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Real justice, not ephemeral ceasefires
Mohammed Suliman's interview on CNN was abruptly interrupted by an Israeli missile exploding nearby. In a piece originally published in Ceasefire, he reflects on the experience and analyses the...
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Women bishops in the Church of England: No or not yet?
The vote against women bishops raises many questions, including whether Church of England bishops should continue to sit in the House of Lords.Voting in the House of Bishops: in favour 44; against 3;...
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Shoigu gets his epaulettes
Traditionally, Soviet and Russian Defence Ministers have carried the military rank of General. Anatoly Serdyukov, recently dismissed by President Putin, was an exception, and his civilian status...
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A new head of the BBC appointed in the face of our petition
Last week, OurKingdom launched a petition asking that the new Director General of the BBC be appointed transparently and openly. Today a closed-door decision was made. Have they learned anything?Well,...
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Can we trust the BBC? Come join a public debate on 10 Dec
openDemocracy invites you to an open discussion on the future of Britain's most important cultural and current affairs institution. How do we re-establish trust between the BBC and the public?The new...
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The execution of Ajmal Kasab and Indian authorities’ cowardice
Large parts of Indian society bay for the blood of religious minorities engaged in alleged terrorist activities, but look askance at what ought to be labelled crimes against humanity by Hindu...
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Syrian wounds and Iraqi scars
The similarities are stark: a Baathist regime in power for decades, a ruling religious minority accused by some of fuelling sectarian resentment and praised by others for maintaining a secular...
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If voting could change anything: the 2012 Catalan Elections
A vote next week will probably enable the controversial referendum on independence in Catalonia. Madrid continues to try to thwart the move, while demonstrations – and statistics – tell a different...
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Rwanda: why UNHCR is wrong about Cessation
The UN Refugee Agency must not be the facilitator of a permissive attitude towards continued corruption and the absence of democracy in Rwanda. By calling on refugees who fled before 1998 to return...
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Lessons from Lance - moralities of the human cyborg
The distinctions between 'natural' and 'artificial' performance enhancement are largely abitrary - humans are a thoroughly technologised species. It is the social context of Armstrong's actions that is...
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International engagement in post-conflict Sri Lanka: lessons from the...
With a recent internal UN report criticizing its operations in the Sri Lankan civil war, international aid groups and donors are grappling with a new way forward. But any reformed policies may be...
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Russia, land of slaves
Last month, a number of slave migrant workers were discovered in the cellar of a Moscow store. It was, alas, just one example of a much a wider practice exploiting vulnerable groups across the country....
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A successful exhibition of ‘offender art’. But what’s ahead?
The Koestler Trust’s 50th annual exhibition in London of art by prisoners, immigration detainees and secure mental patients closes this weekend. What will Free have shown us? And what’s ahead for its...
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Syrian wounds and Iraqi scars
The similarities are stark: a Baathist regime in power for decades, a ruling religious minority accused by some of fuelling sectarian resentment and praised by others for maintaining a secular...
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Supranational courts and cosmopolitan norms as agents of change
To the chagrin of many committed Realists, states today operate in an indubitably ethical environment influenced by a revival of the cosmopolitan tradition.When in 1948, only three years after the...
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The geopolitics of drug trafficking in Afghanistan
In Afghanistan, opium is not clandestinely traded on some back alley black market. Opium is the market. In 1991, Myanmar was dethroned as the premier source of opium and now Afghanistan holds a...
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Killing them softly in Medellin
More than sixty musicians were threatened with death immediately after El Duke´s funeral. The ceremony was considered a provocation by armed criminal groups, or BaCrim as they are known in Colombia....
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The number games
The Obama campaign tirelessly raised money, recruited volunteers and set number quotas in language that seemed to have been torn straight from a Bain consulting manual.The US Presidential race of 2012...
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Hamas-Israel ceasefire: a real victory?
The agreement has left out some issues essential for ending the suffering of the Palestinians.Following the news of an imminent ceasefire, I was waiting impatiently for that moment—9 pm local time...
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Not yet a revolution: the fight for women’s rights in Egypt continues
While the eighteen day uprising saw Egypt’s men and women equally contribute to the greater good of the country and fought side by side in the face of violence and drastic uncertainty, women’s rights...
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