Robert Papstein taught me that famine is as much the engineered outcome of disastrous politics as the simple result of unforgiving drought

What is more important to people and societies that have gone through war - justice or peace? 

I take the tattered copy of Wild Swans from my bookcase. A business card from a hostel in Kerala reminds me that I read this during a summer in India in 1994. A year later I joined SOAS in London and was rather awed to learn that Ju...

Had we not had such chock-a-block days preparing the launch of our new website, I would have loved to have attended the conference on the micro-analysis of violent conflict hosted by IDS yesterday and today.MICROCON, an EC supported research conso...

Yesterday I attended a meeting, organized by the Civil Society Dialogue Network (CSDN), about the role that the European Union could and should play in conflict prevention and resolution in ‘situations of fragility’. 

Jan Egeland is director of the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (since September 2007). He was under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator between 2003 and 2006. This position heads the U...

Today is a milestone for The Broker. Our 25th magazine has been snail-mailed to subscribers world wide this morning, featuring a 16-page special report on the future of EU-ACP relations. And, yesterday evening the proverbial switch was turned...

The recent revolution in Egypt introduced long-awaited change in the country. But plenty of challenges lie ahead. In its effort to create a tolerant society that lifts the entrenched social, political and religious divides, the human rights moveme...

Last night I finished reading a beautiful and gripping book, The hare with amber eyes. It’s the biography of a collection of 264 antique Japanese wood and ivory carvings.

A global foreign policy outlook needs a radically new mindset and new forms of cooperation at both the national and international levels. Reaching truly integrated policies will inevitably imply political struggle.