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Janet Devlin

Janet Devlin

Irish singer-songwriter

Jul 15, 2026

3:42
What would you identify as the main obstacles to repatriation, and does your research across Iraq, Indonesia, and North Macedonia suggest those obstacles are consistent regardless of context?
3:55
Yeah, absolutely.
3:56
So I think that the key word even in the question there is what is political and what states are politically willing to do.
4:03
So in terms of the consistency of those obstacles, they have something in common with regard to the fact that they're going to be inherently political.
4:12
So the decisions, because of a lack of enforceability or a certain...
4:17
The ambiguity surrounding the international legal framework that we just talked about, the decisions taken by states become essentially political and administrative in nature.
4:27
And so in my research and what I came across in Iraq, Indonesia, North Macedonia, the considerations leading to obstacles were political.

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11:03
If another conflict were to generate a new wave of foreign fighters, will you say the legal international system is better prepared today than it was in 2014?

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