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Published in: openSecurityReconciliation and the destruction of the past in divided societiesOngoing controversies in two of the quintessential cases of divided societies - Northern Ireland and the Former...
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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: openSecurityFrom the inside out: reconciliation is more than possible
Amidst the deep hurt of civil war, many think it impossible to speak with, let alone work with, people from across...
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Published in: openSecurityThe Patriotic March and the struggle for peace in ColombiaA powerful new political movement bringing rural and urban Colombian civil society onto a common platform poses the...
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Published in: openSecurityPurposeful inquiry: detoxing the poisoned chalice
Derry/Londonderry is the UK City of Culture in 2013. In a place where names can be rigid markers of enmity, what...
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Published in: HomeKerbala anthems in Azadi ParkSports provide a rare space and North-South bridging opportunity for increased interaction between the Kurdish and...
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Published in: openSecurityPride and prejudice in Heglig
The South Sudanese People's Liberation Army has moved into an oil town on the South Sudan/ Sudan border. While...
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Published in: openSecurityIn Memoriam Juliano Mer KhamisJuliano was a man standing his ground with his arms wide open. openDemocracy salutes his memory.
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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: openSecurityUganda traditional justice mechanisms must triumph over western interventionism
We should not deny Ugandans the chance to bring a man who has committed horrific crimes to justice. However we must...
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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: openSecurityReconciliation is not happening in Sri Lanka, and the problem isn't a question of time
The Tamil call for independent statehood stemmed from a very basic need for security against genocide. For many,...
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Published in: openSecurityBangladesh's International Crimes Tribunal: a critique of the critics
While criticism of the ICT is important, its chief critics have dehistoricized the context in which this trial is...
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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: 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: openSecurityBangladesh war crimes tribunal: further bias is no answer
The role of the media in Bangladesh will not be improved by inaccurate and partisan critiques of the ICT
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Published in: 50.50Restoring a sense of justice in broken communitiesThe idea of making offenders face their victims and acknowledge the harm they have done has wide public support. The...
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Published in: openSecurityTrial by media: Bangladesh's 'International' Crimes Tribunal
Phone tapping, court orders and vitriolic condemnations of the accused point to a disconcerting unity between the...
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Published in: openSecurityGene out of the bottle: an interview with Dr Gene Sharp, author of 'From Dictatorship to Democracy'
Last week openSecurity caught up with one of the chief proponents of political defiance, whose writings have been...
