Ethnic War

Burundian rebels commit to peace

Pierre Nkurunziza came to power under a deal to end ethnic conflict Burundi's government and the last active rebel group say they have agreed to implement a 2006 peace deal. The Palipehutu National Liberation Front (FNL)...

Bronze Soldier and Russian Minority in Tallinn: ‘It’s Complicated’

By Giovanni Angioni on Thursday, December 4 2008, 10:19 - At Molly Malone’s pub in Tallinn’s old town, Ruslana doesn’t want her picture taken. ‘I still have a grey passport because it’s comfortable,’ begins the 24-year-old...

Sectarian Violence

Sporadic outbursts of violence have become all too common in Africa's most populous nation. The 2008 conflict in Jos is a signal of the deep seated religious rivalry. Since 2001, the city of Jos has seen intermittent eruptions...

Kids near rebel areas undergo ‘play therapy’

BY T.V. SRIRAM COLOMBO Dec. 2: Shravan, Kuyal and Christopher are among the 14,000 children undergoing "play therapy" at various centres near the embattled LTTE areas to overcome the fear psychosis due to the protracted ethnic...

What should Bill Clinton do now?

Critics worry he'll get in Hillary's way. By Joe Conason Reuters/Chip East Former President Bill Clinton speaks during the Clinton Global Initiative in New York Sept. 25, 2008. Dec. 2, 2008 | Up until the very moment on Monday...

Peace in a Discriminatory State?

Congo-Kinshasa: Peace in a Discriminatory State? War broke out in the eastern part of DRC again in August since which time 250,000 people have been displaced. In an email interview with IPS, Ernest Wamba dia Wamba - an academic...

Realigning US relations with Russia, Ryan Koslosky

The Obama administration faces stark new geopolitical realities. The unipolar world order which emerged at the end of the Cold War proved unable to suppress regional ethnic and sectarian conflicts. President-elect Obama will be...

The 13th Amendment and Its Vision of the State

Professor Laksiri Fernando - University of Colombo Many countries in transition from colonialism to independence, underdevelopment to development or from conflict to peace have envisaged or rather compelled to envisage...

Sri Lankan jets bomb Tamil Tiger radio station

Sri Lankan air force jets reportedly destroyed a Tamil Tiger radio station Thursday amid widespread speculation the army will soon capture the rebel group's headquarters in the country's northern province. "Jets destroyed the...

Sri Lanka: The illusion of victory

The government may finally have “won”, but ethnic conflict cannot be ended on the battlefield aloneLITTLE is known for certain about the fighting under way in northern Sri Lanka. The belligerents—the Sri Lankan army and the...

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