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...Marina Ottaway Specialist in democracy and post-conflict reconstruction issues at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace...
...could force Hamas' hand. "What is going to force them to change their stance is the fact that if they don't participate in the negotiation process, the Israelis are going to make all the decisions, and they will find they've painted themselves into a corner," says Marina Ottaway of the Washington-based Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The obligations of governing "may force Hamas to come to grips with reality and abandon this dream world they are in, that Israel is somehow going to be eliminated and disappear from the face of the earth." If Hamas can make...
Other finalists include David Barstow of The New York Times and Lowell Bergman of Frontline for their report on the possibility that businesses are killing their workers by disregarding safety laws, and Joe Stephens and David B. Ottaway of the Washington Post for investigating the questionable land purchases of the Nature Conservancy...
...elections carries its own risks. Many of the 24 Iraqis appointed to the IGC by Bremer would not survive an election process - the CIA analysis reportedly notes that the IGC has failed to win popular support. And respected scholars of political transitions, such as the Carnegie Endowment's Marina Ottaway, have warned that elections themselves often serve to polarize post-conflict societies and generate conflict. Still, the overriding priority for the Bush administration is now to move demonstrably in the direction of ending the occupation regime - the idea is that even if, like in Afghanistan, U.S. troops remain in Iraq...
...third path is suggested by Marina Ottaway of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: a snap election to create an interim parliament. "The candidates would run on national lists and be elected by proportional representation. The likely result would be a coalition government, which would then have three years to write a constitution and create a permanent government." The risks of such a scheme are obvious: radicals tend to do best in premature elections, and a large, continuing American military presence and real humanitarian and financial support from the U.N. would still be required. The advantage would be an elected...