Essay: Mexico’s slow slide towards vigilante violence
In an article first published on The Conversation, AMELENDU MISRA sounds a warning about the prevalence of mob justice in today’s Mexico…
Pakistan vows to hold polls as planned despite violence
Islamabad, Pakistan Reuters Pakistan’s national election will go ahead as scheduled next Thursday despite security challenges, the election commission said on Thursday following a meeting to discuss increasing pre-poll violence in the west of the country. The meeting included top security officials to discuss the clashes in the provinces of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan after the […]
Essay: Deep-seated inequality is fuelling an escalation of violence across Latin America
ANDREW NICKSON, of the University of Birmingham looks at the causes for the rising violence in an article first published on The Conversation… For most of the 20th century, Latin America was portrayed as one of the world’s most peaceful regions. Coups and repressive military regimes had long been commonplace but widespread civil disorder and […]
Sight-Seeing: Only the enemy-loving Way of the Cross can save Israel and Gaza
NILS VON KALM reflects on how we, as Christians, are called to respond to the violence in Israel and Gaza…
Haiti’s displaced hope UN-backed force will bring security
Port-au-Prince, HaitiReuters “We are obliged to accept it,” said Charles Adison in one of the many schools that have been converted into makeshift refugee camps in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, speaking about a UN resolution this week that will see foreign forces entering the country to help police restore order. The United Nations estimates some 200,000 […]
Essay: Two years after Taliban takeover – why Afghanistan still poses a threat to the region and beyond
In an article first published on The Conversation, STEFAN WOLFF, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, says two years of Taliban rule have seen the regime in Kabul do little to assuage concerns over security…
“One body in Christ”: How India’s religious violence is becoming a problem for American politicians
US politicians are under increasing pressure to account for their courtship of Indian Prime Minister Modi, the leader of a strategically important ally and the world’s largest democracy. RICHA KARMARKAR reports for Religion News Service…
Five killed in South Africa’s Cape Town amid taxi strike
Cape Town, South AfricaReuters Five people have been killed in the South African city of Cape Town as a strike by mini-bus taxi drivers that began last week turned violent, authorities said on Tuesday. The South African National Taxi Council (SANTACO) announced a one-week provincial shutdown last Thursday after failing to resolve various issues with […]
Essay: More corrupt, fractured and ostracised – how Vladimir Putin has changed Russia in over two decades on top
MATTHEW SUSSEX, a fellow at Australian National University’s Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, says – in an article first published on The Conversation, that future historians are “unlikely to treat Putin kindly”…
Essay: The atomic bomb shocked the world, but not enough to stop killing civilians
In an article first published on Religion News Service, BRIDGET MOIX, general secretary of the Friends Committee on National Legislation in the US, says that as we mourn the devastation of the last world war, policymakers need to work to prevent the next one…