Democracy Now's War and Peace Report, presented by Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, is a unique source of television news on world conflict. We are glad to rebroadcast their daily show here on openDemocracy.
Last year’s deadly rise in tensions in the Korean peninsula put off any prospects of reunification. Young-II Kim, a North Korean defector and executive director of PSCORE, an organisation furthering the understanding between Seoul and Pyongyang, appears more optimistic. In an interview with Javier
The truth about western humanitarian interventions is a moral truth
Maybe saving the lives of civilians by taking away their fundamental political agency is the real problem with UN-NATO interventions, rather than some hidden economic self-interest.
A Palestinian student asks why the report was retracted, what kind of pressure did Richard Goldstone come under, and why now?
As unrest and revolution spread across the Arab world earlier this year, 21-year-old freelance photographer Michael Graae jumped onto a flight from London to Bahrain to document it. In the days that followed he witnessed the shocking horrors of the conflict and came face to face with pro-Gaddafi f
In Kashmir, a 63-year-old conflict, some people find inspiration in Egypt’s revolution
The west’s military-political strategy against the Gaddafi regime echoes its flawed approach to Afghanistan and Iraq, says Paul Rogers in this, his 500th weekly column for openDemocracy.
The military intervention in Libya now threatens the Arab democracy risings. This makes diplomacy and demilitarisation essential, says Mark Taylor.
Full militaristic intervention cannot be justified on the grounds that this is a ‘just war’. We are then left with the option to intervene militarily in a smaller way or not to intervene militarily at all.
Civicus’ policy coordinator travelled to Harare on Monday, March 28 for an open forum on developing civil society organisation in conflict situations. She describes what happened next.
For over 30 years the Warsaw Pact was a threatening presence on the European political scene, but on 31 March 1991 it was disbanded with little pomp or circumstance. Alexander Cherkasov looks back over significant events in its history.
