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FRANCE/TURKEY – France tells Turkey to clarify positions if it wants constructive ties (Al Arabiya)

France’s foreign minister told his Turkish counterpart on Tuesday that a renewed constructive relationship with the European Union could only happen if Ankara clarified...

BIODIVERSITY – Biodiversity mainstreaming in Global Environment Facility projects: A review of current practice (Jessica Smith, Steve Bass, Dilys Roe, IIED)

In recent years, theories of change (ToCs) have increasingly been recognised as valuable tools for project design, adaptive management and evaluation of impacts. This report...

URBAN REFUGEES – City residents and urban refugees: from shared living to shared futures (Lucy Earle, IIED)

Residents in Mathare lack access to adequate housing, sanitation, water and other basic services. Understanding how to respond to the movement of large numbers of...

GLOBAL DEVELOPMENT – The inconvenient truth about ‘capacity’ strengthening in global development (Natalie Lartey, IIED)

A woman food vendor participates in a food systems workshop in Al Alto, Bolivia (Photo: copyright Fundación Alternativas) To work with effective and progressive civil society movements...

IRAN – Why Was Iran’s Nuclear Expert Fakhrizadeh Secretly Decorated After the JCPOA Went into Effect? (Brig.-Gen. (res.) Yossi Kuperwasser, JCPA)

https://jcpa.org/why-was-irans-nuclear-expert-fakhrizadeh-secretly-decorated-after-the-jcpoa-went-into-effect/

ISRAEL – The Next War Will Make No Allowances for Political or Covid Constraints (Gal Perl Finkel, INSS)

The prolonged tension in the north between the IDF and Hezbollah suggests that the two sides are actually only a few faulty or miscalculated...

ABRAHAM ACCORDS – The Abraham Accords: The Strategic Aspect (Shmuel Sandler, BESA Center)

While the recent peace agreements between Israel and the Gulf principalities are a political achievement of historic significance for Israel’s regional status, the construction...

ETHIOPIA – Researchers on Tigray conflict: establishing a democratic approach spares Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa turmoil (AL Jazeera Centre for Studies)

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies organized a webinar in collaboration with Al Jazeera Mubasher entitled, “The Domestic Effects and Regional Implications of Ethiopia’s Tigray...

IRAN/INDIA – Iranian Nuclear Scientist’s Assassination: Its Implications and Expectations from India (Manjari Singh, CLAWS)

While novel coronavirus is the persistent crisis that the world is facing, the assassination of a key Nuclear Physicist, Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in Iran on...

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