Reportaje Foreign Policy, 05.10.2015 Elizabeth Dickinson, periodista con estudios africanos de la U. de YalePerched in a seaside villa in eastern Tunisia, Osama Kubbar had anxiously waited for days for the final news about his guns. It was May 2011, five months into the Arab Spring, and Kubbar, a Libyan smuggler, was remotely tracking the slow movements...
Bosnia and Herzegovina: Twenty Years on From Dayton
Artículo OpenDemocracy, 05.10.2015 Mirela Zarichinova, periodista independiente y asesora legal en DDHH en Bulgarian Helsinki CommitteeBosnia and Herzegovina is a paralysed state. Can a way out be found by leaving behind the Dayton Peace Accord?The conference centre, now named “Richard Holbrooke”, seems deserted. We walk along its empty hallways but see no sign of human existence. The only...
What’s the Point of Peacekeepers When they Don’t Keep the Peace?
Artículo The Guardian, 17.09.2015 Chris McGreal, escritor seniorFrom Rwanda to Bosnia, Haiti to Congo, failures raise questions about future of United Nations blue helmetsRwanda, 1994. The nadir of many lows for UN peacekeeping. Hundreds of desperate Tutsis sought refuge on the first day of the genocide at a school where 90 UN troops were under the command of...
One Year After the War: Gaza’s Lost Hopes
Opinión OpenDemocracy, 20.08.2015 Yasmeen Al-Khoudary, estudiante de magister en Cultural Heritage Studies (University College London)A letter from Gaza, describing the impossibility of getting back to 'normal' one year after the war. Real change is needed before it is too late.One year after we went through the third war on the Gaza Strip in six years, I find...
A Solution for Syria
Análisis OpenDemocracy, 16.07.2015 Bassma Kodmani, director ejecutivo de Arab Reform InitiativeSyria is central to the security and future of the Middle East, but conditions for a resolution of the Syrian conflict through a political solution do not exist. An excerpt from a NOREF expert analysis. Creating the conditions for a political solution Syria is known to Arabs as the heart...
Who Lost Iraq?
Entrevista a funcionarios y académicos estadounidenses Politico Magazine, julio/agosto 2015 Michael CrowleyDid George W. Bush create the Islamic State? Did Barack Obama? We asked the insiders to tell us who’s to blame. For a brief, happy—and misguided—moment, most Americans stopped thinking about Iraq. After withdrawing the last U.S. troops in 2011, President Barack Obama declared the country “sovereign,...