Category Archives: Study
Congressional Report says Turkish Govt Managed Kurdish Opening Poorly
By WLADIMIR VAN WILGENBURG US Congressional Report says Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has not been so successful in his “Kurdish opening” policy. Photo/http://undhimmi.com Brussels, Belgium: Carol Migdalovitz, a Middle-East expert, has written a new report for the US congress, suggesting that the government of the ruling Justice and Development Party of Turkey (AKP) have [...]
Managing Land Conflict in Timor-Leste
Dili/Brussels: Measures to resolve land disputes in Timor-Leste must go beyond a draft law on land titling if they are to comprehensively reduce the risks posed, otherwise the law could bring more problems than solutions.
Squaring the Circle: Palestinian Security Reform under Occupation
Ramallah/Jerusalem/Brussels Security reform is one of the Palestinian Authority’s most notable successes, but recent attacks on West Bank settlers, coinciding with resumed Israeli-Palestinian talks, illustrate the difficulties in sustaining such progress as long as the occupation and internal Palestinian divisions persist.
Locked out: The 12 million people without a country, and the need to become a citizen
By Stephanie Hanes, Correspondent The victims of shifting borders, politics, or the happenstance of birthplace, the world’s 12 million stateless people and their need to become citizens are rising on the international human rights agenda. Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic - -A Palestinian in Beirut, Lebanon, holding a symbolic key during a commemoration of the dispersal of [...]
The Mechanism of Catastrophe: The Turkish Pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, and the Destruction of the Greek Community in Istanbul
By Speros Vryonis, Jr. The new, paperback edition of Speros Vryonis’s internationally acclaimed work contains a legal commentary on the pogrom of September 6-7, 1955, by Alfred de Zayas, professor of international law at the Geneva School of Diplomacy and former secretary of the United Nations Human Rights Committee. An excerpt is available here. [...]
How the War on Terror is Bankrupting the World
Loretta Napoleoni, Seven Stories Press 2010 Economist and best-selling author Loretta Napoleoni traces the link between the finances of the war on terror and the global economic crisis, finding connections from Dubai to London to Las Vegas that politicians and the media have at best ignored.
Google and Galaxy Zoo could aid global climate project
Climate scientists meeting in Britain this week hope to build a database to predict natural disasters precisely. And records of the voyages of the Bounty and Beagle will assist them in their task Robin McKie, science editor The Observer Article history Victims of Pakistan’s floods use a railway track to reach a marooned village. Better [...]
Explaining Pedophilia
What Is Pedophilia? WebMD Feature Reviewed by Gary D. Vogin, MD The ongoing Michael Jackson child molestation case has put pedophilia in the national spotlight once again. Despite — or perhaps because of — all the headlines surrounding the case, as well as lurid accounts of child molestation in the Catholic Church, many people still [...]
Azerbaijan: Vulnerable Stability
Baku/Tbilisi/Brussels: If it continues to ignore the need for economic and political reform, Azerbaijan will squander an historic opportunity to use the country’s energy resources to build a more durablestate system and a prosperous nation. The latest report from the International Crisis Group, examines how oil money has entrenched a stagnant political system, making [...]
Racism
by Anup Shah Image © Understanding Race Racism is the belief that characteristics and abilities can be attributed to people simply on the basis of their race and that some racial groups are superior to others. Racism and discrimination have been used as powerful weapons encouraging fear or hatred of others in times of conflict [...]
The Sovereign Bebt Crisis
By Monroe Newman*
The forthcoming elections in Bosnia and Herzrgovina
By Predrag Vukovic Research Assistant, Cyprus Center for European and International Affairs The Dayton Peace Agreement (DPA), initiated on 21 November 1995 and signed in Paris on 14th December 1995, by the governments of Bosnia, Croatia and rump-Yugoslavia brought the three and a half year Bosnian war to an end. Fifteen years have passed and [...]
Insuring REDD Projects: Questions and Answers
Author: Gus Kent and Gabriel Thoumi Just a few weeks of actual negotiating time remain before the year-end summit in Cancun, and climate talks are a mess. Sure, most parties agree it’s a good idea to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by saving trees, but that’s about all they agree on. This all highlights the amount [...]
Endless War, Humanitarian Crisis, and Perpetual Resistance: U.S. Foreign Policy in the 21st Century
by Michael Schwartz In 2009, the mainstream U.S. media reported with satisfaction that the Pakistani government had finally responded positively to the United States and NATO’s demands[1] for an aggressive military policy aimed at depriving the resurgent Taliban of “safe havens” in Pakistan.[2] The subsequent offensive, featuring a Pakistani invasion of these areas and aerial [...]
Baltic States’ Opportunity to Shine in Regional Politics
by Frederic Labarre, Research Associate
