The law of shame that defies Jewish values
This deplorable new law forfeits the Jews’ dream of having a real democratic state in which they take pride; a just and benevolent state at... Read More
Detente redux – the USA, Russia and China in the modern world
The rationale for détente with Russia and China, then as now, derives from a change in American foreign policy philosophy. The drive to pursue a... Read More
Intelligence and Information Management in Peace Operations Course
TransConflict hereby recommends a Intelligence and Information Management in Peace Operations Course in Belgrade, Serbia, from 11-16th November 2018, organized by the Conflux Center.
Human rights in the United Nations system
The scale of the crisis in the UN human rights architecture is confirmed when the world’s biggest donor, and one of the world’s principal advocates... Read More
The future of the EU in the wake of Trump’s betrayal
Trump has become a marionette manipulated by a master puppeteer, Putin. He can no longer be trusted to serve either America’s or our allies’ interests.... Read More
Bringing youth to the table on issues of peace and security
With diversity comes improved creativity and innovation. In addition to countless other benefits of involving more diverse perspectives in peace and security conversations, the importance... Read More
A modern theory of international relations
The contemporary set of international institutions with which the globe is currently burdened, having developed into voluminous bureaucratic monstrosities over decades, have lost such a... Read More
How to denuclearise a country
What makes a good deal, when seeking to denuclearise a country? The most important considerations to keep in mind are that neither the process of... Read More
Conference on security and cooperation in the Middle East
The Association of World Citizens has for a good number of years proposed a Conference for Security and Cooperation in the Middle East with full... Read More
Protests in Gaza – changed perceptions from India
The worsening security situation that India faces today at its borders regions is making it see the violence in Gaza through the lens of Kashmir,... Read More
What now for the two Koreas?
All that resolution of the dispute on the Korean peninsula required was courage. The road to reunification will be rocky. There may be plenty of... Read More
Europe and the Trump Presidency
The UN is widely regarded as an embarrassment and even a disgrace. International law is honoured in the breach. Unless and until the international system... Read More
Hamas will invite war in the search for a long-term solution
Those who suggest that Hamas is irredeemable, as many Israelis contend, are simply wrong. Notwithstanding their public statements to the contrary, Hamas knows that Israel... Read More
The future of the United Nations Development system
There remain many flaws in the UN Development System, arising from the bureaucratic waste typical in any multilateral agency. But because there is no money... Read More
An IT campaign to tackle hate speech and build peace online
Fake News is not just a problem in the US. Online disinformation has been blamed for fuelling violence all over the world. In South Sudan... Read More
Recasting the Levant
The approach in the Levant should be to hold and manage territory using international military force, deterring further escalations, for the indefinite future until informal... Read More
Restraining Persia
There can be no new Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Iran is too much of an enigma. We do now know exactly what we are... Read More
500 days of protest – enough is enough
Over the past year, we have been running a solidarity campaign in support of the families seeking, amongst other things, the investigation and release of a list... Read More
Social media and modern politics
In the age of mass social media, we must all become intellectuals or we shall be quite at loss as a race. Progress from barbarism... Read More
Yemen – political stalemate, mercenaries prosper, the population disintegrates, and humanitarian relief blocked
Today, the choice between an end to the armed conflict with negotiations for a renewal of a Yemeni State on the basis of the con-federal... Read More
June 2018 Review
TransConflict is pleased to present a selection of articles published during June, plus updates from the Global Coalition for Conflict Transformation.
International cooperation on intellectual property
The World Intellectual Property Organization was a brilliant idea, undoubtedly designed by a highly astute international intellectual property lawyer. Where it went wrong was in... Read More
