Mehreen Amjad
In recent months there has been an astonishing rise in hate crimes against the Muslim community. In the UK alone it has been reported that attacks on British Muslims has risen by over 300% …

Mehreen Amjad
 
Kashmir has been a centre of dispute since  1947 after India and Pakistan sought independence. Mahraja Hari Singh who was the ruler of Kashmir was unable to a make a swift decision on whether …

International Peace Studies Center (IPSC)
William Beeman, is professor and chair of Anthropology at the university of Minnesota and an expert on Middle East for more than 40 years. He was formerly Professor of Anthropology and …

Abdollah Ghanbarloo
Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Political Thought and International Relations, IHCS
The lightning advance of the ISIL terrorists in Iraqhas caused a new wave of national security problems in Iraq and a big threat …

 The following is a summary of a paper presented by Ayatollah Abolqasem Alidoost at the conference on “Nuclear Jurisprudence” in Tehran March 2014

Introduction
Weapons of mass destruction (WMD) are a relatively new phenomena in international affairs, and …

Tehran, Nov 26,– President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the ECO sets a new pattern of regional cooperation.

Tehran, Nov 26,  – Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani said Tuesday the recent twin terrorist bombings in front of Iranian Embassy in Lebanon indicated the need for further regional cooperation …

The full document of Iran’s nuclear deal with the P5+1 which was signed by the Foreign Ministers of the 6 countries is as follows:
Geneva, 24 November 2013
Joint Plan of Action
Preamble
The goal for these negotiations is …

Dr Seyed G Safavi
International Peace Studies Centre – IPSC
 
Introduction
 
Dr Hassan Rowhani, who was the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council for 16 years and Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator during Iran’s reformist government, despite the …

By Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett, from www.GoingToTehran.com

Our experience in the U.S. government—running from roughly the period of the first Gulf War in the early 1990s until March 2003, just before the invasion of Iraq, …

Seyed G Safavi
International Peace Studies Centre – IPSC
 
Abstract
 
Mohamed Morsi’s victory in the Egyptian presidential election, 2012, inspired hope – in the Islamic world in general, and in Iran in particular – that dramatic change in …

 
By: Vali Kouzehgar Kaleji
International Peace Studies Center (IPSC)
Khalid Rahman is Director General of the Islamabad-based think-tank, the Institute of Policy Studies. The Institute’s main areas of research include Pakistani society, domestic political scene, the economic …

By: Vali Kouzehgar Kaleji
International Peace Studies Center (IPSC)

Bilgehan Alagoz holds a full-time faculty position as a lecturer at Institute for Middle East Studies of Marmara University, Istanbul. She was a visiting fellow at Middle …

 
Mohammad Sadegh Jokar
International Peace Studies Centre (IPSC) 

Abstract
 
This article tries to answer two questions; why is it that radical Islamists, or, as I prefer to call them, neo-fundamentalists,[1] engage in violent actions against the West? And …

 
Tahmoures Gholami
International Peace Studies Centre – IPSC
Abstract:
2011 began with the turmoil of the Arab Spring in the Middle East. These events altered circumstances in the region, and forced the United States, the world power with …