Elizabeth Laruni and Carolina Rocha da Silva
July 19, 2014
Latest Articles, Sub-Saharan Africa
The Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) is a rebel group that originated in northern Uganda and waged a guerrilla war against the Ugandan government for just over twenty years, under the leadership of Joseph Kony. Despite the length of the conflict, the LRA have only recently started to receive widespread international media coverage.
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Ielizaveta Rekhtman
July 17, 2014
Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, The Policy Unit
A balanced assessment of the Ukrainian-Russian conflict is a rather challenging task for policy-makers. This is in large part because the views and data collected from both sides comes under the influence of two opposing public discourses. On the one hand, Russia is perceived as the aggressor breaking the territorial integrity of Ukraine.
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HSC Publication
July 12, 2014
Latest Articles, Press Releases
The Human Security Centre is deeply concerned by the recent escalation of violence in Israel and the Gaza Strip, following the abhorrent killing of three Israeli teenagers and the apparent revenge killing of a Palestinian teenager in the West Bank.
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Marc Simms
July 10, 2014
Asia and Pacific, Latest Articles, Security and Defence
Last week, the Japanese cabinet undertook a significant shift in their country’s defence policy, by agreeing to reinterpret the constitutional limits on the use of force in a less strict manner. The new understanding of the restrictions of Article 9 now allow for Japanese “collective self-defense” as well as military intervention to protect its treaty allies.
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Raphael Levy
July 10, 2014
Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
America’s commitment to the principle that one’s enemy’s enemy is one’s friend has come back to bite them on more than one occasion, and now Bashar Al-Assad is beginning to realise that even just leaving one’s enemies to fight it out can be problematic.
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Daniel Curwin
July 1, 2014
Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, The Policy Unit
The active sectarian rivalry and conflict in Iraq – long exploited by successive governments in Bagdad – has reached crisis proportions. Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city and a primary oil centre, was overrun and occupied June 12th 2014 by the Sunni militant group the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham) (ISIS) which formerly fought under the al-Qaeda banner. ISIS are making gains on their previous successes in taking large parts of the central city of Fallujah in December 2013
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Marc Simms
June 30, 2014
Iraq and Syria, Latest Articles, Middle East and North Africa, Security and Defence
Despite a fairly new name, ISIS has a considerable pedigree as a terrorist and insurgent organisation. Before taking its current name in 2013, it was known as the “Islamic State of Iraq”, “Al-Qaeda in Iraq” and “The Organisation for Monotheism and Jihad”,
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HSC Publication
March 26, 2014
Latest Articles, Russia and Eurasia, The Policy Unit
The crisis in Ukraine originated in President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to abandon a far-reaching Association Agreement with the European Union in November 2013. Tens of thousands of people took to the streets and protests stretched over several months, culminating in an eruption of violence in February 2014.
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