In the nineteenth century the new disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities were ‘emancipated’ from Christian theology. To…
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Contending Modernities
November 18-19, 2010, will mark the kickoff of Contending Modernities, "a multi-year, interdisciplinary research, public education, and peacebuilding initiative," based primarily…
Gaming reincarnation
In the Oct. 4 issue of The New Yorker, Evan Osnos has a fascinating piece (sub. req.) on the uncertainties…
Peace from the ground up: An interview with Myla Leguro
After spending two years earning her master’s degree at the University of Notre Dame’s Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies—and…
Book of Esther showing up in unlikely places
"Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran's race for a nuclear weapon lies what…
Religion and development: “from AIDS to zebras”
Katherine Marshall, co-chair of the SSRC's Project on Religion and International Affairs, speaks of her tenure at the World Bank,…
What Esther did for her people
Early 2011 will mark the first US television broadcast of the critically acclaimed documentary Pray the Devil Back to Hell. …
African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review
In February 2011, Indiana University Press, in conjunction with the Africa Peace and Conflict Network and the West African Research…
Conflict resolution curtailed
At altmuslim, civil rights attorney Sahar Aziz comments on the US Supreme Court's recent decision in Holder v. Humanitarian Law Project…
Cosmic war on a global scale: An interview with Mark Juergensmeyer
As director of the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Mark Juergensmeyer…