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BRIC could be an good alternative while EU is blocking Serbia
The Netherlands held fast to its opposition Monday 15th to closer ties between the European Union and Serbia blocking of the implementation of the Temporary Agreement. Dutch Foreign Minister Maxime V…
Tagged: Serbia, enlargement, EU, BRIC
Started Sep. 26, 2008
Is Transnistria the next follow up of Kosovo UDI?
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While Russia now is backing independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia the road which started from Kosovo UDI seems to continue long because it is estimated that there is about five thousand ethnic g…
Started this discussion. Last reply by Bernard Londoni Jan. 3, 2009.
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"democracies make elections, elections don’t make democracies”
The counting of Millions of votes cast in Iraqis elections is going on to choose the right ones from more than 6,000 candidates from 86 political groups to gain seats in the 325-member…
“US recognition of severed Kosovo province was a serious mistake, leading to an escalation of tensions, instead of calming down the situation in the Balkans ... consensus boils down to the fact that nobody knows where Kosovo is” (John Bolton)
"The…
“We can say goodbye to our democracy, our independence and our sovereignty” (outgoing President Yushchenko predicts a future with either Ms Tymoshenko or Mr Yanukovych as President)“I'm quite happy because whoever is chosen today will be hated tomor…
The UN General Assembly chose January 27 as the official day for the commemoration, as it was on this day in 1945 that Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz extermination camp, the last such camp still functioning. Throughout Europe, tributes will b…
I wonder how many readers saw anything in western media related to informal statement on 20.1.2010 made by Croatia's President Mesic. Here quote:
Hopefully Croatia's President-elected will bring more stability to Balkans and hopefully he can keep h…
Just after 2004 Orange Revolution Ukraine took course towards Nato and EU, the new leadership had popular backing to fulfill fast forward hopes its policy. Instead of the fast forward progress scenarios the outcome has been a totally different cri…
The last election in Croatia can bring a refreshing change with new President Ivo Josipovic – a university law professor and a composer of classical music – but he will find a much tougher struggle ahead of him. This struggle not only due economical…
“Somebody in our government said to me in Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, Iraq was yesterday’s war. Afghanistan is today’s war. If we don’t act pre-emptively, Yemen will be tomorrow’s war,” (Sen. Joseph Lieberman, I-Conn.)
On December 25 US authori…
Serbia’s application to join the EU was finally made before X-mas. Early December EU foreign ministers agreed to unblock Serbia's interim trade agreement, which is part of Stabilisation and Association Agreement (SAA). Serbia, Macedonia, and Montene…
Dear Ari Rusila
I couldn't agree more. Will post this on TFFworldaffairs on Twitter...Best, Jan
First few quotes related to selection of EU's top officials:
"Turkey is not a part of Europe and will never be part of Europe." (Mr Van Rompuy)
"If the point of the Lisbon Treaty was to create a more prominent face for Europe, the result on Thurs…
The race between the two EU's eastern gas pipelines is going on while next winter can again show some supply problems via Ukraine. South Stream got latest boost on 11th November 2009 as Russia's Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko and Slovenian Economy M…
The refugee question is of paramount importance in Balkans - still. Beginning 1991, political upheavals – such as the breakup of Yugoslavia – displaced millions of people. Officially one part of these people are refugees meaning that they have escap…
"democracies make elections, elections don't make democracies"
After Afghanistan's fraudulent elections President Obama's future politics in failing state is still foggy. Conflicting views of Obama's staff, escalation of War to Pakistan, lack of c…
As Lisbon Treaty seems to come into force also the enlargement process in the Western Balkans got new boost. On 14 October 2009 the Commission adopted its annual strategy document explaining its policy on EU enlargement.The document includes also a…
World leaders with loose tongues, by sputtering words of fear create wars.
Iran, North Korea and Syria all didn't just happened to up their nuclear ambitions after George W. Bush repeatedly spoke of their entire countries as Evil and then attacked I…
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- What motivated you (or your organization) to become involved in peace and conflict resolution?
- Having made fieldwork in Balkans I saw a huge difference between great statements and ideas on top level and situation on the ground as well between the picture of western mainstream media and reality.
- Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs)
- Ari Rusila is a development project management expert and freelancer from Finland with a special interest in the Balkan region. His other interests include civil crisis management issues, Caucasus and middle East.
- Please list the countries and/or regions in which you (or your organization) have direct and significant expertise
- Russia, Murmansk region
Serbia and Kosovo province
- What is your current country of residence (or location of your organization)?
- Finland
- What is your current job (and organization) and/or where and what field are you studying?
- Freelancer
- What is your personal or organizational website?
- http://arirusila.wordpress.com
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.b92.net/eng
- What is one of your favorite websites in the field? (please provide one answer per box)
- http://www.atlantic-community.org
- Which are your primary sectoral areas of expertise (or the primary sectoral areas of your organization) ?
- Peacebuilding, Conflict Resolution, Development
- Which are your primary skills areas(or the primary skill areas of your organization)?
- Program Design, Intervention
- What are some of your current areas of research (if any)?
- Balkan's history
- If appropriate feel free to list several of your (or your organization's) publications
- AriRusila's BalkanBlog
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Election Bazaar in Iraq ongoing
Posted on March 10, 2010 at 5:55pm —
Kosovo: Two years of Quasi-state
“US recognition of severed Kosovo province was a serious mistake, leading to an escalation of tensions, instead of calming down the situation in the Balkans ... consensus boils down to the fact that nobody knows where Kosovo is” (John Bolton)
"The recognition of Kosovo was premature and conditioned by great pressure from the former American administration"... "Today, we can see that two-thirds of the internatio… Continue
"The recognition of Kosovo was premature and conditioned by great pressure from the former American administration"... "Today, we can see that two-thirds of the internatio… Continue
Posted on February 23, 2010 at 4:33pm —
Ukraine: End of Orange Revolution, start of Stabilisation
“We can say goodbye to our democracy, our independence and our sovereignty” (outgoing President Yushchenko predicts a future with either Ms Tymoshenko or Mr Yanukovych as President)
“I'm quite happy because whoever is chosen today will be hated tomorrow by the majority of the country.” (Andrey Kurkov)
… Continue
“I'm quite happy because whoever is chosen today will be hated tomorrow by the majority of the country.” (Andrey Kurkov)
… Continue
Posted on February 11, 2010 at 5:14am —
Jasenovac – Holocaust promoted by Vatican
The UN General Assembly chose January 27 as the official day for the commemoration, as it was on this day in 1945 that Soviet troops liberated the Auschwitz extermination camp, the last such camp still functioning. Throughout Europe, tributes will be paid to the 53 million people who died during World War II, of whom 31 million were civilians. Commemoration has linked usu… Continue Posted on January 31, 2010 at 5:12am —
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- At 6:26am on October 6, 2008,
Damonegro said… - Thank you,
I have read some of your posts. It is glad to see independent opinion not motivated with interests of some group, state or other organization.
Regards!
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Webinar, Nonviolent Strategy, Tactics, and Collective Identity, International Center on Nonviolent Conflict
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Bologna, Italy Symposium on Conflict Prevention, Resolution, and Reconciliation
June 19, 2010 to July 17, 2010 – Johns Hopkins SAIS Bologna Center
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