Afghanistan and Jihad, perspectives for 2023
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On January the 18th at 10h (GMT) SADF promoted a conversation titled ‘Afghanistan and Jihad, Perspectives for 2023’.
SADF Director Paulo Casaca moderated the conversation, which included as guest speaker the specialist Antonio Giustozzi, an independent researcher born in Ravenna, Italy, who took his PhD at the London School of...
Comment 249: Pakistan’s Failure in Afghanistan
Pakistan’s failure in Afghanistan
Siegfried O. Wolf
Pakistan, with its historical record of state-sponsorship of cross-border terrorism and years-old policy of Islamisation of social and political affairs, is ‘reaping the bitter fruits’ of past actions. During the last two decades, Islamabad had an unprecedented opportunity to break with the unfortunate patterns...
An SADF Conversation: Afghanistan and Jihad, perspectives for 2023
An SADF Conversation
Afghanistan and Jihad, perspectives for 2023
2023.01.18 Online conversation on Streamyard
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The withdrawal of Western forces from Afghanistan has been catastrophic for the country, as many analysts – SADF included – had predicted. Famine, economic and social...
European and Indian perspectives on the nuclear threat
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On November the 20th at 18H. (CET) SADF promoted a conversation in the web platform StreamYard titled ‘European and Indian perspectives on the nuclear threat’.
SADF Director moderated the conversation that included two guest speakers, Dr Tereza Novotná, and Sanjana Gogna. Tereza Novotná is a Fellow of the Korea-Europe Center...
COMMENT 248 – Pakistan’s latest change of command – what to expect?
Since the end of November 2022, Lieutenant General Syed Asim Munir has taken over as Pakistan’s new Chief of Army Staff (COAS) from General Qamar Javed Bajwa, who is retiring after six years of spearheading the army. Following traditional patterns, the new (17th) army chief of Pakistan initiated a...
International conference on Recognising Bangladesh Genocide of 1971
On December 9, Paulo Casaca chaired one of the sessions of the International Conference on Recognising Bangladesh Genocide of 1971 at the Brussels Press Club.
The conference was sponsored by the Forum for Secular Bangladesh & Trial for War Criminals of 1971 and gathered several personalities both from Europe and...
COMMENT 247 – China, the US, and South Asia’s connectivity gap
South Asia is considered as the least integrated and internally interconnected area in the world. Moreover, it is a divided realm when it comes to contemporary, great-power geopolitics. On one side, the United States of America (US) has entered the fray with a strong message of democracy and multilateral...
COMMENT 246 – Bangladesh Genocide
The international community’s duty to act
The 1971 Bangladesh genocide was the most important crime against humanity taking place after the enforcing of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in 1951. Since 2015, an International Day of Commemoration and Dignity of the Victims...
The West, a New Haven for the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’s Planetary Nebula’?
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The West, a New Haven for the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’s Planetary Nebula’?
On November the 29th at 16H.00 (CET), SADF promoted an online conversation in the web platform StreamYard titled ‘The West, a New Haven for the ‘Muslim Brotherhood’s Planetary Nebula’?’
The conversation included the Member of the European Parliament...
SADF at the Bay of Bengal Conference 2022
On invitation, SADF Research Director Dr Siegfried O. Wolf joined the Bay of Bengal Conversation hosted by the Centre for Governance Studies (CGS), Bangladesh. The three-day dialogue tool place between 21-23 November, 2022, at the Pan Pacific Sonargaon Dhaka, convening over 200 delegates from over 70 countries. The flagship...