Vol.28, No.2: April-June 2012

Syria is still burning

The struggle against Bashar al-Assad’s regime has been going on over a year, with increasing violence. In Syria: To Break the Downward Spiral René Wadlow recounts the diplomatic efforts to solve the conflict and reflects on the possibility that NGOs may be able to help.

Also in this issue

Central Europe in Transition: A Talk with Jan Kavan
Once a Czech dissident, later the president of the UN General Assembly, Jan Kavan has seen it all. Here he tells Metta Spencer about political trends in his part of Europe.

Social Media and the Egyptian Revolution
The thing about a cell phone and Facebook is that you don’t have to reveal your location. In fact, the discussion about the nation of Egypt is de-territorialized, notes Merrick Nelson.

Web extras

In mid-March, a public authority in Sweden issued orders that the Stockholm-based Nobel Foundation must rein in and discipline the boards that select the winners of the five Nobel prizes established under Alfred Nobel’s will, particularly the Peace Prize (selected by a committee of the Norwegian parliament). Read Fredrik Heffermehl’s article on the dispute: A Norwegian or a Nobel peace prize?.

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Updated 04 April 2012