Down with the Benevolent Dictator! But what is to come thereafter?
What will replace these dictatorial regimes once the Arab Spring is over? This is a question luring in the background that is vital to answer. It all relies on how these states transition, aside from the fact that many of these countries, like Libya, are suffering from a power vacuum, which can and has led [...]
Bin Ladin’s death should not make America proud
After thousands of civilian and soldier deaths, billions of taxpayer dollars and a clear expression of the United States’s chilling definition of justice, the U.S. finally “got” Osama bin Ladin. “Justice has been served,” said President Obama last Sunday night. It is distressing that our country’s top officials actually believe vengeance will cure all [...]
Middle-East Crisis: Rethinking the deeper causes and the current interpretations
It is not new that for a long time now many discussions have been raised about the nature and the success of the current peacebuilding agenda and about the correlation of peace and development. Hence, before starting analyzing the specific cases of the ongoing middle-east crisis it would be useful to set the general [...]
Gaza: One small step towards the breaking of the siege
Exactly one year after the “Operation Cast Lead” in December 2008, where 1400 Palestinians were massacred by Israeli war crimes, 1400 international peace activists from more than 40 countries gathered with the one common aim to break the siege of Gaza in a non-violent freedom march against the ongoing blockade, which forces the 1.5 million inhabitants of [...]
