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29 January 2010: It’s Only January but has the Gloss Worn off 2010?   The start of the second decade of the 21st Century felt for a short while like the happy warm feeling of hot chocolate on a rainy day. This was to be the year that world football came to Africa bringing new hope and recognition for a continent always on the outside. But the warm glow has quickly faded as the smell of gunfire still hangs in the air. The events in Cabinda may have dampened hope for peaceful sports in the face of political and economic insecurity but the broader feeling of global hope and a new world in a new decade fell with the buildings of Port au Prince.   [Read more]

29 Jan 2010: A Public Seminar Jointly Organised by the ISS and and the Ethiopian International Institute for Peace and Development(EIIPD)   04 Feb 2010: ISS Seminar: When Will the UN Leave the Democratic Republic of Congo?

01 Dec 2009: Criminal (in) Justice in South Africa, A Civil Society Perspective, edited by Chandré Gould   01 Dec 2009: ISS Paper 207: ‘Inspecting’ the SAPS, National Inspectorate, Bilkis Omar  (PDF 440kb)   17 Dec 2009: Climate Chronicle Issue 5: Critical News and Climate Justice Perspectives, COP15  (PDF 1.1MB) 14 Dec 2009: Climate Chronicle Issue 4: Critical News and Climate Justice Perspectives, COP15  (PDF 888kb)   07 Jan 2010: Peace and Security Council Report, No 6  (PDF 446kb)   Situation Report: 14 Dec 2009: Changing Paradigm in Somalia, Roland Marchal (PDF 97kb)   TheAfrican.org Feb/Mar 2010 (open our new ezine for this issue)

ISS Vacancy:  Programme Assistant, Organised Crime & Money Laundering Programme, Cape Town Office  (Closing date: 29 January 2010)   25 Nov 2009: Presentation by Tim Murithi given at the launch of the PSC Report in Brussels   Call for Papers:  The AU Peace and Security Council: A Five Year Appraisal (2004-2009), Expert Roundtable and Monograph  (Closing date: 29 January 2010)   ISS Vacancy:  Office Manager, ISS Pretoria Office  (Closing Date: 3 February 2010)     15 Dec 2009: Interview with Ms Ross Lisok Paulino, Coordinator Justice Africa, on Reflection on the CPA implementation and outstanding issues, paper presented at ISS Seminar, What are the Scenarios for the Future of Sudan?  (podcast)   15 Dec 2009: Interview with Honourable Monvluka Alor Koul, Co-chair of the National Interim Constitution of Sudan on Institutional mechanisms before and beyond 2011 paper presented at ISS Seminar, What are the Scenarios for the Future of Sudan?  (podcast)   ISS Vacancy:  Human Resource Manager, Head Office  (Closing Date: 29 January 2010)