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Tbilisi Jam! Fest 2015
Two weeks ago saw Tbilisi Jam! Fest 2015 held close to Lisi Lake. Featuring metal bands from the U.S., Europe, and Israel, the event also saw another instalment of the Wacken Open Air (W.O.A) Metal Battle Caucasus in which groups from Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia competed to represent the region in the German music festival.
Tajikistan and Foreign Terrorist Fighters
In February I was invited to moderate one of two working groups at a Regional Co-operation and Effective Responses to the Phenomenon of Foreign Terrorist Fighters workshop organised by the Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) in Tajikistan alongside the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (UNCTED) and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). The meeting was financially supported by the British Embassy in Tajikistan and involved Ambassadors, Counter-Terrorism Officials, Civil Society representatives and others.
Three Cartoons by Muslims that take on Radicalisation and Violent Extremism
The 7 January attack on the offices of Charlie Hebdo, a controversial Paris satirical publication that has always had its detractors, including at times the French and U.S. governments, was both shocking and callous. Twelve people were initially killed in the carnage perpetrated by Islamic extremists while an increasingly polarised discourse in its aftermath runs the risk of provoking more as latent, inherent Islamophobia surfaces in Europe.