Written by Stig Jarle Hansen. Whilst the world closely watched the debacle in Afghanistan, equally important events in Tunisia fell under the radar. Ironically, the dissolution of the Tunisian parliament enhances […]
Written by Karim Merchant & Ingrid Nyborg. 20 years after Western troops invaded Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Kabul has fallen. The speed of the Taliban’s […]
Written by Paul Beamont. “It will not be independent and it will not be British and it will not deter”, ran the Labour slogan before the 1964 election. They might […]
Market stall in Bamyan, Central Afghanistan. Photo: Jono Photography / Shutterstock Written by Karim Merchant & Gry Synnevåg Yet another crisis for Afghanistan After 40 years of war and violent […]
Written by Karim Merchant, Gry Synnevåg & Arif Ammar. The Presidential election results announced in February became a hotly contested affair, with the electoral victor President Ashraf Ghani and third-time […]
Written by Paul Beaumont, PhD Fellow, Noragric. The corona crisis is not the beginning of the apocalypse but a symptom – we have been in the apocalypse for a while now. […]
Written by Karim Merchant and Gry Synnevåg. By design, peace processes tend to be a patchwork of discussions with a variety of key individuals and groups, under the general oversight […]
Written by John-Andrew McNeish, Professor, Noragric So let me confess something from the start…I get the American fascination with guns. I am a gun owner myself, and have happily visited […]
In the Stranger Things reality of Trump’s America, the image of the Statue of Liberty holding up her beacon to welcome ships of migrants to American shores has been turned […]
Written by Tor Arve Benjaminsen. Originally published in the PRIO Climate & Conflict blog. On the 22 November 2017, the Subcommittee on Security and Defence in the European Parliament held […]