A Silent Genocide in West Papua
This week, on May 1st, marked the anniversary of the over half a century long occupation of West Papua by Indonesian forces. The...
A Glimpse of Hope – Cyprus to Reunify?
It seems like it is waiting on the world’s door step. Something that can show the international community, there is still good happening....
Pivot to Russia? The New Presidents of Bulgaria and Moldova
2016 is something Germans would call a “Superwahljahr” – an extraordinary election year. Most eyes were on the Presidential elections in...
A Stepping Stone for Burma
“The fall of one regime does not bring in a utopia. Rather, it opens the way for hard work and long efforts to build more just social,...
Burma's Displaced, Dispossessed and Divided communities - But room for hope?
The town of Mae Sot in northwest Thailand is increasingly benefiting from its strategic position on the border with Burma. Since the...
Commemorating Srebrenica
Today the world has come together in Srebrenica to remember. “Srebrenica”, the name of the eastern Bosnian town, stands as equivalent of...
Calling Genocide what it is - The 100th Anniversary of the Armenian Genocide
The Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan 2015 is a year of many anniversaries – among the ones to ‘celebrate’ are: 70 years after the...
Facing the edge – Bangladesh in a spiral of violence
Bangladesh – a country known for “made in” tags on clothing, for its emergence in the international sphere in 1971 after bloody...
Nagorno-Karabakh – A Forgotten Dispute in the Heart of Eurasia
Following the coverage of the war in Georgia and more recently rising debates in economic councils across Europe surrounding the issue of...
Bosnia and Herzegovina – the war scars are still visible
The 1990s heralded in one of the darkest chapters of European post WWII history; the emergence of a period of great instability and...
