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		<title>China and Russia: Common Themes in Counter-Terrorism</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/government/china-and-russia-common-themes-in-counter-terrorism</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jun 2013 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Potter</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[China]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting foreign policy aspect of the situation in Xinjiang is the region’s place within the wider global war on terrorism. When compared to the conflict in Chechnya, one can find a number of interesting similarities in the central governments’ narrative of the issue. However, in order to find them, it is first worth engaging [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New UN Development Agenda Gives Peace a Chance</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/new-un-development-agenda-gives-peace-a-chance</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/new-un-development-agenda-gives-peace-a-chance#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Jun 2013 05:00:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robert Muggah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Give peace a chance. This is the message of the High-Level Panel, who singled out peace as a cornerstone of the post-2015 development agenda in their much-anticipated report released yesterday. The report stresses how freedom from conflict and violence are not just a means to an end, but ends in and of themselves. Such freedoms are &#8220;fundamental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Well of The Past: The Power of Religion in Bangladesh</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/government/the-well-of-the-past-the-power-of-religion-in-bangladesh</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/government/the-well-of-the-past-the-power-of-religion-in-bangladesh#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 24 May 2013 05:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lailufar Yasmin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Religion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bangladesh]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Modernity’s jihad against religion seems to be in retreat. The incarceration of religion within the private sphere of human affairs under the assumption that with the spread of modernity, religion would cease to exist, has not worked out as was envisaged. America and Europe, the epitome of the West, have not been able to achieve [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/local-aid-works-better-in-somalia#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Aid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Somalia]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnblog.ethz.ch/?p=39989</guid>
		<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>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/should-western-nations-arm-syrian-rebels#comments</comments>
		<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>
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		<category><![CDATA[Middle East]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnblog.ethz.ch/?p=39975</guid>
		<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>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnblog.ethz.ch/?p=39958</guid>
		<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>
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		<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>Making the Arms Trade Treaty Work in Practice is the Real Challenge for Africa</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/making-the-arms-trade-treaty-work-in-practice-is-the-real-challenge-for-africa</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/making-the-arms-trade-treaty-work-in-practice-is-the-real-challenge-for-africa#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Apr 2013 05:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ben Coetzee</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Africa]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Arms Trade Treaty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://isnblog.ethz.ch/?p=39584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An outcome that does not make everyone happy is the hallmark of a successful negotiation process, to paraphrase Australian Ambassador Peter Woolcott, president of the United Nations’ Final Conference on the Arms Trade Treaty (ATT). He and his team certainly achieved that goal. Most states and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) agree that the treaty text does [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shocking Satellite Photos Open New Avenues for Conflict Prevention and Response</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/shocking-satellite-photos-open-new-avenues-for-conflict-prevention-and-response</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/security/shocking-satellite-photos-open-new-avenues-for-conflict-prevention-and-response#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andrea Ó Súilleabháin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Conflict]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Rights]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Security]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Burma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Conflict prevention]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnic violence]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within a week after sectarian riots and arson attacks tore through central Myanmar, conflict monitors and human rights advocates could see the damage via satellite images and tally the number of buildings burned and acres destroyed. In the not-so-distant past, similar data collection required weeks or months of field surveying and interviews with victims and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Review – European Multiculturalisms</title>
		<link>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/review-european-multiculturalisms</link>
		<comments>http://isnblog.ethz.ch/international-relations/review-european-multiculturalisms#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 05:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elise Rietveld</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[International Relations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Migration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cosmopolitanism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ethnicity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Multiculturalism]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Political heavyweights such as David Cameron and Angela Merkel have recently proclaimed that multiculturalism has failed, underlining the tension between the securitisation of migration and the on-going need for integration, or the incorporation of minorities into society. European Multiculturalisms: Cultural, Religious and Ethnic Challenges offers an assessment of the different ways in which European countries have dealt [...]]]></description>
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