Inside Conflict

Challenges Facing the Next Government - Foreign Policy Relations with Iran and the United States, Integration and role in the Arab Mashriq & Role of Iraqi non-state armed actors in regional conflicts

Challenges Facing the Next Government - Domestic Policy The Future of the Popular Mobilization Forces, Socio-Economic Challenges & The Rentier Economy, Reconstruction and Reconciliation, Continued ISIS insurgency & Anti-Corruption

In this episode we’ll be discussing the challenges faced by the next government whatever the final shape it may take: Socio-Economic Challenges & The Rentier Economy, Continued ISIS insurgency, the Future of the Popular Mobilization Forces and Anti-Corruption ...

In this episode we’ll be discussing the political situation in Iraq: the Paradigm of Iraqi Governance - From Unaccountable Coalitions to Majoritarian Government, Presidential elections and rift between the major Kurdish Parties ...

In this third segment, we are going to look at the international dimension of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in particular in relation to the new government.

In this second part, we will focus on what this heterogeneous Israeli government would mean for broader peacemaking related questions regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

In the first episode let us turn to probably the most significant recent development, which has been the establishment of a new government in Israel, namely, a coalition government that is probably unlike any other coalition elsewhere in the world, bringing together different sides that would usually be in opposition to each other, as well as bringing an end to Israeli politics dominated by Benjam...

The last years of Bashir’s reign have been characterised by high inflation, unemployment, and a constant rise of prices of goods of daily life. Regular ‘bread revolts’ weakened the Bashir regime and, finally, were an important trigger point for the protests that brought about its end. However, despite successful negotiations on a debt relief and substantial international economic support for the t...

Since Sudan’s independence on 1 January 1956, the country has seen numerous civil wars, interrupted only for brief relatively peaceful periods. After increasing pressure by Islamist groups, then-President Jaafar Nimeiry introduced Sharia law in the whole country in September 1983, triggering a decade-long civil war in Sudan’s South that ended with the split of South Sudan in 2011. Another region o...

After almost 30 years in power, Sudan’s dictator Omar al-Bashir had to step down on 11 April 2019 in the face of powerful street protests that started in December 2018. After Bashir’s ousting, a new transitional government took shape, consisting of military and civilian components. Some major figures of Bashir’s security apparatus, such as Mohammed Hamdan Dagallo aka ‘Hemetti’, the commander of th...