Introduction In most of the Global South, land is fundamentally a matter of political power. Even when urban inhabitants come to largely outnumber rural ones,
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Fighting against Peace in Libya
On April 4, Khalifa Haftar launched the troops of the self-proclaimed “Libyan National Army” on Tripoli, the Libyan capital where the Government of National Unity
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Two Years On From the Peace Agreement With the FARC
On 17 January 17 2019, in Bogotá, an attack on the Santander Police Training College killed 20, in the bloodiest attack conducted in Colombia’s capital
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Libya’s Territorial and Institutional Division
These documents were first designed as part of Xavier Guignard‘s interview with Seif Eddine Trabelsi, Fighting against Peace in Libya.
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Colombia One Year Later: Peace Makes no Headway
One year after the peace accord between the Colombian government of Juan Manuel Santos and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, signed on November 24, 2016, its implementation is making no headway. This article examines the main obstacles to the materialization of the peace accord, from its difficult incorporation in Colombian law, to concrete problems identified by peasant organizations and NGOs that defend the victims of the conflict. Issues of power-sharing, security and land are at the core of present difficulties.
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The Dynamics of Peace Process in Tajikistan
These maps were designed by Xavier Houdoy and Nicolas Ressler for Noria. They were based on data gathered by Jan Tomek in 2016. To use these maps from Noria’s website, please provide their title along with Noria’s name and the URL of the webpage.
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The Dynamics of the Peace Process in Tajikistan: Power-Sharing and the Unravelling of the post-Civil War Status Quo
Parts of Central Asia – a region where authoritarian rule has been the norm since the end of the Soviet Union – are liberalising, albeit
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Two Years On From the Minsk Agreements
In November 2013, in response to then-President Victor Ianoukovitch’s decision to suspend the signing of an Association Agreement with the European Union, protests began on
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Is Colombia Finally Heading Toward a Peace Agreement?
The following series conveys the vastness of the Colombian conflict’s infinite sadness. A fifty year old war that polluted with violence and displacement, regardless of
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Is Colombia Finally Heading Toward a Peace Agreement?
On October 2nd, 2016, the Colombian people voted “No” in the referendum to ratify the peace agreement between the State and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC, created in 1964), which had been signed in an atmosphere of great optimism on the 26th September in Cartagena.
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El México Guerrero: Ayotzinapa’s Defiant Struggle for Justice
On the night of September 26th, 2014, in the western Mexican state of Guerrero, 43 students of the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers’ College of
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