I. Showing the Extraordinary Work Which Has of Late Been Going On in This Land The work of conversion is…
Conversion diptych
ethics
“Faithful secularity” as the best hope for democracy
Luke Bretherton's Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the Politics of a Common Life addresses two crucial holes in contemporary understanding…
Competing inequalities
Saba Mahmood’s Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report is a luminous, fiercely argued book. It requires deep and…
Reconciliation in the real world
In Just and Unjust Peace: An Ethic of Political Reconciliation, I argue that religious traditions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam in particular—offer…
Reconciliation and the pursuit of peace
Today, at the beginning of 2013, the world is confronted by a bewildering array of protracted and new armed conflicts:…
Recasting an agenda for peace
The International Criminal Court (ICC) celebrated its ten-year anniversary last summer. During its first decade of life, both the shadow…
Janus-faced justice
One of Philpott’s goals in Just and Unjust Peace is to challenge both sorts of reactions to the role of…
A new theory on political wounds
Daniel Philpott has written an impressive book that offers a new conception of political reconciliation for the field of transitional…
Relevance of religious episteme in search of a just peace
Daniel Philpott’s book, Just and Unjust Peace, can be regarded as a milestone for policymakers and academics looking for ways…
Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
The Woodrow Wilson Foundation is currently accepting applications for the Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship.