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Maldives crisis: a bitter religious divide comes to the fore0
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- February 13, 2018
Protesting for political freedom outside the Supreme Court in Malé. Dying Regime via Flickr, CC BY Andreas Johansson, Lund University The Maldives is a tourist paradise. The island chain of 26 atolls attracts more than 1.5m visitors every year. But alongside the clear blue waters and perfect beaches, this is a country riven with deep
READ MOREMangroves protect coastlines, store carbon – and are expanding with climate change0
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- February 13, 2018
Mangroves in the Florida Everglades. Alan Sandercock, CC BY Samantha Chapman, Villanova University With the help of technology, humans can traverse virtually every part of our planet’s surface. But animals and plants are less mobile. Most species can only live in zones where temperature and rain fall within specific ranges. As regions become warmer due
READ MOREAsia is set for a difficult year in 2018 – much of it centred around China0
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- January 30, 2018
China is increasingly viewed by the United States as a full-spectrum adversary. Shutterstock Nick Bisley, La Trobe University In 2017 we finally realised that the four decades of geopolitical stability enjoyed by Asian countries and societies had come to an end. In 2018, the major patterns that will come to dominate the region will become
READ MOREUnrest in Iran will continue until religious rule ends0
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- January 26, 2018
Haidar Khezri, Indiana University The two-week protest movement that rocked cities across Iran earlier this year has largely subsided, but the fallout from the government’s harsh response has just begun. More than 3,700 people were arrested and 23 were killed in sometimes violent nationwide marches that started on Dec. 28, 2017, in response to an
READ MOREI visited the Rohingya refugee camps and here is what Bangladesh is doing right0
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- January 25, 2018
What is the future of Rohingya refugees? AP Photo/Manish Swarup Sabrina Karim, Cornell University Nearly 1 million Rohingya refugees have entered Bangladesh from Myanmar since September 2017. The Bangladeshi government’s plan to start repatriating them beginning this Tuesday, Jan. 22, has been postponed due to concerns about their safety. That the Bangladesh government agreed to
READ MOREWhere will the global political hotspots be in 2018? (Spoiler alert: it’s not all about Donald Trump)0
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- January 16, 2018
With so many global flashpoints, and so little diplomacy, 2018 could be a turbulent year. AAP/The Conversation Tony Walker, La Trobe University Writing for Foreign Policy, Robert Malley, the newly appointed head of the International Crisis Group, makes a good point when discussing global challenges in 2018: It is not all about Donald Trump. To
READ MOREThe moral questions in the debate on what constitutes terrorism0
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- December 12, 2017
Who is a terrorist? Evan McCaffrey/Shutterstock.com Jessica Wolfendale, West Virginia University Akayed Ullah, a 27-year-old man, has been accused of detonating a pipe bomb strapped to his body in a New York subway, injuring four people on the morning of Dec. 11. The Joint Terrorism Task Force is investigating the attack and New York Mayor
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Who are the Baha’is and why are they so persecuted?0
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- December 1, 2017
Entrance to the Shrine of Bahá’u’lláh, burial place of the founder of the Bahá’í faith, near Acre, Israel. Bahá’í World News Service © Bahá’í International Community Zackery M. Heern, Idaho State University The Baha’is are among the most persecuted religious minorities in the world. In Iran, where the religion was founded, universities refuse to admit
READ MOREA Delicate Weave: folk singers from Western India celebrate diversity in the face of intolerance0
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- November 30, 2017
Zarina Sodha, from Lakhpath Kachchh, Gujarat (western India), a folk singer. Anjali Monteiro/KP Jayakrishnan Anjali Monteiro, Tata Institute of Social Sciences and Jayasankar K. P., Tata Institute of Social Sciences A Delicate Weave (Jhini Bini Chadariya), a documentary film set in Kachchh, Gujarat in Western India, traces four different musical journeys, all converging in the
READ MOREFive reasons India, China and other nations plan to travel to the Moon0
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- November 25, 2017
A view from the Apollo 11 spacecraft, showing the Earth rising above the moon’s horizon (July 1969). NASA Marc Norman, Australian National University and Penelope King, Australian National University No human has been to the Moon since 1972 and only 12 people have ever done it – all of them American men. But that list
READ MOREWho are the Sufis and why does IS see them as threatening?0
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- November 25, 2017
Injured people are evacuated from the scene of a militant attack on a mosque in northern Sinai, Egypt on Nov. 24, 2017. Associated Press Peter Gottschalk, Wesleyan University Over 200 people were killed and many more injured in an attack on a Sufi mosque in Egypt’s North Sinai region on Friday. The assault began with
READ MOREMyanmar and Bangladesh strike a shameful deal on Rohingya refugees0
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- November 24, 2017
Rosa Freedman, University of Reading Many Rohingya people who have fled the ethnic cleansing in Myanmar are now living as refugees in Bangladesh. And now, the two countries have reportedly struck a deal to return them home. Returning Rohingya people to the hands of their persecutors not only violates international law, but raises fundamental questions
READ MOREMyanmar and Buddhist extremism0
- Blog, Issue 23 – Winter 2018
- November 16, 2017
Paul Fuller, Cardiff University There is a desperate humanitarian crisis underway in Myanmar, centring around the Rohingya Muslims. There is what has been described as a “textbook case of ethnic cleansing” against the approximately one million Rohingya who live in the western Myanmar state of Rakhine. As well as retaliations from the Arakan Rohingya Salvation
READ MOREMilitant Buddhism is on the march in South-East Asia – where did it come from?0
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- November 8, 2017
Peter Lehr, University of St Andrews Even ten years on, the first mental image that comes to mind with regard to Theravāda Buddhism is that of Myanmar’s Saffron Revolution of August-September 2007: thousands of Buddhist monks peacefully demonstrating in the streets of Yangon, Mandalay, Pakokku, Sittwe and other towns against the ruling military junta. These
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