Rosemary Bechler is a Contributing Editor for openDemocracy.

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The intractable dispute between Palestinians and Israelis is open to practical initiatives and new understandings that can create the foundation of progress, the legal scholar John Strawson tells Rosemary Bechler.

(This article was first published on 29 January 2008) 

Palestinians' entrapment by Israel's occupation calls into question the very meaning of "state security" in the region and the world today, says Rosemary Bechler.

"Revealing the true innovators of society, this is a small book packing a big punch…"

Can a cultural commons in the digital age free us from the "mystifying power" of genius? Rosemary Bechler investigates a creative legacy linking Samuel Johnson, the Romantics, and Paul McCartney

Events are moving so fast in Nepal that Lily Thapa decided to leave London early. With a Code of Conduct being drawn up between the new government coalition and the Maoist insurgents, as she says, "If they need me and my experience, I will be there!" So far the Maoist negotiators have one woman on their team: the government, none. She is not convinced this will change. But she is campaigning for a seat at the peace table nevertheless, on behalf of the widows and wives of the missing, who make up many of the surviving victims of a conflict which has claimed over thirteen thousand lives in the last decade.