Doing Justice, Loving Kindness, Walking Humbly: Christian Approaches to Community Engagement
Civic work—both scholarship and practice—has long been central to the purposes of American higher education. Whether cultivating future leaders, advancing knowledge in service to society, or enriching public life, American colleges and universities have been driven by their commitment to the ...
Spirituality and the Urban Professions: The Paradox at the Heart of Planning
What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other’s despair into hope? You yourself must change it. What would it feel like to know your country was changing? You yourself must change it. Though your life felt arduous new and unmapped and strange what would it me...
Breaking the cycle: Presenting insights and strategies to overcome violent conflicts hindering social cohesion and progress in South African communitiesBreaking the cycle: Presenting insights and strategies to overcome violent conflicts hindering soc
This study addresses the pervasive issue of violent conflicts that undermine social cohesion and hinder progress within South African communities. Thus, the study explores the root causes and contributing factors of these conflicts to provide a foundation for developing effective, evidence-base...
Urban peacekeeping under siege: attacks on African Union peacekeepers in Mogadishu, 2007 2009
Peacekeepers in cities face particular challenges because cities are densely populated and heterogeneous, encompass multiple terrains and fluid features, and host key assets of political, economic and strategic importance. Attacks targeting peacekeepers in cities con stitute a recurrent problem, ...
Cascades of violence to genocide: sovereignty, nationalism and the predicament of the Rohingya of Myanmar
The genocide against the Rohingya people of Myanmar is one of the greatest tragedies of our time. Although marginalisation, maltreatment and expulsion of this persecuted minority have been ongoing for more than six decades, their predicament attracts less and less attention in policy and academ...
Parent Suicide: Pathways of Effects into the Third Generation
There is a slim, slowly emerging literature addressing the impact of parent suicide upon children. By contrast with some other potentially pathogenic contexts for children (e.g., physical abuse), there has been virtually no exploration of the effect of a parent’s suicide upon his or her childr...
Theological discourse of jihad operations of terrorism actions in Indones
numerous studies were conducted on terrorism by various scholars in indonesia, whose perpetrators defined the act as jihad, and targeted the opposing group, namely the infidels. this understanding is the basis for justifying their acts of terrorism. this is different from several scholars stated ...
The New Chechen Jihad: Militant Wahhabism as a Radical Movement and a Source of Suicide Terrorism in Post-War Chechen Society
1Georgetown University Medical Center, and Professor of Psychology, Vesalius College, Free University of Brussels and psychological consultant for Advances in Health 2Khapta Akhmedova, Ph.D. is Professor of Psychology, Chechen State University, Russia and Coordinator of the Psychosocial Rehabilit...
Suicide Terrorism, Occupation, and the Globalization of Martyrdom: A Critique of Dying to Win
This article offers a three-pronged critique of Robert A. Pape’s book Dying to Win. The first section of the article highlights problems related to the book’s definition of key concepts, its assessment of existing research on suicide terrorism, and its presentation of data. Thenext section c...
Mediating distant violence: reports on non photographic reporting in The Fixer and The Photographer
The recent consolidation of graphic reportage as a genre of graphic non-fiction has brought a distinct non-photographic regime of visual documentation with its own temporality and affective engagement. Graphic documentarism both complicates and relies on the gentrification of the comics as well ...
Finding the Utility of Force to Protect Civilians from Violence: Exploring Outcomes of United Nations Military Protection Operations in Africa (1999–2017)
For more than two decades, the United Nations Security Council has tasked Blue Helmets to use all necessary means – including lethal force – to protect civilians from violence. Despite policymakers’ emphasis on reducing threats to civilians, we remain ignorant of the conditions leading to ...
Legal monism and white violence in South Asia
Reiterating that unified legal systems have emerged historically as ordering devices sustaining the rule of law in societies capable of upholding the state’s monopoly of the legitimate use of physical violence, the article takes up a series of cases where legal pluralism obscures and confronts...
‘We are rich in mass graves’: representing a history of violence through Êzîdî poetry
The 2014 Êzîdî Genocide caused a rupture in the social fabric of the Iraqi religious Êzîdî minority. A search for meaning in the aftermath of violence has caused a group of Şingalî poets to reconstruct memories of the past through their narration in Arabic prose poetry. A narrative anal...
Islam, radicalism, and violence in Southern Thailand: Berjihad di Patani and the 28 April 2004 attacks
ViolenceinThailand’sdeepSouthcentersonMuslimunrest,whichhas beensimmeringsinceWorldWarII.Whatwasoncealow-levelsecessionistinsur gencyhasnowdevelopedintoafull-scaleconflictandviolentcampaignthathas claimedhundredsoflivesinthethreesouthernborderprovinces.Thisamountsto themostseriouspoliticalviole...
“Doing Peace”: The Role of Ex-Political Prisoners in Violence Prevention Initiatives in Northern Irelan
While a considerable amount of research has been conducted on community-based initiatives aimed at preventing violence, including the role of the ex-political prisoner community in preventative and counterterrorism work, little is known about how the ex-prisoners themselves manage their identit...
Narrative Complicity in Evelio Rosero’s Stories of Violence from Colombia
From The Armies (2007/2008) to Toño the Infallible (2017/2022), work by the Colombian writer Evelio Rosero that has been translated into English has brought something that exceeds the popular (to the point of clichéd) story of Colombian violence. Specifically, Rosero’s writing reveals our na...
Narrative Complicity in Evelio Rosero’s Stories of Violence from Colombia
From The Armies (2007/2008) to Toño the Infallible (2017/2022), work by the Colombian writer Evelio Rosero that has been translated into English has brought something that exceeds the popular (to the point of clichéd) story of Colombian violence. Specifically, Rosero’s writing reveals our na...
Singapore’s ’Total Defence’ Strategy
ingapore launched its Total Defence strategy in 1984. It was one of the first countries in the modern era to enact such a policy based on an expanded interpretation of national security. Conventionally defence equates to military security, but for Singapore this approach was too limiting. There was ...
Political violence and terror: Arendtian reflections
This essay takes a critical look at the rubric ‘Age of Terror,’ a rubric which has enjoyed a certain amount of theoretical and philosophical cachet in recent years. My argument begins by noting the continuity between this hypostatization and contemporary ‘War on Terror’ rhetoric, a contin...
The purposes of education in peacebuilding: Views of local peace actors in diverse (post-)conflict societies
Education has increasingly been recognised as a key component of peacebuilding. However, there are multiple meanings of education in peacebuilding and unresolved questions about whether education can contribute to building peace. This study used creative and qualitative methods to engage with local ...
Tasawwuf moderation in higher education: Empirical study of Al-Ghazālī’s Tasawwuf contribution to intellectual society
In Indonesia, Tasawwuf is not a new phenomenon. Religious practices that purifying the heart have been deeply rooted in religious traditions, from academics, Islamic boarding schools, and universities. However, lately, demands to disband the authority of Tasawwuf from Islamic teachings have come fro...
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silence?
In cyberspace intelligence agencies, rather than militaries, are the most prominent security actors. However, many cyber operations conducted by intelligence agencies are not ‘classic’ espionage activities, but may be best described as digital covert action (sabotage, subversion, information ...
Religion and Violence in the Horn of Africa: Trajectories of Mimetic Rivalry and Escalation between ‘Political Islam’ and the State
Religiously inspired violence is a global phenomenon and connects to transnational narratives, necessitating comparative analysis of socio-historical context and patterns of ideological mobilization. Northeast Africa hosts several radical-extremist and terrorist groups, mostly of Muslim persua...
Tasawwuf as ethical science: Embodied pedagogy in the poetics of Khoja Ahmad Yasawi
This article explores Tasawwuf (sufism) as a foundational islamic discipline of ethical and spiritual development, countering modern views that reduce it to mysticism or cultural ornament. Through close reading of Khwaja ahmad yasawi’s Dīwān-i Ḥikmat, the study shows how sufi poetry serves as ...
Narrative Complicity in Evelio Rosero’s Stories of Violence from Colombia
From The Armies (2007/2008) to Toño the Infallible (2017/2022), work by the Colombian writer Evelio Rosero that has been translated into English has brought something that exceeds the popular (to the point of clichéd) story of Colombian violence. Specifically, Rosero’s writing reveals our n...
Shame and silences: children’s emotional experiences of insecurity and violence in postwar Finnish families
The Second World War had long-lasting impacts on families in all of the belligerent countries involved, including Finland. Parents’ preoccupations with their own worries and war-related mental health problems increased the risk of inadequate parenting and domestic violence. In Finland, this s...
Breaking the cycle: Presenting insights and strategies to overcome violent conflicts hindering social cohesion and progress in South African communities
This study addresses the pervasive issue of violent conflicts that undermine social cohesion and hinder progress within South African communities. Thus, the study explores the root causes and contributing factors of these conflicts to provide a foundation for developing effective, evidence-based int...
Practices of Islamic education teachers in promoting moderation (wasatiyyah) values among high school students in Kuwait: challenges and obstaclesPractices of Islamic education teachers in promoting moderation (wasatiyyah) values among high school student
Moderation in Islam means the middle position between two opposite, exaggerated views, with neither view dominating the other. The study questions are: What are the practices of Islamic education teachers in promoting moderation values through their own personal expression of aqeedah?, What are the ...
Designing for Violence. And its undoing
Our world is experiencing ongoing wars causing massive humanitarian desperation and suffering. Design for violence investigates how design is currently used in extremely violent situations of war and mass conflicts. Within the framework of design for violence, the main questions asked are: what a...
Sulhu as local peacebuilding
Local peacebuilding surfaced to contest the fundamental premise of the liberal peace paradigm, specifically its hierarchical top-down approach and inadequacy in guaranteeing sustainable peace. However, scholarly works have yet to adequately address the question of who, what, and where ‘the local...
Urethral and penile war injuries: The experience from civil violence in Iraq
Objective: Todetermine the incidence,mechanismof injury,wounding patternandsurgicalmanagementofurethral andpenile injuries sustainedincivil violenceduringtheIraqwar. Patientsandmethods: Inall,2800casualtieswithpenetratingtraumatotheabdo menandpelviswerereceivedattheAl-YarmoukHospital,Baghdad, fr...
Echoes of the Shoah: British Jewry and the Bosnian War
This article explores how British Jews responded to the Bosnian War of 1992-1995. It questions how Jewish memories of the Holocaust influenced the way the community responded to the genocide in Bosnia. Using the British Jewish press as its source base, it identifies how British Jews extensively refe...
Violence as method: the “white replacement”, “white genocide”, and “Eurabia” conspiracy theories and the biopolitics of networked violence
In this paper, I consider the “white replacement”, “white genocide”, and “Eurabia” conspiracy theories and the cycles of violence they have inspired, including mass murders in Norway, New Zealand, and the United States. Working from Foucault’s theories of biopolitics and “race st...
Doing Justice, Loving Kindness, Walking Humbly: Christian Approaches to Community Engagement
Civic work—both scholarship and practice—has long been central to the purposes of American higher education. Whether cultivating future leaders, advancing knowledge in service to society, or enriching public life, American colleges and universities have been driven by their commitment to the pub...
Constructing “violence-affirming extremism”: a Swedish social problem trajectory
Violent extremism has internationally become an established and highly prioritised social problem. While there is extensive and ongoing international diffusion and coordination, there are national specificities in terms of meanings conferred to this social problem and to the processes of its es...
Linking Community-Based Research and FaithBased Racial JusticeLinking Community-Based Research and FaithBased Racial Justice
Racial inequity is a major source of social and political division. Although religious traditions have a mixed history when it comes to racial equity, they also often have the tools and the theological motivations for addressing racial divisions. We ask: how can researchers support and facilitate th...
On Seizing the Source: Toward a Phenomenology of Religious Violence
In this paper I argue that we need to analyze ‘religious violence’ in the ‘post secular context’ in a twofold way: rather than simply viewing it in terms of mere irrationality, senselessness, atavism, or monstrosity – terms which, as we witness today on an immense scale, are strongly en...
Spirituality and the Urban Professions: The Paradox at the Heart of Planning
When I was a child I was told that there were three things we never discuss in public: politics, religion, and money. As a young adult, groping for meaning in life and for meaningful work, I gravitated to the urban/city-building professions as a way of working for social justice, and found myself ta...
Deadliness, organisational change and suicide attacks: understanding the assumptions inherent in the use of the term ‘new terrorism’
This study examines the use of the term ‘new terrorism’ in a sample of the literature on terrorism, to identify whether the term represents a stable concept within the field, is of analytic value to terrorism research or is a phrase that merely identifies an unquanti f ied concept. A content ...
Stuxnet and the Future of Cyber War
The discovery in June 2010 that a cyber worm dubbed ‘Stuxnet’ had struck the Iranian nuclear facility at Natanz suggested that, for cyber war, the future is now. Stuxnet has apparently infected over 60,000 computers, more than half of them in Iran; other countries affected include India, Indones...
Critical feminist resistance to the politics of hate in India
Genocide Watch has declared a ‘Genocide Emergency’ in India with serious consequences for Muslims and Dalits in India. The Hindutva ecosystem uses the figure of Muslim women as central to the politics of hate. However, Muslim women have also emerged as an important force in resisting this. In th...
Cyber intelligence and international security: breaking the legal and diplomatic silenc
In cyberspace intelligence agencies, rather than militaries, are the most prominent security actors. However, many cyber operations conducted by intelligence agencies are not ‘classic’ espionage activities, but may be best described as digital covert action (sabotage, subversion, information ...
India at the crossroads? Civil society, human rights and religious freedom: critical analysis of CSOs’ third cycle Universal Periodic Review discourse 2012–2017
In order to provide a timely assessment of India’s fulfilment of international obligations on religious freedom this article explores the nature and ‘issue-salience’ of different human rights ‘pathologies’. It uses critical frame analysis of the corpus of civil society organisations’ (CS...
Tracking the factors causing harmonious Hindu Islamic relations in Bali
Hindu-Islamic relations have long existed in Bali. This is due to the relationship between the kings in Bali who are Hindus and the kings outside Bali who are Muslim. In various activities such as marriage, trade and others, between the two Kingdoms mutually made agreements. Like for example the ...
INTERNATIONAL HUMANITARIAN LAW AND NICHIREN BUDDHISM
This paper explores how specific Mahāyāna ethics, namely the interpretation of the Lotus Sūtra by Zhiyi (536–597), Nichiren (1222–1282) and Sōka Gakkai (1930–), can relate to core principles of international humanitarian law (IHL). In particular, it also assesses and discusses how Sōka Ga...
Online hate speeches as threats to peace and deteriorations of unity and harmony intra-religion in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (EOTC)
this study examined how online hate discourses following the attempts of regional parish administration in oromia and tigray regions have deteriorated peace, unity and harmony among tewahedo Church (eotC) Christians. the growth of hate speech, which is connected to religious undertones and also ...
Suicidal journeys: attempted suicide as geographies of intended death
In geography, a conversation around suicide survivors and their suicidal journeys has yet to happen. The current prioritisation of suicide as end points marked on maps and patterns of death in space and regions has obscured the lived experience of adults who attempt suicide and do not die. In an...
A comprehensive review of cyber security and current practices in global mining critical infrastructure
The purpose of the study is to explore the reasons behind the low uptake of Information Security Management Standards (ISMS), Asset Management, and Business Continuity Plans despite increasing cyber threats to the mining sector. Mining companies need to modernize and automate to keep up with the ‘...
Victims or vanguards of terror: Use of girls as suicide bombers by Boko Haram
Boko Haram gained international notoriety as a terrorist group in 2014 with the abduction of more than 200 students in Chibok, North-Eastern Nigeria. This group has perfected a system of using young girls as tools of terror and considering the devastating effectiveness of Boko Haram’s strategy...
Countering ‘Islamic’ violent extremism? The implementation of programs to prevent radicalization by Muslim-led civil society organizations in Malindi, Keny
This article explores how Muslim-led civil society organizations (CSOs) implement programs to Counter Violent Extremism (CVE) in Malindi, Kenya, while adapting these programs to both their local context and the CVE-policies of Western donors. So far, little research has been done on how East-Afr...
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