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Winning over Angry Young Men is key to enduring stability in Iraq

PARIS, 26 JUNE 2008

In a new report titled ‘Iraq: Angry Hearts and Angry Minds’, The Senlis Council on Thursday called for a reengineering of the international community’s mechanisms for responding to global security crises. The Senlis Council, a security and development policy group with research platforms in the three main War on Terror conflict theatres – Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia – has been undertaking a series of interviews looking at the root causes of the conflicts. The Council’s new research in Iraq demonstrates that current policies in the country are producing a generation of angry young men who are easy prey for recruitment to extremist insurgencies.
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Paris conference: Donors must use market forces to tackle Afghan opium crisis (12 June 2008)

Prime Minister Harper urged to keep Insite open (27 May 2008)

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Letter to the Editor

NATO must Tackle Taliban in Pakistan

20 JUNE 2008

Without Nato action to tackle Taliban operations in Pakistan, it will be impossible to prevent the growth of the insurgency in Afghanistan (Karzai threatens to send troops into Pakistan).Taliban forces continue to use tribal areas in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province as a staging post...
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The cost of the UK's special relationship - The Herald

Poppy Appeal - The Spectator

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Press Conferences

"Door Number Three" required in Iraq - current "stay or go" debate needs to be discarded

LONDON, 26 JUNE 2008

The Senlis Council organised a press conference in London to release its latest report, Iraq - Angry Hearts and Angry Minds. “The question being put about Iraq is ‘does the military stay or does the military go?’ But this is the wrong way to frame the question,” said Paul Burton, the Director of Policy Analysis for The Senlis Council. “To reduce the debate to this simple binary choice is the wrong lens through which to frame the approach to long-term stability and prosperity in Iraq.” According to the report, Western strategy in Iraq has suffered from poverty of innovation. “We need more than these two choices as neither one of them will take us where we need to go. We need to find ‘Door Number Three,” he added.
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From Afghanistan to Somalia (6 Feb. 2007)

Afghanistan: Decision Point (6 Feb. 2008)

De Facto Taliban / Al Qaeda State forming on Pakistan-Afghanistan Border (5 Dec. 2007)

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Articles

Are Canadians getting the truth about Afghanistan? The Globe and Mail - (14 July)

Proxy Attack? Newsweek - (8 July)

The Taliban in Afghanistan The Washington Post - (7 July)

The Taliban in Afghanistan Council on Foreign Relations - (2 July)

Afghanistan: "It Was A Battlefield Last Time I Was Here..." The Times - (2 July)

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Senlis Council in the News

Interviews

Norine MacDonald QC talks to CNN about the War on Terror, Iraq and Afghanistan (3 July 2008)

Almas Bawar (Canada Country Manager) talks to CBC Newsworld about the results of the Paris Donors Conference which addressed the future donations from around the world to assist Afghanistan's future growth. (17 June 2008)

Paul Burton on Al-Jazeera's Inside Story, part 1 / part 2 debating the June 2008 Paris conference, where more than 60 countries met to discuss a five year development plan for Afghanistan (12 June 2008)

Jorrit Kamminga on Al-Jazeera's Inside Story, part 1 / part 2 debates whether NATO is still relevant today (14 Feb. 2008)

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Articles

Are Canadians getting the truth about Afghanistan? The Globe and Mail - (14 July)

Proxy Attack? Newsweek - (8 July)

The Taliban in Afghanistan The Washington Post - (7 July)

The Taliban in Afghanistan Council on Foreign Relations - (2 July)

Afghanistan: "It Was A Battlefield Last Time I Was Here..." The Times - (2 July)

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ABOUT US

The Senlis Council is an international policy think tank with offices in Kabul, London, Ottawa, Rio de Janeiro, Brussels and Paris. The Council’s work encompasses foreign policy, security, development and counter-narcotics policies and aims to provide innovative analysis and proposals within these areas. The extensive programme currently underway in Afghanistan focuses on global policy development in conjunction with field research to investigate the relationships between counter-narcotics, military, and development policies and their consequences on Afghanistan’s reconstruction efforts. Senlis Afghanistan has field offices in the Afghan cities of Kabul, Lashkar Gah and Kandahar
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The Comité des Sages, a selection of European leaders, was established by the Network of European Foundations in order to help review the current state of international security and development policy. They released a review called the Arrabida Conclusions during a press briefing in March 2003.
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