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Organised crime and conflict: The new challenge for peacebuilding

09 December 2014

Borderland weddings, shared beers and ‘bewitched’ men as indicators of peace and conflict in eastern DRC

Henri Myrttinen

26 November 2014

Of figs and boarding passes: What a fig and a boarding pass say about people's relationship to the state and to each other

14 November 2014

Ghosts, groundhogs and finance

31 October 2014

Gender and security in Lebanon: Issues and challenges

30 October 2014

How is the World Bank responding to fragile situations? A reflection on the institution's annual meetings

30 October 2014

Conflict in the waiting room: Lebanon's healthcare sector under strain in wake of Syrian crisis

10 October 2014

Bombing in the Middle East again: Three easy questions

08 October 2014

Hacking for peace: Can an app stop a bullet?

07 October 2014

Redefining ODA: An opportunity for more comprehensive development

02 October 2014

Searching for a cure for an ailing humanitarian response in Lebanon

22 September 2014

Metaphors in peacebuilding: the need to take good care with our language

21 September 2014

Jam today, versus honey tomorrow: Temporal trade-offs and the SDGs

06 September 2014

Stemming the crisis: Strengthening resilience through collectivity in Lebanon

Nathalie Bekdache

29 August 2014

The price of human life after the MH17 tragedy in Ukraine

13 August 2014

Emergency aid is crucial, but peace requires more

15 July 2014

The Middle East – who cares?

11 July 2014

State security institutions in Lebanon: Reasons for optimism

30 June 2014

Peace-sensitive economic development

27 June 2014

Ways of seeing the Middle East

24 June 2014