Conflict, displacement and normality in the Middle East – Kurdistan and the Kurdish Diaspora
For many years now there has been a constant stream of distressing news coming from the Middle East: authoritarian regimes […]
The New War in Iraq: No Safe Place for the Arabs and the Kurds – Kurdistan and the Kurdish diaspora
The world has been shocked by the “two monumental crisis”, the “twin plagues of Ebola and ISIS”, UN High Commissioner
The Land-Grab Trap. Is there a Will to Govern Global Land-Grabbing? #AIGNetwork
How to govern the “global land rush” was at issue in the final negotiations on Principles for Responsible Investment in
Democracy building unraveled
This thematic thread gathers together a series of posts by leading experts and anthropologists of Afghanistan, who analyse the 2014
(UN)GOVERNED SPACES – An exhibition by Gregory Thielker and Noah Coburn
October 28 – December 2, 2014 Opening October 28, 2014 Usdan Gallery at Bennington College One College Drive, Bennington, Vermont
Elections as domestication of violence and threats of war
The 2014 Afghan presidential election reveals the dual quality Achille Mbembe described in Politics as a Form of Expenditure[i] as,
After Elections: Hope?
Worldwide debates on 2014 Afghan elections condense some of the most influencing myths – one of which certainly being related
Democracy building in Afghanistan?
The following thoughts combine views expressed in Derailing Democracy in Afghanistan, blog posts written for Afghanelections14.com and observations made over
Afghan Elections: the pen, the gun and the slippage between
Afghanistan’s Presidential elections were scheduled to coincide with the withdrawal of U.S. and foreign troops and Afghanistan’s first democratic transfer
Gaza, Einstein, and the UN
Today we continue our discussion on Gaza with a guest post by Lori Allen, previously published at Jadaliyya, and reposted