CAR military victories may cloud peace talk prospects

Headline CAR: Military victories may cloud peace talk prospects

Colombia massacres will see peace talk pressure build

Headline COLOMBIA: Massacres will see peace talk pressure build

The Future of Israel - Palestinian Conflict: Either One State or Two?

Sebagai salah satu konflik yang cukup banyak menarik perhatian dari dunia internasional, konflik antara Israel dan Palestina sudah banyak melewati proses diplomasi untuk diperolehnya perdamaian diantara keduanya. Konflik ini sudah memakan waktu cukup lama, sekitar 71 tahun sejak permulaanya, dan kini sedang menghadapi tantangan dan kenyataan bahwa usaha untuk mencapai perdamaian di antara keduanya mengalami perkembangan yang stagnan. Usaha untuk mencapai resolusi konflik dalam peace talk yang dilakukan pada rentang tahun 2013-2014 mengalami penangguhan. Hal ini menimbulkan beberapa pandangan terhadap keefektifan resolusi konflik yang ada saat ini, bagi kedua negara yang bertikai, yaitu resolusi satu negara dan dua negara. Dalam tulisan ini, penulis menemukan bahwa liberalisme ideasional menempatkan solusi dua negara sebagai solusi terlayak, mengesampingkan solusi satu negara. Solusi satu negara tidak dapat memenuhi kerangka hidup koeksistensi dalam liberalisme ideasional. Kerangka hidup koeksistensi terdiri dari kesepahaman dalam batas wilayah, institusi politik, serta regulasi sosio-ekonomik. Tulisan ini menemukan bahwa solusi dua negara memenuhi hal tersebut yang akan dijelaskan dalam artikel ini melalui pendekatan analisis historis kualitatif, metode kepustakaan dan dilandasi teori liberalisme ideasional.Kata-kata kunci: Israel, Liberalisme, Palestina, resolusi konflik.A lot of diplomatic processes to obtain peace had done several times for Israel and Palestine. It happened as the conflict itself attracted much intention from the international world. The conflict has taken a long time, about 71 years since its inception, and is now facing challenges and the fact that efforts to achieve peace between the two have experienced stagnant development. Efforts to achieve conflict resolution in peace talks conducted in 2013-2014 experienced a delay. The event raised several views on the effectiveness of the current conflict resolution for the two warring countries, namely the resolution of one country and two countries. In this paper, the authors find that ideational liberalism places the two-state solution as a feasible solution, leaving aside the one-state solution. A one-state solution cannot fulfill the coexistence framework in ideational liberalism. The coexistence framework consists of understanding within boundaries, political institutions, and socio-economic regulations. This paper finds that the two-state solution satisfies this point, which will be explained in this article through the approach of qualitative historical analysis, the method of literature and the theory of ideational liberalismKeywords: Israel, Liberalism, Palestine, conflict resolution.

Afghanistan Peace Process: From Terrible Times to Glimpse of Hope

The potential of peace as of now is resting on four pillars of proposed peace deal which include ceasefire, counter-terrorism, troop withdrawal and intra-Afghan negotiations. Appointment of former Taliban commander Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar as chief negotiator to lead the peace process on behalf of Afghan Taliban is a sigh of relief. His influence over Taliban’s of Afghanistan being the most respected leader after former Mullah Umer is without any doubt an important endeavor to forestall challenges to lasting peace. This paper makes the point that sustainability of peace process in Afghanistan is vested on the foundations of trust between Taliban and United States, which due to prevailing geo-political conditions is less likely to achieve. The fundamental demand of the Taliban has been withdrawal of the US troops, whereas the Americans have never demanded concrete guarantees from Taliban since they have been called terrorists from the very beginning. The draft of the proposed deal had reflected US demand as denying safe heaven to non-state actors that Taliban themselves would like to ensure. Taking the lead from geopolitical landscape of Afghanistan, this study had undertaken an analysis from the failures of previous peace dialogues to reflect insights on the ongoing peace talk between Taliban and United States. The study is deductive in nature and has applied Regional Complex Security Theory of Barry Buzan with subjective interpretations to delve upon the parameters associated with the complications of Afghan peace process.

Introduction

This chapter discusses three unacknowledged discursive functions of peace—namely, that peace functions parasitically, provincially, and polemically. First, idealizers of peace rarely speak of peace on its own but of peace and security, law, friendship, order, and so on. The chapter calls this structure of discursive supplementation parasitical in which each of these added elements is “an insinuate of peace.” Second, idealizations of peace reflect particularistic desires, fears, interests, anxieties, and theories of difference. This logic of universalized idealization is provincial. Third, idealizations of peace are polemical in that they make peace into an ideal in relation to constitutive antagonisms and against specific enemies. This idealization then enables further hostility. The chapter situates these arguments in relation to affiliated arguments, including “politics is a continuation of war,” “peace talk is empty,” “peace has eroded,” and those of just war theory. Finally, it discusses the political work and theoretical elisions of the tropes surrounding “Islam and peace,” the opposition between “Islam and the West,” and “cross-cultural” understandings of peace.

South Sudan ceasefire breach shows peace process flaws

Headline SOUTH SUDAN: Ceasefire breach shows peace talk flaws

PERGULATAN MINORITAS DALAM NEGARA HEGEMONIC: STUDI KASUS MUSLIM BANGSAMORO DI MINDANAO, FILIPINA SELATAN

This article describes the relationship between political entities of the Bangsamoro or Muslims in Mindanao and of the Philippine government which may be said in a nadir since the cancellation of the MoA-AD (Memorandum of Agreement on Ancestral Domain) signing plans between MILF (Mindanao Islamic Liberation Front) and the GRP (Government of the Republic of the Philippines) by the Supreme Court of the country in October 2008. Now their relationship is only bound by the temporary cease-fire. While the actual MILF is the only one course of representation of Muslims in Mindanao in addition to the MNLF (Mindanao National Liberation Front) and Kelompok Datu or traditional leaders. This research deduces that the plurality in the Bangsamoro itself becomes an obstacle in the peace talk process as the absence of a common platform among them. While GRP tends to speak with the faction of it separately, so it was impressed monolithic, there should be efforts to build a joint platform among different groups within the Bangsamoro. Furthermore, the GRP should facilitate the communication and the dialogue among factions within Bangsamoro. Besides, the GRP should convince people in Philippines of how important the peace with Bangsamoro is on behalf of a national interest in a whole.