Conflict resolution
Kenya's Public Wage Bill Needs Cuts
Critics say far-reaching audit is needed to streamline a system that employs some 700,000 people.
Kyrgyzstan: Parliamentary Prayer Room Meets With Resistance
Questions raised about foreign funding source as well as a possible weakening of secular principles.
Communities Struggle to Overcome Kyrgyz-Tajik Border Tensions
Once-positive relationships have been damaged by flare-ups in disputed frontier areas.
IWPR Radio Reports Promote Transitional Justice in Syria
Issues include human rights, accountability, reconciliation and refugees.
Community Meetings Address Legacy of Kenya Violence
With national courts failing to act, restorative justice is promoted as limited way of soothing victims’ pain.
Karabakh Peace Process: Clutching at Straws?
The resumption of high-level Azerbaijan-Armenian meetings is seen as positive, but experts doubt 2014 will bring even incremental progress in the long-running negotiations.
Warm Praise for Afghan Reconstruction Project
Villagers in southeastern region say community-based scheme has carried out hundreds of small-scale projects in the last ten years.
Checking the Pulse on Azeri-Armenian Front Line
Speakers at IWPR debate discuss whether recent deterioration indicates worse is to come.