Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Pierre Klochendler JERUSALEM, May 23, 2011 (IPS) – "The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognised borders are established for both states." The seemingly neutral and quasi-consensual principle laid out by U.S. President [...]
Recalling Hiroshima Encounters in Times of Fukushima Crisis
May 2, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Ramesh Jaura IDN-InDepth NewsReport BERLIN/HIROSHIMA (IDN) – Images of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, following an unprecedented nine magnitude earthquake and resultant tsunami, inevitably evoke memories of my two encounters with Hiroshima. A gentle monument in Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park is festooned with thousands of paper cranes [...]
Name Blame Game As Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock Persists
April 26, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By Bernard Schell IDN-InDepth NewsReport CAIRO (IDN) – While the United Nations is urging Israel and the Palestinian Authority to end the deadlock in peace talks, representatives of the two conflict parties continue to cross swords blaming each other for the unending cycle of violence and ‘retaliation’. [...]
Turkey Has Peace Plan As Libya Contact Group Meets in Qatar
April 8, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN Turkey Has Peace Plan As Libya Contact Group Meets in Qatar Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan | Wikimedia Commons By Richard Johnson IDN-InDepth NewsAnalyis ISTANBUL (IDN) – In run-up to the landmark first meeting of the Contact Group on Libya on April 13 in Doha, [...]
U.N. Member States Falter in Protecting Staffers, Peacekeepers
April 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Apr 4, 2011 (IPS) – The United Nations has remained virtually helpless as hundreds of its staffers, mostly peacekeepers, are killed, kidnapped or victimised by unbridled violence worldwide. The latest victims – three staff members and four Nepalese guards – were killed Friday [...]
Post-Conflict Sri Lanka Confronts Challenge of Peace Building
April 1, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IDN By H. M. G. S. Palihakkara* IDN-InDepth NewsSpecial COLOMBO (IDN) – When domestic processes fail to find solutions to internal problems, external forces find space to advocate or even impose solutions for their own political or strategic convenience. Sri Lanka is no exception. Leadership failures since independence [...]
Theatre For Development and Peace
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Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By A. D. McKenzie PARIS, Mar 24, 2011 (IPS) – Some African playwrights say they want to use drama to promote development and peace, and they appealed to world leaders to listen on World Theatre Day, celebrated Wednesday. "While nations spend colossal sums of money on peace-keeping missions [...]
New Bid to Break Afghanistan Stalemate
March 24, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS By Barbara Slavin WASHINGTON, Mar 23, 2011 (IPS) – As the Barack Obama administration seeks to limit its involvement in a third Muslim conflict in Libya, efforts are intensifying to help it find a political solution to the longest U.S. war – in Afghanistan. Authors of a new [...]
Q&A: "Women Must Be Part of the Peace Equation"
March 21, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Rousbeh Legatis interviews MAVIC CABRERA-BALLEZA, Global Network of Women Peacebuilders UNITED NATIONS, Mar 21, 2011 (IPS) – Eleven years ago, 192 countries – all the United Nations member states – agreed to step up the integration of women in international peacebuilding and security processes, a promise that has [...]
DISARMAMENT: Bridges Could Become Barricades
March 5, 2011 By
Global Geopolitics & Political Economy / IPS Analysis by Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW, Mar 5, 2011 (IPS) – Although the ratification of a new strategic arms reduction treaty (START) with the United States is considered a top priority for the Medvedev administration, experts are debating whether such an agreement could threaten to reduce Russian military [...]
