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Published in: HomeFor South Asians on the “We are all Malala” bandwagonGiven such levels of violence against girls and women, it is a wonder that so many Indians can feel superior while...
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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: 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: openSecurityCautious Allies: regional powers in Afghanistan
India, China, Russia and Iran have a surprising confluence of interests in a stable and prosperous Afghanistan, but...
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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: openSecurityIndia's COIN approach and left-wing extremism
The Maoist insurgency once described as the single greatest threat to the Indian state has lowered in intensity. But...
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Published in: openSecurityThe plight of Afghan refugees in Iran
Decades of war have led to generations of Afghan refugees in Iran. Their treatment under the current regime is...
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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: oDRBig Brother, little drones – protestors bewareRussia’s police are starting to use unmanned drones much more often for monitoring street protest rallies, Irina...
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Published in: HomeReopening of the NATO supply routes won't stop cross-national terrorism from Pakistan
The Pakistani military and intelligence service will not easily break the ties with Islamist terrorist groups in...
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Published in: HomeThe thinning world: Mali, Nigeria, India
Many powerful states tend to view current global conflicts through the lens of Islamism, and to put military action...
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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: 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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Published in: openSecurityCommunal violence and justice in India
Ten years on from the Gujurat riots, the survivors still do not have justice and the bureaucracies that made them...
