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Published in: openSecurityColombians need to debate the conflict, but not as a condition of Langlois' freedomOn April 28 French journalist Romeo Langlois was captured by the FARC. The leftist guerrillas demanded a debate on...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity in Nigeria depends on human welfare, not state-centric bureaucratisation
The creation of a Ministry for Homeland Security further entrenches a militarized vision of security centred on the...
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Published in: openSecurity'The core problem is the elites, not the people': Sanka Abayawardena respondsIs Sanka Abayawardena a government stooge, Sinhala nationalist, or peace activist? He warns his critics against...
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Published in: openSecurityNation-building in Sri Lanka: the potential and the promise
This week is the third anniversary of the end the Sri Lankan civil war. Yet there is hope: it lies within Sri...
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Published in: openSecurityThe battle for Heglig and the elephant in the room
The hostility between South Sudan and Sudan over Heglig is symptom of the larger unresolved issues between the two...
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Published in: 50.50Post conflict reconstruction: ask the women farmers
Twenty years of conflict has destroyed the social fabric of Casamance. The only way to re-instate security and...
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Published in: 50.50Senegal: the land belongs to those who work it
After a quarter century of armed conflict, and a socio-economic fabric reduced to shreds, women in Casamance,...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Jirga in modern day AfghanistanThe complexity of local and regional conflict dynamics in Afghanistan and Pakistan would be well served by the...
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Published in: openSecurityThe LRA: what's to be done?
Supporters of the Kony 2012 campaign have posed two questions to critics: 'what would you do?', and 'what's the...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the storm, we need to keep talking about Kony
In the backlash against Kony 2012 a real discussion of what the international community can and should do has been...
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Published in: 50.50Kony2012: the dilemma of mobilising for aid
Focused on the challenges of declining funds and public skepticism at home, development organisations tend to pay...
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Published in: openSecurityWhat will it take to end the conflict with the LRA?Ending the violence and insecurity perpetrated by the Lord's Resistance Army is more about empowering civil society...
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Published in: 50.50Changing lives in Burundi: "Now I am no longer beaten"Women in Burundi have won radical changes to the country's Penal Code, making rape punishable by life imprisonment....
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Published in: openSecurityWhat is Kony2012?
Invisible Children's controversial campaign highlights the pressing question of international engagement in...
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Published in: openSecurity'What Sri Lanka is...': acknowledging the ethnic conflict in post-war reconciliationThe term 'local reconciliation' may seem benign, but recent research amongst Tamils in the north of the country...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Pakistan Lawyers' Movement: setting a course for genuine democracy?Peace in Pakistan and the entire region can only be achieved by the creation of genuine democracy in Pakistan, with...
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Published in: openSecurityPeacebuilding in Kashmir transcends the religious divideThe conflict in Kashmir has largely been seen through the prism of religious antagonism. New research on...
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Published in: openSecurity'Reconciliation in Sri Lanka means the youth must lead the way': a sceptical response
There is nothing objectionable in arguing for greater and more meaningful participation of youth in the political...
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Published in: openSecurityReconciliation in Sri Lanka means the youth must lead the way
International calls for justice in Sri Lanka which are insensitive to domestic public opinion further alienate a...
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Published in: HomeThe question of identity revisited: the challenge of nation-building in the new South Sudan
The ability to allow an inclusive social fabric to flourish will determine the success of the new state.
