Dec 9, 2012 | European Union, Passage au crible (English), Peace, UN
By Josepha Laroche
Translation: Pierre Chabal
Passage au crible n°79
On 29 November 2012, Palestine became a non-State member of the UN, thus benefiting from the same status as the Vatican. 138 states voted in favor of its candidacy, allowing it to move from the status of “entity” …
Jan 20, 2012 | Constructivism, Passage au crible (English), Peace
By Thomas Lindemann
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°55
The death of President Kim Jong-Il and the probable succession by a triumvirate driven by his son Kim Jong-Un raises the question again of available options to appease and transform the North Korean regime…
Nov 2, 2011 | Passage au crible (English), Peace, Security
By Jean-Jacques Roche
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°48
The National Council of Transition announced that the former Libyan leader, Mouammar Kadhafi, was killed on October 20th, 2011 and was buried that Tuesday in a secret location somewhere in the Libyan Desert…
May 27, 2011 | China, Human rights, Passage au crible (English), Peace
By Anaïs Henry
Translation: Melissa Okabe
Passage au crible n°42
On March 10th, 2011, the fourteenth Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, decided to relinquish his political power to the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile. Thus, since April 27th, Lobsang Sangay has held the role…
Dec 15, 2010 | Human rights, Nobel Peace Prize, Non-state diplomacy, Passage au crible (English), Peace
By Josepha Laroche
Translation: Davina Durgana
Passage au crible n°31
This past 10th of December, during the award ceremony of the Nobel Peace Prize, the winner – Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo – was absent because he is currently in his country serving a prison sentence of eleven years…
Oct 19, 2009 | Human rights, Nobel Peace Prize, Non-state diplomacy, Passage au crible (English), Peace
By Josepha Laroche
Translated by Emily Normand
Passage au crible n°1
The 44th president of the United States of America, Barack Hussein Obama has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, by the Nobel Committee…