Internal Conflicts Commission
About the Internal Conflicts Commission
The Internal Conflict Commission seeks to investigate intra-state political, ethnic, religious and communal conflicts. It seeks to analyze internal political tensions, confrontations and violence, their multiple economic, social and cultural causes, their outcomes, as well as external involvements. The list of countries which witnessed such conflicts and rises, or are still torn by them, is extensive and not limited to the list bellow:
- Middle East and North Africa: Arab Revolts; Sectarian and Ethnic Conflicts, and Violence; Foreign Pressures, Interferences and “Regime Change”; Palestinian Disunity; Power Struggle in Iran.
- Africa: North and South Sudan, the Darfur Problem; Mali; Guinea-Bissau; Nigeria; Congo; Somalia.
- Asia: Afghanistan; Pakistan; India; Maldives; Bangladesh; Myanmar. Thailand. China (Xinjiang, Tibet).
- South America: Mexico; Colombia;.El Salvador; Haiti.
- Soviet Successor States and Russia (the Northern Caucasus Region): Ukraine, Belarus; Georgia (Abkhazia, Southern Ossetia); Azerbaijan/Armenia (Nagorno Karabakh).
- Europe and North America: Idignados and Occupy Movements, Greece; European Extreme Right and its Xenophobia”.
- Middle East and North Africa: Arab Revolts; Sectarian and Ethnic Conflicts, and Violence; Foreign Pressures, Interferences and “Regime Change”; Palestinian Disunity; Power Struggle in Iran.
Internal conflicts, of course are not all of the same type and do not follow same patterns. Some of them have strictly internal causes, while others were/are exacerbated by external interferences, or even invasions. Terrorism for example is often imported and has both external and internal dimensions.
Conveners and Contact Addresses
- Ibrahim Elnur
Associate Professor, Dept. of Political Science
American University in Cairo
P.O.Box 74
New Cairo 11835
Egypt
E-mail: ielnur@aucegypt.edu
- Manish Thapa
E-mail:manish_thapa@hotmail.com
