Month: March 2014

Towards an Understanding of the Role of Religion in Peace Building in Kenya* BY DR. SUSAN M. KILONZO** | 07.06.2011 The announcement in the late afternoon of 30 December 2007,...

BY PROF. ROGER ZETTER** | 05.06.2011 All refugees and displaced persons have the right to have restored to them any housing, land and/or property of which they were arbitrarily or...

BY DR. RICHARD BOWD** | 05.06.2011   Perhaps the most well known academic writing on social capital is Robert D. Putnam who defines social capital as consisting of “the features...

BY PROF. STEFAN WOLFF Now that the dust has somewhat settled after the initial euphoria, triumphalism, gloating, and relief that followed Barack Obama’s announcement of the death of Osama Bin...

By Assoc. Prof. Bayram GÜNGÖR | 24 September 2010   More than 1,2 billion people try to survive their life below $1, while nearly 2.8 billion population live on less than...

The 2010 Review Conference of the Parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) held in May 2010 at UN Headquarters in New York. BY OZGUR TUFEKCI...

Dr. Ibrahim Sirkeci | 01 June 2010 In the last five years, parties standing in the UK elections have been forced to debate immigration. The 2005 elections were full of pretty “bigotted”...

By Kofi Annan | 29 March 2010     The last five years have seen severe global food shortages, soaring energy costs and, of course, the gravest economic crisis for over 60...

Shaun Walker 29 January 2010   Russia’s controversial ambassador to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization has been provoking interest, amusement and outrage in Brussels over the past few months with a...

Hayri Abaza, Soner Cagaptay, and Kayvan Chinichian Islamophobia is rising in the West because so many of us confuse Islam with Islamism. This confusion also inadvertently helps organizations like al-Qaeda.  ...

Prof. Scott Lucas  This article from Nick Baumann at Mother Jones is filled with political-insider information, but I think it is a significant marker of how the closure of the Guantanamo...

Mark Snowiss   The 20th anniversary of the 1989 East European revolutions has re-opened contentious debate over who won the Cold War and what caused Soviet communism to disintegrate so...

The future of nuclear power and the role of nuclear technological development is the theme of a conference which opened yesterday at the IAEA´s headquarters in Vienna.   As the...

Kurt Achin North Korea says it has manufactured more material useable in nuclear weapons.  The announcement is widely seen as a tactic to pressure the United States into bilateral talks,...

Lisa Schlein  The World Health Organization and United Nations Children's Fund say better nutrition and access to immunization can save millions of children from dying of pneumonia. The two agencies...