Friday, August 11 06

Sri Lanka edges closer to full civil war as hostilities widen. Conflicting messages about the D.R. Congo election (1,2), but incumbent Kabila appears in the lead. Can Sri Lanka and D.R. Congo maintain political stability while the spotlight is on the middle east? Arbour slightly retreats from earlier comments by way of clarifications. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace posts a sort of manifesto of Islamist militant movements by Abdul Monem Abul Futouh, Member of the Guidance Bureau, Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. A solid proposal for containing Somalia crisis is put forward by the International Crisis Group (ICG). The Peacekeeping Intelligence Institute (PKI), an affiliate of Carleton University's Centre for Security and Defense Studies (CSDS), has a good collection of web links concerning contemporary peace operations.