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As I told you in my last blog post, last week I went to two conferences in Switzerland: swisspeace and UNO-Academia.
The swisspeace conference focused non-state actors and featured brilliant speakers with first-hand experience with the topic. We listened to a former IRA fighter and various academics that had conducted dialogue between non-state armed groups (NSAG) and governmental forces.