Bahrain is back on track following the unrest, but should ensure last year's events are not repeated, according to a leading security expert. The majority of people have become tired of political bickering and street violence, and are working towards national reconciliation.

The "coast is clear and tensions have subsided", said Central European Journal of International and Security Studies (CEJISS) editor-in-chief and Prague-based Metropolitan University Department of International Relations and European Studies founder and head Dr Mitchell A Belfer.

"People have mostly agreed to get back to business; that is, the business of national dialogue and reconciliation," he explained in his latest report, Tongue-in-Cheek: Front Line Bahrain, which was published by CEJISS.

"Instead of the false battlefield images and contrary to the fear-mongering of a few over-zealous sociopaths, I bear witness to a Bahrain fully on the road to national recovery with the events of the past year and a half chalked up as an important history lesson - a lesson that each and every responsible citizen is keen to learn from so that past mistakes are not repeated."