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Conflict is an editorial mainline in MODERN TIMES, where we look at violent conflicts, and the military and the use of weapons.

"Norway helps dictators"

"Sad, but not surprising," says Wojoud Mejalli, an award-winning activist and journalist from Yemen about the Norwegian arms sale.
Tori Aarseth -

American Jews' agony of conscience

A flock of older, well-educated Jews who cheer, clap and jump, who obsess over every sentence that comes out of their mouths to a populist clown with clown hair. What on earth has happened?
avnery@actcom.co.il -

Increased military consumption in 2015

After several years of reduced military spending, expenditures spent on military purposes rose one percent – to 1676 billion – in 2015.
fredrik@fredslaget.no -

Possible turning point

Every time the UN initiates new solutions to the conflict between Western Sahara and Morocco, Morocco responds with vigorous protests. All indications are that the aggression from Morocco is carefully calculated – this time too.
ingariseth@gmail.com -

Those who provide relief in the firing line

For five years, we have been following the civil war in Syria – from what was a beginning crisis, to the situation we are seeing now. The numbers from the crisis are disheartening. But there is still much that can be saved in Syria, and there are bright spots. 
svenmollekleiv@gmail.com -

Syria lost childhood

Arab Film Days: Conversations with Syrian children in flight become a mosaic of young voices appearing as a hazy, heartbreaking mirror image of adults' incomprehensible movements and exchanges.
Hilde Susan Jaegtnes -

William McCants: The ISIS Apocalypse

The reason for ISIS's success is that violence and fear work, says Near East expert William McCants.
Henning Næs -

Adonis: Violence and Islam

How can anyone think that the world without Islam would be devoid of meaning? asks one of the greatest writers in the Arab world, Adonis.
MODERN TIMES -

The West supported state terrorism

Journalist and author Tasneem Khalil documents Western-backed state abuses in countries such as Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.
Øystein Windstad -

Norway lends billions to dictatorships

Egypt, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates bomb hospitals, schools and refugee camps in Yemen – and receive loans from Norway. 
Øystein Windstad -

Fear boycott and exclusion of the Oil Fund

Ethical guidelines for Norwegian lending can mean trouble for the Norwegian Oil Fund.
Øystein Windstad -

NATO shows muscle

Will the doomsday clock move closer to twelve? Russia reserves the right to use nuclear weapons, and NATO is now arming along Russia's borders. 
Ragnar Skre -

The environment and the military

The military service is an environmental mess – yet it escapes the environmental accounts.
fredrik@fredslaget.no -

"Someone controls, but we don't know who"

Norway's ambassador to Ukraine emphasizes that, unlike in other post-Soviet states, civil society in Ukraine – both the media, the volunteers and human rights workers – has been behind the changes that are forcing in the country.
Truls Lie -

A culture of peace for the future

Can the women of the world change the culture and refer war to history's scrap heap?
Trine Eklund -

She is Malala

Davis Guggenheim's documentary portrait does not contain much new, but let's get to know the activist, teenager and phenomenon Malala Yousafzai a little better.
Aleksander Huser -
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