• Terror 2.0: Kenya’s #Westgate and a New Face of Terrorism

    Terror 2.0: Kenya’s #Westgate and a New Face of Terrorism

    by Joshua Ramisch The harrowing images from Nairobi’s burning and blood-soaked Westgate Mall have come not just from journalists but from the cellphones nearly everyone in the building was carrying.  Twitter has been alive with updates from all sides: from the Kenyan Defense Forces, from terrified people trapped inside the mall, and from accounts claiming

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  • Event Report:  Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan’s Next Chapter

    Event Report: Ahmed Rashid on Pakistan’s Next Chapter

    On September 12, journalist and author Ahmed Rashid spoke at CIPS on Pakistan’s current challenges and its prospects for coming years. The present situation, he declared at the outset, is grim. Three separate insurgencies are causing mayhem; the economy is crumbling; and an acute energy crisis is having huge impacts on national growth and development.

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  • Harper Must Square the Provincial Circle on CETA

    Harper Must Square the Provincial Circle on CETA

    Earlier this month, as he was leaving the G20 summit in St. Petersburg, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced that there was still no deal on a Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the European Union (EU). At the same time, the prime minister described provincial governments as “partners” in the ongoing negotiations.  However, it

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  • R2P Down But Not Out After Libya and Syria

    R2P Down But Not Out After Libya and Syria

    By Gareth Evans Published on the openDemocracy blog, September 9, 2013. This essay is part of a symposium on R2P and the human rights crisis in Syria, guest edited by David Petrasek. The lack of consensus in the UN Security Council as to how to react to mass atrocity crimes in Syria, including now the

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