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CF News: Conflicts Forum receives grant from the European Union
In partnership with The Middle East Policy Initiative Forum and the Oxford Research Group
“From Crisis to Opportunity: Inclusive Approaches to the Arab-Israeli Conflict” - a project funded by the European Union under its Partnership for Peace Programme
We are pleased to announce that the European Union has awarded €500,000 over two years starting in 2007 for […]
Posted: January 22nd, 2007 under ABOUT CF, CF NEWS, Europe, Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Interview: Talking to terrorists
ABC Radio National (Australia) interview with Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, November 16, 2006
Alastair Crooke — The paradox is that most people ask us the question “are these people” — by which they mean the Islamist groups — “willing to talk?” and actually we find that it is they who are the ones that are […]
Posted: November 17th, 2006 under ABOUT CF, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Mark Perry.
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CF News: Conflicts Forum receives study grant from the United States Institute of Peace
Disarmament vs. demilitarization: A case study of military integration in the Lebanese post-conflict environment
Conflicts Forum is pleased to announce that the United States Institute of Peace has awarded $50,000 to Conflicts Forum to conduct a research study on “disarmament vs demilitarisation.” The research project will investigate the efficacy of the two approaches and how they […]
Posted: October 26th, 2006 under ABOUT CF, CF NEWS.
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Newsletter: Latest issue
The latest issue of Conflicts Forum’s newsletter features:
Conflicts Forum Briefing Series: Washington II - a report on recent briefings given in Washington DC by Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry at the United States Institute for Peace, the Princeton Project on National Security, and the New America Foundation.
Calculating Iran’s Iraq impact: ‘It’s too late to switch […]
Posted: October 25th, 2006 under ABOUT CF, NEWSLETTER.
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The rules of the game
Mark Perry interviewed by Laura Rozen, The American Prospect, July 14, 2006
Mark Perry is co-director of the Conflicts Forum, a Beirut-based nongovernmental organization that has, over the past three years, put former senior American and British policy-makers and intelligence officials in talks with Hezbollah and other militant political Islamic groups in Lebanon. He formerly worked […]
Posted: July 14th, 2006 under ABOUT CF, ARTICLES, CF Interviews, Hezbollah, Israel-Hezbollah war, Lebanon, Mark Perry.
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Interview with Alastair Crooke
Sarah Stewart, The Middle East in London, July-August, 2006
SS:How did you become involved in the Middle East and how did this lead to your particular interest in perceptions of Islam in the west?
AC: It started in the 80s. I was based in Afghanistan and responsible for liasing between the Mujahadeen leaders and the British government. […]
Posted: July 1st, 2006 under ABOUT CF, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Political Islam.
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