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Tariq Ramadan: Symbols of Fear and the Swiss referendum
In the Guardian, Tariq Ramadan gives his perspective on the question I posed here yesterday: There are only four minarets in Switzerland, so why is it that it is there that this initiative has been la… more →
Eclectic Grounds
Why did Switzerland decide to ban minarets?
henrik wrote 3 days ago: Some reactions by the victorious camp in favour of the ban on minarets after the referendum on Sunda … more →
"Talking to Hamas": Israel's paradoxical stance
henrik wrote 6 days ago: From Gideon Levy, columnist for Haaretz: Why is it permissible to talk to Hamas about the fate of on … more →
There is no "Global War" on Terror
henrik wrote 1 month ago: The notion of a “global war on terror” has always been nonsense. It has manufactured a t … more →
Can Germany 'afford' a gay foreign minister? Or will it hurt relations with Muslim countries?
henrik wrote 1 month ago: - two often-debated questions in Germany after the recent federal elections. Following the victory o … more →
Only in Tibet...
henrik wrote 4 months ago: On ResetDOC, Michael Dillon comments on violence by the Chinese government against the Uyghur popula … more →
Migration as conflict and reflection: Scheffer's 'The Unsettled Land'
henrik wrote 6 months ago: I recently saw a panel discussion involving Dutch sociologist and politician Paul Scheffer. In 2000, … more →
How to deal with terrorism - an ethics perspective
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henrik wrote 7 months ago: I like philosophical perspectives on cultural and social phenomena, because they go beyond explainin … more →
Dehumanization & Conflict: How soldiers and societies "make" violence just
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henrik wrote 8 months ago: These shirts apparently are popular amongst Israeli soldiers these days: According to Sociological I … more →
"Islamism" - identifying trends & deconstructing myths
henrik wrote 8 months ago: In an essay published at Conflicts Forum, AU Beirut Professor A. Moussalli deconstructs different di … more →
White gang violence
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henrik wrote 9 months ago: I was in Glasgow recently. When we were about to see a movie and I suggested a cinema a but further … more →
On the idea that Hamas can be annihilated
henrik wrote 10 months ago: A great commentary by Israeli novelist A. B. Yehoshua at Project Syndicate: They [the Palestinians] … more →
Is prosecuting Bush an option? - A conflict resolution perspective on truth and justice
henrik wrote 10 months ago: When Barack Obama’s support platform “Change.Gov” asked supporters to submit queri … more →
How's your news, Al Jazeera?
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henrik wrote 10 months ago: Jörg Lau (in German) made an interesting recommendation to Europeans interested in what’s goin … more →
Making Hamas
henrik wrote 10 months ago: Alastair Crooke posted an admirably reasonable and far-sighted comment on the Gaza crisis in a time … more →
Immigrant Violence: Not ethnicity but social class is the issue
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henrik wrote 10 months ago: One of the biggest media frenzies in Germany last year was created by the populist re-election campa … more →
Islamophobia and manufactured Muslim threats
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henrik wrote 11 months ago: In early December the Anne Frank Foundation and Leiden University issued the annual ‘Racism an … more →
University scholarships: A structural take on diplomacy
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henrik wrote 11 months ago: For more than a year now, my university in the Netherlands has been hosting a number of students fro … more →
Israelis against the war in Gaza
henrik wrote 11 months ago: An image that is almost invisible in the Western media: Israelis protesting against the war in Gaza. … more →
Huntington's legacy: Conflict is here to stay, change is impossible
henrik wrote 11 months ago: Over the Christmas holidays, Samuel Huntington died at the age of 81. Huntington, political scientis … more →
