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		<title>Local Aid Works Better in Somalia</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/local-aid-works-better-in-somalia</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 05:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Ó Súilleabháin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Somalia could fall into the same trap as Afghanistan and Iraq where massive influxes of aid create a short-term boom in the economy but don’t necessarily lay the groundwork for sustainable growth, said Aisha Ahmad, assistant professor of political science at the University of Toronto and chief operation officer of the Dr. Hawa Abdi Foundation, an internationally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Should Western Nations Arm Syrian Rebels?</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/should-western-nations-arm-syrian-rebels</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 05:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Samer Nassif Abboud</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the ‘Friends of Syria’ met in Istanbul in late April 2013, one of the questions dominating the meeting was whether Western nations should arm Syria’s rebels. Thus far, such a strategy has been resisted by the United States, while countries such as France and Britain have advocated a relaxing of arms embargoes so that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South Africa and the UN Intervention Brigade in the DRC</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/south-africa-and-the-un-intervention-brigade-in-the-drc</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/south-africa-and-the-un-intervention-brigade-in-the-drc#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 07:21:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andre Roux</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humanitarian Intervention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Military Operations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[MONUSCO]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United Nations]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The attention of the world has recently been focused on the humanitarian tragedy of the violent conflict being pursued by various armed groups in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), specifically since the rapid advance during November 2012 of the rebel group known as the March 23 Movement (M23) that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coercive Sanctions and Military Threats Push Iran Closer to the Nuclear Threshold</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/coercive-sanctions-and-military-threats-push-iran-closer-to-the-nuclear-threshold</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/coercive-sanctions-and-military-threats-push-iran-closer-to-the-nuclear-threshold#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 05:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Ó Súilleabháin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Iran]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nuclear Weapons Proliferation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Iran’s nuclear activities are being portrayed in an alarmist and irrational way in the United States, and political rhetoric only pushes Iran closer to creating a nuclear weapon, said David Cortright, Director of Policy Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies and an expert on nuclear dangers and sanctions. The international community needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Brussels to Damascus and Back?</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/39929</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/39929#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 05:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jan Knoops</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jihad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Stories of youths travelling to Syria to participate in the struggle against the Assad regime continue to make headlines in Belgium. Like that of 18-year-old J.B., a once average teenager who converted to Islam at the age of 15 before radicalising under the influence of the recently dissolved organization Sharia4Belgium. In February of this year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mediation Perspectives: Building Trust</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/mediation-perspectives/mediation-perspectives-building-trust</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/mediation-perspectives/mediation-perspectives-building-trust#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 05:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Valerie Sticher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Mediation Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[confidence-building measures]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peace negotiations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peacebuilding]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnblog.ethz.ch/?p=39905</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do student exchange programs have in common with prisoner exchanges; and what does the release of information on missing persons have to do with a game of soccer, or a joint-economic development project? They are all examples of measures that can be used for confidence building in peace processes (albeit in different contexts and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Hague Jolie Declaration: Ending Impunity for Sexual Crimes in Conflict?</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/conflict/the-hague-jolie-declaration-ending-impunity-for-sexual-crimes-in-conflict</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/conflict/the-hague-jolie-declaration-ending-impunity-for-sexual-crimes-in-conflict#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2013 05:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anna Bragga</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gender]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sexual violence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[War crimes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Wartime rape]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnblog.ethz.ch/?p=39891</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Rape and other acts of serious sexual violence in armed conflict are to be recognised as grave breaches of the Geneva Convention as well as war crimes, according to an announcement by British Foreign Secretary, William Hague and UN Special Envoy Angelina Jolie, at a G8 meeting on April 11th 2013. The new Declaration on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict agreed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Transitional Justice as Politics</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/conflict/transitional-justice-as-politics</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/conflict/transitional-justice-as-politics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 05:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Kersten</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Justice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Transitional Justice]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It is widely accepted that transitional justice can and should be separated from politics. How societies and states achieve justice in the wake of mass atrocities, so it goes, is a pursuit that must be divorced from political calculations. Indeed, in the eyes of many, politics is poison to any attempt at achieving accountability and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ANZUS and the new Defence White Paper</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/anzus-and-the-new-defence-white-paper</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/anzus-and-the-new-defence-white-paper#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 05:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Benjamin Schreer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Defense]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ANZUS]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Australia]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defense White Paper]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[United States of America]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnblog.ethz.ch/?p=39868</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday’s Defence White Paper (DWP) rightly drew a lot of praise from (most) of the analytical community and the media. Many commentators, including myself, welcomed the more cautious tone regarding China’s military rise and the dismissal of Australia having to choose between Washington and Beijing. Does that mean Australia is less supportive of our US [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria’s Chemical Genie</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/syrias-chemical-genie</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/syrias-chemical-genie#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2013 05:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bennett Ramberg</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Chemical Weapons]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civil War]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[LOS ANGELES – Since Syria’s civil war erupted, its large chemical-weapons arsenal has haunted the conflict zone and beyond. Now Israel says that chemical weapons have been used by the Syrian regime. Escalating fears have driven US President Barack Obama to declare repeatedly that any Syrian use or transfer of chemical weapons would cross a [...]]]></description>
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