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The failing Western strategy in Syria
September 27, 2015
Gar Pardy, calls for a complete re-evaluation of Western strategy in Syria. Related developments include an impending meeting between President Obama and Russian President Putin this week at the UN in New York and joint efforts by the American administration and the EU to bring Iran into the talks over Syria. After four years of […]
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Responding to the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Part One
September 12, 2015
Image credit: Sakis Mitrolidis, AFP, Getty Images , Ottawa Citizen by Peggy Mason, President of the Rideau Institute On September 8th a group of Canadians who have worked internationally on humanitarian, development, peacekeeping and peacebuilding issues, many of us under the auspices of the [now defunct] Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, sent a letter to the Minister […]
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