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TFF Board member & Burundi project coordinator
Ina Curic
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TFF Associates' articles
Jonathan Power
Muslim deviance?
Jonathan Power
Looking at the end of Israel
Ina Curic
Fragments of life in Burundi
Ina Curic & Jan Oberg
Early warning - Burundi !
Listen to Burundi’s cry now! If there ever were a case for civilian humanitarian intervention, this is it. And the time is now.
Jan Øberg - Arne Hansen radiointerview
Samtale om FNL's voldsudbrud omkring Burundi's hovedstad - og om den fredsprocess, der trods alt går videre.
Shastri Ramachandaran
Reprocessing democracy.
India, Nepal have to re-envision relationship
The Maoists winning the democratic right to lead Nepal is a development of enormous significance for not only the people of Nepal but also the rest of the world. Jonathan Power
Paris 1968 - the wrong story
Jørgen Johansen
Marknaden regerar
Fattiga drabbas när jorden dammsugs på råvaror till bilarnas etanol, skriver Jørgen Johansen.
BREAKING NEWS ..... RICHARD FALK
Israel denies visa to TFF Associate Richard Falk, appointed by the United Nations Human Rights Council to investigate the Israeli-Palestinian human rights situation.
Haaretz April 9, 2008.
All articles by Falk here.
The Sun, New York, April 9, 2008
U.N. Official Urged Commission To Study Neocon Role in 9/11
Richard Falk, a new U.N. Human Rights Council official assigned to monitor Israel is calling for an official commission to study the role neoconservatives may have played in the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
Jan Oberg
Israel denies visa to Richard Falk: Yet another Jewish fundamentalist clamp down on intellectual freedom.
Richard Falk, BBC Hardtalk - 3 videos
Hardtalk: Stephen Sackur talks to Professor Richard Falk, the UN Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories , about his suggestion that Israel has "genocidal tendancies".
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TFF's projects in Burundi
Description of the project
"Amahoro - Consolidating Peace in Burundi 2008-2009"
This is our grant application text - purpose, goals, activities, background, our partners - the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the newly established AYC, Amahoro Youth Club. (Amahoro means peace).
We provide links to the AYC's own vision and its budget proposals, to the TFF budget and to the support letter from HE the Minister of Foreign Affairs herself.
Finally, you'll see how you can help TFF and the young Burundians succeed.
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Jonathan Power
U.S. torture - when can the prosecutions begin?
Peter Jarman
East-West Dialogue during the Cold War years: Possibilities and Limitations
A personal account of Quaker meetings in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe prior to the end of the Cold War in 1989.
Jonathan Power
Saving Zimbabwe to save Africa
Vicky Samantha Rossi
When it is all over, will God look at your CV?
A philosophical essay about the opportunity that unemployment can also be.
Jan Oberg
Diary from Burundi # 2
About smiles and hospitality as social indicators, about Christian-Muslim relations.
Jan Oberg
Diary from Burundi # 1
Observations from a mission, its purpose and the work with the Amahoro Youth Club and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Jörgen Johansen
Militarismens roll efter 11:e september
Vicky Samantha Rossi
"I come from there - and remember"
UNRWA Commemorates 1948: Abu-Yaser recalls life in Tel el-Safi. Dheisheh refugee camp, April 2008.
Jonathan Power
McCain's Islamic demagoguery
Yusra Moshtat
Döden i Bagdad
I dag är det fem år sedan Irakkriget inleddes. Yusra Moshtat skriver om amerikanska presidenters löften och undrar hur vi ska kunna yvas över våra mänskliga fri- och rättigheter om miljoner människor i andra länder förvägras samma sak.
Jonathan Power
Tanzania - an African country hurrying to the fore
Jørgen Johansen
En vår i våldets tecken
Kinas myndigheter klarar inte av att hantera oroligheterna i Tibet.
David Krieger
Accountability for the Iraq War
Jonathan Power
Taiwan's general elections could help make a grand Chinese peace
Jonathan Power
The 3AM call
David Krieger
Martin Luther King's legacy of peace
Jonathan Power
Post Al Qaeda terrorists can be defeated
Francis A. Boyle, Baltimore Indymedia
Civil resistance in the age of Bush and Cheney
Civil Resistance to the wrongdoings of U.S. regimes has a long, and honorable, history. In his well documented tome, “Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and Law,” Professor Francis A. Boyle captures the essence of that story.
David Krieger with Stanley K. Sheinbaum
Preventing Future Nuclear Catastrophes
• Vicky Samantha Rossi
The forgotten camp.
In the West Bank with Operations Support
A story about what it means to help in the midst of unspeakable human misery.
• Important international Iraq Conference in Berlin, March 7-9
Alternatives to War & Occupation
Sponsored by TFF and with TFF Associates
• Michel Chossudovsky
The US-NATO Preemptive Nuclear Doctrine: Trigger a Middle East Nuclear Holocaust to Defend "The Western Way of Life"
There is a tacit acceptance of a diabolical and criminal military agenda. The US-NATO doctrine to use nukes on a preemptive basis with a view to "saving the Western World's way of life" is not challenged in any meaningful way either by academics or media experts in strategic studies.
• Richard Falk
What to expect from the next American president in the Middle East
SPECIAL # 1
Will the EU be able to handle Kosovo?
TFF's EU conflict-management portal
• Francesco Marelli
Proposal for a Different European Security Strategy
An alternative text to Javier Solana's
• Francesco Marelli
Proposal for an EU Commissariat for Peace and Conflict Transformation
• Jan Oberg
Can the EU become a peace-maker in the world? In Kosovo?
• Michel Chossudovsky
EU police and military intervention to enforce secession from Serbia
• Jan Oberg
Does the EU promote peace?
SPECIAL # 2
Kosovo's secession from Serbia
• Michel Chossudovsky
The UN contributed to the estbalishment of a Mafia-State in Kosovo
• Johan Galtung
Kosova's independence - a crime against the Serbs and a crippling of the United Nations
• Jan Oberg
Our experiment with the media on Kosovo's secession
• Kosovo Compromise 2008
Boomerang - the effects of the unlawful recognition of Kosovo's secession
• Jan Oberg
Kosova's secession - Part 1
What is conveniently forgotten?
• Radmila Nakarada
A non-European answer to a European problem
• Michel Chossudovsky
Kosovo: The US and the EU support a political process linked to organized crime - Prime Minister Hashim Thaci is part of a criminal syndicate
• Jan Oberg
Kosova's secession - Part 2
What can happen after this? 17 possibilities - and when will they ever learn?
• Biljana Vankovska
So hypothetical about Kosovo: A view from Macedonia
• Aleksandar Mitic
The Kosovo Compromise 2008
The single most relevant website on the day-to-day events in and around Kosovo
• Kosovo Compromise must-see online CD Rom
• The Kosovo Solution series of 2005
There were and there are more sustainable solutions than what happens today...
• TFF Section on Ex-Yugoslavia
Hundreds of unique, independent analyses by leading conflict-resolution and area experts.
• Tamara Tsikhistavi
Thoughts on Kosovo: Are we seeing a new world map with lots of new borders and states?
• Jan Oberg
Kosovo - failed international conflict-management
With links to must-read analyses
• Galtung, Oberg & Wiberg, May 2007
Ahtisaari's Kosovo plan: Unfair and peace-preventing
• Jan Øberg
Radiosamtale om Kosovo og andre aktuelle ting
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• Daisaku Ikeda
The 2008 Peace Proposal: Humanizing Religion, Creating Peace
A major annual event in global peace politics...
• Daisaku Ikeda
Say No to nukes in the Arctic
The Artic should become a nuclear weapons-free zone
• Richard Falk,
Interpreting US-Iran relations
TFF Board - January 28, 2008
Peace In and With Iraq -
A 10-Point Plan
As long as there is no discussion about alternatives to the present occupation, it is likely to continue.
TFF's plan is a constructive attempt to be pro-peace and not just anti-war.
It's point of departure is: What must be done now to help the Iraqi people to live in peace, security and welfare in a decade from now?
• David Krieger
Required reading for assuring the future
Jonathan Schell's new book on the nuclear dilemma
• Michel Chossudovsky
Al Qaeda and the "War on Terrorism"
• Jan Oberg
The campaign against Arun Gandhi: Time to support him
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Burundi
Burundi's foreign minister
Antoinette Batumubwira speaks about the media and a good story out of Africa
An interview by Jan Oberg.
Burundi's foreign minister
Antoinette Batumubwira speaks about the role of women in Burundi and internationally
An interview by Jan Oberg.
Burundi's foreign minister
Antoinette Batumubwira speaks about peace and foreign policy
A interview by Jan Oberg.
Hans von Sponeck
TFF's Iraq peace plan
Presentation in London
Jan Oberg
TFF's Iraq peace plan
Presentation in Tokyo - 3 parts
Hisae Nakanishi
The US, Turkey, Iran and Turkey - 3 parts
Norman Cook
Challenges facing development NGOs - 2 parts
Jan Oberg
Intro to TFF VIdeo Channel
All TFF Associates
29 videos on global affairs
Playlists, for instance...
Iraq
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Globalization
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Inspiration, fun, surprising..
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Other writings & videos
Dennis Kucinich on Israel at 60...
Rep. Kucinich’s statement from the Congressional Record on Israel and Palestinian human rights
Impassioned and perhaps unprecedented in Congress in support of Palestinian human rights.
If AmericansKnew.org
If Americans - and the rest of us in the West knew..about the Israeli-Palestine conflict
And how misleading the media coverage generally is. All the facts with documentation and sources.
Fatuma Ali
Traumer i relation til Grønland
Se også...
Jan Øberg
Grønland: Balancér Igaliku-aftalen med fredspolitik
David Barstow, New York Times,
Behind TV analysts, Pentagon's hidden hand
Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times has found.
Paul Craig Roberts
What the Iraq war is about
A must-read which connects the dots in one short article...
Tom Engelhardt, Commondreams.com
Unraveling Iraq
12 answers to questions no one is bothering to ask about Iraq
Son, you're making the same mistake in
Iraq that I made with your mother.
I didn't pull out in time.
Peacemakers Trust, Canada
News and events on dispute resolution, conflict transformation and peacebuilding. We recommend!
Stephen Zunes
Nonviolent action and pro-democracy struggles
Niels Harrit
9/11 - A roadblock or shortcut to peace and democracy?
CNN
US economy could fall casualty to war
In 2008, its sixth year, the Iraq war will cost approximately $12 billion a month.
Global Issues
World military expenditures
Pepe Escobar, The Real New Network
From Kosovo to Kurdistan (I - III)
Elizabeth Heathcote, The Independent,
Maverick academic Philip Zimbardo says we are all able to do evil. Is he right?
• Balkans features
TFF's selection of comments and analyses - particularly Kosovo
• Support Arun Gandhi
A case of human rights violation in the US that the Western press gives little coverage
• UNIFEM - February 13, 2008
Say NO to Violence Against Women
Sign on and by that you have donated 1 US dollar to the struggle against the most widespread type of violence...
• Stephen Zunes, FPIF
Behind Obama and Clinton
• Chalmers Johnson
Le Monde Diplomatique
Why the US has really gone broke
• The Middle Powers Initiative
Visible Intent. NATO's Responsibility to Nuclear Disarmament
• Ian Traynor
Pre-emptive nuclear strike a key option, NATO told
• Expanding military influence over science and technology is marginalising social and environmental programmes, says Scientists for Social Responsibility
• Dennis Kucinich on The Real News
Video with the peace president candidate of the United States - with 1% of the votes...
• PIPA, Program on International Policy Attitudes
American and Russian publics strongly support steps to reduce and eliminate nuclear weapons
• Nikolai Lanine & MediaLens
Invasion - a comparison of Soviet and Western media performance
• Why watch only CNN or EuroNews when you have the truly independent The Real News homepage?
• And The Real News on YouTube |
