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Published in: openSecurityA media eclipse: Israel-Palestine and the world's forgotten conflictsGlobal coverage of world conflicts pales into insignificance when compared with reporting on the Israeli-Palestinian...
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Published in: openSecurity'Red Shirts' continue symbolic blood protest in Bangkok
‘Red Shirts’ continue symbolic blood protest in Bangkok. Israel lifts West Bank closure. North Korea has 1,000...
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Published in: openSecurityIllegal and ineffective? Drone strikes and targetted killing in 'the war on terror'
The use of drone strikes in Pakistan and around the world has been attacked as counterproductive and ineffective but...
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Published in: openSecurityVenezuela obtains Chinese warplanes for ‘anti-drugs fight’
Chinese J-8 attack jets delivered in Venezuela. Sri Lankan general goes on military trial while supporters protest....
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Published in: HomeA moderate Israeli leader visits the LSE
In the audience of a London School of Economics panel chaired by Lakhdar Brahimi to discuss the findings of the...
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Published in: openSecurityIsraeli settlement announcement stalls peace drive in middle east
Israeli settlement announcement creates further tension. Thai protests as PM refuses ultimatum. Public frustration...
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Published in: 50.50From a culture of war to a culture of peace
The time has run out for traditional military answers. Ours is a culture of war, but cultures can change. We need...
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Published in: HomeChaff, noise and fog in the climate debate
The UEA emails affair, together with the religiosity of some people’s approach on either side of the argument, has...
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Published in: 50.50Guns: the unending cycle of violence
The words of the women paralleled each other as they described how armed violence in the home and community, armed...
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Published in: openSecurityPalestinian-Israeli talks in the balance as IDF locks down West Bank
The IDF locks down parts of the occupied West Bank as uncertainty looms over talks between the Palestinian Authority...
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Published in: HomeClimate science: a peace-studies lesson
The doubters of global warming are emboldened by their new ability - as in the “climategate” affair - to put climate...
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Published in: HomeSpain's politics of memory
The Madrid train-bombings on 11 March 2004 provoked a dignified outpouring of collective grief. But the moment was...
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Published in: openSecurityEfforts to revive middle east peace talks overshadowed by Israeli settlement construction in east Jerusalem
Efforts to revive middle east peace talks overshadowed by Israeli settlement construction in east Jerusalem. Tibet...
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Published in: HomePeacekeepers still needed in Central African Republic
Photographs from a forgotten conflict… Anna Husarska argues that more attention to the Central African Republic is...
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Published in: HomeHizbollah vs Israel: the coming clash
A shifting balance of calculation in the middle east makes Lebanon’s Hizbollah movement more confident in its...
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Published in: openSecurityBurma publishes first of five new election laws
Burmese military junta unveil laws for elections later this year. French navy captures 35 Somali pirate suspects....
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Published in: oDRDedovshchina: bullying in the Russian Army
While bullying (see our Soldier’s Tales) is common to all armies, the aberration that is dedovshchina in Russia’s...
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Published in: openSecurityAttacks kill 38 on polling day in Iraq
Attacks on election day kill 38 in Iraq. Renewed peace effort for Israel and Palestine. US-South Korean military...
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Published in: HomeThe nuclear-weapons moment
The global effort to extinguish the nuclear peril needs to regain momentum. A bold act of leadership and imagination...
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Published in: 50.50The price of peace“Peace processes are bad men talking to bad government and other bad men.....women in civil society are doing...
