Iraq/Iran/Gulf Project Overview Reports Index "Iraq's future - soccer balls?" Comment by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman in The Christian Science Monitor 7 July 2003 The future of Iraq may in part depend on soccer balls, jump ropes, and volleyballs.

Iraq/Iran/Gulf Project Overview Reports Index "Exorcising the Ghosts of a Nation" Comment by Joanne Leedom-Ackerman in Los Angeles Times 6 July 2003 At the confluence of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, where civilization began, men fish from small boats and boys swim in polluted brown waters. When Saddam Hussein was in power, the story goes, there were no fish in the river. It is said Hussein put something in the water to poison them because he did not like the predominantly Shiite people of Basra.

Indonesia Project Overview Reports Index "Indonesia Matters: Diversity, Unity and Stability in Fragile Times" Preface by Gareth Evans 1 July 2003 For the world's fourth largest country, Indonesia is extraordinarily opaque. This book brings together some of the wisest observers of Indonesia's transition and manages to touch on all of the key issues that will ultimately decide Indonesia's fate. It does not necessarily offer prescriptions for how to manage problems, but it lays out in sobering detail the extent of the challenges that Indonesia faces.

West Africa Project Overview Reports Index "How to secure peace in Liberia" Comment by Gareth Evans and Comfort Ero in The Observer 29 June 2003 The United States must lead urgent international action to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe spreading across West Africa, argue leading experts from the International Crisis Group

Iraq/Iran/Gulf Project Overview Reports Index "Iraq's summer war" Comment by Katy Cronin and Joost Hilterman in The Observer 22 June 2003 Faltering attempts to meet basic Iraqi needs could turn simmering discontent into widespread and active opposition.

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