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Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment: ISIS: Back to Pre-Islamic Arab structures

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Sunnism has always had a particular link with the state. (We are not talking Westphalia here, with its homogenous national identities, but something more complex,

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Challenging perspectives on Islamism and politics in the Middle East

Conflicts Forum aims to shift Western opinion towards a deeper, less compartmentalised understanding of Islam and the Middle East.
By examining problems in terms of differences of thinking, language and intellectual and metaphysical traditions, we attempt to frame differences as more than simple struggles for power. Although not a particular focus of our work, reconciliation is sometimes an outcome of what we do.
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11/10/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 27 September – 4 October 2013

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In a recent article, Graham Fuller, a former vice-chair of the US National Intelligence Council speculated that “it is possible that President Obama – without articulating it, perhaps

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04/10/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 20 – 27 September 2013

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Very occasionally, a point of inflection occurs in human affairs – a moment of latent potential, which somehow springs into present ‘being’.  The potential may

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30/09/2013 News

Syria: the strategy has backfired

The Gulf states' plans to undermine Iran and Syria are in tatters. But a new relationship may now emerge

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This article was originally published by The Guardian on Sunday September 29th 2013.  What a curious turn of events: from the very brink of a

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27/09/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment, 13-20 Sept 2013

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On 12 September 2013, Prince Turki of Saudi Arabia addressed the Defence and Security Forum in London.  Prince Turki is known for his cool-headed analysis, and though regarded

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20/09/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 6 ­- 13 September 2013

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Syria:  Analyst Philippe Grasset surely has it right when he suggests that the Syria situation has been stabilized by the initiative to place Syria¹s chemical stocks under supervision, ­

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13/09/2013

Conflicts Forum’s Weekly Comment 30 Aug ­ – 6 September 2013

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Prospective US intervention in Syria:  The harshness of the dilemma now facing President Obama is becoming clearer (even if its resolution of it remains obscure).

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