Winning Over Angry Young Men is Key to Enduring Stability in Iraq

In a new report titled ‘Iraq: Angry Hearts and Angry Minds’, The Senlis Council on Thursday called for a re-engineering of the international community’s mechanisms for responding to global security crises.

Donors Must Use Market Forces to Tackle Afghan Opium Crisis – Political Opinion

Donors at the International Conference in Support of Afghanistan must focus their attention on tackling Afghanistan’s burgeoning illegal opium economy instead of making generous but ineffective aid pledges that fail to address this major crisis,...

Canadian Prime Minister Harper Urged to Keep Insite Safe Injection Center Open

Raymond Kendall, Honorary Secretary General of Interpol, and The Senlis Council’s President, Norine MacDonald QC, on Tuesday urged Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to keep Vancouver’s Insite safe injection center open, citing in particular...

Afghans Back Obama, Somali Support Clinton

The people of Afghanistan would like to see US Presidential Candidate Barack Obama take over at the White House, while Somalis would prefer to work with Democratic rival Senator Hillary Clinton, according to a series of interviews conducted over the past...

Chronic Failures of US-led “war on Terror” Bolstering Somali And Afghan Extremists – Political Opinion

The current US-led War on Terror approach is creating a political space in which extremists such as Al-Shabab in Somalia and the Taliban in Afghanistan have become legitimate political actors, said The Senlis Council at the release of its latest report...