Can societal polarization caused by terrorism endanger European integration?
The Charlie Hebdo massacre is not only about freedom of speech – it may have the potential to severely challenge the European project. ...
Pegida – Have people learned nothing from history?
I despair every time I turn on the German news and hear about another demonstration taking place, with people gathering as a group...
Spaces of Freedom in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Original post from: http://jakethreadgould.wordpress.com/2014/11/17/spaces-of-freedom-in-the-islamic-republic-of-iran/ Copyright: Jake...
Bosnia and Herzegovina – the war scars are still visible
The 1990s heralded in one of the darkest chapters of European post WWII history; the emergence of a period of great instability and...
A Safe Haven in the DRC: Getting away with Genocide
The Rwandan genocide in 1994 claimed the lives of an estimated 800,000 Rwandans with the majority of those killed belonging to the ethnic...
Outsourcing of State Matters at the Cost of the Most Vulnerable
A couple of weeks ago, the German public was in shock after pictures and videos were released showing security personnel harassing and...
Action and Reactions: United we Stand, United we Fall?
The US has recently found itself in an almost unfamiliar situation: a ‘war on terror’ against a threat that much of Western world and...
A Culture of Islamophobia in Australia?
The latest debates and demonstrations in Australian communities at the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast reveal two things: firstly, despite...
