Publication: November 2011
At a time of renewed media speculation about the possibility of an Israeli military strike on Iran over its nuclear programme and ahead of today’s IAEA report, Oxford Research Group (ORG) is publishing its briefing 'The Long-term Consequences of an Israeli Attack on Iran'. The briefing by ORG’s Global Security Consultant, Professor Paul Rogers, builds on his widely quoted report, 'Military Action Against Iran: Impact and Effects' from July 2010.
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News item: Tuesday, 19 April 2011
The Palestinian Strategy Group (PSG) held its third and final workshop in Istanbul in March 2011. Senior representation from across the political parties, which included Fatah and Hamas, were present at the table. The aim of the third workshop was to explore strategic options in achieving Palestinian goals of statehood. The previous two workshops took place in Jericho (April 2010) and Gaza (September 2010).
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Publication: March 2011
Paul Rogers' March briefing looks at the ongoing political protests across the Middle East and the aftermath of the fall of Mubarak in Egypt. The briefing also puts NATO's role in perspective.
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Publication: January 2012
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) warning of a possible world recession came in parallel with fears expressed at the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos about the spread of protests across the world. Given that Oxford Research Group (ORG) has long argued that the widening wealth-poverty divide is both damaging to communities and a danger to peace, do the current protests, such as the “Occupy” movement, point to a larger global trend or are they isolated, short-term and probably irrelevant? This briefing looks at the Western protests in relation to more deep-seated problems in countries, such as China and India, and puts this wider view in a broad historical perspective.
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Publication: January 2012
Writing for Foreign Policy in Focus, ORG's Ben Zala argues that a new report from the World Economic Forum, which tries to make sense of the wave of protest and unrest sweeping the world, may signal a new approach to global security in Western capitals. Not long ago the World Economic Forum (WEF) found itself in the sights of the global economic justice movement. At the turn of the last century, before anyone was “occupying” public spaces in protest at the growing inequalities between the top strata of society and the rest, a broad global coalition of environment, development, and peace activists were targeting the public meetings of major institutions such as the WTO, the IMF, and the G8. In September 2000...
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News item: Thursday, 22 December 2011
The ORG team would like to thank all our readers and our supporters this Christmas and New Year!
Your support and contributions are vital in maintaining ORG's ability to understand the causes of insecurity, to promote new approaches to global security and to push for changes in international policy.
At a time of continuing global insecurity, as well as financial insecurity, gifts from individuals become ever more important. With your help, over the coming year, ORG will be able to develop its work - advancing new visions of Sustainable Security, addressing alternatives to conflict in the Middle East, and developing its work to make sure Every Casualty of armed violence is recorded.
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Publication: December 2011
The Durban climate change conference produced a higher level of agreement than many analysts predicted, but its response did not match the scale of the problem. Recent evidence indicates that climate change will be a transforming issue in the coming decades and will require responses that embrace radical changes in our understanding of security.
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News item: Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Following the public launch of the 'Charter for the Recognition of Every Casualty of Armed Violence', the Every Casualty team has redeveloped www.everycasualty.org into a more dynamic, purposeful and accessible public platform. The new site highlights the Charter and its signatories, and how others can join them. It also gives prominence to the International Practitioner Network (IPN) of casualty recorders. Other new features include...
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News item: Monday, 19 December 2011
Opening a two-day conference on global and regional security in Quito, Ecuador, ORG’s Ben Zala argued that one of the most important lessons of the last decade is that "reacting to the symptoms of global insecurity - once they are deeply manifested, and few options other than military force and containment remain - is a fundamentally flawed strategy for global security".
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Publication: December 2011
ORG’s Sustainable Security Programme has for some time focused on the role of increased competition over resources as potential driver of global insecurity. As part of our ongoing 'ORG In Conversation' series, Programme Manager, Ben Zala, interviewed Greg Muttitt in London about his new book 'Fuel on the Fire: Oil and Politics in Occupied Iraq'.
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ORG's Every Casualty (EC) programme is recruiting a full-time Programme Networking Officer, based in our London office. The successful applicant will be responsible for strengthening the networks associated with the programme and assisting them (and us) to achieve our shared goals, with an emphasis on the facilitation and organisation of meetings, and information flow and exchange between all parties.
ORG's Every Casualty (EC) programme is recruiting a full-time Programme Networking Officer, based in our London office. The successful applicant will be responsible for strengthening the networks associated with the programme and assisting them (and us) to achieve our shared goals, with an emphasis on the facilitation and organisation of meetings, and information flow and exchange between all parties. Read more »
Publication: November 2011
Following the Every Casualty programme’s ‘Recording Every Casualty’ conference this September, filmmaker, Daniel Ridicki, and ORG’s Managing Director, Chris Langdon, interviewed six of the conference participants. The organisations represented by the participants were diverse, and are based in Colombia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, and India. Watch the video from the 'Recording Every Casualty Conference', as well as clips from the public launch event of our 'Charter for the Recording of Every Casualty of Armed Violence', chaired by Sir Adam Roberts at the British Academy.
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News item: Monday, 28 November 2011
Following the Every Casualty programme’s ‘Recording Every Casualty’ conference this September, filmmaker Daniel Ridicki and ORG’s Managing Director Chris Langdon interviewed six of the conference participants. The organisations represented by the participants were diverse, and are based in Colombia, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bosnia, and India.
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Publication: October 2011
In just four days during late October, events in three countries across the Middle East looked set to have a prolonged impact throughout the region. First came the fall of Sirte in northern Libya to the anti-regime rebels, resulting in the death of Gaddafi and one of his sons. The following day, President Obama announced that all US combat troops would leave Iraq by the end of the year, and two days later, Tunisia held elections as a prelude to the agreement of a new constitution. All three developments are highly significant, but it may be one of the less obvious aspects of the Libyan revolution relating to the arms industry that will have particular resonance.
This month’s briefing focuses on the Middle East and North Africa, placing these three events in the wider context of the uncertain if continued development of the Arab Awakening.
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