Conflict

Addressing Heresy in Peacebuilding: Lessons from Indonesia’s Ahmadiyya and Shia Communities

By  Nadia Farabi  – March 17, 2025 Listen Heresy claims have long been a source of conflict in religiously diverse societies, often resulting in violence and social exclusion. In Indonesia, accusations of heresy against minority groups have led to severe consequences, including forced displacement and prolonged marginalisation. Two groups marginalized […]

Pakistan’s Unnecessary Martyrs

NY Times Op Ed: KARACHI, Pakistan — According to our security analysts, the massacre of students and teachers at Bacha Khan University in Charsadda on Wednesday proves that we are winning against terrorism. A month before that, Pakistan marked the first anniversary of the Army Public School attacks in Peshawar, […]

ARE WE HEADING TOWARDS A THIRD WORLD WAR?

Viewpoint: The world in 2015 is in a dangerous position. The global economic downturn continues to have political and economic reverberations, which touch almost every citizen. Armed conflict in the Middle Eastern and North African regions, with the involvement of Western military powers, and now of Russia and Iran, has […]