Reviving the Security Function: The EU’s Path to Save the JCPOA
Europe’s efforts to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) for Iran alive hardly seem effective. On 28 June 2019, during a meeting of the Joint Commission of JCPOA, […]
Europe’s efforts to keep the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) for Iran alive hardly seem effective. On 28 June 2019, during a meeting of the Joint Commission of JCPOA, […]
More than 5,000 North African volunteers travelled to Syria and Iraq in the aftermath of the ‘Arab Spring’, and about 2,000 joined jihadi groups in Libya. This report looks at […]
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There are still more than one hundred Belgian fighters in Syria and Iraq, some of which are currently detained in the region. The fall of the Caliphate and the US […]
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Het Midden-Oosten gaat opnieuw in zijn lange geschiedenis door een periode van oorlog en omwenteling, met inbegrip van massamoord van burgers, het falen van staten, transnationaal terrorisme en sektarische oorlogvoering, […]
According to intelligence estimates, there are around 1,400 European children in Syria and Iraq, many of them born there. The fate of these children confronts European governments with moral, legal, […]
Returning foreign terrorist fighters constitute a threat to Europe, which should neither be underestimated nor overstated. European member states have developed a number of measures and instruments to deal with […]
Africa Lunch Meeting with Senior Researcher Dr. Øystein H. Rolandsen from the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). In October 2019 the USA and its allies withdrew a large share of […]
Defeating terrorism was one of Donald Trump’s key campaign promises. But there is no easy way to make sense of Donald Trump’s war on terror. Is it all bluster, aimed […]
Countries of the Maghreb have seen an unprecedented number of citizens travel to Syria and Iraq, to fight along jihadi groups. A number of these fighters have already returned, posing […]
Training for Iraqi diplomats. With the participation of 10 Belgian diplomats for the session in Mediation.