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Published in: openSecurity'We have no Israeli partners' - Jeff Halper on the Israeli Left and the non-existence of the occupationThe Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions is well respected outside Israel, but barely known in Tel Aviv. Jeff...
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Published in: openSecurityAfghanistan Post-2014: power will be shared between the CIA, the Pentagon and the current elite
A power-sharing political system already exists, but not the one Farhad Arian envisions. The system proposed is...
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Published in: openSecurityThreatened in the bud: the fragile existence of policy research and advocacy in Pakistan
The international focus on Pakistan has affected how knowledge is produced within Pakistan, and who for. Looking...
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Published in: Home'We think of Zakir as Nick Clegg': Taliban perspectives on reconciliation
This summer, former leading figures in the Afghan Taliban and former mediators met the authors to discuss Taliban...
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Published in: openSecurityCould power-sharing build the consensus necessary for peace in Afghanistan?
For there to be stability in Afghanistan, all major ethnic groups must be guaranteed a share of power. The support...
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Published in: openSecurityMaking sense of political-related violence in Kenya
Recent violence in Kenya is cause for great concern as we approach elections in March 2013. A history of political...
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Published in: openSecurityLebanon: a fate beyond its control?
It has increasingly become a question of when - not if - the violence in Syria will lead to sectarian fighting in...
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Published in: 50.50Narrating peace: Somaliland women’s experiences
Somaliland women’s narratives have largely been absent from accounts in state and nation building in Somaliland, yet...
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Published in: openSecurityBordering on Peace?
As we move towards the draw-down of foreign forces in Afghanistan, openSecurity asks Afghan, Pakistani and...
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Published in: openSecurityIndigenous people 'provoke' peace in Colombia
Standing between the government, FARC and international mining companies are the indigenous people of Cauca:...
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Published in: openSecuritySeven years of shifting sands: South Sudan's government must make the change
In seven years of independent control, South Sudan has not diversified its economy. Now the domestic agricultural...
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Published in: openSecurityUganda's tribal districts are a ticking time bomb
A riot in Uganda's Rwenzururu kindom left a mother and child dead, pointing to a divisive trend in Ugandan politics...
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Sudan: a false start
For all the Government of South Sudan's rhetoric, real investment in the country's future has been slow to begin....
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Published in: openSecuritySouth Sudan: building the foundations of the world’s newest nation
Aggrey Tisa Sabuni, economic advisor to the President of the Republic of South Sudan, looks back on a tumultous year...
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Published in: openSecurityCreating lasting security in SudanSceptics say regime change in Sudan would worsen the security situation. But the three wars and massive...
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Published in: openSecurityMaoist hostage crisis in India: government indifference makes Maoists give up on mediationMediation has been successful at bringing down levels of violence and bringing popular welfare and social justice...
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Published in: openSecurityPeacebuilding in an impossible context? Perspectives from Pakistan
Caught between the restrictions placed on them by the state and a relationship with the general public framed by...
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Published in: openSecurityAfghanistan: local solutions needed to settle a regional problem
Any militant force fighting against NATO forces in Afghanistan has to abide by the Taliban war codes which compel...
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Published in: openSecurityMasters of manipulation: how the Kenyan government is paving the way for non-cooperation with the ICC
A policy of non-cooperation with the International Criminal Court (ICC) will leave the victims of 2007/8...
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Published in: openSecurityNew Silk Road: stabilizing Afghanistan post-2014As Afghanistan looks to a future beyond international intervention, regional support will become ever more important.
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