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A Unique Series on Religion & the Public Space: An Introduction
In spring 2011, the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations invited eminent analysts from around the world to provide informed commentaries on pressing issues of their own choosing that touch upon the role(s) of religion in the public space from a variety of perspectives and backgrounds.
Comment & Analysis
Myanmar’s Outcasts
The image of a smiling Daw Aung San Suu Kyi receiving flowers from her supporters is a powerful message of freedom and optimism in Myanmar, the symbol of democracy in a country which has known nothing but authoritarian oppression for decades.
Show of faith to shake prejudices about Islam
Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting wars against Muslims in the Near East, Western people have often perceived Islam as…
Experts debate Nigeria’s Islamist threat
Islamist sect Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the bombing of three Nigerian churches on Christmas Day, as well as an earlier attack on the country’s U.N. headquarters.
Experts J. Peter Pham, Marc-Antoine Perouse de Montclos and Jeremy Binnie analyze the sect’s rise in prominence and what it means for Africa’s most populous country.
Will Iran lash out at weak Israel?
How will Ayatollah Ali Khamenei react?
This is surely the question Western policymakers are asking themselves over the latest standoff between Iran and the United States.
Iran’s accusations will not affect U.S.-Israel relations: Meir Javedanfar
When it comes to identifying who killed Iranian nuclear scientist Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, Middle East analyst Meir Javedanfar says that there can only be assumptions.
“In the murky world of intelligence, people don’t leave visiting cards of the hits,” he said.
Libya after National Liberation
The Arab Spring has brought dramatic changes right across North Africa and the Middle East – nowhere more so than in Libya, where a civil war has swept away the former regime. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi is now dead, and the National Transitional Council (NTC) will now begin the process full political transition once national liberation is declared, with an new cabinet expected to be announced within a month.
