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In a worrying indication of the severity of the conflict in South Thailand, Maplecroft have just released their latest Terrorism Risk Index, and Thailand has entered the category of countries with an ‘extreme risk of terrorism’. Maplecroft have included 9 countries in this category, the others being: Iraq (1), Afghanistan (2), Pakistan (3), Somalia (4), [...]
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Archive: February, 2010
‘Extreme Risk of Terrorism’ in Thailand
Sharing Stories of Building Peace
Our Kashmir Local Correspondent Ashima Kaul this week attended a Peace Exchange in Nairobi, Kenya, organised by Peace Direct. Here she offers a personal reflection on the experience. “What is your position on Kashmir?” Gulali Ismail asked me hesitantly at the Doha airport on our way back from Peace Direct’s peace retreat in Nairobi. Hailing [...]
Measuring the work of peacebuilders
Bringing people together into dialogue, running capacity-building programmes, developing youth/empowerment empowerment and leadership, facilitating the DDR process are part of the work of peacebuilders in every conflict or post-conflict context. Working in in a difficult context like a conflict is not easy. Local peacebuilders face all kinds of obstacles and challenges. And sometimes, peacebuilders ask [...]
Colombia: 200 years of solitude?
In Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ a defining characteristic of the town of Macondo is its isolation; from generation to generation, the isolation of its inhabitants results in all sorts of feelings and reactions. The theme is one very familiar for Colombians, for whom the absence of the state has been a [...]
ICG Report on Burundi Elections
The International Crisis Group (ICG) have just released a report on the upcoming elections in Burundi. The report deals with many of the same issues that have been touched upon by our Burundi Local Correspondent, Landry Ninteretse. In particular, the report warns of the dangers of youth groups being mobilized for intimidation and politics purposes, [...]
‘Little’ bits of work that can make a big difference
In every conflict or post-conflict context there are people who, despite all kinds of difficulties, are struggling to restore dialogue, trust, harmony and peace for a better life for everyone. Those people are unknown for the most part – they appear rarely in media, and struggle to get funds to support their work, even while [...]
Robin Hood Campaign
This is not really related to conflict directly, but worth giving a plug here to the Robin Hood Campaign that has launched today in the UK. It’s a campaign for a small tax on bankers that could generate billions for international development. A wide coalition of charities has lined up behind the campaign, and already [...]
Dark Days in Nepal
It is unfortunate to share the news that from 29 January 2010 Nepal has begun a system of daily power cuts for 11 hours a day, and it is expected that the period of the day without power may grow. (Although, compared to last year’s 18 hour blackouts, this is actually a small improvement). Even [...]
ICC to consider genocide charges against al-Bashir
The Appeals Chamber of the International Criminal Court has today ruled that the decision not to consider charges of genocide against Omar al-Bashir, President of Sudan, was wrong. In March last year the Pre-Trials Chamber of the ICC (the division responsible for the confirmation of charges & issuing of arrest warrants), decided to issue an arrest warrant against [...]
