This week’s peace picks

14 years ago

Short week in DC due to the Martin Luther King holiday Monday.  But some good things thereafter, which I'll mostly…

Nonviolence is nonviolent

14 years ago

I'm taking flak for yesterday's post on the violence between Albin Kurti's demonstrators and the police in Kosovo yesterday.  Most…

Burma gets real, but how real?

14 years ago

There can be no doubting the significance of Burma's moves in the past day or two:  a massive release of…

Violence answers the wrong question

14 years ago

People will ask, so I'll answer:  the efforts by Albin Kurti's "Self-determination" to block road crossings between Serbia and Kosovo…

Algeria: hoping for reform, not revolution

14 years ago

I missed parts of Algerian Foreign Minister Mourad Medelci's presentation this morning at CSIS--urgent phone calls kept me out at the…

False patriotism

14 years ago

The airwaves are so crowded with Hillary Clinton and Leon Panetta condemning the desecration of Taliban corpses it may come…

Fog of peace

14 years ago

With a gloomy National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan summarized in the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post reporting on resumption…

Heading for Belgrade next week

14 years ago

I haven't been to Belgrade for a long time.  I am looking forward to seeing many friends, meeting new ones…

Bashar is right, there is a conspiracy

14 years ago

Bashar al Assad is right.  There is an international conspiracy to bring him down.  The United States, Turkey, much of…

This week’s “peace picks”

14 years ago

1.  International Responsibility After Libya, January 9, 10 -11:30 AM, Brookings Institution The question of international responsibility for protecting civilians…