Nov 22, 2009
April, 2009
- Apr 30, 2009
On April 22 the PCR Project and The Institute for Inclusive Security hosted a book event at CSIS: to the end of hell, with author Denise Affonço, moderated by award-winning journalist and author of
- Apr 27, 2009
There is currently a massive humanitarian crisis in Sri Lanka. Since mid-January 2009, the Sri Lankan military has been on the offensive. As a first step, Colombo’s forces encircled the last remaining LTTE (Tamil Tigers) in large pocket in the north-west of the country. The army has been systematically squeezing the rebels’ position, designating the area as a “free fire zone”.
- Apr 24, 2009
Survivor Corps presents:
Six survivors will share their experiences during conflict and what they are doing now to break cycles of violence.
Date: Monday, April 27, 2009
Time: 6:30pm - 8:00pm
Location: Universalist National Memorial Church
Street: 1810 16th Street, NW
City/Town: Washington, DC - Apr 23, 2009
Via Stephen Walt, the United States continues to suffer from a lack of proficiency in Afghanistan's languages. The Foreign Service has 18 Pashto speakers and only 2 are in Afghanistan.
- Apr 23, 2009
As the post-conflict reconstruction project reported yesterday, Taliban from Swat District in Pakistan have invaded and taken control of the neighboring Buner District.
Here are some of the latest pictures.
Apr 23, 2009PCR Project Co-Director Rick Barton recently returned from a conference in Bogota that explored the Colombian experience with counterinsurgency. There are a lot of lessons to be learned here that could translate to improvements in Afghanistan.
Apr 22, 2009Earlier this month in Pakistan, militants from the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley invaded the neighboring Buner District. This event is only the latest in what has become a worrying trend in the North-West Frontier Province. How did the district fall? What are the implications? What will happen next?
Apr 22, 2009Nat J. Colletta and Robert Muggah, “Rethinking Post-War Security Promotion,” Journal of Security Sector Management, Vol. 7, No. 1, (2009), 1-25.
Available at: http://www.ssronline.org/jofssm/index.cfmApr 17, 2009Apr 16, 2009Somali pirates have landed the failed state with more news coverage recently than it has seen since the disastrous 1993 Battle of Mogadishu. While Somalia flickers on and off the media radar, the underlying issues remain the same.
Apr 16, 2009April is Genocide Prevention Month and there are several events commemorating survivors of the 1994 Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as well as the genocide in Cambodia perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge.
Apr 9, 2009
Flikr photo by nadim2 used under a Creative Commons license.
Apr 1, 2009Karin von Hippel will testify tomorrow morning before the Subcommittee on the Middle East and Asia, House Committee on Foreign Affairs:
