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| 30 May 2005
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Workshop on community responses to armed violence
Reducing the number of arms is a means to an end, rather than an end in itself - the real objective is not just fewer guns but safer people.
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| 12 May 2005
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 This three-day conference, organised by the Faculties of Social Sciences, Psychology, and Law of the Free University, Amsterdam, explores the experience and meaning of security in a globalising world. Key concepts such as ‘Safety’ and ‘Human Security’ will be addressed in a series of lectures and workshops.
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Should we worry about terrorists attacking us with Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)? An assessment.
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| 13 February 2005
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 Was the bombing of Dresden on 13 Februay 1945 a military necessity or war against civilians? Sixty years of the the bombing, the historian Frederick Taylor (author of Dresden, Tuesday February 13, 1945, 2004) and writer Jörg Friedrich (Der Brand: Deutschland im Bombenkrieg, 2002) address this question with Ben Knapen, historian and former Editor in Chief of NRC Handelsblad.
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New U.S. plans to develop earth-penetrating low-yield nuclear weapons for the purpose of destroying underground bunkers and similar hardened targets constitute a major threat to international security in more than one respect.
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‘I took my country to war’ has never been a line based on which an American President got a second term - until the re-election of George W. Bush.
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 "Is not the ‘EU way’ that we do not address issues as security problems, but as governance, development, environmental issues etc., unless they pose an effective politico-military threat...?"
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| 04 November 2004
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 November 6 has been set by UN as the International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict. The International Coalition to Ban Uranium Weapons (ICBUW) calls upon you to rise to the occasion and engage in actions to ban uranium weapons.
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Denigrating suicide terrorists as lunatics might be viscerally satisfying, but it does little to broaden our understanding of suicide terrorism and handicaps our ability to deal with it.
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| 18 August 2004
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Research by the Belgian NGO Netwerk Vlaanderen reveals that European banks such as Axa, Dexia, Fortis, ING and KBC invest in controversial weapons systems - including cluster bombs, anti personnel mines, nuclear and uranium weapons.
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 Book Review. 'Occidentalism - The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies'
by Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit (Penguin Press: New York, 2004)
'In their attempt to ground Occidentalism historically, the authors end up shoving animosity towards the West under a make-shift rubric of pathological hatred.'
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| 23 June 2004
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The John Adams Institute welcomes Walter Russell Mead, senior fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations, to talk about his latest book: Power, Terror, Peace, and War: America's Grand Strategy in a World at Risk. Maarten Huygen, commentator for NRC Handelsblad, will interview Mead and moderate the discussion.
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| 04 May 2004
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A report written by Joop Boer, Henk van der Keur, Karel Koster and Frank Slijper about the 'father' of Pakistan's nuclear weapons program and his connections with the international nuclear industry in The Netherlands.
'The role played by Urenco in the proliferation of nuclear technology illustrates clearly that the use of this technology for peaceful or military purposes cannot be separated.'
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| 29 April 2004
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By Gabriel Kolko
We are now experiencing fundamental changes in the international system whose implications and consequences may ultimately be as far-reaching as the dissolution of the Soviet bloc.
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American armed forces encircle the planet with a vast network of military bases on every continent except Antarctica. This network actually constitutes a new form of empire -- an empire of bases.
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This essay provides a historical overview of the Monroe doctrine and its corollaries. Various examples of US intervention in Latin America are analysed: the Cold War cases Chile, Guatemala and Nicaragua and one ‘post Cold War’ example, Colombia.
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| 15 December 2003
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The European Centre for Conflict Prevention (ECCP) in cooperation with Search for Common Ground and the Institute for Media, Policy and Civil Society (IMPACS) invites you with great pleasure to the international seminar on The Role of Media in Peacebuilding.
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| 23 October 2003
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The World Uranium Weapons Conference "The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War", held in Hamburg, Germany has ended with several recommendations.
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| 29 September 2003
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In Tunisia a new draft 'anti-terrorist' law is bound to further undermine human rights. This is the conclusion of a briefing presented by Amnesty International to the EU-Tunisia Association Council today.
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| 18 September 2003
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International humanitarian agency Oxfam has released a report highlighting the world’s forgotten wars, arguing that while international attention focuses on the eradication of terrorist threats and the occupation of Iraq, millions are suffering every day in more than 40 violent, neglected conflicts worldwide.
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 For the French-led UN peace-enforcing mission in Congo to succeed, it is important to understand the nature of the conflict in the country and its historical background. Central in our analysis should be Congo’s long history of state predation. As far back as the Congo Free State the plunder of natural resources has been the driving force behind the existence of this Central African state.
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When the visible hand of crime fractures the strong arm of the law.
 Understanding the intertwined dynamics of international crime, law enforcement and the flourishing drug economy.
The 'War on Drugs' is lost, but the struggle continues. In spite of ever increasing resources dedicated to the reduction of supply and demand of illicit drugs, consumption levels are still rising all over the world.
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