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conflictsEven when guns are silent, the ideas behind them threaten. Warfare and conflict resolution urgently need to be explained, their causes clarified, and creative solutions explored.
Tbilisi's leader-fixated politics highlights doubts over the idea of "transition to democracy"
The insecurity and violence of an ancient Arab land are creating a political implosion
The fight against corruption should be the foundation-stone of a clean post-occupation Iraq
What kind of violence has the Sri Lankan state been committing against its Tamil civilian population?
The treaty concluded on 28 June 1918 reverberates today from Iran and Iraq to the Balkans
The political leader of Africa's youngest state has transformed hope into nightmare
The leading Georgian politician explains her break with Mikheil Saakashvili as a search for democracy
A peaceful election dissolves myths and shakes the political jigsaw - but what has changed?
The urbanisation of Pakistan’s war seeks to turn cities into places of permanent insecurity
The use of violence as an instrument of political liberation leads rather to failure and regression, says Martin Shaw.
As human rights violations escalate in the North Caucasus, Tanya Lokshina of Human Rights Watch visits Dagestan, supposedly riven by the struggle between ‘Wahhabis' and the authorities. She visits the so-called ‘Wahhabi' village of Gudben.
Pakistan won’t collapse. But it is in trouble, and needs strategic leadership. A long-term view
The US president's appeal for “a new beginning” finds an instant echo
The national election of June 2009 finds Lebanon caught between fragmentation and coexistence
Poverty and a lack of political will fuel insurgency in the restive south of the Philippines
The work of groups in Northern Ireland's "interface communities" is the test of lasting social progress
The US president's Cairo speech will be a measure of the prospects for a new peace process
The US president’s Cairo visit should offer the Arab-Muslim worlds an America they can at last believe (See also our account of Obama's speech in Cairo)
Scene one. The day that Yvette Myakayaka-Manzini, vice president of the ANC women's department, took her account of the struggle against apartheid to Gaza. Scene two on an Israeli beach...
The protest that greeted Moldova's recent election represented domestic frustrations, not an abortive colour revolution. Addressing Moldova's deep-seated problems of poverty, criminality and national identity will require constructive input from Western powers
Pakistan's army and state seek room to pursue their own strategic interests amid increasing US pressure
The end of Sri Lanka’s long war creates a new political landscape in the torn country
As summit follows summit, the fate of the Gazan people once again hangs in the balance and reconstruction is still on hold
The US president's meeting with Israel’s prime minister offers Israel a future it must grasp
Armenia and Azerbaijan's dispute over Nagorno Karabakh could erupt in war at any time, unless Washington and Moscow work together
The needs of the post-war period include accountability and redress for past violations
Lebanon’s sectarian, geopolitical and ideological fissures infuse its current election campaign
The very survival of a troubled country depends on political leadership in the national interest
The road to Israeli-Palestinian peace lies through
the constitutional definition of Israel itself
Israel's prime minister must be pressed to fulfil past commitments on peace with the
Palestinians
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