Daesh, Jordan, and Foreign Fighters
It is a rare island of serenity amid a storm, known as the “Kingdom of Peace”: the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Compared to its neighbors, […]
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Overcoming the past, without forgetting it
Processes of remembering, reappraising the past and reconciliation benefit from social dialogue. This enables blind spots in the understanding of historic truth and the barriers […]
See More“Common Remembrance, Future Relations”: An Exchange Programme on Remembrance Culture and Coming to Terms with the Past
Historical experiences of suffering, injustice, persecution and tremendous violence significantly shape identities and affect social and political relations. CISS’s project “Common Remembrance, Future Relations” is under […]
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Africa’s Last Colony: The Question of Western Sahara
The Kingdom of Morocco has been readmitted into the African Union (AU) after 33 years. Morocco had left the former OAU in 1984 in protest against the admission […]
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Legal borrowing in Turkey: towards greater pluralism in Europe?
A year on from the EU-Turkey migration deal and with recent talk of Turkish accession negotiations being frozen in light of the Turkish government’s repressive actions, Turkey’s relationship with […]
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Iran deal to shake up international energy dynamics
After more than a decade of tensions and two years of heated negotiations, a landmark nuclear deal between the P5+1 – the United States, the […]
See MoreThe Upcoming Israeli elections and the outlook for the peace process
Israel is bracing itself for new parliamentary elections to take place on March 17th, following the dismissal in early December of Cabinet ministers and coalition […]
See MoreConversation within a nation – The Islamic State Dialogue
In order to legitimately engage in generation defining acts of military intervention, the British government must seek in itself, and its allies, a greater level […]
See MoreInterview with the Lebanese Ambassador to Germany, S.E. Dr. Mustapha Adib-Abdul-Wahed
Compared to other Arab countries, the Lebanon enjoys extensive democratic and constitutional achievements. However, the domestic situation is not stable, not only because of sectarianism […]
See MoreThe Civil State (dawla madanīya) – A New Political Term?
In the aftermath of the Egyptian uprising in 2011, observers of Egyptian politics will notice immediately the remarkable use of the term ‘dawla madanīya’ (Civil […]
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