Europe’s unnecessary conflict in the Ukraine continues to rumble on and despite recent prisoner exchanges and the talk of deploying peacekeepers there is a very real danger that there may be a serious escalation in the near future. The Minsk II Agreement stands out as the only serious attempt to bring the conflict to a close and this has failed to bring about a genuine and sustained ceasefire along the contact lines between the forces of the government and the separatists in the south-east. It is also part of a wider picture of tense confrontation between Russia and NATO, seen …read more Source: Conflict Analysis and Resolution Information...
This week, the final part of the 2017 review looks at what 2018 holds for Syria and ISIS and global terrorism. As with the Rohingya Crisis and Ukraine, which were covered last week, these are brief overviews of what are complex situations extrapolating from the blogs throughout 2017 and making short term forecasts. Included below are links for more information on forecasts for armed conflict in 2018 to give wider perspective on the topics covered over the four weeks and introduce others that have been left out. Examples of the latter are the continuing North Korean crisis, the brutal war …read more Source: Conflict Analysis and Resolution Information...
The conflict between the Ukraine’s armed forces and Russian backed separatists of the Donetsk Peoples Republic in the Donbass region began in 2014 and the most recent ceasefire has been in place since the 24th December 2016. There have numerous ceasefire violations recorded by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE),...
