2016 será um ano decisivo para o processo de paz, na Colômbia. Juntamente com a Fundación Ideas para la Paz en Bogotá, apresentamos uma série de artigos acerca das circunstâncias do pós-conflito. English. Español.
The inability to recognise an affront to the rule of law, regardless of the identity of the perpetrator, reveals the region’s dire state of affairs, politically, morally, and intellectually. Arabic
Polarisation is wiping out all independent or dissenting voices. Yemeni intellectuals are constantly at risk of acts of violent intimidation, arrest or assassination. Français
Six hundred Palestinians are currently being held in administrative detention by Israel. One of them is Abu-Sakha, a teacher at the Palestinian Circus School.
A fusion of drone systems and chemical agents is set to transform the landscape of combat for states and non-state actors alike.
It is an error for politicians and institutions to invite British Muslims to think about extremism as Muslims, rather than as citizens.
Disagreement over words is surely to be welcomed in a pluralist intellectual and political culture. Why is neoliberalism so provocative? Why is it Blairites in particular that are so provoked?
“We need to call in question how, as a society, we allow our security and democracy to be defined.”
We keep hearing calls for an ‘Islamic Reformation’, but the Protestant Reformation was not a liberal enterprise: it was the original ‘fundamentalism’, whence the label now applied to Islam.
Abkhazia may not be the first port of call for Syrian refugees, but historical ties link this unrecognised state on the Black Sea coast to the epicentre of conflict. Русский
People are waking up to the darkness in American policing, and the police don’t like it one bit.