Leadership in Conflict
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Developing the National Dialogue in Yemen
The National Dialogue in Yemen has been around as an idea since at least 2009...
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Rebuilding Yemen: Roadmap for a National Dialogue
Speaking at the second session of this roundtable discussion, my contribution focuses on the parameters...
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Yemen’s transition: Key challenges for the national dialogue
The post-election national dialogue in Yemen faces a multitude of serious challenges and there is a wide range of potential spoilers inside and outside the country, but it is Yemen’s perhaps only chance at negotiating a transition.
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One challenge or two? Peace-building and state-building in post-secession Sudan
My contribution to this conference on “Challenges and Prospects of State-Building in Post-Secession Sudan” offers a conceptual perspective on the dual challenges of peace-building and state-building in post-secession Sudan, focusing on the degree to which the two can be expected to succeed simultaneously.
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Libya after Gadhafi: Challenges and Opportunities
With Colonel Gadhafi dead and the last major strongholds of his supporters now under the...
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Conflict Management in Divided Societies: Theories and Practice
Taking a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies and offering...
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Libya Factions Jockey for Power as Splits Emerge After Driving Out Qaddafi
Published by Bloomberg on 6 September 2011 By Chris Stephen and Caroline Alexander – Sep 6,...
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Building a democratic state for the new Libya: A task list
Building democratic states is a complex and challenging task at the best of times. After...
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Rebuilding Libya - the task ahead
Published by BBC News on 26 August 2011 With Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule over Libya...
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Building a democratic state for the new Libya
Building democratic states is a complex and challenging task at the best of times. After...
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Questions on Libya
If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not fight, where are they and what are...
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Four Questions on Libya and the Middle East
Published in Atlantic Review on 22 August 2011. If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not...
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Libya—Planning for the Day after
Winning a war and winning the peace afterwards are two different things. Banal as this...
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Two decades of 'frozen' conflicts in the post-Soviet space
At the end of 2011, it will be twenty years since the dissolution of the...
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Prospects and Opportunities for Conflict Resolution in the Post-Soviet Space
Co-organised with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and sponsored by the Department of Political...
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Negotiating with the Taliban: A promising exit strategy?
A political settlement will only be possible and sustainable if both the Afghan government and the Taliban commit to it credibly and if it has broad regional and international support during its negotiation and implementation.
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The EU’s New European Neighbourhood Policy
On 25 May 2011, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and...
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Yemen and the Gulf States
On 12 May 2011, I’ll be chairing a Members’ Event at Chatham House on ...
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Leadership, Diplomacy, and Institutional Design
Invited to be a guest lecturer in the Brandt School’s speaker series, my talk engages...
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Three reasons why we should not arm the Libyan rebels
1. The legal foundations for doing so are shaky. UN Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011) of...
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The conflict in Transnistria: where things are, why, and where they might be going
For almost two decades, the brief and comparatively not very intense violent conflict between Transnistria...
