Category: Defense & Security

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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...