Former Afghani Interior Minister Ali A, Jalali discusses the challenges of rebuilding institutions and state-society relations following periods of conflict and instability.
Yearly Archives: 2015
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Many mainstream Salafi figures have already denounced Boko Haram and its violent ideology. The group’s response to this criticism has been ferocious.
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Depending on its nature, the ruling coalition that results from the Spanish election is likely to tilt the balance toward one of two strategies from Catalan secessionists.
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The Global Observatory’s regular series on recommended reading looks at new books and reports on climate change and sustainability.
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A new report calls the Ebola epidemic “a human tragedy that exposed a global community altogether unprepared.”
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A list of key upcoming meetings and events with implications for global affairs.
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While an enhanced security presence is undoubtedly needed to bolster international forces and keep the militias in check, rearming CAR’s armed forces is laden with risk.
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Professor Ken Menkhaus of Davidson College discusses what is needed to get Somalia’s post-civil war political transition back on track.
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A genocide-in-the making is the worst-case scenario, although this misses the fact that the opposition to the president is multiethnic.
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Unlike in Paris, Beirut, or even Yola and Kano, the majority of acts of mass violence attributed to the group occur in areas of Nigeria where news cameras do not roll and where hospital death records are non-existent.