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Published in: Can Europe Make It?The theatre group challenging Bosnia's ethnic divisions
I was imprisoned in Omarska concentration camp. There's a growing danger it could happen again. That's why I’m...
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Published in: North Africa, West Asia'The oppression is brutal’: Morocco breaks up Western Sahara protest ahead of UN talks
The confrontation highlights the Moroccan routine response towards self-determination and human rights activists in...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaReflections on Western Sahara's struggle for self-determination
Some reflections about the Sahrawi struggle for self determination on the 41st anniversary of the proclamation of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaLegalising occupation: Netanyahu's Trump card
The new law passed by the Israeli Knesset can be a dangerous precedent for the expansion and legalization of Israeli...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaMorocco's admission to the African Union: a Pyrrhus victory for Rabat
Morocco’s admission to the African Union after decades of absence was received as a victory, but what does it mean...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIraq and chemical weapons: A view from the inside
In an interview originally published in 2003, Ron G Manley talks to openDemocracy about Iraq's alleged weapons of...
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaNo revolution this year: Sudan’s October Revolution and the Arab Spring
Sudan's 1964 revolution brought a military regime to an end. The reasons for the revolt were similar to those of the...
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Published in: HomeKhomeini to IS: paths of revolution
The Middle East's political map survived decades of tumult. Its long-term unravelling began with Iran's uprising in 1979.
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaYemenis on the Houthi ascent to power
The Houthis took control of Sana’a on 21 September, striking a deal with the government after weeks of protests....
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Published in: North Africa, West AsiaOn structural violence in Palestine
The structural violence, economic inequalities, and pervasive injustice that characterise Palestinian society under...
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Published in: 50.50To eliminate WMD we need to disarm patriarchy
Civil society must stop the use of chemical weapons being used as a pretext for US-led bombing in Syria. A gendered...
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Published in: HomeState-building vs intervention, or how not to help
Together, distorted understanding and flawed policy have compounded the problems of weak states in the global south....
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Published in: 50.50Young Afghans in the UK: deportations in the dead of night to a war-zone
Each year around 400 children forced by war to leave their families and homes in Afghanistan seek sanctuary in the...
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Published in: 50.50"We want peace. We’re tired of war"
"If we live violence every day, how can we work for the development of our country so that we can benefit from human...
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Published in: 50.50Women of Senegal: agents of peace
The physical and moral suffering undergone by the valiant people of Casamance is incalculable and, as usual, it is...
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Published in: 50.50The Egyptian opposition: from protestors to revolutionaries?
The failure to translate the momentum of the heady days of the January 2011 protests in Egypt into an effective...
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Published in: HomeKenya, between hope and fear
The violent aftermath of Kenya's previous election is present in everyone's minds as Kenyans elect a successor to...
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Published in: HomeInternational courts: justice vs politics
The tribunals judging crimes in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia were intended to deliver justice for victims of...
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Published in: HomeSyria's war, Israel's trap
The prospect of a chaotic endgame in Syria and more instability in Egypt is leading Israel further in the direction...
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Published in: 50.50Militarising Education
The incursion of the military into the British education system will mean that alternatives to war and peaceful ways...