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3 septiembre, 2021
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A New Approach to Building Peace (Reuters Podcast)

Although COVID-19 brought many aspects of our world to a standstill over the last year, violent conflict was not one of them. What can we do to end the cycle? (Chicago Council on Global Affairs)

Researcher and practitioner Séverine Autesserre argues that traditional approaches to peacebuilding often fail because they follow a top-down formula: expert expatriates parachute in to solve a problem with big budgets, cut-and-paste solutions, and a return ticket home. She joins Deep Dish to explain why a new strategy is needed and how grassroots efforts offer hope for an end to violent conflict.

Séverine Autesserre 
Author, Researcher, and Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University.
Séverine Autesserre is an award-winning author, peacebuilder, and researcher, as well as a Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, Columbia University. She is the author of «The Trouble with the Congo,» «Peaceland,» and «The Frontlines of Peace,» in addition to articles for publications such as Foreign Affairs, International Organization, and The New York Times. Séverine has been involved intimately in the world of international aid for more than twenty years and has conducted research in twelve different conflict zones, from Colombia to Somalia to Israel and the Palestinian territories. @SeverineAR
 

3 septiembre, 2021
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Majority of Americans Support Withdrawal from Afghanistan, but Criticize Its Implementation

Soldiers and civilians boarding an evacuation plane out of Afghanistan.

A new Chicago Council on Global Affairs-Ipsos survey suggests that most Americans are not second-guessing the US withdrawal from Afghanistan. But they are critical of what they perceive as a lack of planning and forethought on the part of the Biden administration. At the same time, it is unclear how durable an effect these criticisms will have on the Biden presidency once Afghanistan is out of the headlines. Continue leyendo →

3 septiembre, 2021
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Afghanistan & Sahel (Rama Yade, The Africa Report)

 

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REPEATING HISTORY?

‘US failure in Afghanistan serves as a serious warning for the Sahel’, says Rama Yade

By Rama Yade
Posted on Thursday, 2 September 2021 07:51

Although France withdrew its troops from Afghanistan in 2014, it is still militarily present in the Sahel, despite an announced withdrawal. The disastrous events taking place in Kabul should prompt Paris to reflect on the conditions for the evacuation of its soldiers from the African region.

In September 2008, when I was secretary of state for foreign affairs and human rights, I made a second visit to our French soldiers in Kabul. This time, at Camp Warehouse, I paid my respects in front of a monument erected in memory of those who had fallen on Afghan soil; 10 of them had been killed in an ambush the previous August.

Despite this assumed military presence, the France I represented was nevertheless proud of its singular approach, which contrasted sharply with the US’s purely military one. This is what I said at the time: “The Afghans still remember how long our cooperation has been going on. We have two French high schools there, created in the 1920s, which have an excellent reputation; as does the French hospital in Kabul. Our archaeological cooperation in search of Afghan heritage, which the Taliban had ransacked, as well as the destroyed Bamyian Buddah, is exemplary; and our army has established close ties with the population.”

A warning

Through this statement, I was trying to highlight the specifics of French diplomacy. Unlike the Americans, we, the French, knew that we would only be able to achieve our objectives by getting as close as possible to the people and thinking about long-term development. When I was surrounded by little Afghan girls at the French Lycée Malalai, my heart swelled with pride as I could see in their eyes that they were picturing a future with a free and sovereign Afghanistan, first and foremost for women!

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La lucha contra el terrorismo en el Sahel (Política Exterior)

 

3 septiembre, 2021
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El diálogo sobre Venezuela en México

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En esta edición de #ConTresPuntos Vanessa Davies y José Gregorio Yépez @Goyepez conversaron con Phil Gunson @philgunson, analista para la región andina de Crisis Group bit.ly/3DHipcR
“Es algo muy difícil de tragar para la oposición, después de tanto tiempo diciendo: nosotros somos el gobierno legítimo de Venezuela y a pesar que todavía lo mantienen como línea discursiva, en la práctica el hecho de decir que por un lado está el Gobierno de Venezuela y por otro está la Plataforma Unitaria, es un reconocimiento a Maduro”. contrapunto_vzla  Con Tres Puntos 🔵⚪🔴

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3 septiembre, 2021
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Two Decades Later, the Enduring Legacy of 9/11

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BY HANNAH HARTIG AND CARROLL DOHERTY
 
Americans watched in horror as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, left nearly 3,000 people dead in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Nearly 20 years later, they watched in sorrow as the nation’s military mission in Afghanistan – which began less than a month after 9/11 – came to a bloody and chaotic conclusion.

The enduring power of the Sept. 11 attacks is clear: An overwhelming share of Americans who are old enough to recall the day remember where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news. Yet an ever-growing number of Americans have no personal memory of that day, either because they were too young or not yet born.

A review of U.S. public opinion in the two decades since 9/11 reveals how a badly shaken nation came together, briefly, in a spirit of sadness and patriotism; how the public initially rallied behind the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, though support waned over time; and how Americans viewed the threat of terrorism at home and the steps the government took to combat it.

As the country comes to grips with the tumultuous exit of U.S. military forces from Afghanistan, the departure has raised long-term questions about U.S. foreign policy and America’s place in the world. Yet the public’s initial judgments on that mission are clear: A majority endorses the decision to withdraw from Afghanistan, even as it criticizes the Biden administration’s handling of the situation. And after a war that cost thousands of lives – including more than 2,000 American service members – and trillions of dollars in military spending, a new Pew Research Center survey finds that 69% of U.S. adults say the United States has mostly failed to achieve its goals in Afghanistan.

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