Is Brexit a threat to peace in Northern Ireland?

Is Brexit a threat to peace in Northern Ireland?

The prospect of Britain quitting the European Union has raised concerns of a return to sectarian violence in British-ruled Northern Ireland. A mother and two daughters in a Catholic neighborhood of Belfast the day after the Good Friday Agreement in April 1998. (AP...

Genocide conviction puts focus on global justice

By Colin McIntyre A 40-year jail sentence for genocide handed down to former Bosnian leader Radovan Karadžić last month draws a line under one of Europe’s darkest periods since the end of World War Two. The case also brought into sharp focus the thorny issue of...

New barriers in Europe keep people out, not in

New barriers in Europe keep people out, not in

By Colin McIntyre A quarter century after the fall of the “Iron Curtain” and the Berlin Wall separating Communist East Europe from the West, new barriers are going up across the continent. In stark contrast to the old barriers erected by the Soviet bloc to keep its...

Author: Colin McIntyre