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Published in: openSecurityColombia's peace process: three challengesAs peace talks begin between the FARC and the Colombian government, military victory is still espoused as a final...
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Published in: openSecurityIran: the deescalatory options
We are indeed witnessing a slide towards fewer positive options, but such slides can be reversed. Iran is ready to...
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Published in: openSecurityPost-election Georgia: turning the dream of peace into reality?
Georgian Dream Coalition's election victory will go down in history as Georgia's first peaceful transition of power....
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Published in: openSecuritySri Lanka's policy towards witnesses is revenge, not reconciliation
Dr Niron knows the Sri Lankan army targeted hospitals in 2009. Every time he passed their location on to the...
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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: openSecurityDepoliticising victims in Northern Ireland
The recent riots in Belfast seemed to hark back to the ethno-religious conflict many presumed over: Northern Ireland...
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Published in: openSecuritySudan and South Sudan: negotiating amidst brinkmanship and armed rebellions
The 22 September deadline approaches, with little sign of an agreement on outstanding issues. A piecemeal approach...
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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: 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: openSecurityArmenia and Azerbaijan: what can societies do when political judgement errs?Instigating dialogue across entrenched conflict built on ethnic stereotypes is long and precarious. The pardon given...
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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: openSecurityThe long war gets longer: the campaign of violent dissident republicans
Northern Ireland is held up as an exemplary case study of building sustainable peace. Recent violent activity from...
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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: openSecurityRemembering July 1983: 'The holocaust started for me with the death of my father'
Amongst memories of the cataclysmic violence that spread across Sri Lanka and which still marks this time of year as...
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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: openSecurityPutting sexualised violence on the map in SyriaThe New York-based Women’s Media Center’s Women Under Siege Project has been using modern technology, from e-mail to...
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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: HomeSrebrenica in 2012: carving out the space to rememberThis week, a funeral for five hundred genocide victims marked the 17th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide in...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKWill UK and Argentina ever reach reconciliation over the Falklands / Malvinas
Interstate conflict used to be the norm. Now, as old battles are being put behind us, Ivan Briscoe asks if the UK...
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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...
