Reports & Briefings

Negotiations between Bangkok and the main insurgent group in Thailand’s southernmost provinces are on hold, after making some promising advances. Structural and procedural changes could help keep the talks going when they resume.

The newly autonomous area in the southern Philippines is progressing toward full self-rule, but delays in the associated peace process and renewed skirmishes are causing concern. With donor support, regional and national authorities should work to bolster the transition in advance of crucial 2025 elections.

Major gas finds in the eastern Mediterranean seabed over the last ten years have fuelled ambitions to link the region’s energy markets and, in turn, bring its countries in conflict to the negotiating table. These great expectations have proven outsized, but smaller-scale objectives are achievable.

لقد أوقد اكتشاف كميات كبيرة من الغاز في القاع الشرقي للبحر الأبيض المتوسط، على مدى السنوات العشر الماضية، طموحات بربط أسواق الطاقة في المنطقة؛ وبالمقابل، دفع البلدان المتصارعة فيها إلى طاولة المفاوضات. لكن تبيّن أن هذه الآمال العريضة كان مبالغاً بها. رغم ذلك فإن ثمة أهدافاً أضيق نطاقاً ما يزال من الممكن تحقيقها.

A series of failed rainy seasons in northern Kenya has sharpened competition among herders, farmers and conservancy owners for land and water, often resulting in bloodshed. Authorities should redouble aid to hard-hit areas and, with donor support, look for ways to encourage sharing of resources.

Greek and Turkish Cypriots have moved farther apart since a failed summit in 2017, hampering cooperation in several important matters and increasing tensions in the eastern Mediterranean. Hopes for reunifying Cyprus are faint at present, but the parties can still work toward more modest goals.

Οι Ελληνοκύπριοι και οι Τουρκοκύπριοι απομακρύνθηκαν ακόμα περισσότερο μετά την αποτυχημένη Σύνοδο του 2017, με αποτέλεσμα να παρεμποδιστεί η συνεργασία σε πολλά σημαντικά ζητήματα και να αυξηθούν οι εντάσεις στην ανατολική Μεσόγειο. Οι ελπίδες για την επανένωση της Κύπρου είναι ελάχιστες προς το παρόν, αλλά οι δύο πλευρές μπορούν να συνεχίσουν να εργάζονται για την επίτευξη πιο μετριοπαθών στόχων.

Müzakerelerin çöktüğü 2017 yılından beri Kıbrıslı Rum ve Kıbrıslı Türk pozisyonları birbirinden uzaklaşmakta. Bazı önemli konularda iki taraf arasında işbirliği zorluklarla yürüyor.  Bu durum Doğu Akdeniz’de gerilimleri de besleyebiliyor. Yeniden birleşme artık düşük bir olasılık, fakat taraflar daha gerçekçi hedeflere doğru yol alabilirler. 

In 2019, Cameroon’s government acknowledged the Anglophone regions’ distinct identity by giving them Special Status. Yet this legal framework has not quelled the separatist rebellion. Would reforming it bring the parties closer to a settlement? The question is worth investigating.

En 2019, le gouvernement camerounais a reconnu l’identité distincte des régions anglophones en leur octroyant un statut spécial. Mais ce cadre légal n'a pas mis fin à la rébellion séparatiste. Une réforme du statut pourrait-elle permettre aux parties de progresser vers un règlement? La question mérite d'être posée.