Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera COLOMBO, May 3, 2012 (IPS) – Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the bloody civil war to India [...]
Impassioned Plea for Averting War with Iran
April 20, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN IDN-InDepth NewsReport LONDON (IDN) – Pax Christi, the International Catholic Movement for Peace, has made an impassioned plea for averting war with Iran. "Surely such a war would spell worldwide disaster, and it’s up to movements like us to send a strong message against military aggression," Pax Christi [...]
Returning Sudanese Child Soldiers Their Childhood
April 16, 2012 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Andrew Green* JUBA, Apr 15, 2012 (IPS) – As the process of reintegrating South Sudan’s child soldiers into their old lives begins soon, the Sudanese People’s Liberation Army renewal of its lapsed commitment to release all child soldiers from its ranks in March could mean that within [...]
Ex-PM Says Taliban Offer Talks For Pullout Date
July 28, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Gareth Porter* KABUL, Jul 28, 2011 (IPS) – The Taliban leadership is ready to negotiate peace with the United States right now if Washington indicates its willingness to provide a timetable for complete withdrawal, according to a former Afghan prime minister who set up a secret meeting [...]
Fragile Peace Greets Independent South Sudan
July 12, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Jerome Mwanda IDN-InDepth NewsReport NAIROBI (IDN) – South Sudan declaring its independence, forming the world’s newest state, and initiating a new era for North Sudan on July 9, 2011, is a historic moment for Sudan and the surrounding region, and a vital opportunity to promote peace [...]
Once, There Was Yugoslavia
June 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Vesna Peric Zimonjic BELGRADE, Jun 24, 2011 (IPS) – For decades, the former Yugoslavia was a communist country with a human face, whose nations enjoyed high standards of living compared to other Eastern Europeans, visa-free travel abroad, and participatory government. Twenty years ago, on Jun. 25, all [...]
North and South Sudan Sign Pact over Abyei
June 21, 2011 By
Global Political Economy Net / IPS By Correspondents* DOHA, Qatar, Jun 20, 2011 (IPS/Al Jazeera) – North and south Sudan have signed an agreement to demilitarise the disputed Abyei region and allow in Ethiopian peacekeeping forces, former South African president Thabo Mbeki said on Monday. South Sudan is due to break off into an independent [...]
UN Faces Tough Challenges in Libya and Eastern Africa
June 19, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsReport GENEVA (IDN) – Conflict in Libya and drought in Eastern Africa are posing grave challenges to humanitarian aid agencies of the United Nations, which are being called upon to muster all their resources in coping with rather critical situations. The World Food [...]
SRI LANKA: Peace Dividend Skips Remote Villages
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Amantha Perera UNNICHCHAI, Sri Lanka, May 28, 2011 (IPS) – The road to Unnichchai in eastern Sri Lanka makes for a nerve-wracking journey trying to avoid large crater-like potholes, squeezing across narrow bridges, and passing by a patchwork landscape of paddy fields – both abandoned and cultivated [...]
Peacemakers Swim Against the Tide
May 29, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Frank Mulder UTRECHT, The Netherlands, May 29, 2011 (IPS) – Although politicians seem to have put the peace process on ice, there are many different groups in Israel and the Palestinian territories that still believe in reconciliation. They call on the world not to believe in stereotypes. [...]
