01/06/2005 Interview

The Need for Dialogue

Tags: Dialogue, Political Islam

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Share International, June 1, 2005 Alastair Crooke spent almost 30 years in the British diplomatic service working on conflict resolution in

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01/06/2005 Article

In Search of Respect at the Table: Hamas Ceasefires 2001–03

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Occupied Territories, Palestinians

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Article posted on Conciliation Resources, June, 2005 “Negotiating without resistance leads to surrender. But negotiating with resistance leads to real peace…the world understood that the

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28/04/2005 Interview

‘We Should see Islamists who Seek Democracy as Part of the Solution, not the Problem’

Tags: Dialogue, Islamists

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Alastair Crooke interviewed by Rami G. Khouri, Daily Star, April 28, 2005 Alastair Crooke, a former EU foreign affairs expert and British intelligence officer, is

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01/04/2005 Article

Mint Tea with Terrorists

/ Stephen Grey

Tags: Bush Administration, Dialogue, Hamas, Hezbollah, Israeli-Palestinian conflict

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Article posted on New Statesman, April 11, 2005 Osama Hamdan wears an ordinary business suit and hands out an ordinary business card with his e-mail

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10/12/2004 Article

It is Essential to Talk to the ‘Terrorists’

/ Alastair Crooke

Tags: Dialogue, War on terrorism

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The Guardian, December 10, 2004 The rhetoric that we in the west are engaged in “a war on terrorism” is so embedded in our thinking

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05/07/2004 Article

Should we Talk to Political Islam?

/ Alastair Crooke & Beverley Milton-Edwards

Tags: Dialogue, Modernity, Political Islam, Secularism

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British Council, July 5, 2004  ‘Don’t be afraid of opposition. Remember, a kite rises against, not with the wind.’ Hamilton Wright Mabie First and foremost,

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