Archive for 'Dialogue'
The China syndrome
By Mark Perry, Bitter Lemons, March 19, 2009
The late historian Barbara Tuchman was an accomplished writer, but her reputation rests more properly on her insights. Her seminal work, August 1914, was so filled with them that few historians can write of “the war to end all wars” without mentioning it. Its silver binding stands glimmering, […]
Posted: March 23rd, 2009 under ARTICLES, Dialogue, Hezbollah, Mark Perry.
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Terror and truth
By Alastair Crooke, The Guardian, June 1, 2008
Sir Hugh Orde speaks rarely heard truth when he says that he has never heard of a terrorist campaign that was “policed out”, adding that he could not think of one that had not ended through negotiation.
There has been an unshakeable faith in Europe that western law-enforcement officers […]
Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under ARTICLES, Al Qaeda, Alastair Crooke, Dialogue, Islamists.
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The Middle East Peace Process: the case for jaw-jaw not war-war
By Michael Ancram, Accord (Issue 19), Conciliation Resources, 2008
When I opened talks with Sinn Féin/Irish Republican Army (IRA), such was the anger of the Ulster Unionists that they declared me ‘contaminated’ and withdrew from talks with me. Yet as a direct result of those initial communications in the early 1990s we now have the makings […]
Posted: March 13th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Dialogue, Hamas.
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Language - a tool to transform different into dangerous
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, […]
Posted: February 9th, 2008 under ARTICLES, Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Islamists, Political Islam.
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Bottom-up peacebuilding in the Occupied Territories
Alastair Crooke interviewed by Aisling Byrne, Conflicts Forum, Beirut, November, 2007
Alastair Crooke, former special Mid-East adviser to European Union’s Foreign Policy Chief, Javier Solana, and adviser to the International Quartet, is the Co-director of Conflicts Forum. An edited version of this interview was published by BADIL Resource Center for Palestinian Residency and Refugee Rights, Al-Majdal, […]
Posted: December 3rd, 2007 under Alastair Crooke, CF Interviews, Dialogue, Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories.
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Engaging Hamas and Hezbollah
By Ali Abunimah, The Electronic Intifada, October 29, 2007
Nothing could be easier in the present atmosphere than to accuse anyone who calls for recognition of and dialogue with Hamas, Hezbollah and other Islamist movements of being closet supporters of reactionary “extremism” or naive fellow travelers of “terrorists.” This tactic is not surprising coming from neoconservatives […]
Posted: November 1st, 2007 under ARTICLES, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah.
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