Conflicts Forum

By Ibrahim El Houdaiby, Conflicts Forum, February 25, 2008
Those who believe that the ongoing crackdowns on the Muslim Brotherhood by the Egyptian regime will cause a major setback for the country’s largest and most powerful civil opposition group are definitely mistaken. Brotherhood members are an integral living part of the Egyptian society who can never […]

A Conflicts Forum Monograph by Alastair Crooke, and an Interview with Ambassador Chester Crocker, February, 2008
In 2006, the United States Institute of Peace generously provided a grant to Conflicts Forum to conduct a research study on “Disarmament vs. Demilitarization” in the context of the current Lebanese political environment. The goal of the study is to […]

Alastair Crooke interviewed by Christian Porth, Daily Star, February 2, 2008
“If thought corrupts language,” the English author George Orwell wrote in his famous 1946 essay “Politics and the English Language,” “language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation, even among people who should and do know better.” Alastair Crooke, […]

The Bill and Sally Hambrecht Distinguished Peacemakers Lectures at AUB — Lecture by Alastair Crooke, The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut, January 17, 2008
“So, you spoke to the leaders of Hezbollah?”
“Yes”
“And you also speak with the leaders of Hamas?”
“Yes”
“And they told you that they support democracy?”
“Yes”
“And you […]