I’ve spent the morning going over the 1999 Report of the UN Secretary General on the Fall of Srebrenica.

What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues?

FYI – I’ve just posted a comment Eric Reeves sent through: “Reply to Pronk’s UNMIS/UNAMID “switch-out” deployment plan”  You can read it in the comments below the Pronk podcast.

Below I’ve (belatedly) written up some of the notes I took while attending Abu Garda’s first appearance before the ICC last week:

In the final section of this series, advocates respond to the question:

What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues?

What are the costs/benefits of single issue advocacy? Does the focus on a single issue crowd out the potential to focus on structural changes that would be required to deal with both the single issue and other related issues?

This 35-minute podcast is what I would call an “audio postcard” from Sarajevo. As I make clear in the recording, I did not go to Sarajevo as part of my research – I went because friends from there had impressed upon me how beautiful it …

Zeid Al Sabban is Head of the African Affairs division at the League of Arab States. I’ll be speaking with him in Cairo early next month. He has just agreed “in principle” to do a podcast – it will just be contingent on timing. You …