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Rhetorically speaking, all agree: peace, security and development belong together. The experience with the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) supports this statement. Countries that are affected by conflict, violence and political instability are the furthest away from achieving the MDGs. According…

In April 1994 when Congresswoman Patricia Schroeder was asked why the United States was doing so little to stop the killings in Rwanda she answered candidly: She had received hundreds of calls by her constituents who were concerned about the endangered gorilla population in Rwanda. Only a few…

In the hot plains of the Vanni, a larger-than-life stone soldier emerges out of a block of concrete, an AK-47 in one hand and the Sri Lankan flag in the other. Hardly visible from the ground, a dove sits on the machine gun. This is a “victory memorial” created by the Army after the end of the…

East Africa is the global oil and gas industry’s hottest frontier. Barely a month goes by, it seems, without a major discovery in Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, or the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo. This new African windfall is hardly without precedent. Several west and central African…

On January 24, 2014, West African and European Commission negotiators reached agreement on all outstanding negotiating issues of the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA), thereby breaking an impasse that had persisted since 2007. The aim of the negotiations was to create a free trade area between…

When, on April 4, 1949, the 12 foreign ministers of NATO's founding membership gathered in Washington, D.C., to sign the North Atlantic Treaty, President Harry Truman gave the defining speech of the hour: "We do not believe that there are blind tides of history which sweep men one way or another,"…

While the world watches Kiev, the Middle East peace process is once again on the verge of collapse. After almost nine months of feverish efforts by Secretary of State John Kerry, we’re now less than a month away from the deadline for an agreement between the Israelis and Palestinians. The prospects…

Over the past 20 years, the international response to the genocide in Rwanda has been analyzed and critically reviewed many times. Analysts have focused on how the United Nations and a few crucial member states responded to the genocide, including the United States, France and Belgium. Germany’s…

Deutsche Erfahrungen bei der Wiedervereinigung: Neue Kapazitäten für internationale Friedenseinsätze?…

In the case of Germany v Y and Z, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dealt, for the first time, with the meaning of the term "persecution" in the EU Qualification Directive (QD). German judicial practice that led to the CJEU decision had differentiated between the core and the fringe…