Rouzbeh Parsi, took part in a television debate on the issue of executions by stoning in Iran. The debate focused on the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman charged by Iran with adultery and involvement in her husband's murder. France 24
In his article titled 'Transforming an Unrealistic War: Bringing the UN Back into Afghanistan', Research Fellow and Afghanistan expert Luis Peral wrote that it is time to focus on supporting international, preferably UN, civilian efforts, and to re-engage in effective multilateralism beyond empty
"But Rasmussen also has a tendency to go over the heads of ministers and ambassadors of NATO, which involves a risk," says researcher Daniel Keohane of the EU Institute for Security Studies. Ekstrabladet
On 11 July 2010, Serbian President Boris Tadic attended the fifteenth anniversary of the Srebrenica massacre. His attendance at the event comes just three months after the Serbian parliament passed what has been called a ‘landmark’ and a ‘monumental’ declaration on Srebrenica on 1 April 2010.
"Creating an open army, which is mostly in the hands of civilians, completely changes the role of intelligence.We have to keep in mind that intelligence that serves crisis prevention is fundamentally different from intelligence carried out during armed conflict.
Among the features in this issue:
training of Somali soldiers in Uganda and counter piracy in the Gulf of Aden, the Lisbon Treaty and the new ground for CSDP, and the EU's response to the Haiti earthquake.
The cover story takes us to the EU training mission for Somalia and EUNAVFOR-Atalanta.
The newsletter also focuses on EULEX
"They have always flatly denied these allegations. On the other hand they have not given the world reason to fully trust them. They have in certain regards not furnished the IAEA with the information they have asked for or needed.
In this ninth paper in the 10 Papers for Barcelona series, the authors argue that policy-making on Euro-Mediterranean relations needs to pay more attention to the domestic sphere as the key arena in which both identity and democracy evolve.
The EU has placed a growing emphasis on human rights issues in its civilian crisis management operations over the years, in turn creating operational challenges far beyond what has previously been experienced. This paper uses EUPOL and EUJUST LEX as a yardstick for examining the operational models used by the EU and their implications in a human rights perspective.
Visiting Fellow Carolin Goerzig took part in a programme on the recent hostage crisis which ultimately saw the killing of 78-year-old French aid worker, Michel Germaneau, by a group calling itself Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb. France 24