23 December 2003 2003 Year-Ender By Gwynne Dyer 2003 was a year defined by one war. It wasn’t the biggest war of the year (that honour would go to Sudan or Congo, though both those wars may now be ending), nor the fastest growing war (that prize certainly goes to Nepal), and it was certainly …
26 October 2003 Sudan: Peace or Partition? By Gwynne Dyer At first glance, Sudan is just one more proof that Muslims and non-Muslims cannot live peacefully together; that ‘Islam has bloody borders’, as rent-a-sage Samuel Huntington put it in his mid-90s book ‘The Coming Clash of Civilisations’. After all, Sudan’s north is …
3 August 2003 The Middle Three-Fifths By Gwynne Dyer When the Human Development Report 2003 came out two weeks ago, there was obviously something wrong with it, but I couldn’t put my finger on it. Today, sitting in a campsite at the southernmost point of Turkey (even journalists take vacations), I know what it was. …
18 May 2003 The Scale of the Problem By Gwynne Dyer There’s no point in writing about anything but ‘terrorism’ this week, even if there’s little useful to be said about the recent rash of attacks and alarms beyond the fact that it was hardly a surprise. After all, why would conquering Iraq do anything …
28 December 2002 2002: Year-End Review By Gwynne Dyer The past year has been dominated by a US obsession with Iraq which, remarkably, only seized the Bush administration three long months after the terrorist attacks on the United States in September, 2001. In my year-end survey twelve months ago, just after the US occupation of …