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The recent terror attack in Sri Lanka has not only pointed to a resurgence of IS followers in Asia, but also to the fact that countries where peace is still fragile are most vulnerable to the threat of radicalisation and new conflicts. Lesley-Ann Daniels studies countries that have emerged from civil conflicts and, during research in the Philippines, she found that most peace agreements fail within five years because grievances and discrimination over identity issues are neither solved nor addressed.
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Soldiers stand guard near coffins containing the bodies of victims of an explosion that took place inside a catholic cathedral, in southern island of Mindanao on January 28, 2019.
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Lesley Ann Daniels, Institut Barcelona Estudis Internacionals
After a civil conflict, within five years the majority of modern peace agreements fail. What is causing these negotiated settlements to fall apart?
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Politics + Society
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Dov Waxman, Northeastern University
About the only thing the Trump administration’s peace plan has going for it is the fact that no one expects it to work. And the plan's likely failure could trigger more Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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Peter Robert Woodward, University of Reading
The immediate cause of the economic crisis that brought many thousands of Sudanese onto the streets and continued beyond al-Bashir's downfall lay in the structure of the economy itself.
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Steven Friedman, University of Johannesburg
The election will not change the government, but may change the balance of power between the two factions of the governing ANC, led by Cyril Ramaphosa and Jacob Zuma.
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Jordan Brasher, University of Tennessee
The Confederate flag debate has arrived to Brazil, pitting black activists against the Brazilian descendants of soldiers who fled the South after the Civil War.
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Science + Technology
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Bagus Putra Muljadi, University of Nottingham
Termites have evolved sustainable air conditioning, say scientists.
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Jonathan Roberts, Queensland University of Technology
The robot revolution is happening right but how much do you know about the impact of programmable machines in your everyday life?
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