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| Visit Kenya through UW/CC Center summer course (Casper Journal) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 11:56 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it. Visit Kenya through UW/CC Center summer course Experience Kenya in a summer course offered through the University of Wyoming/Casper College (UW/CC) Center this June. Kenyan native John Kambutu, associate professor of educational studies at the UW/CC Center, will teach the course "International Studies Travel to Kenya" (EDCI 5480/EDEL 4975). The 13-day Kenyan adventure begins on June 13, and is packed with activities that will increase the participants' knowledge of Kenyan culture. For information or reservations, contact Kambutu at 268-2584, , or visit http://uwacadweb.uwyo.edu/KAMBUTU/International/International2.htm. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. | |
| Reconciled Taliban has to be tied to 'new convictions': London thinktank (The Times of India) Posted: 06 Feb 2010 12:43 PM PST Message from fivefilters.org: If you can, please donate to the full-text RSS service so we can continue developing it.
NEW DELHI: Even as India shows signs
of softening its stand on Taliban, London-based thinktank and one of world's
leading authorities on political-military conflict, International Institute of
Strategic Studies (IISS), has warned that any policy of reconciliation cannot be
successful if there is not enough follow-up action to keep the reconciled
Taliban tied to their "new convictions''.
While admitting that the Indian scepticism over attempts to differentiate between good and bad Taliban further complicated the problem, the latest IISS report, `The Military Balance', suggests that there is not enough collaboration with Pakistan to ensure sustenance of the reconciliation policy. "The Afghan insurgency is complex. There are far more insurgents than ISAF or Afghan security forces can ever kill. The relationships that some groups have with al-Qaida or AQ affiliates are highly differentiated. This suggests that judging what level of residual Taliban presence or influence is tolerable even from a narrow counter-terrorist perspective is very difficult,'' says the report. "Moreover, effectively sealing the border with Pakistan across which Taliban fighters have been able to pass relatively unhindered, requires a form of collaboration with Pakistan not yet achieved. Even were a policy of reconciliation to gain traction, ensuring the necessary follow-up so that reconciled Taliban kept to their new convictions requires a highly organised policy and efficient institutions,'' says the IISS in its report summary. While India's fundamental stand that there is no good Taliban still remains, foreign minister S M Krishna had in an interview to TOI last week said that India could consider doing business with those elements who accepted the Afghan constitution, shunned violence and snapped all links with terror groups like al-Qaida. As evident in the London conference, there is now overt recognition, among major world powers, of the need to integrate the Taliban who are ready to acknowledge the current political establishment in the country. "India's scepticism about the wisdom of seeking to distinguish `bad' from potentially `reconcilable' Taliban additionally complicates the picture. It reinforces the view also endorsed at the London conference that embedding internal reconciliation in renewed regional cooperation is necessary,'' the report goes on to say. Five Filters featured article: Chilcot Inquiry. Available tools: PDF Newspaper, Full Text RSS, Term Extraction. |
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