The National Dialogue in Yemen has been around as an idea since at least 2009...
Speaking at the second session of this roundtable discussion, my contribution focuses on the parameters...
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.
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.
With Colonel Gadhafi dead and the last major strongholds of his supporters now under the...
Taking a multi-perspective approach to the study of conflict management in divided societies and offering...
Published by Bloomberg on 6 September 2011 By Chris Stephen and Caroline Alexander – Sep 6,...
Building democratic states is a complex and challenging task at the best of times. After...
Published by BBC News on 26 August 2011 With Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule over Libya...
Building democratic states is a complex and challenging task at the best of times. After...
If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not fight, where are they and what are...
Published in Atlantic Review on 22 August 2011. If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not...
Winning a war and winning the peace afterwards are two different things. Banal as this...
At the end of 2011, it will be twenty years since the dissolution of the...
Co-organised with the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office, and sponsored by the Department of Political...
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.
On 25 May 2011, the High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and...
On 12 May 2011, I’ll be chairing a Members’ Event at Chatham House on ...
Invited to be a guest lecturer in the Brandt School’s speaker series, my talk engages...
1. The legal foundations for doing so are shaky. UN Security Council Resolution 1970 (2011) of...
For almost two decades, the brief and comparatively not very intense violent conflict between Transnistria...