In order to adorn the twilight of his presidency with a success story in his self-proclaimed ‘War on Terror’, President Bush should implement a high-intensity, Fast Track policy for Somalia and Somaliland that pushes the former towards stability and rewards the latter for its significant achievements over the past decade. Fast tracking Somaliland recognition will send a shock wave to Somalia, and send a clear message that peace and prosperity can be rewarded without the need to use overpowering military force.
To date, efforts to resolve the crisis that has blighted Somalia have been half hearted and misconceived. Meanwhile, the Horn of Africa’s beacon of stability – Somaliland – continues to toil in relative anonymity, receiving little recognition for its remarkable progress towards creating a viable, stand-alone state... more...
Video Report: Internally Displaced People Norine MacDonald QC talks to a woman from Sangin province about the trouble she faces since her husband and other family members were killed in a NATO bombing.
This symposium brought together leading authorities, experts and policy makers from around the world to discuss and compare experiences on the most pressing public security challenges and the problem of drugs.
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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 on Wednesday. In its report Chronic Failures of the War on Terror: From Afghanistan to Somalia, The Senlis Council said that a number of abject policy failures of the Bush Administration in Somalia, such as aerial bombings, support of the Ethiopian troops in the country and the ill-timed designation of Al-Shabab as a terrorist organisation had been successfully exploited by the Somali insurgency to boost its support and recruitment bases.
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Licensing poppy cultivation for the production of essential medicines:
an integrated counter-narcotics, development, and counter-insurgency model for Afghanistan.
The Senlis Council participated to this congress, with the participation of over fifty National Societies of Red Cross and Red Crescent, which aimed at engaging the whole RC/RC movement in the formulation and implementation of humanitarian approaches to drug policy.
Raymond Kendall Honorary Secretary General, INTERPOL
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