Transforming the peace process in Northern Ireland; from terrorism to democratic politics.
9780716529552 Transforming the peace process in Northern Ireland; from terrorism to democratic politics. Ed. by Aaron Edwards and Stephen Bloomer. Irish Academic Press 2008 252 pages $79.95 Hardcover DA990 Contributors from...

Palestinians Broadly Support the Peace Process; Only Hamas supporters reject it in large numbers.
Byline: Lydia Saad Synopsis: A recent Gallup Poll in the Palestinian territories finds Hamas and Fatah supporters in disagreement about the peace process. A majority of pro-Fatah Palestinians support the peace process, while a majority of pro-Hamas Palestinians oppose it. This is the fifth installment...

New framework allows ARMM folk to design own political structure; Secretary Afable bares new strategy to move peace process.
Byline: CHARISSA M. LUCI With much hope that the peace process would move forward, the government has come up with a framework which would allow the people of the Autonomous Region for Muslim Mindanao (ARMM) to design their own political structure. Secretary Silvestre Afable, chairman...

Faith leaders to Rice: boost peace process.
A six-member interfaith team of Jewish, Christian and Muslim leaders urged Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice to increase U.S. involvement in the Israel-Palestine peace process at a meeting in Washington late last month. The six represented the 35-member National Interreligious Leadership Initiative for Peace in the Middle...

Quakes in Pakistan may rock peace process.
Byline: Masood Hussain SRINAGAR: With the situation deteriorating on the other side of the Redcliff divide, concern is mounting in Srinagar over the fate of the peace process that has survived many shocks since 2004. Assertions that the central government is dealing with a government and not...

Integration is inimical to peace process - MILF; Creation of integration committee defended by OPAPP.
Byline: EDD K. USMAN Integration is what the government wants for Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF) members, but the MILF said this is "inimical" to the search for peace in Mindanao and tantamount to surrender. The MILF said it will raise this issue when the...

King Abdullah Discuss Efforts to Revive Peace Process With Livni in Davos.
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- His Majesty King Abdullah II called on Israel to accept the Arab Peace Initiative which gave Israel guarantees to live in peace and security with its Arab neighbors in exchange for the restoration of Palestinian rights, particularly the establishment of an independent Palestinian...

UN sabotaging peace process, say Maoists.
KATHMANDU: Nepal's Maoists are locked in a dispute with the United Nations with their chief Prachanda accusing a UN agency of "conspiracy". The dispute started when the UN Mission in Nepal (UNMIN) began checking the self-styled People's Liberation Army (PLA) last month to remove child soldiers and soldiers recruited...

Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East.
Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East, by Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky. United States Institute of Peace Press, 2008. 191 pages. $13.00. In Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace, Daniel C. Kurtzer and Scott B. Lasensky provide a peerless example of sound public-policy analysis, in...

The Syrian Angle & Peace Talks With Israel.
It is said that the 'Alawite/Ba'thist regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has grown wary of Iran's attempts to control it - one reason why he has had indirect peace talks with Israel being mediated by Turkey. The 'Alawites are a distant branch of Shi'ism, which are only tolerated...