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Published in: openSecurityCan Iraq's Sadrists prove their nationalist credentials?The kidnapping of Peter Moor has unveiled divisions and Iranian influence within the movement of Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Published in: HomeAl-Qaida: the Yemen factor
A near-miss airline attack refocuses attention on al-Qaida's diffused potency, and underlines the depth of Barack...
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Published in: HomeLeaving GazaA young citizen journalist has a rare chance to leave his homeland, reduced to rubble by the Israeli army’s most...
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Published in: HomeJourney through thorns: a Palestinian's storyBorn in 1973, a Gazan boy turns into a man and studies to become an expert in trauma therapy. He has his own family...
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Published in: 50.50Beyond stalemate: replacing the vicious with the virtuous circleWhat is conflict transformation? How do you begin to approach the mutual hurt of conflict embedded in systems and...
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Published in: 50.50The challenge of moving from war to peaceOne of the challenges in this set of unseen and unsung practices is how to make it visible and strengthen its...
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Published in: HomeIraq: the path of war
The persistence of violence in Iraq reopens the question of the impulse of the war unleashed by Washington in 2003...
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Published in: openSecurityRains fail again in east Africa
Repeated failure of rains in eastern Africa demonstrate the link between climate change and security. Yemeni...
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Published in: HomeObama in power: is the war in Afghanistan a Just War?
The Just War tradition is not meant to be deployed as a tick-box approach to war, not least because answers to the...
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Published in: openSecurityIran raises nuclear tension with long-range missile test
Iran raises nuclear tension with missile test launch. Israel reacts angrily to Tzipi Livni arrest warrant issued by...
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Published in: openSecurityLeaked intelligence says Iran developing nuclear weapon
Secret document shows Iran working on key nuclear bomb component. Car bomb kills eight near Kabul hotel. Japan...
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Published in: openSecurityChilean election sees revision of Pinochet legacy
Chilean elections see potential rightward swing. Iranian men don headscarves in protest. Mugabe reelected leader of...
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Published in: openSecurityThe war dead in the era of liberal interventionism
In 2003 the bodies of 32 Spanish deceased soldiers who died on their return from Afghanistan were handed to the...
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Published in: openSecurityOperational art and modern American strategy
America's strategic ambiguity in Afghanistan and elsewhere has made understanding its operational doctrine all the...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity contractors participated in CIA counterinsurgency operations
Employees of the private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater, directly participated in CIA...
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Published in: oDRAbkhazia prepares to vote
Presidential elections are looming in the Abkhazia, the breakaway republic which Russia recognised as an independent...
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Published in: HomeAfter war, security
The war on terror has been a disaster. But out of its ashes a deeper understanding of global security capable of...
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Published in: 50.50The human cost of warDiana Francis finds in an exhibition of quilts and arpilleras made by women from Ireland to Chile, a rallying call...
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Published in: openSecurityKiribati islands plan exodus faced with rising sea levels
Kiribati announces plans at Copenhagen for “practical and rational” exodus due to climate change. Violence and...
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Published in: HomeSri Lanka: power and accountability
The degrading aftermath of Sri Lanka’s civil war demands international action to ensure protection of its civilians...
