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03/12/2007 Interview

Bottom-up Peacebuilding in the Occupied Territories

Tags: Dialogue, Fatah, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Occupied Territories

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Aisling Byrne, Projects Co-ordinator with Conflicts Forum, Beirut, November, 2007 Alastair Crooke, former special Mid-East adviser to European Union’s Foreign Policy

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19/07/2007 Interview

Audio: Talking to Terrorists, parts I & II

Tags: Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah

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BBC News, July 15, 2007 In Part One of a new two-part series, Alastair Crooke, a veteran of secret negotiations in many parts of the

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08/07/2007 Interview

Hamas Briefing

Tags: Fatah, Hamas, Mecca Agreement, Palestinians

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On security in Gaza, Palestinian democracy, the National Unity Government, and the kidnapping of Alan Johnston The following is an edited and annotated transcript of

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01/07/2007 Interview

Video: Middle East – Behind the Conflict

Tags: Fatah, Hamas, Lebanon, Palestinians, Syria

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Avi Lewis, from the Canadian television international affairs analysis program, On The Map, recently interviewed Conflicts Forum director, Alastair Crooke. The broadcast aired on CBC,

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18/02/2007 Interview

Should the West Dialogue with Islamists?

Tags: Dialogue, Islam and globalization, Modernity, Political Islam

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Abdullah Faliq, The Cordoba Foundation, October-December, 2006 “…what Muslims hate is the West’s monopoly on the socio-economic implementation of values such

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13/02/2007 Interview

The US Campaign to Topple the Palestinian Government

Tags: Bush Administration, Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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Al Jazeera interview with Alastair Crooke, January 24, 2007 “…to say that this person is moderate and therefore they are legitimate and other people therefore

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06/12/2006 Interview

Debate: Hamas – Democratic Government or Terrorist Organization?

Tags: Hamas, Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians

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On November 29, 2006, Mark Perry, co-director of Conflicts Forum, took part in a debate in New York hosted by Intelligence Squared US. “A democratically

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27/11/2006 Interview

Meeting the Challenge of Coexistence

Tags: Hamas, Hezbollah, Islam and globalization

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With Alastair Crooke, Panel on Mitigating Religious and Ethnic Conflict, Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, September 20, 2006 MARY ROBINSON: When you say you think

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17/11/2006 Interview

Talking to Terrorists

Tags: Dialogue

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ABC Radio National (Australia) interview with Alastair Crooke and Mark Perry, November 16, 2006 Alastair Crooke — The paradox is that most people ask us

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