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20/11/2008 News

Summary of Salafist Websites, Oct–Nov 08

Tags: Sunni-Shia tension

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Salafist websites persist in their acute verbal offensive against Hezbollah, Iran and the Shi’i generally – but now with greater ferocity: Salafist websites have been

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20/09/2008 News

Summary of Salafist Websites, Sept 08

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Salafism

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Salafist websites this week launched a barrage of stinging attacks on Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Predominantly these attacks came from sites linked

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16/06/2008 News

Two-day Course: Understanding Political Islam

Tags: Event, Political Islam

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A two-day specialist course organised by British Muslim Initiative and supported by Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, Conflicts Forum, Demos, Forward Thinking and The Cordoba

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20/04/2008 News

Carter Meeting Sparks New Debate Over Engaging Hamas

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Diplomacy, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Uncategorized

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Mark Perry (Conflicts Forum) and Robert Satloff (Washington Institute for Near East Policy), NewsHour, PBS, April 18, 2008 Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter met Friday

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21/09/2007 News

Conference:
Perceptions of identity – Islamist identity and neoconservatism

Tags: Neocons, Political Islam

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A Conflicts Forum seminar, Beirut, June 19, 2007 Project Outline* We are at a point of conflict and growing instability in the Middle East where

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30/04/2007 News

Conference:
The Political Implications of the Hamas Electoral Victory

Tags: Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Mecca Agreement, Palestinians, Political Islam

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A Conflicts Forum conference sponsored by the European Commission, Beirut, March 2007 In March of 2007, Conflicts Forum conducted a workshop on the political implications

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13/03/2007 News

Reviewing Hamas’s First Year in Government

Tags: Bush Administration, Hamas

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Since Hamas achieved a stunning victory in the Palestinian parliamentary elections in January 2006, Conflicts Forum has been closely monitoring the subsequent shifts in the

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05/02/2007 News

Time to Talk to Iran

Tags: Dialogue, Iran, NPT

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Military attack on Iran would have disastrous consequences warns new report [PDF]: Coalition urges new diplomatic push to avoid crisis. On the one year anniversary of

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22/01/2007 News

Conflicts Forum Receives Grant From the European Union

Tags: Europe, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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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” –

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