Religion and Mideast Peace | CAR at the UN | The Iran Deal This Week at Crisis Group ([email protected]) / 20:36 / Nieuwsbrieven Aan: awanhm Afbeelding van This Week at Crisis Group New field reporting & analysis | View this in your browser. International Crisis Group Weekly Update Support Crisis Group The week of 18 November 2013 Report: Israel/Palestine Commentaries: CAR, Syria, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan Open Letter: CAR Interviews: Guinea, Somalia, Iran, Burkina Faso, Sudan Quotes: Iran, CAR, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka, Syria, Libya Careers: Egypt, Asia, North East Asia, West Africa -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- REPORTS Israel-Palestine Leap of Faith: Israel’s National Religious and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict For peace talks to produce an agreement enjoying maximum legitimacy, Israel’s national-religious community should be engaged. (21 November) Français العربية עברית More reports -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- COMMENTARY Central African Republic Falling Into Anarchy Thierry Vircoulon, Al Jazeera, 20 November المعارضة السورية وأصدقاؤها... بين دعم وتقويض نوح بونزي، الحياة، ٢٠ نوفمبر La Coalition nationale syrienne minée par ses parrains étrangers Noah Bonsey, Orient XXI, 19 novembre South Africa Can Influence Sri Lanka in Positive Way Alan Keenan, IOL News, 18 November Afghan Security Agreement Needed Mark Schneider, The Hill, 15 November -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OPEN LETTER Open letter to the UN Security Council on the Central African Republic Louise Arbour, President and Chief Executive Officer, addressed this letter to the UN Security Council urging it to take decisive action this month to prevent further deterioration in the Central African Republic. (15 November) Version française -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- INTERVIEWS Vincent Foucher, analyste de l’International Crisis Group Vincent Foucher, analyste principal pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest, répond pour RFI à la question de savoir si le scrutin guinéen contesté par l’opposition ne risque-t-il pas d’ouvrir une nouvelle ère de défiance entre l’opposition et la majorité. (19 novembre) Awooddii Alshabab ma soo Noqonaysaa? Cedric Barnes, Horn of Africa Project Director, talks to VOA about the current state of Al-Shabaab. (19 November) Cautious Optimism As Iran Nuclear Talks Resume Ali Vaez, Iran Senior Analyst, discusses with NPR the current talks in Geneva on an interim deal that would temporarily freeze Iran’s nuclear program while easing some of the international economic sanctions. (19 November) Zakaria Yusuf on BBC Somali Service Zakaria Yusuf, Somalia analyst, argues on BBC Somali Service that it is important to increase the AMISOM troop level and their resources, including their military capability, in order to stabilise Somalia. (18 November) Rinaldo Depagne : “Le départ de Compaoré devrait créer un vide” Rinaldo Depagne, analyste principal pour l’Afrique de l’Ouest, analyse pour Jeune Afrique ce que pourraient être les effets pour le Burkina faso d’un retrait de Blaise Compaoré en 2015. (18 novembre) Jérôme Tubiana discute de la violence intertribale au Darfour sur RFI Jérôme Tubiana, analyste principal pour le Soudan, discute sur le programme de RFI, “L’invité du soir”, de la violence entre les différentes tribus au Darfour. (18 novembre) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- QUOTES “[La prochaine phase des négociations en Iran] ne comporte pas d’engagements non réversibles, car chacun pourra se retirer du processus s’il s’estime floué. Si les parties en présence ne parviennent donc pas à un compromis sur cette première étape, cela compromettrait sérieusement la conclusion d’un accord final qui, lui, sera contraignant”. Ali Vaez, analyste principal pour l’Iran, Le Monde, 22 novembre “You always have to be very careful when using words like genocide. But it’s clear that [in Central African Republic] we are seeing religious violence and tensions, and that’s a dangerous situation”. Thibaud Lesueur, Central Africa Analyst, Financial Times, 21 November “While more promising than ever, nuclear diplomacy with Iran remains fragile and could well founder. Should that occur, it would be hard to recreate these favourable circumstances; indeed, the more likely path would be continuation of the trajectory witnessed over the past decade: heightened sanctions, accelerated Iranian advances on the nuclear front and greater probability of armed confrontation”. Ali Vaez, Iran Senior Analyst, Inter Press Service, 21 November “In a way what you see is AMISOM swapping roles with al-Shabab. Shabab for a time controlled an awful lot of territory in Somalia, [...] And now AMISOM is in a similar position to al-Shabab before the big offensive – its lines are more stretched, it has more responsibility to populations, logistics, whereas al-Shabab is more free from those responsibilities and now it has more capacity to react and change tactics quickly”. Cedric Barnes, Horn of Africa Project Director, Voice of America, 19 November “The Islamists see in the former [Libyan] army and police the creeping hand of the former regime. What is striking about the Islamist attitude is the total defiance of public sentiment. To them, the people are all counter-revolutionaries because they’re brainwashed by 40 years of Gaddafi”. Claudia Gazzini, Libya Senior Analyst, Financial Times, 19 November “Zimbabwe can certainly act in self-defence should there be any instigation of the conflict affecting the country. However, it will be more prudent for Zimbabwe to work through SADC [Southern African Development Community] and to invoke the tenets of the Mutual Defence Pact in order to ensure there is stability in Mozambique. Unilateral action by Zimbabwe, outside of SADC, will complicate the intervention in Mozambique, as it takes away the collectivity of action on the part of SADC, which we are currently seeing in the Democratic Republic of Congo”. Trevor Maisiri, Southern Africa Senior Analyst, Nehanda Radio, 18 November “The [Sri Lankan] government’s policies badly damage rule of law and democracy, undermine the rights of Tamils, Muslims and Sinhalese alike and render all citizens insecure. If it continues to close avenues of peaceful change, the risks of violent reaction will grow”. Alan Keenan, Sri Lanka Senior Analyst, Ceylon Today, 18 November “Both sides [in Syria] are employing siege tactics that seek to gain a military advantage by denying supplies to the civilian population. But it is much more of a systematic policy on the regime side”. Noah Bonsey, Syria Senior analyst, Foreign Policy, 17 November -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CAREERS Crisis Group is Currently Seeking Candidates for the Following Positions: •Analyst, Egypt •Program Director, Asia •Project Director, North East Asia •Senior Analyst, West Africa •Internships
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