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Analyses and commentaries on world developments and current issues related to conflicts, peacebuilding and peace processes, among other issues.
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Wednesday, 24 October 2012 Reopening the Kurdish question: states, communities and proxies in a time of turmoil.
 Villellas Ariño and Pamela Urrutia Arestizábal, Researcher fellows at the Programme on Conflicts and Peacebuilding. NOREF
The Kurdish question involves the aspiration to self-determination of the Kurdish people; their continuing failure to obtain a state of their own; the problematic accommodation within the states where they live; and the desire for recognition of their rights. It remains a critical issue across the Middle East, affecting Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Syria. The influence of unresolved Kurdish demands is all the more acute in times of regional upheaval and uncertainty. Kurdish groups have served as “proxy” forces in conflicts, have undergone cooptation by failing authoritarian regimes, have adhered to the wave of popular mobilisations and have remained mindful of the possibility of using the region’s turmoil to secure better treatment or finally carve out an independent state.
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Monday, 26 November 2012 Future scenarios of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (in Spanish)
 Pamela Urrutia Arestizábal, Researcher of the School for a Culture of Peace, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. revistaperspectiva.com
A casi dos décadas de la firma de los Acuerdos de Oslo (1993), la tarea de valorar la evolución del proceso de paz entre palestinos e israelíes parece altamente pertinente. Marcos Peckel analiza las dificultades para alcanzar una salida negociada al conflicto en las múltiples rondas de conversaciones que han tenido lugar en los últimos veinte años y subraya dos de los principales cuestionamientos a las dinámicas de Oslo: su lógica progresiva y su decisión de postergar la discusión sobre los asuntos más problemáticos del conflicto (entre ellos la definición de fronteras, Jerusalén, los asentamientos o el destino de los refugiados palestinos).
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