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Kosovo: not up to NATO

13 Jan 2023

The U.S., EU and now NATO have long acted in Kosovo as if they had the authority to act for the United Nations. Belgrade would...

Kosovo: should/could Serbia intervene unilaterally?

28 Dec 2022

TransConflict

Should Belgrade send forces into the north to lance this boil? It may be the only way to force the hand of the U.S., EU...

Kosovo – lancing the Boil?

12 Dec 2022

TransConflict

NATO would be well within its UN mandate to allow some Serbian forces to return to Kosovo. Perhaps this is the way to lance the...

Please, no more Western Balkan summits

04 Aug 2022

TransConflict

The EU engages in empty diplomatic theater while Balkan disputes fester and the war in Ukraine highlights “Europe’s” limits. By David B. Kanin...

Congratulations, Serbia – leader and model!

17 Jun 2022

TransConflict

The EU begins to adopt Belgrade’s two stool approach to Russia’s war against Ukraine (sort of). By David B. Kanin European notables owe...

War crimes trials: appropriate but problematic

06 Jun 2022

TransConflict

The clamor for retributive justice makes outright military success over Russian forces even more essential. By David B. Kanin The documented atrocities being...

Can the UN General Assembly act on Ukraine?

16 May 2022

TransConflict

This food crisis suggests the need to establish secure transportation zones in Ukraine and the Black Sea to allow food to be gathered and transported....

Orban and Vucic … and Tito

08 Apr 2022

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Skillful security managers can stand astride two stools indefinitely, as long as one of them does not collapse. By David B. Kanin The...

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Could the use of rockets be banned in the Middle East?

05 Aug 2014

TransConflict

Efforts to eliminate stocks of rockets and missiles seem unlikely to succeed in the current context. However, a ban on use might be a real...

Cooperation for Peace and Unity (CPAU) from Afghanistan

17 Apr 2014

TransConflict

TransConflict is pleased to showcase the work of Cooperation for Peace and Unity (CPAU) from Afghanistan, a member of the Global Coalition for Conflict Transformation.

Building peace through border control in Puntland, Somalia

01 Feb 2017

TransConflict

In response to escalating regional violence, the Puntland administration has tightened its borders and imposed a ban on trucks. Border control is beneficial to the...

Israeli-Hamas truce – an opportunity in disguise

15 Sep 2015

Dr. Alon Ben-Meir

The prospective Israeli-Hamas truce presents a momentous opportunity, albeit in disguise, for all parties concerned to turn a new page in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and...

Sri Lanka – halt the deployment

13 Nov 2019

TransConflict

The Sri Lanka Campaign has previously argued that no Sri Lankan soldier should serve in a blue helmet so long as serious human rights violations of the...

The Ukrainian lesson – challenges for a new European peace movement

29 May 2014

TransConflict

To use this chance means to define the tasks of a renewed, truly Pan-European peace movement; an integral movement reviving the best ideas of former...

Israel’s future as an anachronism

14 Apr 2014

TransConflict

Israel is a nineteenth century European project completed neither in the nineteenth century nor in Europe.

Yugoslavia, Syria and Iraq – lessons learnable?

09 Jun 2015

Gerard Gallucci

The demise of Yugoslavia has several important lessons for other divided contexts. First, if you want to maintain the stability of internally divided states, it...