2011-09-26 10:12
On the 21st of September…
News media has long been known to be a bit of a balancing act. The media shows us things it knows we want to see. It tailors its content to its market guided… Read More
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2011-08-24 19:37
One of the things I try and impress upon people is that peace isn’t a default state. It isn’t the absence of violence. It isn’t a vacuum situation that just happens when pe… Read More
2011-08-24 11:19
As I wrote in my piece for IJC on ‘the year ahead’ all humanitarian intervention needs is one success.
The International Criminal Court can take credit for giving the internatio… Read More
2011-07-28 16:24
1- In your blog`s aim you stated that “I thrive on smashing the status quo”, how do you see the world peace status quo right now?
I think the world is at a cross roads in the his… Read More
2011-07-18 11:30
Could 2011 be the year of the Responsibility to Protect? IJ Central asked me to write a short piece about international law. How it’s fared in the year gone and what the immediate futu… Read More
2011-07-16 09:34
Why are aid budgets so small? This is a question that gets politically active peoples’ hearts racing in most developed countries. From what the author sees it’s usually on the si… Read More
2011-07-11 11:48
The Syrian government has become enraged by the actions of the United States. Like a game of chess the US moved ambassador Robert Ford to the eastern city of Hama, the site of previous viole… Read More
2011-07-06 15:48
What scares you? What wakes you up in a cold sweat? In the United States a Gallup poll in 2005 showed that the thing teenagers are most afraid of are terrorist attacks. Other surveys by the… Read More
2011-07-05 12:59
National laws are a tangible expression of the limits of behaviour that society is willing to tolerate. Anything beyond these limits is prohibited, subject to state sanction and ostracism fr… Read More
2011-06-16 08:56
What is peacebuilding? Why is it important? What are the alternatives?
All answered here by Scilla Elworthy former Director and founder of the Oxford Research Group Read More
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