Peace

Warfare, technology, ethics and collateral damage

3rd October 2024 alhakam.org Fazal Masood Malik and Farhan Khokhar, Canada In modern warfare, few events expose their ethical complexities as dramatically as the recent Israeli operation against Hezbollah, where explosives were concealed in ordinary pagers, leading to numerous casualties (Israel planted explosives in Hezbollah’s Taiwan-made pagers, say sources, September 20, http://www.reuters.com). […]

The long road to peace in Syria

10th July 2024 Fazal Masood Malik and Farhan Khokhar, Canada Syria is one of the oldest regions of the world, one which, over the past two decades, unfortunately, has been profoundly shaped by the Al-Assad family’s rule. Hafez al-Assad seized power through a military coup in 1970, establishing an authoritarian […]