Articles tagged with: Arab Spring

The new course in the Middle East

Shireen Mashaqba
Hashemite University of Jordan

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In the Middle East, due to the current insecurities (human rights violations, gender inequality, lack of participatory governance and poor management of the development process) people are seeking a comprehensive change stage addressed by popular revolutions rejecting all kinds of repression, abuse and the confiscation of freedoms.

Report from the Palermo Atlantic Forum/3

Giulio Calcara
University of Florence

The current situation in the Mediterranean area is characterized by a significant number of different challenges. The events which took and are still taking place on the southern shores of the Mediterranean sea are not determining yet a clear future for the countries and populations involved. What does it really take to let this Arab spring be a beginning of a new democratic and pacific era?