A one, two or three state solution?

Two Palestinian views The only alternative to two states is conflict by Ghassan Khatib Israel is interested in and working on a future for the Gaza Strip that is different from that of the West Bank. Read more Two Israeli views One state definitely not an option by Yossi Alpher Failure of a two-state solution does not mean that the alternative is a one-state solution. Read (...) read

Sudan’s Comprehensive Peace Agreement: Beyond the Crisis

On 11 October 2007, the Sudan Liberation People’s Movement (SPLM) announced it was suspending participation in the Government of National Unity because the National Congress Party (NCP) was not implementing key aspects of the 2005 Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) that ended the generation-long, primarily North-South conflict. After months of high-level meetings, military posturing and increasingly aggressive rhetoric, the parties agreed on a series of measures and drew back from the (...) read

Unconventional warfare : are US special forces engaged in an "offensive war" in the Philippines ?

> "Focus on the Philippines Special Reports", n° 1, January 2007

Since January 2002, US Special Operations Forces (SOFs) have been stationed in the southern Philippines and have not left since then. Their deployment has significant implications for issues of peace and security in the southern Philippines, on democracy in the country and its sovereignty, on the geo-political balance in the region, and on the US’ global military posture. But - because of domestic historical factors and the current balance of political forces - it is on the claim that the US (...) read

Philippines : political killings, human rights and the peace process

Numbers of political killings in the Philippines are increasing for a second year, with at least 51 killings in the first six months of 2006 compared to 66 collated by Amnesty International in the whole of 2005. The leadership of the armed insurgency has threatened to form retaliatory assassination squads. The killings follow a pattern of unidentified men shooting leftist party members before escaping on motorcycle and have taken place in the context of an intensified counter-insurgency (...) read

UN Peacekeeping Data Tables

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This page of the Global Policy Forum’s website displays data on Troop Contributions of States to UN Peacekeeping Operations and on Size of UN Peacekeeping Operations as well as Tables and Charts on UN Peacekeeping Finance. It proposes also analysis, articles, links and bibliography on Peacekeeping, Peacekeeping Reform, US Policy on UN Peacekeeping and Regional Organizations and UN Peacekeeping.  read