The International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated its ten-year anniversary last summer. During its first decade of life, both the shadow and the actuality of international justice in the form of...
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Beyond Religious Freedom
Engaging the R word
by Helge Årsheim...by NGOs, think tanks, and state agencies have decisively changed the landscape of the domestic and international promotion of religious engagement and religious freedom. The force of the critique lies...
off the cuff
Egyptian elections
by Margot Badran, Thanassis Cambanis, Mohammad H. Fadel, Charles Hirschkind, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Atef Said, Samuli Schielke, Jeremy F. Walton and Jessica Winegar...Thanassis Cambanis, Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, and Fellow, The Century Foundation Mohammad Fadel, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law,...
off the cuff
Mumbai revisited
by Veena Das, Sumit Ganguly, William R. Pinch, Vijay Prashad, Arvind Rajagopal, Anupama Rao, Tariq Thachil and Arafaat A. Valiani...nationalism and gave succor to this Jihad International. Funded by Washington and Riyadh, this International grew to have a greater sense of its own destiny, believing that what it accomplished...
Rethinking secularism
A suspension of (dis)belief
by Elizabeth Shakman HurdExcerpted from “A Suspension of (Dis)Belief: The Secular-Religious Binary and the Study of International Relations, chapter seven of Rethinking Secularism (Oxford University Press, 2011).—ed. Most academic discussions in political science...
events
Conference on René Girard and international relations
by Wei Zhu...Thomas, Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Bath, and author of The Global Resurgence of Religion and the Transformation of International Relations (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005) Potential participants from...
here & there
Sikh Coalition’s airport profiling app
by Phillip Quintero...airport checkpoints across the United States. At some airports, the Sikh Coalition has found that Sikh travelers are subjected to secondary screening 100% of the time. The Sikh Coalition created...
Religious freedom
Good Muslim, bad Muslim
by Peter DanchinThis essay, part of our ongoing discussion of international religious freedom, belongs to a series of companion pieces by Danchin, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, written in conversation...
Law, religion, and state building
Colonial reverberations in contemporary religious freedom promotion
Christian Human Rights
Roots and routes of rights
by John Witte, Jr....has further unsettled the conventional view in a series of bold new writings. He focuses on the rise of international human rights norms in the middle of the last century...