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The cognitive dissonance of Russian sanctions where everyone is apparently expecting someone else to do something about all the evasion

WaltK
Blog, Uncategorized
Are sanctions useful? Well, if the alternative is no sanctions … Blog post by Dr Abel Polese On some occasions, they have forced governments to the negotiating table, and, 13 sanction packages on Russia later, I have no doubts that sanctions might sometimes work. Yet, in this case,  have they actually reduced revenues, crippled military capacity, and imposed…
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Political Power, Criminality and Conflict Conference – 16th September 2022

Hari
News
Date: September 16th, 2022 Venue: The Gallery, Helix, DCU Glasnevin campus (Dublin 9) Event Schedule and speaker bios here. Registration Compulsory: Please register for the conference (free) here. International Institute for Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction (IICRR)  will organise a conference aimed at contributing to a better understanding of the ways in which criminality and politics…
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Gender re-ordering and the Colombian peace agreement

Hari
Blog, Conflict Management, Gender and Political Transition, Transitional Justice
[This blog post is based on ‘The unspoken red-line in Colombia: Gender reordering of women ex-combatants and the transformative peace agenda’, co-authored by José A. Gutiérrez with Emma Murphy and published in Cooperation & Conflict. For the complete account, methods and discussion, please read the original.] José A. Gutiérrez Despite the various roles that women…
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Explaining the different results in opinion polls on Irish unity

Hari
Blog North South Project, FAQs on a Referendum
Attitude surveys tend to show that public opinion in Northern Ireland, on the political future, has shifted significantly in the aftermath of the UK’s 2016 Brexit referendum, but there are significant differences between polls on the scale of this change. [This post was originally published on Royal Irish Academy (RIA) Website] John Doyle Before the Brexit…
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[Roundtable] The legacy of 9/11: Community policing in Ireland and Turkey

Hari
Blog, Conflict Management, Ireland, Security
To mark the 20th anniversary of 9/11, the International Master in Security, Intelligence and Strategic Studies (IMSISS), the Jean Monnet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism (EUCTER), the DCU’s Institute for International Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction (IICRR), and the Irish Network for Middle Eastern and North African Studies (INMENAS) brought together distinguished scholars working on different aspects…
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