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Rural Afghan Women as Agents for Change and the Failure of Liberal Peacebuilding

CESRAN Int.5 November 2019

This article will critique the liberal peacebuilding agenda and argue for an alternative, post-liberal approach to peacebuilding and conflict research by drawing upon James Scott’s theory of everyday resistance in...

Defense & Security Europe

Development of Counter-Insurgency Capacity of the British Army

CESRAN Int.25 October 20192 November 2019

Alasdair Bowie [email protected] Political Reflection Magazine | Vol. 20 In recent years the British Army has become embroiled in a series of long campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan, which have...

Defense & Security Middle East

Not Our War: Iraq, Iran and Syria’s Approaches towards the PKK

CESRAN Int.17 April 20192 November 2019

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Perspectives from the field: Self-defence groups as a force for community resilience

CESRAN Int.8 March 20198 March 2019

Journal of Conflict Transformation & Security RESEARCH ARTICLE JCTS Volume 7, Number 1, 2019 Perspectives from the field: Self-defence groups as a force for community resilience* Martha Angélica Galicia Osorio...

Defense & Security Middle East

“The country chooses you”: Discourses of mobility and immobility among Iraqi refugees

CESRAN Int.8 March 20198 March 2019

Journal of Conflict Transformation & Security RESEARCH ARTICLE JCTS Volume 7, Number 1, 2019 “The country chooses you”: Discourses of mobility and immobility among Iraqi refugees Ken Crane* *...

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Outbidding in Times of Uncertainty – Post-conflict transitions and competitive violence.

CESRAN Int.19 February 201919 February 2019

Large bombings, only days apart, in Bogota and Derry/Londonderry have put paid to any notions of a simple peace process in either country. These events show that the two very...

China and Neighbourhood Defense & Security International Economics Russia and Eurasia

Answers to China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

CESRAN Int.9 October 20189 October 2018

Deng Xiaoping’s motto “keep cool-headed to observe, be composed to make reactions, stand firmly, hide our capabilities and bide our time, never try to take the lead, and be able...

Defense & Security Middle East

Raqqa vs Kobani – Terrorism vs Revolution

CESRAN Int.9 October 20189 October 2018

There is a thin stria between revolution and terrorism. If an uprising or a revolt results in a new social, political and economic order, it becomes a revolution superseding the...

Defense & Security Middle East

The Proxy Warfare in Syria

CESRAN Int.16 August 201816 August 2018

It has been seven years since the beginning of the Syrian civil war. When the Arab uprisings spread throughout Syria, it was not thought that the peaceful protests would turn...

Defense & Security Middle East

An Imagined Unity, a Divided Reality: Identity, Perception and Coexistence Among Palestinian Youth Separated by the Green Line

CESRAN Int.27 May 201827 May 2018

How to Cite: O’BRIEN, C. D. (2018), An Imagined Unity, a Divided Reality: Identity, Perception and Coexistence Among Palestinian Youth Separated by the Green Line. Journal of Conlicft Transformation and...

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Five generations after the Balfour Declaration: How do Palestinians Resist and Engender Significant Social Change?

CESRAN Int.10 March 201810 March 2018

How to Cite: SELLICK, P. (2018), Five generations after the Balfour Declaration: How do Palestinians Resist and Engender Significant Social Change?. Journal of Conlicft Transformation and Security, 6(2): 139–142. The context of...

Defense & Security Europe Russia and Eurasia

The Mistral Warship Deal: What’s in for France and Russia?

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

After two years of negotiations, Russia and France signed a treaty of military cooperation on June 17, 2011 under which two Mistral-class amphibious assault ships, together with their full technological...

Defense & Security Middle East

A New War on Terror?

CESRAN Int.1 August 20177 August 2017

Just when the threat of Islamist terrorism seemed to be successfully suppressed, the actions of Breivik bring awareness of the evil engendered by other extremist ideologies. When a Muslim terrorist...

China and Neighbourhood Defense & Security

The First Ten Years of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)

CESRAN Int.20 January 201723 January 2017

Ten years after its establishment on June 15, 2001, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), successor to the original Group of Five (Shanghai Five), is still in a state of flux....

CESRAN Blog Defense & Security Middle East

Kurdish Cover Strategy in the Manbij Offensive and the fight for a united Rojava

CESRAN Int.29 July 201629 July 2016

Since the end of May 2016, Syrian Democratic Forces have started offensive to liberate the city of Manbij from the “Islamic State” militants and unite all the territories of the...