Published on SkyNews on 30 August 2011. Looking at the evolving situation in Libya, I find it difficult to avoid comparing it to a range of similar conflict and post-conflict zones that I have been involved with in the past. While no conflict, or reconstruction effort...
Building democratic states is a complex and challenging task at the best of times. After violent conflict this task is additionally complicated by the fact that peace needs to be secured, institutions need to be comprehensively reformed, if not built from scratch,...
Published by BBC News on 26 August 2011 With Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s 42-year rule over Libya seemingly at an end, the onus rests with the National Transitional Council to first stabilise and then reconstruct its infrastructure. Building democratic states is...
If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not fight, where are they and what are their plans? Resistance collapsed relatively quickly on the road to, and in, Tripoli, but that does not mean that the regime as a whole and across the country has been...
Published in Atlantic Review on 22 August 2011. If Gaddafi supporters in/outside the regime did not fight, where are they and what are their plans? Resistance collapsed relatively quickly on the road to, and in, Tripoli, but that does not mean that the regime as a...
By HAWAR ABDUL-RAZAQ 20/12/2010 Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan: The Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) should become more modern and show that it is willing to make structural changes, say a number of Western experts in the wake of the party’s 13th convention. They also hint...
