Palestinians prefer a coalition government over new elections
A majority of Palestinians don't think new elections are the solution
to the political crisis between Fatah and the Hamas government.
More than half of those asked in an opinion poll conducted by Fafo
november 25ts to december 5th, say that they would prefer a new
national unity coalition government over new elections. The suggestion
of new elections received the support of one in five. At the same
time, confidence that the sitting Hamas government can solve the
crisis alone is very low.
The poll data provides little grounds to believe elections would
solve the present crisis. The same balance of support was found
in the poll for Fatah and Hamas as before the last elections in
January 2006.
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november 29th 08:30-09:45 Jody Williams, Nobel Peace Co-Laureate
1997 and Visiting Professor of Social Work and Global Justice, University
of Houston:
Addressing armed threats against human security; why countries
like Norway matter
10.11.2006
Professor Williams was awarded with the Nobel peace Prize in 1997
together with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines for their
work to get a global ban on antipersonnel mines. Since then, she
has continued her efforts to promote international security, peace
and justice, partly as Ambassador for the ICBL and partly as lecturer,
activist and scholar. In 2006, she co-founded the Nobel Women Initiative
with five other Nobel Peace Laureates: "...to meaningfully
contribute to building a culture of peace defined by a commitment
to equality and justice- a democratic world free of physical, economic,
cultural, political, religious, sexual and environmental violence
and the constant threat of these forms of violence against women
– indeed against all of humanity". Comments and open discussion |
 African
Guerrillas: Raging Against the Machine
07.11.2006
Fafo's senior Africa researcher, Morten Bøås, has co-authored
and -edited this new book from Lynne Rienner Publishers. At the
center of many of Africa's violent conflicts are movements that
do not seem to fit any established theories of armed resistance.
African Guerrillas offers new models for understanding these movements,
eschewing one-dimensional explanations.
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 Noen
må gå foran (Somebody has to be in front)
07.11.2006
In a Festschrift to previous bishop Rosemarie Köhn, published
at Pax, Fafo's senior researchers have two contributions. Gudmund
Hernes writes about "Det lykkelige valg - The happy choice",
while Arne Grønningsæter has written an article (that
also is the title of the book) about the conflict on homosexuals
in the Norwegian Church.
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Data
collection among child beggars in Dakar
Gudmund
Hernes elected president of ISSC
Bent
Sofus Tranøy awarded the Norwegian Brage prize 2006
Towards
a quicker and more permanent settlement regime?