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Published in: openSecurityLibya: the pressing need for dialogueThe western intervention in Libya in 2011 failed to recognise the complex warp and weft of its pre-democratic tribal...
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Published in: openSecurityAn irresistible force? Arab citizens of Israel after the electionsBinyamin Netanyahu may have returned to power by disowning the two-state solution and scaremongering about Arab...
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Published in: openSecurityKarabakh truce shaken by gunshots and tough talkOSCE mediators urge an end to attacks after a month in which the 20-year-old ceasefire was broken in thousands of incidents.
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Published in: openSecurityColombia: the year of peace?The unilateral ceasefire signed by the FARC last December is a historic and positive step towards a permanent peace,...
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Published in: openSecurityYemen: descent into anarchyWith the resignation of its president and prime minister, Yemen lacks the capacity to steer its political transition...
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Published in: openSecurityLebanon is cracking under the pressure from Syria and IraqHizbullah's attack today on Israeli forces near the Shebaa Farms area contested by Lebanon highlights how the...
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Published in: openSecurityA long road ahead: integrating gender perspectives into peacekeeping operationsA spate of violence against women in the eastern DRC shows that there is still a long way to go on effective...
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Published in: openSecurity“There was so much fear”The outworking of the eight-year-old peace agreement in Nepal has embraced the government and its Maoist opponents....
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Published in: openSecurityTurkey bombs Kurdish forces as violence threatens to spill overThe law of unintended effects is in evidence as the rise of Islamic State threatens a potential resolution of...
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Published in: openSecurityAfter the war: Jewish-Arab relations in IsraelThe war in Gaza did not only wreak huge damage on the strip—it added to the polarisation of Israeli society too.
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Published in: openSecurityAlternatives to military intervention: a commando team of mediatorsThe Ammerdown Invitation has initiated here a debate on an alternative security policy for the UK. Mediation is a...
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Published in: openSecuritySecurity for the future: in search of a new vision
A group of UK peacebuilding professionals invite participation in a new civic conversation about alternatives to the...
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Published in: openSecurityCrisis brewing in Macedonia
Events over the summer in Macedonia revealed just how fragile interethnic relationships remain. The EU and the US...
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Published in: openSecurityFear and loathing in Kirkuk
Summary killings are taking place amid growing sectarian tension in the contested, oil-rich city.
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Published in: openSecurityOrganized crime, Colombia's peace spoiler?Now that the main potential impediment to a peace deal–a change in government–is out of the picture, it is time to...
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Published in: openSecurityUncovering Colombia's systems of macro-criminalityWhile transitional justice initiatives have traditionally shied away from dismantling the system, Colombia's Justice...
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Published in: TransformationRays of hope in Gaza: 13 Israeli and Palestinian groups building peaceThe safety and security that every Palestinian and Israeli child deserve can only come about if all children's...
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Published in: openSecuritySyria and Gaza: a false equivalencyThough the indiscriminate violence in Syria and Gaza is becoming indistinguishable, unlike Syria, the west can take...
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Published in: openSecurityMacedonia on the brinkIt’s quiet again in Skopje after violent Albanian protests in early July—deceptively so.
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Published in: HomeYemen: a state born of conflict
Yemen has slipped well down the global agenda—behind Israel-Palestine, Syria and Iraq—but, as security deteriorates,...
