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PaliLeaks, land swaps and desperate search of peace

January 29, 2011

The biggest leak of confidential documents in the history of the Middle East conflict began on Sunday, 23th January 2011 by the Al-Jazeera website with Britain’s Guardian newspaper. A cache of thousands of pages of confidential Palestinian records covering more than a decade of negotiations with Israel and the US has been […]

BalkanBlog, conflicts, crisis management, English, Israel, Middle East, Secret deals, US Foreign Policy

Captured Pseudo-State Kosovo

January 12, 2011

“We Bombed The Wrong Side” (General Lewis Mackenzie) In my previous articles I have portrayed Kosovo with quite dark colours. I have summarized Kosovo “as Serbian province, occupied and now international protectorate administrated by UN Kosovo mission; as quasi-independent pseudo-state has good change to become next “failed” or “captured” state; today’s […]

50267, BalkanBlog, Balkans, conflicts, English, international law, KFOR, KLA, kosovo, Organized crime, Quadruple Helix Model, Serbia, War crimes

Rethinking needed after Bosnian elections

October 10, 2010

In my earlier article – Bosnia on the road to the EU, sorry to Dissolution – I described a bit the background and made some small forecast about outcome which seems to be not so far away from reality. Now elections are held and most votes counted. Turnout in the vote — the sixth general… » read more

BalkanBlog, Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, crisis management, English, ESDP, European perspective, separatism, US Foreign Policy, Yugoslavia

NATO 2020: Downsizing Instead of Reshaping

August 30, 2010

Note: My article was originally published on August 30, 2010 as OP-ED in a collaborative project to create recommendations for NATO’s new Strategic Concept by Atlantic-Community.Org (open think tank). Ari RUSILA: Rather than providing for collective defense, today’s Alliance is invited to join American wars. Instead of scribbling a new Strategic Concept for NATO that… » read more

BalkanBlog, conflicts, crisis management, English, ESDP, European perspective, GUUAM, NATO, US Foreign Policy

Krajina – Victory with Ethnic Cleansing

August 15, 2010

Thousands of people across several Balkan countries have held services last week to commemorate those who died in Operation Storm 15-years ago. Like normal in Balkans the views what happened are almost opposite to each other. One side is celebrating victory, the other side has remembrance of those who died during the largest refugee crisis… » read more

BalkanBlog, Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, English, ICTY, Jasenovac, Serbia, Serbs, War crimes, Yugoslavia

Kosovo after ICJ’s ruling

July 23, 2010

Besides tribe leaders in Pristina also many separatist movements in Somaliland, Palestine, Abkhasia, South-Ossetia, Nagorno-Karabakh and even Basks in Spain have been celebreting ICJ’s opinion on Kosovo. However the life in Kosovo probably will continue without dramatic change. Whatever – depending point of view – status Kosovo has, the province is de […]

Balkan, BalkanBlog, Balkans, Caucasus, crisis management, English, ICJ, international law, kosovo, separatism, Serbia

Balkan Route – Business as usual

July 10, 2010

Transnational organized crime is considered as one of the major threats to human security, impeding the social, economic, political and cultural development of societies worldwide. It is a multi-faceted phenomenon and has manifested itself in different activities, among others, drug trafficking, trafficking in human beings; trafficking in firearms; smuggling of migrants; money laundering; etc. […]

Afghanistan, Balkan, BalkanBlog, Balkans, English, Iran, Organized crime, Quadruple Helix Model, Radical Islam, Serbia

Peace Rank: Balkans and Eastwards

June 14, 2010

The Global Peace Index (GPI) is implemented by organization called Vision of Humanity, which groups together a number of interrelated initiatives focused on global peace. As its mission Visions of Humanity brings a strategic approach to raising the world’s attention and awareness around the importance of peacefulness to humanity’s survival in the 21st century. Now… » read more

40341, BalkanBlog, Balkans, Black Sea region, Caucasus, English

Peacemaking – how about solving Conflicts too?

May 27, 2010

“The only way to solve a conflict at any level of society is to sit down face to face and talk about it.” (John W. McDonald) A new peace mediation study , that states Finland’s accomplishment in the field of mediation and conflict prevention, was released on Thursday, May 6, 2010 by the Ministry for… » read more

Afghanistan, Ari Rusila´s BalkanPerspective, BalkanBlog, Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, conflicts, crisis management, English, Finland, international law, kosovo, Military-industrial Complex, Nobelprize

Freedom 2010 in Balkans and Eastwards

May 2, 2010

“Freedom of the press, freedom of association, the inviolability of domicile, and all the rest of the rights of man are respected so long as no one tries to use them against the privileged class. On the day they are launched against the privileged they are overthrown.” (Prince Peter Kropotkin) Different aspects of freedom are… » read more

Albania, Ari Rusila´s BalkanPerspective, BalkanBlog, Balkans, Black Sea region, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Business environment, Caucasus, Croatia, English

Will Coin work in Afghanistan?

December 12, 2009

“After 18 months, our troops will begin to come home.” (Barack Obama) “They are coming already in coffins.” (Ari Rusila) US President Obama finally announced his new counter-insurgency (aka “Coin”) strategy in Afghanistan – which continues mostly the strategy of his predecessor Mr. Bush. Generals and influential – if not decisive – military-industrial complex got… » read more

Afghanistan, BalkanBlog, conflicts, crisis management, English, ESDP, US Foreign Policy

Ari Rusila’s Conflicts -news portal

December 6, 2009

As I can comment only about a tiny fraction of news about the issues of my interest I have launched a news portal for better coverage. My new “Ari Rusila’s Conflicts” site – created with help and platform of NewsCred Ltd. – is loaded relevant multimedia content from over 2500 news sources and blogs. The… » read more

BalkanBlog, Balkans, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Caucasus, conflicts, crisis management, energy policy, Energy Supply, English, security, Serbia
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