in the context of...
Post-Gaddafi Reconstruction of Libya
BY PROF. ALPASLAN OZERDEM** | 11.09.2011 On 19 August 2011, Abdel Hafiz Ghoga, Vice-Chairman of National Transition Council (NTC), the rebel group fighting against the Colonel Gaddafi regime in Libya...