Inside Conflict: Recent Episodes
Austrian Centre for Peace (ACP)
The ACP podcast series will provide an insight into the living and working conditions in different conflict regions. International and local experts and mediators will get a chance to speak.
ACP Director Moritz Ehrmann talks to Rose Othieno, Executive Director CECORE, and Jan Pospisil, member of the ACP Advisory Board, about how conflicts can develop and change across borders, in this case the one between South Sudan and Uganda.
Wie bereitet man Zivilpersonen auf eine Krisensituation vor? Und was gehört zur Ausbildung von zivilem Krisenmanagement-Personal? Diplomat und Experte Philipp Agathonos erzählt worauf es ankommt.
Professor Uli Jäger ist Direktor für „Globales Lernen für Konflikttransformation“ an der Berghofstiftung; und ehem. langjähriger Co-Direktor des Instituts für Friedenspädagogik in Tübingen.
Professor Werner Wintersteiner war Gründer und langjähriger Leiter des „Zentrums für Friedensforschung und Friedenspädagogik“ an der Alpe-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt und Mitbegründer des Masterlehrgangs Global Citizenship Education.
Over 10 years have passed since the change of regime in Libya as a consequence of an armed uprising that resulted in the fall of Ghaddafi regime. However, armed conflicts continued at different scales among different parts of the country, tribes, and other societal groups until today.
Hopes that a government of National Unity, established March last year with the support of the UN Mission, led by Mr. Abdul Hamid Aldbaiba would lead to elections and sustainable stability proved false when elections planned for December last year simply never took place.
This, among many other agendas and accusations, has led the Parliament in Tobruk, to take action by assigning another government to lead the country towards the elections. This government is led by the former Minister of Interior, Mr. Fathi Bashagha.
The conflict is again in perfect shape with both governments denying legality of the other.
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 Benjamin Netanyahu.
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 transitional government, the economic situation remains dire. The socio-economic conditions in all parts of Sudan remain challenging and endanger the success of the political transition.
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 of consistent conflict has been Darfur, where a number of armed organisations have challenged the central power in Khartoum for decades, before a highly violent civil war broke out in 2003. Several peace initiatives have been initiated to establish a peaceful solution to Sudan’s conflicts – the last of which the ‘Juba Peace Process’ after the end of Bashir’s reign, that brought together over a dozen armed groups from the whole country.
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 the so-called Rapid Support Forces (RSF), were part of the government, as well as transformative civil figures. Prime minister, Abdallah Hamdok, was to represent the civil revolutionaries at the leading position in the transitional government – a fragile arrangement as recent developments showed.