Widening Atlantic?
Missile defence The US feels threatened by rogue states those usually cited are North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya. The list of threats, Im told by official sources, is certain to grow. In the US...
View Article9/11: What should we do now?
The purpose of terrorism is to frighten you. 11-Oct-01 Tim Garden writes: In most counter-terrorist operations, the military are always subservient to the forces of law and order and the intelligence...
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The road not taken
What happens if you introduce the idea of cost control into the handling of terror? The beginnings of an audit.The cost effectiveness of conflict resolution measures is in little doubt relative to the...
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Waiting for the dawn: a Baghdad diary
Scilla ElworthyIn October 2002 I wrote to my old friend Margarita Papandreou, with whom I took delegations of women leaders to NATO headquarters in Brussels in the 1980s, to suggest that we invite...
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The crisis over Iraq: the non-military solution
The Bush administration has received much criticism for its preparations for war in Iraq: but few, if any, coherent alternatives have been put forward. Criticism is unconvincing when it fails to offer...
View ArticleIraq: a way out?
Modern Iraq is still just barely discernable as ancient Mesopotamia. You can see the tablets on which Hammurabi inscribed the first code of laws nearly 4000 years ago, you can visit the Ishtar gate...
View ArticlePeacemaking at the sharp end: Iraq before and after war
One year on from the Iraq war, an experienced researcher of military conflict and peacemaking asks: was there an alternative, what can be done now, and what are the lessons of Iraq for conflict...
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Tackling terror by winning hearts and minds
The five days between 6 July and 10 July 2005 were for Londoners a mini-epic of emotional intensity. Between exultant celebrations of the successful 2012 Olympic Games bid and proud commemoration of...
View ArticleLearning from Fallujah's agony
Here are two appraisals of what happened in the besieged Iraqi city of Fallujah one year ago, in the assault by United States military forces that began on 8 November 2005:Fallujah is now 70%...
View ArticleIf diplomacy fails
Shirin Ebadi, the Iranian lawyer and Nobel peace laureate, writes in her new autobiography Iran Awakening: "Bellicosity and brinkmanship are what have brought us to where we stand now, but they remain...
View ArticleScilla Elworthy
Author: Scilla Elworthy First name(s): Scilla Surname: Elworthy Scilla Elworthy founded Peace Direct in 2002 to fund, promote and learn from peace-builders in conflict areas, and the Oxford Research...
View ArticleIs it time for a worldwide strategy for the building of peace?
On average, one dollar spent on programmes to prevent violent conflict achieves as much as sixty dollars spent reacting to crises once violence erupts. So why is there no worldwide strategy for the...
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Scilla Elworthy
“In 2012, due to a massive public awareness campaign, the global public became aware that it was not only necessary, but possible, to evolve individual and collective consciousness, as Einstein had...
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"Feast with your enemies" - Dekha Ibrahim Abdi
What do I do differently as a result of knowing this great woman? I utterly believe in the power of one local person to transform a violent situation. I know that humiliation is the driver of most...
View ArticlePeace can be planned. Just like health
"Violence can be prevented. This is not an article of faith, but a statement based on evidence" (WHO 2002). Scilla Elworthy calls for a strategy based on the clear evidence of what is working in...
View ArticleEgypt: small oases of transformation
The new Heliopolis university in Cairo has developed from SEKEM principles and is devoted entirely to sustainable development. Scilla Elworthy reports on the challenges of setting the pace of social...
View ArticleBeyond war: women transforming militarism, building a nonviolent world
If we want to ensure that humanity is not doomed to repeat its bloodiest century, the logical move would be to mount an international campaign to see that competent women are swiftly accepted into...
View ArticleWidening Atlantic?
Missile defence The US feels threatened by rogue states those usually cited are North Korea, Iran, Iraq and Libya. The list of threats, Im told by official sources, is certain to grow. In the US...
View Article9/11: What should we do now?
The purpose of terrorism is to frighten you. 11-Oct-01Tim Garden writes: In most counter-terrorist operations, the military are always subservient to the forces of law and order and the intelligence...
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The road not taken
What happens if you introduce the idea of cost control into the handling of terror? The beginnings of an audit.The cost effectiveness of conflict resolution measures is in little doubt relative to the...
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