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	<description>Listening to Islamists, recognizing resistance</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Imposing Middle East Peace</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 11:48:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Henry Siegman
Report published by the Norwegian Peace-Building Centre
The continued expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank seems to have finally locked in the permanence of Israel’s colonial project. Israel has crossed the threshold from the Middle East’s only democracy to the only “apartheid regime” in the Western world. But outside intervention may offer the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving ‘engagement’ a bad name: Obama’s Iran policy at one year</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/giving-%e2%80%98engagement%e2%80%99-a-bad-name-obama%e2%80%99s-iran-policy-at-one-year/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 12:17:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett
The first anniversary of Barack Obama’s inauguration as President of the United States came this week. The sharpest criticism of Obama’s first-year record on domestic and economic affairs came from the Nobel prize-winning economist, New York Times columnist, and Princeton professor Paul Krugman.

This line from Krugman encapsulates the concern many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Experience of the Islamic Revolution in Iran – The Contemporary Debate</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/the-experience-of-the-islamic-revolution-in-iran-%e2%80%93-the-contemporary-debate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheikh Chafiq Jeradeh
The Islamic Revolution in Iran has come to be defined for many by the concept of Wilayat al-Faqih (the Jurist’s Guardianship), instituted by Imam Khomeini - May Allah Sanctify His Soul (MASHS).  Wilayat al-Faqih represents an Islamic concept that is based on the values of the Sufi-Irfan idea that it is possible [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cultures of Resistance – The Building of a Docile Islam in Britain: How not to Prevent Violent Exremism</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/cultures-of-resistance-%e2%80%93-the-building-of-a-docile-islam-in-britain-how-not-to-prevent-violent-exremism/</link>
		<comments>http://conflictsforum.org/2010/cultures-of-resistance-%e2%80%93-the-building-of-a-docile-islam-in-britain-how-not-to-prevent-violent-exremism/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 14:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[CULTURES OF RESISTANCE]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The latest issue of Cultures of Resistance (Volume 01 / Issue 03), a journal published twice a year by Conflicts Forum, is now available to download from the Cutures of Resistance section of this site.
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		<title>President Obama: Getting to ‘Yes’</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/president-obama-getting-to-%e2%80%98yes%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/president-obama-getting-to-%e2%80%98yes%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:47:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Alastair Crooke
Whilst America has been absorbed by the Afghan election imbroglio, a less-noticed event slid into place in the Middle East. It is less dramatic than President Karzai’s near removal; but this event tilts the strategic balance: Turkey finally shrugged off its US straight-jacket; stared-past any beckoning EU membership, and has fixed its eyes toward [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Can’t Muslim Societies Be More Like a Globalised West?</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/why-can%e2%80%99t-muslim-societies-be-more-like-a-globalised-west/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:35:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Commentary by Alastair Crooke
New Global Studies Vol. 3 : Issue 2, Article 4. Published by The Berkeley Electronic Press
BEIRUT – Many commentators on Islam make the same mistake: They instinctively assume that Muslim resistance to western globalisation reflects the inability of Muslims to accept the social and structural change that ‘modernity’ requires. Muslims, in this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Businessmen posing as revolutionaries’: General Dayton and the “new Palestinian breed”</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/%e2%80%98businessmen-posing-as-revolutionaries%e2%80%99-general-dayton-and-the-%e2%80%9cnew-palestinian-breed%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:24:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Gaza]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Conflicts Forum&#8217;s latest Monograph, by Aisling Byrne
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		<title>Yemen: A slogan and six wars</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/yemen-a-slogan-and-six-wars/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:42:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Khaled Fattah 
Yemen, the weakest, least developed and most tribal Middle Eastern state is battling for the sixth time a Shi&#8217;ite Zaydi rebellion in the mountainous north bordering Saudi Arabia. 
The violent rebellion is drawing the attention of regional and international actors to the formidable set of threats confronting the sole republic in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nukes aside, the real problem with Iran</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/nukes-aside-the-real-problem-with-iran/</link>
		<comments>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/nukes-aside-the-real-problem-with-iran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:43:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Alastair Crooke
The country is emerging as a regional power. Is the West ready for that?
It was pure drama: The leaders of the United States, Britain, and France stepped onto the stage at the Pittsburgh Group of 20 meeting last week to unveil Western intelligence that showed that Iran had a second nuclear fuel enrichment [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Political Islamic and Jihadi Movements</title>
		<link>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/political-islamic-and-jihadi-movements/</link>
		<comments>http://conflictsforum.org/2009/political-islamic-and-jihadi-movements/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 14:35:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sheikh Chafiq Jaredah
Director, Institute for Sapiential Knowledge for Religious and Philosophical Studies, Beirut

In His name be He exalted
It is appropriate to adopt caution, and to beware making hasty analysis, when it comes to passing judgment on problematic issues, whose dimensions, meanings and significance are unclear: One such issue that falls into this zone requiring caution [...]]]></description>
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