Yossi Alpher recommends the US and the international community should opt for alternatives to stalled Israeli-Palestinian final status talks: Israel-Syria negotiations, a reassessment of strategies for Gaza, and more dynamic support for Palestinian statebuilding.
A year later, President Bashir’s ICC case is in the spotlight again as he faces charges of genocide. Yet the ICC process has, if any, had a negative impact on peacebuilding in Sudan notes Øystein H. Rolandsen.
Lisa Wedeen argues that the category of “failed states,” as applied to Yemen, constructs the country as a place in need of intervention, and this could prove counterproductive. Ahmed Saif insists that statebuilding is the only way to combat terrorism and prevent state failure.