Funny how things change Author: Peter Krupa Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/14/2005 Category: Interview Like all of us, Ruxandra Tanase has a few vivid memories from her childhood snapshots she calls them, and for her they are images of life in Romania before the fall of

From peacekeeping to peacebuilding Author: Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/18/2004 Category: Editorial The current general predicament facing UN peacekeepers has been highlighted by the recent front-page news of the fatal bitterness that still exists between Serbs and  Albanians in Mitrovica, Kosovo (or Kosova as the Albanian

In September the world watched a dramatic spectacle unfolding as thousands of would-be immigrants from all over Africa charged barbed wire fences surrounding the Spanish enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla in a desperate attempt to enter Europe. In several incidents some immigrants were shot dead. In another, they were rounded

Randeep Ramesh (edit), The War We Could Not Stop, Faber and Faber 2003, pp303 ISBN 0-571-22110-6

Even as New Orleans was still reeling, an unusual thing was happening over at the State Department.

Paul Berman, Terror and Liberalism, W.W.Norton, 2003 pp.214 ISBN 0-393-05775-5 Amin Saikal, Islam and the West: Conflict or Cooperation? Palgrave MacMillan, 2003 pp. 171 ISBN 1-4039-0358-1

Haitians Denied Asylum Author: Joanna Gaughan Originally Published at Peace and Conflict Monitor on: 03/26/2004 Category: Comment Haitians Denied Asylum You wake up one day to complete and utter chaos.  There is no longer any rule of law in your country.  Your child comes running in from outside – she

From a University for Peace course entitled "Peace and Non-Violent Transformation of Conflict," this excerpt provides a basic introduction to Gandhi and his ideas. Gandhi never claimed to be infallible, and he viewed his ideas as experiments, not dogma. Part of a course package produced by the Department for Gender and