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,...
Social Opposition in the Age of Internet: Desktop “Militants” and Public Intellectuals
Written by PROF. JAMES PETRAS Invited paper to be read at the “Symposium on Re-Publicness” Sponsored by the Chamber of Electrical Engineers Ankara Turkey, December 9 – 10, 2011...
A New War on Terror?
By AZEEM IBRAHIM | 26.09.2011 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...
Awake O Ye Silent Religions and Promote Post-Conflict Reconciliation!
Towards an Understanding of the Role of Religion in Peace Building in Kenya* BY DR. SUSAN M. KILONZO** | 07.06.2011 The announcement in the late afternoon of 30 December 2007,...
Conceptualising the Land-Conflict-Restitution Nexus: the Case of Cyprus*
BY PROF. ROGER ZETTER** | 05.06.2011 All refugees and displaced persons have the right to have restored to them any housing, land and/or property of which they were arbitrarily or...
Burning the Bridges and Breaking the Bonds: Social Capital and its Transformative Influence in Relation to Violent Conflict*
BY DR. RICHARD BOWD** | 05.06.2011 Perhaps the most well known academic writing on social capital is Robert D. Putnam who defines social capital as consisting of “the features...
The Death of Osama Bin Laden—What Implications for International Security?
BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Now that the dust has somewhat settled after the initial euphoria, triumphalism, gloating, and relief that followed Barack Obama’s announcement of the death of Osama Bin...
Official Development Assistance and Terrorism*
By Assoc. Prof. Bayram GÜNGÖR | 24 September 2010 More than 1,2 billion people try to survive their life below $1, while nearly 2.8 billion population live on less than...
Platonic Lovers Chasing Nukes around the World
The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) held in May 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York. BY OZGUR TUFEKCI...
For a Pro-Immigration Argument
Dr. Ibrahim Sirkeci | 01 June 2010 In the last five years, parties standing in the UK elections have been forced to debate immigration. The 2005 elections were full of pretty “bigotted”...