Policy Analysis

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Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Important Conclusions from Israel’s Wars on Palestine and Lebanon
Oct 25, 2024Imad K. Harb
It is hard to overemphasize the importance of Israel’s killing of Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah and Chairman of Hamas’s Political Bureau Yahya…
Policy Analysis
IranConflicts and Conflict Resolution
One Year After October 7: Israel Descends into Endless War
Oct 11, 2024Daniel Brumberg
Among the many moments described in the Washington Post’s recent article on the Biden administration’s failed efforts to secure a ceasefire in Gaza, one stands…
Policy Analysis
LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution
GCC Responses to Israeli Aggression on Lebanon: Strategic Concerns and Regional Implications
Oct 9, 2024The Unit for Political Studies
The positions of the GCC countries toward Israel's war on Lebanon are appear divided. All share a deep concern about escalation and its potential impact on the…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
One Year After October 7: Assessments and Implications
Oct 8, 2024Imad K. Harb Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Annelle Sheline
Experts analyze various aspects of the past year of Israel’s war on Gaza and now its campaign against Hezbollah and Lebanon.
Policy Analysis
YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
A Decade On, Assessing Shared Responsibility for Yemen’s Tragedy
Oct 3, 2024Afrah Nasser
On September 21, 2014, Yemen’s capital Sanaa awoke to an unexpected turn of events that would reshape the country’s destiny. The Houthi armed group, officially…
Policy Analysis
LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The War Israel Wants but Hezbollah Rejects
Sep 20, 2024Imad K. Harb
The Israeli war on Hezbollah has just entered another deadly phase characterized by the sophisticated, but criminally minded, use of cyber warfare to detonate …
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
Discrediting the Living and Denying the Dead in Gaza: Justifying Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians
Sep 12, 2024Yara M. Asi
In mid-August 2024, the world stood witness to one of the few personal tragedies from Gaza to make global headlines. Israeli airstrikes killed two 3-day-old tw…
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YemenConflicts and Conflict Resolution
A Fragile but Enduring Truce in Yemen
Aug 27, 2024Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies
On April 1, 2022, the UN Special Envoy to Yemen, Hans Grundberg, announced a two-month truce between the country’s warring parties. This truce was extended twi…
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SudanConflicts and Conflict Resolution
The Failure of the Jeddah and IGAD Mediation Efforts for Sudan
Aug 19, 2024Ahmed Idris Mutawakil Daqash
The war in Sudan, which broke out on April 15, 2023, between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has entered its s…
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Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus and the Inadequacy of International Law
Aug 7, 2024Karam Burjas
On October 16, 2023, Israel indiscriminately targeted civilians in Al-Duhayra, a town in Southern Lebanon, with a chemical agent that can burn skin to the bone…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Israel Has Opted for War on All Fronts
Jul 31, 2024Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Imad K. Harb Yousef Munayyer Hanna Alshaikh
Israel's assassination of Hamas’s Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah military leader Fuad Shukr is an unwarranted escalation that could lead t…
Policy Analysis
LebanonConflicts and Conflict Resolution
An Unwinnable Battle of Narratives in Lebanon Regarding War with Israel
Jul 19, 2024Patricia Karam
Hezbollah’s decision on war against Israel has attracted both support and objection from different political factions in Lebanon and helped lead to escalating …