I and thou and death
The “Two State Solution” is a slogan not a solution. By David B. Kanin Washington has defaulted to the tried and failed idea... Read More
Transform, Transcend, Translate
After Banjska
This second miscalculation gives Aleksandar Vucic a lot of work to do. By David B. Kanin Milan Radoicic’s botched raid against Kosovo was... Read More
Kosovo and the lesson from Nagorno-Karabakh
The Quint powers that enabled Kosovo independence must now face the reality that it won’t work until Serbian security returns to the north and it... Read More
Serbia and three Germanies
The West deals with Serbia by straddling victors’ policies toward Germany in 1918 and 1945. It also punishes Serbia for crimes of the 1990s after... Read More
Serbia must play fair too
As the U.S. and its fellow EU members of the Quint pressure Pristina to offer solutions, they must either pressure or entice Vucic to allow... Read More
NATO’s two choices in Kosovo
NATO now has two choices under its UN mandate, to escort those forces back south of the River or to open the border and allow Serbian... Read More
What agreement?
Once again the West struggles to enforce a deal of questionable value on unwilling Balkan participants. By David B. Kanin The old saying... Read More
Kosovo: not up to NATO
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... Read More
Abandoning the Quartet in favor of the Arab Peace Initiative
The Quartet must be abandoned in favor of the Arab Peace Initiative, which has been gaining momentum in recent months absent any other viable alternative... Read More
A tale of two genocides
While approaches to “genocide” differ and the claimants voices are many, the historic legacy of genocide must be a starting point. One could conclude that... Read More
Israel’s future as an anachronism
Israel is a nineteenth century European project completed neither in the nineteenth century nor in Europe.
End arbitrary arrests, reprisals against human rights defenders and activists advocating for education rights in Sri Lanka
We the undersigned human rights organizations strongly condemn the ongoing persecution and reprisals by Sri Lankan authorities against student leaders, labour union leaders, teachers, academics,... Read More
Travels across Kashmir and Ladakh – a frank perspective
On August 5th 2019, the Jammu and Kashmir Reorganization Bill revoked Article 370 and 35A, splitting the state of Jammu and Kashmir into two Union... Read More
Georgia’s Russian cipher
What can the politics of ethnic Russians in Georgia tell us about the country’s attempt to build a truly civic national identity?
Danish Demining Group releases mine risk education films
Danish Demining Group (DDG) in Afghanistan has released three short films to be used as part of mine risk education (MRE) programming for children, youth,... Read More
Twenty years on, the Rwandan genocide festers across the border
Twenty years on, the memory of the 1994 genocide, pervasive across Rwanda’s thousand hills, lingers on well beyond the country’s borders. It extends into the... Read More
