Peace picks April 12-17

12 years ago

Iraq Under Abadi: Bridging Sectarian Divides in the Face of ISIS | Monday, April 13th | 9:00- 10:15 AM |…

Salafists, Sectarianism, Social Media

12 years ago

The Stimson Center held an event last week, entitled, Salafists And Sectarianism: Twitter And Communal Conflict In The Middle East.…

Reclaiming, reconstructing and reconciling

12 years ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLZlTfuJaUw The Middle East Institute and Johns Hopkins’ SAIS co-hosted a panel on the future Iraq on Tuesday, moderated by…

An announcement

12 years ago

The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies announced today that starting July 1 I will administer the Conflict Management…

What’s wrong, and not, with the nuclear deal

12 years ago

I don't know any honest analysts who don't credit the "framework" agreement outlined in a White House fact sheet with…

Bridging the Gulf

12 years ago

Cinzia Bianco, an analyst for the "Mediterranean and Gulf" programme at NATO Defence College Foundation whom I met on a…

A better place to start from

12 years ago

More or less half of American voters will cast their ballots for the Republicans in 2016, so it behooves us…

Iraq’s Sunnis

12 years ago

Someone asked me last week to introduce a discussion of Iraq's Sunnis. Here are the speaking notes I used: 1.…

Peace picks April 6 – 10

12 years ago

The Kurds: Strategic Partners in the Fight Against ISIS? | Monday April 6 | 9:00 – 11:00 | Bipartisan Policy…

Tighten your seat belts

12 years ago

Yesterday's unprecedented framework for a nuclear accord with Iran sets back the clock in two different ways:  it would put…