Tuesday, 17 August 2010

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The guns of August: two years later, Rein Müllerson

In the hot summer of 1994, I was part of a United Nations mission in the Caucasus. The Nagorno-Karabakh dispute between Armenia and Azerbaijan was boiling, and countless stories of mutual animosity and differential victimhood were circulating. In...

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Kenya’s referendum: “in the name of God, no!” , Daniel Branch

Many Kenyans as well as foreign observers have welcomed the result of Kenya’s constitutional referendum on 4 August 2010, which gave overwhelming approval to the document. The relief at the clear outcome and peaceful process indeed makes it...

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The drug war: new paradigm vs old paradox , Juan Gabriel Tokatlian

The United Nations secretary-general Ban Ki-moon declared on 9 July 2010 that the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) would have a new executive director: Yuri Fedotov, a citizen of the Russian Federation. Fedotov's appointment means the...

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