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Just the other day I was having this rather unusual conversation with one of my American friends. I was fascinated at the depth of 'philosophical' ideas he had about multiculturalism [...]
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The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) established in 1975 was formed to to facilitate a common socio-economic [...]
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The Military: A Male Institution by Definition "The military, the defence forces have no gender. Military only has power, the capability to fight, authority and social prestige. The unity of the [...]
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Every single day, people die of epidemics and diseases. Every single day, people kill each other over differences in beliefs and cultures. Every single day, souls leave [...]
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Easy evening; reading up on the requirements for one job I've been eyeing when I stray to Twitter (*sigh*) and see a link to an article by [...]
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These dead are supremely uninterested in the living: in those who took their lives; in witnesses—or in us. Why should they seek our gaze? What would they have to say [...]
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The tremors of the world’s economic crisis are never fully resonated in Australia, a country with an advantageous tectonic and fiscal position. While us folk down under [...]
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The Arab Spring uprisings have triggered notable shifts throughout republican Arab states. The story in the Gulf monarchies, however, is starkly different. The Gulf Monarchies are, for the most part, autocratic, [...]
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On January 18, 2006, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced a new foreign policy called transformational diplomacy. Challenging old assumptions that the domestic character of other countries did not matter [...]
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9/11 not only changed American discourse on security but also modified the US- Mexican relations and with it its promises of a fair accomplishment of the North Atlantic [...]
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On 1-3 November I participated in the International Conference on Non-Violence in Tunis, where activists, academics and journalists from the north and the south of the Mediterranean met [...]
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On September 30, 1938, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain triumphantly returned home to tumultuous praise, having signed the Munich Agreement with Germany’s Adolf Hitler. The accord, which acknowledged Hitler’s [...]
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In October 2012, the Canadian journal La Presse published “Sans son arme, un Américain se croit en danger au Canada”, a peculiar story about an American policeman and his wife [...]
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“It's not fair that I am free, but the law supports me,” said 16-year old Borislav shortly after he was released from detention. “I am very grateful there're so many [...]
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World-renowned linguist and political analyst Noam Chomsky spoke to 1000 Egyptians at the American University in Cairo (AUC) on 23 October in a lecture entitled “Emerging World [...]
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A few days ago I saw a link to a video about some 'retribution' meted out to a shoplifter at Shoprite, not sure if it's Lagos or [...]
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Abstract: You can live in relative peace in El Salvador, if you have the resources to afford it. There’s a direct relation between how poor people are and how vulnerable they [...]
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Is conflict a part of human nature? An interesting question indeed. This short film illustrates what happens when you take individuals from [...]
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Nearly seven billion human beings live on this planet called Earth. Although these seven billion belong to the same species, they are very different. Hundreds and maybe thousands of beliefs [...]
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SOPA and PIPA shake up the battle of free information On January 18th, 2012, websites Wikipedia and Reddit shut down in protest against a new copyright protection bill that was [...]
