The Power To Protect: Should It Be Exercised?

Tuesday, August 19, 2003

By: Daniel Serwer;  Ylber Bajraktari

Can new military technologies and tactics be used to increase the effectiveness and reduce the costs and risks of forcible humanitarian interventions? If such operations can be more effective and less costly, will the political barriers to undertake them be lowered?

Type: Peace Brief

Islamist Politics in Iraq after Saddam Hussein

Islamist Politics in Iraq after Saddam Hussein

Wednesday, August 13, 2003

By: Graham E. Fuller

Two critical political questions arise as the new Iraq emerges. Will the numerically dominant Shiite majority be open to full political collaboration with the Sunni and Christian minorities? What are the strengths and ideologies of Islamist political movements, particularly Shiite, that have asserted themselves since the fall of Saddam Hussein?

Type: Special Report

Religion

Islamist Politics in Iraq after Saddam Hussein (Arabic Edition)

Thursday, August 7, 2003

By: Graham E. Fuller

Summary Islamism, as a basic feature of Muslim and especially Arab politics, is destined to play a major role in the future of Iraqi politics. A huge moral and ideological vacuum has now emerged in Iraq, and Islam is tailor-made to provide a new moral compass to the people.

Religion

Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine

Healing the Holy Land: Interreligious Peacebuilding in Israel/Palestine

Friday, August 1, 2003

By: Yehezkel Landau

Even though the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is primarily a political dispute between two nations over a common homeland, it has religious aspects that need to be addressed in any effective peacemaking strategy. The peace agenda cannot be the monopoly of secular nationalist leaders, for such an approach guarantees that fervent religious believers on all sides will feel excluded and threatened by the diplomatic process.

Type: Peaceworks

Boundary Disputes in Latin America

Boundary Disputes in Latin America

Friday, August 1, 2003

By: Jorge I. Domínguez;  David Mares;  Manuel Orozco;  David Scott Palmer;  Francisco Rojas Aravena;  Andrés Serbin

Since the start of 2000, five Latin American boundary disputes between neighboring states have resulted in the use of force, and two others in its deployment. These incidents involved ten of the nineteen independent countries of South and Central America.

Type: Peaceworks