Copyright 2005 Oxford Forum.

EDITORIAL
The best ideas are common property.

Eye Witness

DEATH IN GHANA
MARTIN McCLUSKEY finds a Ghanaian funeral riddled with contradictions

THE GREAT LEVELLER
JILLIAN RAY reports on the long process of reconstruction in Seenigama, Sri Lanka

CITY IN SHOCK
NISRINE JAAFAR looks back on the day Beirut’s peace was shattered

11-M ONE YEAR ON
MATT VAUGHAN looks at the continued impact Europe’s worst terrorist attack is having on Madrid

SAFE AND SOUND
PATRICK FOSTER visits Israel expecting a war zone, but instead merely encounters an abundance of weapons

IN HIS OWN WORDS
TIMOTHY GARTON ASH talks to Oxford Forum

CONFLICT

AN EYE ON THE FUTURE
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA outlines the causes of and solutions to conflict – both in Tibet and the wider world

KEEPING THE PEACE
Former UN Under-Secretary General, SIR MARRACK GOULDING discusses methods for preventative dipolmacy and peacekeeping

TREAD SOFTLY
JOSEPH NYE asks whether the US has lost track of what really matters

MINE FIELD
ROWENNA DAVIS asks whether global conflict is becoming more environmental than ideological

THE SARAJEVO I KNEW
GORCIN DIZDAR looks back to the Sarajevo that he left behind in 1992 & asks what role Bosnia should play in the future

REPUBLIC OF ANARCHY
IBRAHIM AL-MARASHI argues fear may partly explain the problems of post-Saddam Iraq

THE NAKED ARAB
Following the Iraqi elections, FOULATH HADID looks at Arab advances to democracy

REBEL ASSAULT
MALCOLM DEAS explains why taking on the FARC guerrillas has won President Uribe so many votes

BLANKET COVERAGE
GARRY LEECH argues there is more to Colombia’s troubles than meets the eye

LIVING IN THE PAST
MARY KAYITESI BLEWITT, Director of the Rwandan Survivors Fund, (SURF), looks at the problems still faced by a country trying to come to terms with genocide

THE GENOCIDE THAT NEVER ENDED
PHIL CLARK unravels the ongoing conflict in the Great Lakes region that has claimed three million lives

CHILDHOOD MEMORIES
ANNA KÅRI photographing children who had been forced to fight in both Uganda and the DRC

CLOUDED JUDGEMENT
DAVID GELLNER asks who is to blame for the crisis engulfing Nepal

ABROAD

BOILING OVER
Kyrgyzstan’s ‘Tulip Revolution’ differed significantly from itsOrange and Velvet counterparts, writes STEFAN KIRMSE

MAN OF THE PEOPLE
KATE WAGNER laments attempts to read too much into Ukraine’s ‘Orange Revolution’

MIND GAMES
CHARLES BRENDON is taken for a ride by BICOM – Britain’s foremost pro-Israeli lobby group

ECONOMY

BALANCING THE COST
Pulitizer prize-winning author JARED DIAMOND considers the new pressures for corporate responsiblity.

MEDIA

TRUE TO HIS EVERY WORD
THE OXFORD FORUM talks to JOHN SIMPSON, and finds him pessimistic about the state of British journalism

HIDDEN ADGENDA
Tony Blair’s is just the latest in a long line of media-savvy administrations, as STEWART PURVIS explains

CULTURE

JOHN VIRTUE
COLIN WIGGINS looks at the influences behind the new work of painter John Virtue

MR WRITER
MARCUS LEROUX finds it difficult to tell it like it really is

CULTURAL DEFICIT
TOM LITTLER bemoans the removal of Arts funding and asks what this means for widening access to culture in Britain

CELLULOID MORTALITY
WILL BROWN examines the film industry’s egotistical portrayal of human life and death

IN HIS OWN WORDS
Sydney Pollack talks to Oxford Forum